A family says police escorted them and their 3-year-old son off an i9 Sports youth soccer field in Winter Park after the league issued a trespass, following complaints from opposing parents that the boy held the ball too much and was “trying to put on a show.” The incident, captured in video the family posted
Yeah, we’ve got a vicious killer on our hands here, he’s a big orange/white floof and about 6 times in the 7 years we have had him, he’ll bring a baby squirrel, or little fledgling bird to us. Nothing approaching the size of an adult squirrel, much less a hen. I suppose if he were hungry enough he might try, but… with all the other wildlife around it’s irresponsible to not protect your henhouse with hardware cloth to prevent predators from digging under the wire in the night (which, somehow the camera surveillance managed to miss - although why snowflake didn’t just make his coop more secure like the neighbors do is just… a him thing.) His next door neighbor watched a hawk grab the wire on the top of their run, in the middle of he day, and try to fly up with it / lift it off. We have had a young hawk grab a hen from the new neighbors’ open run that was a little too big for him to carry far, made it 100 meters to our driveway and set down there, as I rounded the corner I spooked him away and he left his prize, 15 minutes later he had returned to take it away.
So, yeah, bruiser the cat is capable, but about as likely to bother with his hens as he is to attack the FedEx delivery guy.
Maybe we like, lock you under house arrest - not house and yard arrest, just house arrest. You get a box of clay chips to relieve yourself in and are never ever allowed to go out and touch grass for your entire life, we’ll just let you look out the windows at the world you can smell and hear but never touch, while the rest of us come and go freely as we please, sometimes staying away for days. Oh, I forgot, you do get to “go out” locked in a tiny cage, transported in a way that makes you nauseous to go visit a clinic full of fear stink where they poke you with needles and force feed you foul tasting things, or maybe this is that special visit where they make you unconscious and you wake up having been surgically altered, then it’s back to the house via the vomit box for you.
Not at all surprising that they shit in your shoes when you do that.
Yeah, so, like I said, about once or twice a year, our ecological disaster kills a bird or a squirrel - usually a tiny baby one that had already fallen out of its nest. Meanwhile, if you watch, the hawks and owls are cleaning up, multiple kills nightly just in our yard. Raccoons will eat whatever they can get ahold of, Coyotes are a real hoot… even the turkeys eat more lizards than our cat.
You may be aghast at the statistics of what the 150 million cats, collectively, kill each year in the US- I’m aghast at what we’ve done to our wild spaces where vastly more killing is part of the natural order which dominated this continent until the last 200 years or so. This is what really needs to happen if we’re going to have an ecology: https://eowilsonfoundation.org/eowbf-archive/half-earth-our-planets-fight-for-life
Doesn’t matter what wild animals do. Your domesticated animal should not be allowed to kill indiscriminately. What you see the cat bring back isn’t the full total of its destruction.
Your cat will also push out other predators and has no need to compete for resources with wild animals.
Your domesticated animal should not be allowed to kill indiscriminately.
How many acres of habitat have you and your domesticated humans destroyed for your home, farmland to support your appetites, strip mines, highways, etc. Sure, my domestic cat kills the occasional vulnerable creature in my yard - it is part of the suburban ecology. If you coddle your baby squirrels that fall from the nest and nurse them back to health, that’s your hobby - which is “better for the ecology” is a matter of opinion. Neither is significant.
Yeah, we’ve got a vicious killer on our hands here, he’s a big orange/white floof and about 6 times in the 7 years we have had him, he’ll bring a baby squirrel, or little fledgling bird to us. Nothing approaching the size of an adult squirrel, much less a hen. I suppose if he were hungry enough he might try, but… with all the other wildlife around it’s irresponsible to not protect your henhouse with hardware cloth to prevent predators from digging under the wire in the night (which, somehow the camera surveillance managed to miss - although why snowflake didn’t just make his coop more secure like the neighbors do is just… a him thing.) His next door neighbor watched a hawk grab the wire on the top of their run, in the middle of he day, and try to fly up with it / lift it off. We have had a young hawk grab a hen from the new neighbors’ open run that was a little too big for him to carry far, made it 100 meters to our driveway and set down there, as I rounded the corner I spooked him away and he left his prize, 15 minutes later he had returned to take it away.
So, yeah, bruiser the cat is capable, but about as likely to bother with his hens as he is to attack the FedEx delivery guy.
Maybe you like, don’t let the cat wander free?
Maybe we like, lock you under house arrest - not house and yard arrest, just house arrest. You get a box of clay chips to relieve yourself in and are never ever allowed to go out and touch grass for your entire life, we’ll just let you look out the windows at the world you can smell and hear but never touch, while the rest of us come and go freely as we please, sometimes staying away for days. Oh, I forgot, you do get to “go out” locked in a tiny cage, transported in a way that makes you nauseous to go visit a clinic full of fear stink where they poke you with needles and force feed you foul tasting things, or maybe this is that special visit where they make you unconscious and you wake up having been surgically altered, then it’s back to the house via the vomit box for you.
Not at all surprising that they shit in your shoes when you do that.
Allowing cats to free roam is a ecological disaster, but sure
Yeah, so, like I said, about once or twice a year, our ecological disaster kills a bird or a squirrel - usually a tiny baby one that had already fallen out of its nest. Meanwhile, if you watch, the hawks and owls are cleaning up, multiple kills nightly just in our yard. Raccoons will eat whatever they can get ahold of, Coyotes are a real hoot… even the turkeys eat more lizards than our cat.
You may be aghast at the statistics of what the 150 million cats, collectively, kill each year in the US- I’m aghast at what we’ve done to our wild spaces where vastly more killing is part of the natural order which dominated this continent until the last 200 years or so. This is what really needs to happen if we’re going to have an ecology: https://eowilsonfoundation.org/eowbf-archive/half-earth-our-planets-fight-for-life
Whataboutism at its finest.
Doesn’t matter what wild animals do. Your domesticated animal should not be allowed to kill indiscriminately. What you see the cat bring back isn’t the full total of its destruction.
Your cat will also push out other predators and has no need to compete for resources with wild animals.
How many acres of habitat have you and your domesticated humans destroyed for your home, farmland to support your appetites, strip mines, highways, etc. Sure, my domestic cat kills the occasional vulnerable creature in my yard - it is part of the suburban ecology. If you coddle your baby squirrels that fall from the nest and nurse them back to health, that’s your hobby - which is “better for the ecology” is a matter of opinion. Neither is significant.