Collar Cams Reveal Your Cat's Dirty Secrets

[Something Amyss]

I wish people wouldn't let their cats outside. I love both my cats, but felines are a destructive creature that preys on native wildlife in areas they are foreign to.

But that's half of their glory.

They're murderous, but they're murderous and adorable!

 

[Easton Dark]

I'd love to find out how my cat got two live toads into our closed porch, and where he got them from.

 

[Cowabungaa]

I wish people wouldn't let their cats outside. I love both my cats, but felines are a destructive creature that preys on native wildlife in areas they are foreign to.

We sure don't miss the mice, frogs and moles. If anything they're, next to buzzards and maybe the odd owl, the only natural predators around here. With us chasing the foxes and stuff far far away.

It's not possible to have a cat that isn't stupidly curious or a killer, my cat once maimed a spiders legs all except one and left it crawling about slowly on the floor.

What our youngest does with frogs is...truly frightening. Who thought frogs could scream like that... *shudder*

 

[Strazdas]

There is a scietific basis for "curiosity killed the cat" you know. Still i didnt knew they were climbing my storm drains, that would explain the sounds....
Well at least the cars managed to hide the evidence that they are secretly taking over the world.

 

[immortalfrieza]

I wish people wouldn't let their cats outside. I love both my cats, but felines are a destructive creature that preys on native wildlife in areas they are foreign to.

We sure don't miss the mice, frogs and moles. If anything they're, next to buzzards and maybe the odd owl, the only natural predators around here. With us chasing the foxes and stuff far far away.

It's not possible to have a cat that isn't stupidly curious or a killer, my cat once maimed a spiders legs all except one and left it crawling about slowly on the floor.

What our youngest does with frogs is...truly frightening. Who thought frogs could scream like that... *shudder*

We fuck the natural environment, bring in feral pests that ruin thousands of years of evolution and mess up fragile ecosystems. We do it again and again. A great example: the Kiwi bird in New Zealand. It lost the ability to fly thousands of years ago, because there were no predators on the island. It doesn't even run when confronted by aggresive animals; it just sits there. What happened? Pets. Dogs and cats have reduced a native, flourishing species to the brink of extinction.

Australia had a problem with native bugs. Brought in the cane toad. Cane toads have fucked the environment so much, they now hold "kill cane toad events" wherein people go around killing and bagging thousands of them for prizes. They breed like wildfire and have utterly devastated countless species.

Good, the law of nature is weak die and the strong survive, this is just as true today as it's always been. If a species can't avoid extinction, it doesn't deserve to exist, this applies to any and all species. I would say the same if we humans were the ones facing extinction right now. We humans are the dominant species on Earth, the natural environment is ours to do with as we wish, because we've earned it, and the same goes for our pets.

 

[immortalfrieza]

why people should keep heir cats indoors period, its way healtier for them than letting them run around, ticks worms can make your pet ill, cost you money, and all the other pitfalls of having a cat that goes out kills comes home with god knows what in its gullet.

Exactly. People still let their cats outdoors when it's painfully obvious that they shouldn't, as a result cats the world over keep catching diseases they wouldn't have gotten otherwise and keep getting hurt and killed both accidentally and deliberately time and time again.

 

[The White Hunter]

Anyone who has owned a cat would already know all of this

It's not possible to have a cat that isn't stupidly curious or a killer, my cat once maimed a spiders legs all except one and left it crawling about slowly on the floor.

My cat often catches and brings into the house...

Wait for it....

Drum roll...

Fucking bats. I can understand mice, frogs, rats, etc. But it catches fucking bats. At night. In the dark. In midair.

Nightmarish things, they're endangered so if you injure them you can be fined very easily or have your pet taken away, and they make horrific noise and thrash and bite and piss like crazy when they feel threatened.

And my cat is like fucking 12. I don't know how it still manages it.

Shame the research doesn't record how much time it spends fighting with other cats.

 

[Cowabungaa]

It's survived three ice ages, the reversal of the poles and five mass extinctions, yet we are still the most destructive thing to happen to it.

