FuglyDuck

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Cake day: July 15th, 2023

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  • New Zealand has no native predators, and cats are extremely good predators.

    These aren’t house cats that got lost, these are cats that are entirely wild and are now an invasive species. TNR would still decimate the local fauna while waiting for nature to take its course.

    They also can’t be housed like you might do with a house cat turned stray.

    as much as I love house cats, in New Zealand, the feral cats are an ecological apocalypse.





  • you assume I’m treating it as a step forward.

    I’m not.

    I’m treating it as something that has fundamentally altered society. whether that change is for good, or ill, is not something I’d care to argue over. It’s here. It’s not going away, and the way people raised kids fifty or more years ago for a world that no longer exists is only going to ruin more kids.

    More to the point, all these laws are going to do is teach kids not to tell adults. It’s going to teach them to hide going on line, maybe drive them into the gray or dark web. it makes kids vulnerable; exposed. it’s like sex education: kids are going to find a way, so teach them safe ways.