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[-] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago

And so begins a new battle in the eternal war between Americans with indoor cats and others with outdoor cats.

It's pretty difficult to actually find an indoor cat in the UK. In the US it's common.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 56 points 2 years ago

Of course it is difficult to find an indoor cat, you only see them inside a house.

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

Which is fitting because, in the end, when the hell have the British cared about the fallout of anything they do

[-] andthenthreemore@startrek.website 6 points 2 years ago

🤣 seems like the yanks learned that pretty well from us then.

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Lol American is the fallout of you people sending all your crazy religious fucks across the ocean and hoping for the best

[-] andthenthreemore@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago

To be fair I wouldn't say we 'sent them' more that they left because they couldn't oppress people as much as they wanted.

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Heeeyy! We just kicked them out, we didn't know they'd go and start a new country overseas!

We honestly should have killed them there and then, nip it in the bud.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I guess we in Finland are Americand now lol

We're more worried about the cats wellbeing though than the birds.

[-] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

With a name like Kusimulkku I should have guessed. I wouldn't call you American but you are one of the weirdest countries in Europe. A language designed to confuse with an obsessive dedication to double-consanants. I assume your cats are as unsociable as your people.

[-] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 29 points 2 years ago

What's with this random driveby on Finland and their language?? We're just talking about cats

[-] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

It's called banter. Light-hearted joshing. I love the Swedish Mongols; very amusing people.

[-] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 years ago

Don't think the Finn's took kindly to your joshing, bud u_u

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

Probably just seemed so out of nowhere

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 22 points 2 years ago

Confusing written language seems like an odd critique from some with UK in their name.

[-] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Alright Moomin wrangler! Less of your cheek.

[-] dudinax@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

Why are Finns so worried about cats? There's always plenty of cats.

[-] andthenthreemore@startrek.website 10 points 2 years ago

Our cats are indoors. They used to be outdoors then some cunt shot one with an air rifle.

[-] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

I hope you found the miscreant and shot them in the arsehole with a cricket bat!?

[-] andthenthreemore@startrek.website 8 points 2 years ago

My neighbour at the time was a lovely rough diamond type with a big knife scar down his face. He said he had an idea who it might have been and was going to have words.

We moved out of that area not long after.

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago

We moved out of that area not long after.

…burying the bodies.

[-] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 8 points 2 years ago

That cunt was in that moment a better person and more responsible manager of your animals. Cats are a manmade plague that destroy the ecosystem.

[-] WillFord27@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Seems like we brought the reddit with us

[-] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 3 points 2 years ago

Of course, anybody who used to be on reddit with more than half a brain would rather be here instead. Feel free to keep running from regular public opinions on public forums.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 10 points 2 years ago

I'm not so sure both about Americans having their cats indoors, and "others" having it the opposite way. I have never been to the UK or the US, but most owners I had seen kept their cats indoors. Except for Georgia (the country), where cats seem to be treated as some sort of weed that grows on it's own

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 3 points 2 years ago

Except for Georgia (the country), where cats seem to be treated as some sort of weed that grows on it's own

I like this phrasing. I’d love to hear more about how you came to this conclusion.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

There are a lot of strays around at first sight, but then I found out that at least about a third of them have owner/owners because they sometimes stick to several places. A lot of people also care for the strays and check them for issues not taking 'em home, some initiatives are doing neutering and finding homes for treated cats.

I heard it's somewhat similar in Türkiye, everyone loves cats but mostly don't want to care about them above feeding them when met. Don't know if outdoor cats are popular there, though

[-] dudinax@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago

There's plenty of Americans with outdoor cats.

[-] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 2 years ago

And thats why the wild felines are going extinct in the british isles.

Ay, but tradition right? Fuck the natives, as is british tradition

[-] veroxii@aussie.zone 9 points 2 years ago

Yeah the British really do have a history of royally fucking over whole eco systems. Brought rabbits to Australia thinking they would be a good food source.

Except they bred like well rabbits. And destroyed whole eco systems. So the British imported foxes to eat the rabbits. Except literally every other native species is easier for a fox to kill than a fast rabbit.

Fucking morons.

[-] Badger@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 years ago

That's a bit of a harsh take considering it was one guy on the 19th century who didn't know better. Looking at it he brought 13 rabbits for his private estate - I don't think the science was there for extended Environmental Impact Studies back then - just some rich guy making a minor change to his place having unintended consequences so branding an entire country as fucking morons is a bit much.

[-] veroxii@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago

Okay. One English guy was a fucking moron with regards to rabbits. Plenty others were morons for other things in Australia.

[-] Badger@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago

Awesome, glad that's settled, just a minor blip on what would be Australia's impeccable record of care for both indigenous creatures, and indigenous people.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Should we talk about the English record of care for indigenous people, creatures and artifacts?

[-] BB69@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

So are all the birds dead in the UK

[-] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Nope. And the RSPB doesn't believe cats are a concern:

The UK’s largest bird charity, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), is not particularly concerned about the impact of cats on the British mainland.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/14/cats-kill-birds-wildlife-keep-indoors

And a Bristol study found cats kill the "doomed" weak and sick birds - not healthy birds: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00836.x

[-] Repelle@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Cats have also been around in the UK significantly longer than many other places. Here in Hawaii they’re a plague on native species that had no such predators before.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago

That's a big part of the difference. Cats in the old world are probably fine since everything there has evolved alongside them. But the native species in the Americas haven't had housecats to worry about until relatively recently in evolutionary terms.

[-] jpeps@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I'm a outdoor cat person but in fairness one issue to consider is that while cats are natural in Europe, their current numbers and general location are something that's pretty unnatural. I definitely err on the side of not being concerned about it, but I do think it's something to consider as people have more pets.

Personally I have one cat that has brought in a single frog, and another that exclusively brings in recycling.

[-] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah but Hawaii's ecosystem is different from the mainland, too. Every area is going to handle this differently.

[-] thehatfox@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Yes, according to the RSPB habitat destruction from expanding urban areas and farmland is the main threat to bird life in the UK.

When my family had a cat it would mostly catch and bring home earthworms.

[-] Daeraxa@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I get lots of leaves and slugs. Occasionally an alive frog, one loves catching them for me but never even attempts to eat it.

[-] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

When my family had a cat it would mostly catch and bring home earthworms.

I think you had a defective cat. :/

[-] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 2 years ago

The UK used to have a different feline species that was native to the isles.

Its likely going extinct because of the UK obsession with outdoor cats.

[-] shottymcb@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Since 2017, the Cat Classification Task Force of the Cat Specialist Group recognizes Felis silvestris silvestris as the valid scientific name for all European wildcat populations, arguing that it is doubtful that the Scottish wildcat is sufficiently distinct to accord it separate subspecific status.

It's just a plain old cat, it's not going extinct.

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Old world animals evolved alongside domesticated cats. New world animals did not.

[-] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Skill issue. You need to train your wildlife to speak cat.

[-] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

More importantly, to hear cat.

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