Earth's recent climate spiral.

[Leonardo17]

Turn 'em into soup???

It was reference to an old movie actually. :
 
Not pets but animals husbandry and the production of meat is a serious greenhouse emitter. 

[Ranjr]

Someday we will capture farts and turn them into clean energy, or perhaps even cryptocurrency.

[The Grand Nudger]

Turn 'em into soup???

It was reference to an old movie actually. :
 
Not pets but animals husbandry and the production of meat is a serious greenhouse emitter. 

Which is a shame, because it could be done regeneratively.  Not the pets so much, but I guess that's what carbon offsets are for.

[Jehanne]

Someday we will capture farts and turn them into clean energy, or perhaps even cryptocurrency.

[Anomalocaris]

Someday we will capture farts and turn them into clean energy, or perhaps even cryptocurrency.

Based on the smell, I can tell you for some people, each fart is encrypted differently.

[Anomalocaris]

They get super affectionate when you give them fresh food.  After they're done dispelling any notion of their being "tame" or "yours" or "pets", ofc.  

They're cold blooded killers farming you like an ant farms an aphid.  

It’s an equal symbiotic relationship.   Your give them what they want, and they give you the privilege of giving them what they want.

[Jehanne]

Cats can and do terrorize and kill mice and rats. Our relationship with them is not completely asymmetrical.

[The Grand Nudger]

They get super affectionate when you give them fresh food.  After they're done dispelling any notion of their being "tame" or "yours" or "pets", ofc.  

They're cold blooded killers farming you like an ant farms an aphid.  

It’s an equal symbiotic relationship.   Your give them what they want, and they give you the privilege of giving them what they want.

Well...if we're seriously considering this - the idea that pets have a larger carbon footprint than cars is both true, and misleading.  Pest control also has a carbon footprint.  So does the "home defense" industry.  These activities are not taken into account (and very little data exists to do so...even agriculturally).  That's one of the many points of data I collect out here.  We need a fuller accounting in order to guide public policy.

[Anomalocaris]

Cats can and do terrorize and kill mice and rats.  Our relationship with them is not completely asymmetrical.

Not all cats.   A friend of mine has a cat that runs away from a toy mouse on a string. 

 because she is on tile floor and can’t get traction with her claws, she skids around and drift through corners as she bolts from the mouse toy.

[Jehanne]

Cats can and do terrorize and kill mice and rats.  Our relationship with them is not completely asymmetrical.

Not all cats.   A friend of mine has a cat that runs away from a toy mouse on a string. 

 because she is on tile floor and can’t get traction with her claws, she skids around and drift through corners as she bolts from the mouse toy.

Genetic drift?

When my wife & I moved into our home 25+ years ago, my wife discovered, to her horror, that we had a mouse in our basement. I had two cats at the time, a Persian mix without his front claws and an American curl mix with all four clawed feet. That night I locked them both in the basement, thinking that they would take care of the problem.

The next morning I assured my wife that the problem had been resolved after letting both cats upstairs with a completely quiet basement. A few hours later I got a frantic call from my wife, screaming that the mouse was still there.

The following night I again locked both cats in the basement, but this time I took their food bowl in their presence, waving it in front of both their faces, and as they looked on, I told them both, "No mouse, no food".

The next morning the basement was again quiet, and my wife again called me at work a few hours later to say that she had discovered the mouse's managed and lifeless body.