Worse than the Ordovician extinction event that killed off around 60% of all invertebrate sea-life at the time? Worse than the K-T event at the end of the Cretaceous era that killed off 75% of all species? Worse than the Great Oxygenation Event?

Yeah I don't think so. Typical human hubris. Worst thing that ever happened, oh dear what a silly overestimation of our power.

I take comfort in knowing what to expect in the next life. Those that aren't so lucky, the ignorant and the destructive, have only a slowly dying cesspit to look forward to. Dreadfully sad.

Thinking/believing =/= knowing. Still, that's funny. Slowly dying cesspit, hah! Did you ever hear of Snowball Earth? We're not going to destroy this planet any time soon. It'll outlive us with ease.

We fuck the natural environment, bring in feral pests that ruin thousands of years of evolution and mess up fragile ecosystems. We do it again and again. A great example: the Kiwi bird in New Zealand. It lost the ability to fly thousands of years ago, because there were no predators on the island. It doesn't even run when confronted by aggresive animals; it just sits there. What happened? Pets. Dogs and cats have reduced a native, flourishing species to the brink of extinction.

One click on my profile would've revealed that I don't live in Australia and thus am not a part of such a thing. My cats are fine where they are, strolling around the countryside.

 

[Cowabungaa]

If you'd like to have a conversation that doesn't include a Futarama meme, I'd be glad. But I'm not going to sink to the level of 4chan to discuss global ecology. Let's keep these forums intelligent. There's enough GameFaqs out there >_>

Red herring like a boss. Bender doesn't change what I said; we haven't done nearly as much as any of those big extinction events. The worst we did so far was possibly contribute to the extinction of mega-fauna at the end of the Pleistocene. To think that we're 'the most destructive thing to ever happen' is just plain silly and frankly, worthy of being laughed at by Bender.

The only real potential we have is when we unleash every nuclear weapon we have all at once and what'll happen after that? We'll all die and two million years down the road Earth will be happily spinning around the sun as it always did with new critters frolicking around it's surface.

Things died out way before us and things will still die out when we're long gone. We don't have some sort of special role or anything.

New Zealand is quite a ways away from Australia. Different continents, even. Very different ecosystem, too. One is fairly tropical. The other is mostly arid desert.

Oops, don't know why I said Australia but as far as I know they have the same problem in that regard. Still, I don't live there either.

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

I always suspected my cat was living a double life. He sometimes comes back to the house freshly brushed. My little attention whore kitty.

 

[iniudan]

But I will say my statement in regard to the human impact on Earth was wrong. Better to say we do more harm than good and a lot less good than we could. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

Yet, you go around with an online persona of someone who razed 3 cities out of vengeance. =p


P.S. Been of Briton ancestry, I am all for kicking Roman ass. Especially if it involve Total War. =p

 

[Cowabungaa]

But back on topic! Sorry for being snappy in one of those posts earlier. Wildlife and the such is something quite close to my heart and I tend to forget my manners and go into full super saiyan mode lol. But I think our difference of opinion comes from our differing views on harm and the human presence--not something we will be able to debate much as my world view is rooted in my spiritualism.

But I will say my statement in regard to the human impact on Earth was wrong. Better to say we do more harm than good and a lot less good than we could. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

Whether it's worth debating is always dependent on how much of an open mind one has.

Anyway, your last statement is obviously true but it is important for us as a species to remember why. It's important to remember that we are, in the long term, pretty damn puny and not much special. It's important to remember that we're just another species, that we don't play some sort of custodian role and that in the end, when it comes to the planet and life itself;

Why do I say such a callous thing? Because in the end, the Earth and life on it just is. It exists and that's that.

It's exactly all that melo-dramatic "Save the earth!" rhetoric that actually harms us. Not everyone takes that message seriously because it is in fact silly. What we should realize is; holy shit, we're actually killing ourselves in the long run and there's no one but us who actually gives a damn about that. As soon as that enters our collective minds we'll start making big changes to ensure our prosperity.

And if we don't then yeah, our shitty treatment of our environment will come back to bite us in the ass while we drag some other critters with us.

 

[LazyAza]

Oh I already had no doubts my younger cat was sneaking off to get food from someone else. No way she's as fat as she is from just what we feed her.