If you live in an apartment, just don’t get one

Reasoning edit: pets, especially cats, will leave a smell all over furniture. Cleaning becomes an even worse chore due to the fur. They also require “house training” in order to not chew/claw/destroy most stuff that’s lying around the house.

    • ronl2k@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      That Wikipedia article contains incorrect info if it applies to habitats outside of Australia or isolated islands. The math doesn’t add up for the vast majority of domesticated cat habitats. Once away from humans, cats have plenty of predators in the wild that would check their population against bird destruction. Also note that some birds prey on cats in the wild.

      • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com
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        21 hours ago

        Cats are actually still a threat to birds of prey:

        • competition for food sources

        • direct threat to fledglings

        • cats carry pasteurella multocida, which is very dangerous to birds