Cats, they eat native birds but they also make really good pets so please vote for which option is what your opinion is, cats, no cats, or cats that live permanently inside. poll

This episode of “HIdden Brain” had a good discussion of this issue with the author Hal Herzog who writes about human animal relationships. https://www.npr.org/2019/06/17/733456435/pets-pests-and-food-our-complex-contradictory-attitudes-toward-animals

Arg! It’s a podcast. Do you know if they have a transcript somewhere (npr usually does)? I’d much rather read than listen to a podcast. But it sounds very interesting! Taking a long drive yesterday, and seeing all the dead animals on the roadside (3 raccoons, 1 possum, 1 skunk, and I was driving so…

[image] haida_gwaii: It seems strange that we decide certain beings are unholy and other things are just extraneous. Welcome to the world of speciesism. Our society is so backwards.

Yes there’s a transcript link on that page.

[image] bouteloua: moved it to the Nature Talk category. Thanks, guess I was asleep on the job :sleeping:

Some people have a catio. An enclosed space where cats have a view and the breeze.

Just reminding everyone again, (thanks @jdmore !) that this conversation has covered many of the points being brought up here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/should-cats-be-culled-to-stop-extinctions/1628 thoughts from the community on combining topics with an adjustment to the topic titles?

Some conversations lend themselves to archiving as FAQs. Other conversations, such as this, are of the sort that people want to interact in real time, exchange ideas, hear contemporary opinions, etc. It seems a shame to relegate everyone to an archive search or reference a prior conversation if they…

Not suggesting that there be no more conversation just that two virtually identical topics be merged into one continuing conversation so people aren’t repeating themselves in two places. edit: realizing that perhaps you are unaware that we can re-open conversations as needed.

Cats: good or bad

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Thanks, guess I was asleep on the job

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