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Outdoor cats live much shorter lives than indoor ones.
by bigbillheck 4y ago
Outdoor cats live much shorter lives than indoor ones.
- concordDance 4y agoBut are they happier ones?
- schiffern 4y agoMaybe, maybe not. But they're definitely happier lives for the 10-50 wild birds and 50-200 wild mammals a cat would kill each year. Domestic housecats will hunt even when well-fed. "The greatest good for the greatest number of [sentient organisms]." https://www.fws.gov/sites/default/files/documents/keep-cats-indoors.pdf https://www.fws.gov/sites/default/files/documents/keep-cats-... https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380 https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/moral-cost-of-cats-180960505/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/moral-cost-of-...