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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by shandrakor@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

Hey. So... i live rural and my cats are pets but also are working cats to keep the rodents out of my house.

Just saw some saltiness going on in the comments and wanted to address it.

Didn't make this post with the intention of making anyone upset and I apologize to those I did.

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[-] lorez@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Again, ridiculous. Their habitat even one hundred years ago was not being secluded in a house. Before you accuse me of using the appeal to tradition think of what your life would be if you were constricted inside four walls for life. That's cruel. We tried two months during lockdown and it was terrible. And it wasn't an appeal to nature but describing their character or the things they like to do: they obviously like and crave sex, they like to explore and they even like to hunt because they're predators. That's not an appeal to nature but describing the animal. If their usefulness inside human society is over stop buying them. And don't even try to tell me they are useful as pets. They're living beings, not stuffed plushies.

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