Are cats evil beasts that should be killed to save mice?

[FlatAssembler]

[awty]

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Watch yourself.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Read rule number 1 - 

1. Spamming is not allowed. Spamming includes, but is not limited to:
   
   • Creating multiple threads with the same or similar thread subject in a short space of time.Repeatedly posting responses to existing threads that are unrelated to the current discussion(s) in the thread.
     
   • Repeatedly posting links, copy/pasted content, or scripture verses, unless they are relevant to the thread and have the member's own comments added to them.
     
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Watch yourself.

Kinda cool, though, how he just admitted to the spamming while spamming.

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

[awty]

If cats are evil for killing mice, then so are hawks, snakes, and any number of other critters.

[The Grand Nudger]

I guess it depends on what you consider a beast, but it's hard to imagine criteria for a beast that would apply to a cat but not to a human. In general, though, the ecological damage cats cause is greatly oversold. They kill more birds, hungry or not, than mice - but there's no shortage of the birds they kill or, for that matter, mice. They're certainly a less disastrous form of ipm than the mass application of pesticides.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I guess it depends on what you consider a beast, but it's hard to imagine criteria for a beast that would apply to a cat but not to a human.  In general, though, the ecological damage cats cause is greatly oversold.  They kill more birds, hungry or not, than mice - but there's no shortage of the birds they kill or, for that matter, mice.  They're certainly a less disastrous form of ipm than the mass application of pesticides.

Maybe we should get Flat to show us on the doll where the cat touched him...

Boru

[awty]

I am leaning toward coyotes as being evil since those bastards killed two, possibly three, of my cats. Now we have mice in the garage all the damn time.

[zebo-the-fat]

I lost 2 cats last year (aged 18 and 20 years!) considering getting another after the Christmas nonsense is over.

[FlatAssembler]

Rodents are filthy, disease-riddled vermin. Anything that kills mice and rats is a boon to humanity.

What was the last time some disease spreaded from rodents to humans? I can think of three times when it spreaded from bats to humans, all in recent history: EBOLA, SARS and COVID-19. As far as I know, no recent epidemic or pandemic came from rodents. Bats are far more dangerous.

As far as killing sentient beings goes, humans do that on the regular.

What do you mean? You mean all the animals killed on the roads? Well, we are, unlike cats, not doing it intentionally and we are trying to minimize that. Cats are not trying to minimize the amount of sentient animals they kill, to the contrary.