I’ve been wondering this, but never really looked into the matter: Is spaying/neutering really an ethical thing to do? Doesn’t it affect cats in some negative way, besides taking away their ability to reproduce?
I’ve been thinking about adopting cats, which would be sterile anyway, but it doesn’t exactly seem like a nice thing to do if you can avoid it : \
I can’t imagine removing a healthy part of the endocrine system has good results in the long term. If it’s an option, perhaps an ovarian preserving spay, or a vasectomy, would be in order. Though not many vets in the US offer such procedures. If only we could be more like Germany…
I was adopted by a stray kitten and had her spayed when she was old enough. A friend told me I had taken away her “choice” to reproduce. I asked her how many of my cat’s hypothetical offspring she was willing to adopt - there would be I guess an annual litter of four or more to choose from. Yeah no.
In the end I moved countries and gave the cat away. I would never have another one, nice as she was. There’s a family of voles living in my garden, half a dozen frogs in the pond and lots of birds visit my trees. I support them mainly by leaving them to go about their business.
It reduces suffering of potential unwanted offspring and the suffering of local bird populations so I would argue that it’s unethical to not spay or neuter your cat, even if the individual cat suffers a bit from it.
I think there is an interesting argument on whether it’s ethical to keep pets at all however
I had an indoor female cat that I left unfixed. In about three years of getting into heat without getting pregnant, her hormones went wild. She was in constant heat, losing weight, getting gland flare-ups and other serious health problems. In the end I had to have her fixed to save her. If I did it in the beginning, it would have been much less suffering for her.
#1 Pets are like teenagers, they are gonna try to have sex without you knowing.
#2 I don’t think it’s healthy or ethical to keep an animal indoors 24/7. Even pet animals need unstructured (not unsupervised) time outside to have play and use their instinct beyond just taking them for a walk. I’d apply that equal to dogs and cats although it’s probably more important for dogs.
An open area where he can run around is probably best. Depends on where you live and your cat’s preferences. I’ve heard of cats that have no desire to leave the house and others that will dart out the door at any opportunity. If you have an apartment or no fence in the back yard then it’s not a great option. Some cats do like to walk, our neighbors’ cat usually joins us on our nightly walks through the neighborhood. Off a leash of course.
Is it ethical to “adopt” a cat? My cat lives a good life, she is old and healthy and well feed, never having to worry about anything. But it is ethical to own another living being, even if you offer it the best possible life it can have in return? I really don’t know.
But if you do adopt a cat, I think you need to do everything that ensures the cat has a healthy life, like getting shots and check ups etc. Neutering the cat is also an important part of keeping it healthy. After all, it greatly reduces the risk of either gender getting cancer in their reproductive organs and a lot of other issues.
After rereading multiple times to understand it, i think it means the small blob wanted land so “give clay”, the other big bullies didn’t want to contribute, so started taking from the sea.
Dutch cheese is delicious. A dangerous game having any near you while stoned though. The last time I bought a wheel to bring home as a present for someone, it didn’t make it out of the hotel, never mind home to Ireland.
regardless of the absurdity of what you’re saying, do you even know what nazis are? I’m not sure cuz you said this:
Nazism was basically just liberalism taken to its conclusion. Rich people get to live in comfort as poor people die in a mass genocide. (lemmy.ml/comment/4865175)
Yes it me again, and I’m going to continue calling out problematic shit when I see it. Silencing tactics don’t work on me because i’m morally in the right and know it. This combined with your reaction to my other post proves that your siding with nazism goes more than passive and i’m not going to just sit around and watch as you influence the culture of Lemmy towards fascism.
what like using evidence and calling you out when you’re wrong?
siding with nazism… influence the culture of Lemmy towards facism
bro are you high all I do is post Star Trek memes which is like the OPPOSITE side of the political spectrum
also your argument about the polandball supporting nazis first doesnt make sense secondly you’re doing the same thing but with tankies by advocating for the .ml instance
They didnt even mention communism. Tankies are a totally different thing. I dont care if you think communism is a good economical system what i care about is that you support regimes killed millions of innocent people some of which were my family because they lived in the soviet union. Fuck the soviet union fuck the chinese communist party and fuck tankies. All tankies are delusional. There was no equality in that shithole called the soviet union. I dont ususally namecall and try to be politically correct but i cant be when someone supports something so vile and evil.
What are you even talking about? I feel like you live in your own little bubble. I know people whos family members got shipped to work camps because they harvested theyre own crops because they were dying from starvation. And nobody had slaves in eastern europe for a very long time. The onlg slaves in modern times were the poor people who worked all day for nothing in a dictatorship. Im not saying todays america is much better for example but in europe a lot of places are much better.
Bro, I have read enough about Nazis and even spoke with people who lived during this time. That’s devinetly not a Nazi meme. If you think this is a Nazi meme than explain me how taking land from the sea is the same as killing 6 millions Jews, millions of ost European civilians, conquering the entirety of Europe and building a terror based dictatorship?
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