Yeah I do find the discussion about indoor or outdoor cats to be very Americentric much of the time. Cats have inhabited England for longer than the English have for example, so I feel unless you happen to be a Brythonic tribesman in the Roman period it’s a bit of a silly argument to have outside of ‘new world’ countries.
Also the British bird population has audibly crashed in my lifetime, cats didn’t do that (or it would have happened literal millennia ago) it’s much more to do with climate change and excessive industrial agriculture destroying the habitats and species the birds depend on, particularly insects.
Yeah I do find the discussion about indoor or outdoor cats to be very Americentric much of the time. Cats have inhabited England for longer than the English have for example, so I feel unless you happen to be a Brythonic tribesman in the Roman period it’s a bit of a silly argument to have outside of ‘new world’ countries.
Also the British bird population has audibly crashed in my lifetime, cats didn’t do that (or it would have happened literal millennia ago) it’s much more to do with climate change and excessive industrial agriculture destroying the habitats and species the birds depend on, particularly insects.