But you need a job, you don’t need a pet. (Not counting service animals)
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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year 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 year ago
Or just keep them indoors
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m not sure what the solution is here.
dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year 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.