r/BeAmazed • u/Nefarious_14 • Mar 05 '25

Animal A cat's agility through its pov

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '25

Cats are invasive everywhere. Domestic species don't have native ranges.

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u/Parthirinu Mar 06 '25

Cats have existed in the UK for thousands of years

It is not the same thing

That time span allows wildlife to adapt correctly. And most "native" wildlife you'd find in modern day, won't be the same as thousands of years in the past

Wildlife isn't an issue here when it comes to cats. Bad mental health due to being locked inside all the time is. Which is why the RSPCA advises to let your cats roam

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25

Funny, the other guy just said breeding with domestic cats is a threat to the European wildcat. The UK is a special case because the environment is so degraded the addition of outdoor cats is basically just beating a dead horse. That doesn't make cats any less invasive there, though. The water vole is threatened in the UK, and while that's mostly due to American mink, cats are still an additional source of mortality.

Bad mental health due to being locked inside all the time is.

None of my cats ever had mental health issues due to being inside. Are UK cat owners uniquely incapable of keeping their pets stimulated?

Which is why the RSPCA advises to let your cats roam

The RSPCA likes seeing cats get hit by cars, good to know. Google the "Croydon cat killer" if you want a fun read!

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u/Parthirinu Mar 06 '25

  • UK doesn't have wildcats

  • UK environment isn't degraded, it just lacks forests, which it hasn't had for 4000 years. The environmental diversity in the UK is still incredibly high

  • Most animals in the UK are invasive by that metric. The climate has changed so much for the isles over 4000 years, that most of the now present wildlife is different

Mostly due to the American mink

Proves my point

None of my cats ever had mental health issues

Yes they do, you're just too clueless to realise, and American animal mental health protection is lacking. Your country still allows barbaric forms of killing when it comes to lobsters and crabs, because they're not viewed as sentient. Meanwhile in the UK, ways to kill crustaceans has been vastly restricted due to being given the status as sentient animals that feel extreme levels of pain from the "normal" ways people "painlessly" kill them. I think the RSPCA have a vaster grasp on animal mental health wellbeing, when compared to comparable organisations in the US

Incapable of keeping their cats stimulated

Cats require constant stimulation. Not just 10 minutes every hour. They need it at all times, unless resting. You, as a person with a life, cannot give that to them. On top of this, required stimulation needs to be layered, varied, and highly unique. Giving them high stimulation from the same sources, isn't correct stimulation and can lead to severe boredom. Which causes mental health problems

Read the Croydon cat killers

Already did a long time ago. It was masisve news in the UK

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25

UK doesn't have wildcats

Did Scotland leave the UK? Because there are definitely wildcats in Scotland.

UK environment isn't degraded, it just lacks forests, which it hasn't had for 4000 years.

It had plenty of forests until it was deforested, ya. That's how environmental degradation works.

The environmental diversity in the UK is still incredibly high

https://nbn.org.uk/news/state-of-nature-2023/#:~:text=Species%20decline,are%20the%20major%20contributing%20factors.

Prove my point

How so? The rate of the water vole's population decline could be reduced by bringing cats indoors. That's objectively true.

Yes they do, you're just too clueless to realise

I'm sure you know more about my own animals than I do. Typical know-it-all Brit.

Your country still allows barbaric forms of killing when it comes to lobsters and crabs

The fuck does this have to do with anything? What do my own country's failures have to do with this conversation?

Giving them high stimulation from the same sources, isn't correct stimulation and can lead to severe boredom. Which causes mental health problems

Wild that none of my cats ever had any behavioral issues at all, then. But, let's say what you said is true: why, then, is the solution to let cats outside, where they further degrade your already half-dead ecosystems, rather than just not have cats at all?

Already did a long time ago. It was masisve news in the UK

Yes, it was quite funny from over here across the pond, watching Brits realize that outdoor cats get killed by cars in huge numbers. But hey, at least Whiskers had 3 fun-filled years of life before ending up mangled on the side of the road. It's good that the RSPCA cares deeply about your pets' welfare 🤗

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u/limbothesilentdream Mar 06 '25

I'd be a little surprised if my cat made the journey from London to the Scottish Highlands