But you need a job, you don’t need a pet. (Not counting service animals)
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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoThey’re killing machines that have a big impact on local wildlife.
Saying this to my friends as I drive in my 2 ton steel box full of liquid dinosaurs through the cemented remains of an old growth forest on the way to my job at the bitcoin mill.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You can have both. In fact, you can hire a pet-sitter, which creates two jobs for the price of one.
dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380
Unless, of course, you’re saying that we shouldn’t stop one bad thing because we do other bad things.
We should rethink our attachments to miniature tigers.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Or just keep them indoors
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’m not sure what the solution is here.
dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Please be serious. I read the source that I posted; you’re not being clever. Cats don’t magically show up from nowhere. Our culture around cats enables and feeds the feral population. If we didn’t keep cats as pets, and animal control treated them the same way they treat raccoons, then this problem would be dramatically reduced. Probably eliminated, but they might turn into an intractable urban pest.