The All Ghillied Up level in MW still hits hard
this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025
999 points (98.5% liked)
cats
22305 readers
1152 users here now
Typical internet cats. Videos, pics, memes, and discussion welcome!
Rule 1) Be kind
Rule 2) Follow the lemmy.world rules
other cat communities midwest.social cats
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Cats are wild. Mine came home once with about a quarter of his face hanging loose. I wrapped him in a towel to protect myself, cleaned him up with antiseptic and antibiotic cream, put the loose flap back in place and covered it with gauze and tape. Surprisingly he left it alone and it healed up good. If you pull his fur back you can find the scar but it did really well.
The walk of shame.
lol
Spriggan Cat, protector of catnip.
I need brushy-brushy, stat!
Broader patrol officer: “ how long were you in Mexico week or a day?” Me: “a weekday.”
Day of the Kittids.
Read all about it in his book, There and Back Again, by Kitters.
Shadow of the Colossus music begins
Aww, a carnivorous plant.
Relevant username
Druid got stuck in wildshape and needs assistance
What happens when you feed your chia pet after midnight.
Look at this place. Fifty thousand people used to live in this city; now it's a ghost town. I've never seen anything like it.
Mother, I am ready to come in. I have seen things. All the things. All. The things.
Cat's don't belong outside unsupervised.
*Downvoting this comment means you don't care about the environment, or the cat.
We need to worry about Bella and Charlie: the impacts of pet cats on Australian wildlife
The vast majority of the problem for wildlife is feral cat populations rather than people letting pets outdoors. Just make sure they are sterilized and vaccinated and it's minimal impact.
Sources?
I have one for you:
https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.502 - Exploring cat owners' beliefs about cat containment as predictors of owner behavior
Much of this impact may be attributed to feral, unowned cats, but domestic cats contribute substantially to predation on wildlife in urban areas. Predation rates per area by domestic cats in residential areas are 28–52 times higher than predation rates by feral cats in natural environments (Legge et al., 2020). Urban areas support diverse wildlife including threatened species, with 46% of nationally threatened Australian animals (almost 200 species) occurring in urban areas (Ives et al., 2016; Soanes & Lentini, 2019). Pet cats have been documented as having caused local eradication of native species populations (Bamford & Calver, 2015; Legge, Woinarski, et al., 2020), and even a single domestic cat can have major impacts on population decline and reproductive failure in a bird colony (Greenwell, Calver, & Loneragan, 2019).
I couldn't find a comparison between the two (though the first sentence of what you quoted seems to acknowledge it), but I did find this article which makes an argument that the meaningful ecological impact of cats is context dependent:
There is general agreement that free-roaming cats can pose a significant risk to wildlife populations; however, the credible evidence is quite clear that this risk is limited to very specific contexts (e.g., small islands) and even then is likely only one part of a larger story. Sweeping claims that lack necessary context (e.g., conflating island and mainland environments) confuse the issue and impede productive conversation about how best to manage free-roaming cat populations.
Published research and mainstream media accounts often focus on areas where free-roaming cats come into conflict with protected native wildlife species [46–49]. Although this attention is understandable, it’s important to recognize that such situations attract attention precisely because they are exceptional.
This seems consistent with what you linked, which also emphasizes islands and protected species. Maybe it makes sense to restrict outdoor cats specifically on islands.
Tell me you've never adopted a feral cat without telling me you've never adopted a feral cat.
I have adopted a feral cat. I've also worked with them in the past (adoption preparedness at a no-kill shelter). Bringing them indoors, getting them used to being on a lead and harness outdoors (or otherwise supervised and contained), is one of the kindest thing you can do for them. For the ones living in colonies outdoors and incapable of being re-domesticated (the ones you wouldn't try to adopt in the first place), there's a reason TNR - trap, neuter, return - is a thing.
Cats started associating with us all those thousands of years ago precisely because, generally speaking, they enjoy the comparatively "easy life" of living with ammenities and low stress. Perhaps we should have never encouraged their domestication in the first place; I'd leave that discussion for another day. But we're here now and we have a responsibility.
I don't understand why you're being downoted. Didn't even say cats don't belong outdoors, just that they don't belong outdoors unsupervised which a completely true take. For the record, I absolutely love cats which is why mine don't go outside unsupervised. Two of mine have no interest in leaving the comfort of home (one does enjoy the balcony, on a harness for safety of course) and my third enjoys going out on his harness with me when the weather is nice (he has zero tolerance for snow though).
All three are extremely affectionate, loving, and sociable and by all measures happy and content.
Basically most people think it's mean to keep them inside and refuse personal responsibility for what that cat gets up to when it kills local wildlife and ends up in the cat walk between my house half eaten with intestines strewn about by coyotes.
Edit: but we're international so I should consider locations where cats aren't an invasive species.
They are where I live, it's illegal to let them out. Not enforced however.
I'm glad that most don't seem to think that way where I live, but yeah some do, despite all rescues, shelters, and vets being united on the message that cats shouldn't be let out to free roam.
Sharing is caring
This cat looks like a Disney princess. She's so dainty! Well, aside from the plant mantle.
Gilly suit. The cat is in stealth mode.
What is that cat covered in?
Fur
Galium aparine, with common names including cleavers, clivers, catchweed, robin-run-the-hedge, goosegrass, and sticky willy
Those are some interesting names lol. We should start calling weed, "sticky willy"
We used to stick this to people as a prank
I have them on my property, and my long haired cat gets so many of these... There's a reason we shave him in the summer lol
Aww, someone's been out extinguishing another bird species.
I agree with the message of what you're saying (see my other comments here) but the way you're saying it sounds like animosity towards the cat themself, which isn't really fair. The responsibility lies entirely with the humans.
The city is more devastating to the bird population than the cats.
And a few companies do most of global pollution. Doesn't mean someone who litters gets a free pass for their effect on the environment.
view more: next ›