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[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 days ago

"If your mother doesn't teach you manners, the world will." My friend from Kenya told me it's an old proverb where he's from.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If my kid did that, I'd let you splash them again.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

ESH. Kid shouldn't have done it, but also the lady shouldn't let the cat outside

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don't get why Americans hate animals. You do realise earth isn't owned by humans?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Mate, cats are not a native species. They hunt for sport and wind up absolutely destroying the local ecosystem. Outdoor cats should be killed onsight like literally any other invasive species.

"These are non-native predators that, even using conservative estimates, kill 1.3–4 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals each year in the U.S. alone (Loss et al. 2013, Nature Communications)"

I personally care more about my local ecosystem than some cat that someone is too lazy to play with and keep entertained.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If my cat escapes one day and you shoot it, we have problems :)

Other than that bit of insanity, I think I fully agree with you.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago

While I agree with your main point (which to me sounds like "don't let your cats outside as they're an invasive species and will do serious damage to the local ecosystem"), suggesting to kill them on sight is a bit harsh and won't make you many allies.

We have much more humane options to capture, return, and if needed rehouse cats. Remember that these objectively invasive animals are also people's companions, and that some folks simply don't know better than the old belief that "cats should roam".

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[+] [email protected] -19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

You'd punch her over a harmless bit of water? Helicopter much?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Children famously not traumatised by quick-to-violence rage parents.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I doubt you would, and I'm interest in seeing how you perceive water being thrown in a child as traumatizing, when it isn't considering traumatizing to do it to an animal. Please fire up your brain cell and let me know tough guy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If someone intentionally caused harm to any of my cats, I live near a large national forest, and once you get a few hundred yards off a trail, no one is going to find a body.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Speciesism

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I’ll take things that never happened for 200$

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

Yes, no 10 year-old ever threw water at a cat.

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