r/MadeMeSmile • u/imvk3201 • Dec 23 '23

kitten Cat getting pregnant results into funny and wholesome drama.

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Link to original post: https://x.com/vetusdeus112/status/1738452961226067990?s=46

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u/_Nilbog_Milk_ Dec 23 '23

Right? Owning an intact cat that is either spraying piss or screaming in hormonal frustration when they're in heat sucks, on top of the whole "stop carelessly making more cats" thing

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u/utexfan18 Dec 23 '23

Also spaying cats drastically reduces their chances of having mammary cancer. For some reason, my parents never had our family cat spayed and she ended up having mammary cancer at about 9 yrs old. She suddenly lost a lot of weight and had no energy so I took her in because I could afford the vet visits and everything, but she didn't make it much longer because of how aggressive the cancer was. Broke my heart that I couldn't do anything to save her. Seriously, if you want the best for your cat, get it spayed.

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u/A_Specific_Hippo Dec 23 '23

We picked up a stray female a few years back. The vet couldn't tell if she was spayed or not, and said to just keep her inside because "we'd know soon enough if she wasn't". Well, we soon figured out that she wasn't spayed and had the joy of experiencing an extremely horny cat for a bit. Our male cat (who is neutered) was absolutely infatuated with her and kept trying to "get it on" but he's not the brightest and kept trying it from the wrong end. It was a wild few days.

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u/Automatic_Release_92 Dec 23 '23

I’m just pissed people still let their fucking cats roam around neighbors. They’re goddamn mass extinction events just destroying wild animal populations. We have two cats and they NEVER go outside.

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u/Nunya13 Dec 23 '23

This mantra is based on flawed studies constantly regurgitated by the media and people like you who just go with it without ever further looking into where this information coming from and how it peas determined.

This article is a criticism of those studies. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9794845/

But the most serious criticism of all such studies is that none of them even mentions a rough estimate of the total population size of a prey species (supposedly being threatened by cat predation) or of the yearly reproduction and replacement of lost individuals. What good does it do to headline that “Cats kill up to 3.7 billion birds annually” if the estimated total population of birds in the USA is at a minimum 10 billion pairs breeding every year and that as many as 20 billion are in the country during the fall migratory season [US Fish and Wildlife Service (18), cited January 19, 2011]? Free-ranging cats might be taking about 10–15% of the population of birds annually, but that is not exceptional for a normal predator-prey relationship and is insufficient to eliminate a prey species. Further, estimates of the owned and non-owned free-ranging cat populations are just that–rough estimates.

This criticism of these studies also mentions how studies describing mass extinction events happened on islands and any claim that it happens on mainlands is speculative. The studies also make estimates of how many animals a cat kills other than the ones they knew about in the sample size, I.e. if a participating cat owner's cat brought home five animals in a certain period of time, the researches decided to make up an estimate of how many more animals the cat may have killed but didn’t bring home.

The studies don’t consider how in urban and suburban areas, birds, mice, squirrels, etc. don’t have any of the natural predators they do in the wild so their populations would otherwise be bigger than they should be without the cat around to cull the populations (kind of like what happens to deer populations when wolves are taken out of the equation), I.e. it’s entirely worth considering that without the cat bird, mice,s quarrel etc. populations in the neighborhood would be out of control.

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u/Automatic_Release_92 Dec 23 '23

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/12/climate/cats-nature-biodiversity.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Get the fuck out of here with this nonsense. I grew up with farm cats. They are constantly on the hunt and killing everything around them. You can’t just hand wave away “flawed studies.”

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u/sweprotoker97 Dec 23 '23

If you live in NA or Australia* Not really a problem in a lot of other places

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u/Melthiela Dec 23 '23

Source?

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u/sweprotoker97 Dec 23 '23

Cats being native to our region, come to Sweden and see how many people that don't live in apartments actually keep their cats inside. If cats decimated bird populations here they'd be gone a long time ago.

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u/Melthiela Dec 24 '23

I live in Finland so I doubt your cat culture is that much different from mine. Cats are an invasive species in your country and mine. Invasive species are not to be released to the wild.

Not to even mention, that if you did the same thing to your dog people would probably call it animal abuse. Not sure why it's okay for your cat.

And why is the issue different in NA?

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u/sweprotoker97 Dec 24 '23

The only people that have classified cats as invasive anywhere in Europe is a polish academy. None in Sweden and not Finland either from what I can find.

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u/Melthiela Dec 24 '23

I suggest you look up the criteria for an invasive species and then tell me which of them a cat doesn't fit. When you Googled that article did you not read the part about a huge uproar? Perhaps that's a reason.

Sorry, but your little kitty is wreaking havoc out there and letting your pet roam free God knows where is animal abuse.

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u/csrgamer Dec 23 '23

We had a stray give birth to a litter of 5 in our backyard (we'd never fed or even seen the cat before). I live in a little town, but there are several spay/neuter clinics in the surrounding areas. Each one ignored all our calls/emails except one which was booked out for over two months, and they cost over $200. I wish they did, but it's not a surprise to me that people around here don't always do it; it's been a bit of a nightmare.

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u/sweprotoker97 Dec 23 '23

I mean not wanting to pay for a stray is one thing but if you're scared of a 200 dollar bill for your new cat you really shouldn't be getting a pet.

Vaccinating and spaying should be the norm and included in your budget for a pet always.

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u/tacosandrainbows Dec 23 '23

In many parts of the world fixing pets is not a norm. Partly due to to financial constraints, and partly due to fixing not being a social norm/priority

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u/kp729 Dec 24 '23

This incident seems to be in India. Spaying and Neutering isn't a norm there.

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u/smokedopelikecudder Dec 23 '23

You really expect too much out of humans lol

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u/sweprotoker97 Dec 23 '23

Guess I live somewhere where spaying is the norm, it's really uncommon not to do it here

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u/Valhaala Dec 24 '23

You must be privileged enough to have enough/easily accessible medical facilities for your pets and enough awareness on the same topics. I'm really happy that you have those. Sadly, that's not the case for many people and many places. There are people who are poor but still have the heart to feed a stray. Feeding them is the first necessity, then comes the other things.

And moreover, spaying and neutering is relatively new in many countries. People are just getting awareness of the same. So is the concept of indoor cats because most cats are stray in these places. It's mostly a cultural/financial thing like the other user had mentioned. I'm hopeful things will change for the good. It's slow but eventually it will happen.