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So since there weren’t enough people to take care of the cats they decided to just drive them extinct? That’s pretty wild.
by AbrahamParangi 2y ago
So since there weren’t enough people to take care of the cats they decided to just drive them extinct? That’s pretty wild.
- PhasmaFelis 2y agoSpaying and neutering cats is not "driving them extinct."
- lmm 2y agoGiven that the goal was for no more cats to be born (so that the cat population eventually drops to 0) and this was apparently accomplished, it seems like a fair term.
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- PhasmaFelis 2y ago"Driving into extinction" is an awfully loaded and hyperbolic phrase for "neutering a single colony of feral domestic cats." It makes it sound like an atrocity. Maybe that's not what you intended. Preventing unwanted and uncared-for kittens is a good thing. It's a major goal of animal welfare groups all over the world.
- Affric 2y agoManaged decline. Artificially high population of cats. Almost no human population to feed them. They performed non lethal surgery on them so there wouldn’t be a population of cats dying of starvation when the last residents pass.
- npteljes 2y agoI think this is a perfectly humane solution. Especially considering it in the context of their cultural embedding, in which animal welfare in general are not the greatest. And also considering that the alternative is that feral cats starve to death.