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it's just a cultural misunderstanding, in europe cats are not considered a problem, they are just one of tge species of animals that live in symbiosis with huma
by slim 3y ago
it's just a cultural misunderstanding, in europe cats are not considered a problem, they are just one of tge species of animals that live in symbiosis with humans in the cities. just like birds. in Rome the local authorities actually pay people to feed the cats
- kjkjadksj 3y agoWell if the risk of an outdoor cat is that bird populations decline, I don’t see how having probably ten cats to a person in a European city doesn’t harm that. Whether it was tradition or not doesn’t mean its a good idea. It was once tradition to dump the chamber pot out the window.
- utucuro 3y agoSomehow, considering the bad job humans do with maintaining a population of humans healthy and happy, I find the idea of entrusting control of animal populations to humans bewildering, but then, I was born in Istanbul, and I think our attitude towards street cats is probably well known by this point. After all, Turkish does not have a word to reflect the concept of a stray cat, they're street cats to us. Currently living in Germany, I miss seeing cats in the streets, though the occasional duck and goose sort of make up for it in a weird way, though the Geese can get far more aggressive than any street cat.