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This is wild speculation and almost intentionally muddy.

- Cats are natural, suburb density is probably not. Homestead cats have a place as long as we stock food.

- Anything involving money to support AN org should have stringent red tape.

- telling people to fuck off is okay

By what metric are domesticated cats "natural"?

In a lot of ways typical farm cats are more natural than dogs. The distance between those cats and the undomesticated variety isn’t that wide.

Most domesticated cats demonstrably have no issues thriving while feral. They are not well-adapted to every environment they’ve been introduced but they do pretty well in many. Their main issue in places like North America is prodigious predation in the wild, which is mitigated when living near humans.

Farm cats are working animals, and they make up a tiny fraction of the “outside cat” population. Not really a fair comparison. Roaming/feral domestic cats in residential area are an invasive species and “do pretty well” the same way other pests do.

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