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Tequilx_Wolf wrote

Mediterranean mussels are invasive here since colonisation and crowd out the local black mussels. I forage those for the most ethical B12 and Omega 3 DHA and EPA fatty acids available to me in the way that I live presently.

I'd need specific examples to engage to think about whether I would kill other invasive animals.

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DeletedButArchived OP wrote

Stray cats are hunting several endangered species in my area. While I'm trying to provide a refuge for some of these endangered species I can protect against humans an industrialization to some degree but I can't stop stray cats from hunting them till they are extinct.

Having a small spaces where an endangered species can breed and get basic necessities can have a massive impact in staving off extinction.

What would the correct response to Be? Just take these wild cats and keep them inside 100% of the time? Shoot them ? Giving away isn't a real option as there are way too many cats to get rid of or take in for that matter.

Spaying and neutering 10s to 100s of cats and sening them to a cat refuge of sorts is going to be financially challenging for most people.

While I'm currently in a situation where it is quite unlikely that I'm going to really do much as I'm doing lots of other stuff it does make me wonder, if I'm in a similar situation again what would my response be. I really don't know.

I can't see a propper rewinding effort in my local area not solve the stray cat problem. They fuck up the balance so much that many organisms are unable to exist in cat ridden spaces.

I guess the rewinding answer is intrude a native species which kills cats like cougar or wolves. But is having a wolf maul a cat to death better than shooting It? Sure the cat mauling is better from a rewinding perspective.

The only real humane things from a vegan perspective is let the cats fuck up the rewinding effort and slaughter endangered species in some of the few safe areas for them to live. Contribute to another extinction which just keeps up the snowball effect of mass extinction.

Or take these semi wild animals and force them to be housepets and derive them of autonomy. Or make a kitty ethnostate to ship them off to so they are out of the way.

I'd hate to be in a situation which I likely will be in in the future which seems to only have a bunch of fucked up answers to choose from where I have to pick a response.

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moonlune wrote

An interesting take that I read was that feral/wild cats only hunt for food while housecats are the ones destroying ecosystems for play.

I'd start by neutering all "pet cats", and wait a few generations for nature to adjust. That is, if there weren't other pressures on the prey populations.

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Ennui wrote

I think that’s false. Pretty sure feral cats kill for fun as well.

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