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> Other than eating the occasional housecat (which is bad) If you want your cat to participate in nature, to have the opportunity to kill wild animals, you hav
by catalogia 7y ago
> Other than eating the occasional housecat (which is bad)
If you want your cat to participate in nature, to have the opportunity to kill wild animals, you have to accept the possibility that other wild animals might try to eat your cat. Wanting the former but not the latter, wanting to have your cake and eating it too, is unreasonable.
- thaumasiotes 7y agoSuppose I'd like my son to be able to go out hunting, but I want to make sure the animals out there do not eat him. Why is that different?
- catalogia 7y agoIf your kid wants to frolicking around in the woods in bear country, it would be reasonable for you to tell him to watch his back. Or go with him and watch his back yourself. Or if neither could be managed, you should tell him to stay inside. What's not reasonable is calling for the extermination of bears to turn nature into a sanitized Disneyland experience safe for unattended young children. Mapping this analogy back to cats, you should either tell your cat to watch his back, watch your cat's back yourself, or keep your cat indoors. Really though, just do the last one. If your son hunted the north american songbirds your cat kills, he'd be a felon. If you want your cat to be happy, buy some cat toys.