this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2025
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Don't feed any cats that are not yours. not even once.
yeah, feeding the wrong food wil give them liver disease in the long run, and they cant handle suddenly switching food sources. They'll also get way to fat which gives them depression and also kills them. being 'nice' to a cat that has an owner by feeding it shortens their life by ~3 years.
If your animal will die from eating a small piece of cooked chicken after eating several raw freshly hunted birds in my garden by it's own volition, then don't let it out of the house.
If your cat is in my house (yes, somebody's cat just waltzed into my house once and sat on our sofa) then he is my guest. If I want to offer my distinguished guests a healthy snack and they don't refuse, there's nothing wrong with that.
Nah
Better yet, do feed them, take them inside, and save them from an owner who doesn't care if they get run over
shitty cat owners downvoting you. most place around me won't even let you adopt a cat if you don't say you'll keep it inside. its bad for your local ecosystem and its bad for the cat. I've seen way too many cats die because they were kept outside.
I've yet to see an animal shelter in my entire country that doesn't have this claws in its adoption contract. I haven't run an exhaustive search (there are over 4,000 shelters), but I've checked dozens.
You would think that every single animal welfare group agreeing that cats should be kept inside would be enough to convince people that maybe cats should be kept inside, but alas
I assumed it'd be pretty much all of them, but didn't feel like researching to be sure. It's really surprising how so many lemmy users, who are generally very much on the side of science and research, will completely ignore the people who are experts in this subject and assume they know better from their own experiences.
I'm always surprised by how divisive of a topic this is.
Try it on yourself first
Is this a joke?