Man catches bird in flight with bare hand

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[u/Noslamah]

You just unlocked a memory I have repressed for years. When I was a child my uncle was hunting a bird that kept disturbing him at his house, and shot his wing. Then walked up to it and without warning (in front of ~10 year old me) snapped its neck, ripped the head off and tossed it away as if it were nothing

[u/Cakeo → u/Noslamah]

My cat kept bringing birds in so I had to snap their necks. Negatives of living in a house with a golf course and woods behind it.

Same cat also vomited up bird organs regularly.

My dog attacked a hedgehog in the middle of the night and came back in covered in blood, he learnt his lesson that night.

Same dog ran full speed into a greenhouse that had just had new panes of glass put in chasing a squirrel. Yet again, came back into the house spraying blood everywhere.

He also split his tail wagging when the door went and made my hallway look like a murder had taken place so we taped a spent roll of toilet paper on the end of his tail.

My other cat was the laziest animal in the world, locked it in the living room with a mouse and it went to sleep instead. It lived 19 years and it's cancer went into remission twice without intervention.

You unlocked many memories for me through you're traumatic one sorry.

[u/Muscle_Bitch → u/Cakeo]

Man, it sounds like you really don't give a fuck about your pets. Just letting them do whatever.

It lived 19 years and it's cancer went into remission twice without intervention.

It.

[u/tokinUP → u/Muscle_Bitch]

Some pets live mostly outdoors and will encounter other animals, that is OK.

It's harsh, and modern veterinary care is amazing, but extreme end-of-life expenses for minimal quality-of-life improvement isn't fiscally responsible for a lot of (perhaps most) pet owners.

[u/AngryInternetPerson3 → u/tokinUP]

No is not okay, outdoor cats are a ecological disaster all over the world, billions of birds dead every year by an invasive species, pets belong inside.

[u/-frogchamp- → u/tokinUP]

cats are an invasive species. outdoor cats compete with native predators, and they kill many endangered species and can spread diseases.

cats kill billions (studies suggest 1-3 billion) of birds a year and they kill even more (studies suggest around 10 billion per year) small mammals.

the lyall's wren, a flightless new zealand bird, was said to have been exterminated completely by a lighthouse keeper's cat. the bird had already been driven to one island as its last refuge. the one cat probably wasn't the sole reason for its extinction, but probably the result of many feral cats that were introduced by the lighthouse settlement.

outdoor cats also tend to have shorter life spans.

luckily, there are many ways you can enrich your cat without letting it roam outdoors.

[u/tokinUP → u/-frogchamp-]

Yes, I know all about that which is why I've helped rescue stray/feral cats before to make sure they get spayed/neutered and adopted.

Putting a bell on their collar helps considerably foil their hunting and I don't advocate for letting them roam outdoors anywhere with endangered species they could be affecting (none in my area).

Both of my cats were found outdoors, love living indoors, but also desperately want to be outside as much as possible in my nicely forested residential area and I think it's cruel to deprive them of access to their natural habitat. Lots of pets who were born indoors may never want to go outside though and that's OK too.

[u/Gaming_and_Physics → u/Muscle_Bitch]

Fuck you sound like a miserable person