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The discussion is about house cats and whether owners are obliged to keep them inside.

Feral cats have different behavior, and in fact having sterilized house cats marking and protecting territory tends to reduce the number of feral cats that take residence.

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And yet they have the exact same effect on the local environment. Feral and free roaming cats are not meaningfully distinct except to their owners

Do you think people should let their dogs roam free?

That's simply not true, and as I wrote originally, habitat loss through human landscaping and chemical pest/weed control has an absurdly larger impact on bird population and diversity than all the guileless house cats that will ever prowl a neighborhood.

Bringing up habitat loss from humans is a classic whataboutism. Do you care about neighborhood dogs shitting in your yard? Cause I’m tired of cats doing it

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