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How can we help protect birds from cats?

I don't let my cats outside except under the controlled environment of a screened-in "catio", where birds can't go. Your statement of "cat owners just won't be stopped unless laws are introduced" is false: with education and awareness, cat owners can and do realise that cat impacts on bird populations are significant, and worth doing their part to prevent as much as they can.

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How can we help protect birds from cats?

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While I understand and empathize with your frustration, your sweeping generalisations do not accurately represent every person in every place.

And in my township in the country, our animal control is very invested in rounding up feral cats, no blind eyes in my district.

Your issues remain valid; and laws may well be a good path forward where education fails; I'm just against sweeping generalisations in general.

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What Queer People and Cyclists Both Know

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Here hear. As a basically straightish white guy, I've had so many bad interactions with drivers that I bike a lot less than I otherwise would; and I try and take my biking journeys across areas where no cars go. It's made me more kind to cyclists on the road. It's a social issue about the existence of assholes that I don't know how to solve.

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How can we help protect birds from cats?

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I can tell that you feel very strongly and your feelings are valid. I'm sorry that you feel like we're arguing, because I didn't feel that way at all. I thought we were having a discussion, and that we're both on basically the same side with differing views on best approach. I wish you only the best.

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No 50M for me

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Every part of this "meme" is odd, from the concept onwards. Who the heck would pay 50 million to someone to stay away from their son, when someone who can afford 50 million can certainly pay a hundred grand for a hitman? This a dysfunctional dystopian fantasy

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Jorb

I feel personally targeted by this, since the pseudonym that I utilise for all my various corporate "points" cards is the real-sounding human name of Jorb Korbson