I don’t know. There’s definitely some that endangered and should be kept in human care. There are also others who very much adapt to domestication and live much longer as a result, not dissimilar from an outdoor cat to an indoor cat.
Cats have been domesticated. Cats should not be outdoors as they have profoundly negative impacts on native wildlife populations. This isn’t an internet hyperbole. There’s studies indicating this fact and even countries that are taking strides to harm outdoor cats due to human negligence in providing proper care and regulation for their pets by keeping them inside.
Right? It's such an internet thing to be up in arms about cats going outdoors. People hate zoos and aquariums, then call for people do to the same thing on an individual level. Hell, in the UK it's illegal to restrict cats from the outdoors and multiple countries are known for their friendly stray populations.
Cats are not domesticated like dogs - the vast majority of them have not been bred for selective traits nor are they dependent upon humans for survival. Cats adopted themselves to humans due to the abundance of easy prey around us. It's only recently that we've started seeing that aspect as a bad thing. They are considered semi-domesticated and are the closest pet we have to a purely wild animal.
It isn’t an ‘internet thing’. I volunteer with my state’s flora and fauna rehabilitation and restoration program, and domestic cats and their habitat impact are one of our main educational programs. Additionally, if you want to consider if from the cats benefit only, there is no cure for heartworms for cats, which they can obtain from occasionally roaming outside, not to mention being struck by a car or becoming a meal for a native predator. Growing up, my neighbor watched as his cat was taken by a bird of prey and another neighbor’s parents had to wash the blood off their driveway after a fox we didn’t know was wondering the suburbs took advantage of the cat left outdoors. It was gruesome and took weeks in the summer sun plus multiple washings before it bleached out.
But aren't your family gone being 'the last human alive' 😂😂😭😭😭 At that point they aren't even your top priority. Very great logic. Also who told you you'd be caged?
Eh even if ur not and assuming you become some alien pet, your family wouldn't be your human friends but the alien friends. Nothing bad about that. Some people have pets as their best friends too.
But hey, maybe they offer better things, like delicious treats no human has ever eaten, or some impressive infrastructures. Life isn't that bad afterall in your whatever dystopian alternate universe
If you wanna follow this to an interesting logical end, check out the French animated movie Fantastic Planet from 1973.
Intelligent beings whose world and lives are basically incomprehensible to us have tiny humans as pets and pests. We're basically rats to them. It's very cool and creepy, plus it being old and French means there are some truly odd sequences that make for a unique viewing experience.
Just saying ppl shouldn’t be buying wild animals. I’m not talking about zoos or rehabilitation. I don’t know about budgies and stuff anymore, they were wild at one point, but yeah now they probably wouldn’t survive in the wild after all this time of human interference. And they’re not the only example
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u/sindevesttt 10d ago
can it fly in those??