neuter your fucking cats
especially neuter your fucking outdoor cats
this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2025
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Cats shouldn't be outdoors period.
Exactly. One of the most environmentally destructive forces of the modern era (and that’s saying something!). Caused dozens of extinctions.
Though humans are more destructive to their local and remote environments by a faaaaar margin but it is considered a serious crime to go around neutering them.
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Lions: "I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me"
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Are outdoor cats even pets at that point
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Very cute, but cats should be neutered, particularly those outdoors and especially the males. Males can roam a fair distance and often only have a short lifespan in suburbia. This just creates an ongoing problem with strays and ferals.
Absolutely. And even if you don't care that your cat is out there making kittens, it's important to know that un-neutered males are much more likely to get into fights with other cats. A lot of the nastiest feline diseases spread through fighting, and fights result in injuries that can easily become infected. It's not unheard of for males to lose eyes (or even whole limbs) to completely avoidable infections.
So neuter your damn cats. It has the potential to extend their lives significantly, and promotes a healthier cat population in general.
and if that's still not enough of a reason, if they're neutered before they start to spray they won't develop that instinct but even if they already spray it won't smell any more after they've been neutered
Clearly, that's Robin.
People who let cats roam are first class assholes. People who let unfixed cats roam are a threat.
What do you mean by roam ?
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.
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.
Cats should be kept indoors, but moreover your neighbor is a piece of shit and I hope he gets what he deserves. Get a super soaker you fucking monster, shooting someone's pet with something that travels around 200 mph is a bad look. After he baited them at that, I understand that wasn't his intention but the cats are just living by their basic instincts, it's not their fault. If he really was interested in stopping them rather than being cruel humane traps are cheap, just do what normal fucking people do, catch it, drive it 5-10mi, and release it somewhere it's no longer your problem, or drive it to the nearest no kill shelter. But no, can't be a decent human, it's more fun to break their ribs and possibly let them slowly internally bleed to death because they committed the crime of wanting to eat.
I'd rat him out for animal cruelty right now if I knew his name and location.
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It's an American thing. Culturally there it's expected that cats are kept indoors, and that any other view is unacceptable.
Whether they are neutered is another conversation
Yeah it must be an American thing, we in the UK let our cats roam freely outside and it's totally normal to see cats everywhere.
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Cats are an invasive species in North America, they destroy avian wildlife.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyall%27s_wren
Cats belong on leashed walks outside, not cooped up inside all day. Treat them like dogs.
Thats not universally american. Plenty of people in the states let their cats roam. The problem we have is people who think they are rescuing a cat when really they are stealing someones pet
I mean it's an American thing to loudly proclaim that if you do anything other than have an indoor cat then you're an awful person (see original OP of this thread), not appreciating that America is wildly different on this position than pretty much any other country in the world
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American here. Clearly it's not a "culturally expected" thing in my neighborhood.
That look. That perfect f u cat look. "Btw, this guy lives here now, too. Whatcha gonna do about it? Get food, peasant!"
"Hi meet your grandkid"
You better pet me and my son again and again
Wow this is incredible! I used to have a black and white cat that look very similar, and I also named him Batman!!
He was my childhood cat, he died almost 20 years ago. Maybe he is a reincarnation :). Crazy though. I gotta show this pic to my family..
Edit: I have a cat now named Robin
I also had a black and white cat named Batman. Shortened from Lord Battenberg (cake) man.
House cats shouldn't even be outside
Strays who lived outside can't be house-only cats anymore.
Absolutely they can. Perhaps not all of them but I have lots of first hand evidence that outdoor cats and even feral cats can become happy housecats.
Given every single shelter I've ever been to in Germany lists adoption requirements for each cat (one of them if they are a freeroamer or bot, i.e. need outside access) and would not let you adopt a cat if you can't provide them, with the professionals at the shelter even pointing out that "taking away outside access from a cat can, depending on the cat, amount to factual animal abuse" (roughly translated)… yeah, sorry, but there's zero chance any anecdote here could convince me.
I've already posted an example on another reply. Right now they even got an additional box above the list stating that "most our current cats do not accept being held only indoors" (the green one), given that's what most people look for. Most of them specifically state "Freigang" (Freeroam) as requirement.
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Both mine were strays and are now happily indoor cats with a catio. It just requires an adjustment period.
I also follow all the local legislation (registration, neutering, etc.). So it can be done and may just depend on how adoption agencies in your state/country function.
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"I am Batman."
"This is also Batman, but smol."
Why is He not called Batcat?
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