• NoFuckingWaynado@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      I’ve heard somewhere you can fry a natural sponge in oil, and it’ll shrink down. You might then try to feed one to any cats. Cat swallows sponge, sponge expands and cannot be passed, cat dies a slow death of starvation.

      Story always seemed like bullshit to me. But i can’t help but be curious, you know?

    • teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      19 hours ago

      yeah, feeding the wrong food wil give them liver disease in the long run, and they cant handle suddenly switching food sources. They’ll also get way to fat which gives them depression and also kills them. being ‘nice’ to a cat that has an owner by feeding it shortens their life by ~3 years.

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      Better yet, do feed them, take them inside, and save them from an owner who doesn’t care if they get run over

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        shitty cat owners downvoting you. most place around me won’t even let you adopt a cat if you don’t say you’ll keep it inside. its bad for your local ecosystem and its bad for the cat. I’ve seen way too many cats die because they were kept outside.

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          most place around me won’t even let you adopt a cat if you don’t say you’ll keep it inside.

          I’ve yet to see an animal shelter in my entire country that doesn’t have this claws in its adoption contract. I haven’t run an exhaustive search (there are over 4,000 shelters), but I’ve checked dozens.

          You would think that every single animal welfare group agreeing that cats should be kept inside would be enough to convince people that maybe cats should be kept inside, but alas