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Growing up as a kid in Australia we had outdoor cats. Not housecats that we let out sometimes. They weren't allowed in the house ever. Basically tiny lions that loafed around the house murdering native birds. Shit was fucked. Like at least outdoor dogs are just kind of doofuses.
In a sane world we'd set a soft and hard date to ban cats in Australia. The soft would be soon and they couldn't be bought or sold. But you can keep them (only indoors).
The hard would be longer than any cat has lived, and after that you just can't own them in any way.
The canadian province of Alberta has 0 rats. If they can do that, we can keep cats indoors.
0 non-native rats. Pack rats are native to Alberta.
I'm seriously thinking about trapping the outdoor cats in my area. Humanely of course. We still have so many birds but I can only imagine what it was like before.
that's the historically normal way for cats to live around people in the places where these cats are native. or "native", since people carried their middle eastern cats all around the old world as agriculture spread.
i guess they've already killed everything that couldnt adapt to cats in these places, while the process is still ongoing in AU, NZ and the americas.