Somehow I get downvoted for asking a clarification. Not everybody is a native speaker, I'm not sure what roam means in this context, so I ask. Look at what OP did, they answered my question very clearly and without judgement.

[–] Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago (12 children)

Walk around the neighborhood. Cats are an invasive species. When I was growing up my neighbor had a paintball gun to shoot any cats that wandered into his yard cause they killed the birds at his bird feeder.

They are normally fine around farms and breweries but that's because they are hunting things like mice that get into grain and such.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Invasive where?

Everyone keeps saying they're invasive, but like... They've been around for thousands of years and were around before we started domesticating them (or they started domesticating us, I guess).

And yes, they kill birds, but then other wild animals also kill other animals.

And yes I realize you're on .ca so probably Canadian, but my point is, everyone seems to assume everyone on the Internet is North American. Plenty of us live in Europe, where cats are sort of a naturally occurring phenomenon.

[–] Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah but like most invasive species we brought them to places they dont live naturally. Other than a loose dog not much will even bother a cat in North American cities.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Nothing lives in cities naturally. Cities themselves just aren't natural.

Where I come from, outdoors cats really don't have a particularly long shelf life in cities and towns. Either they get hit by a car, or they wander to the forest and find something stronger than them

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