Your cat is killing the Earth — but you can prevent it [barf]

Deutsche Welle ^ | 08.08.2017 | Irene Baños Ruiz

[Olog-hai]

To honor cats on the International Cat Day, DW encourages their human companions to protect the planet we all share. From carbon pawprint to waste to wildlife, it is in our hands to take up better practices.

Your cat’s sweet purring and loving, contented looks won’t change the fact that it’s guilty for the planet’s suffering — just like we are.

A recent study confirms that pets’ meat-based diet has a fatal impact on the climate, due mainly to high carbon dioxide emissions. In addition, our loyal friends are big resource consumers and waste creators. The situation is particularly worrisome considering the paradigm shift in the human-pet relationship in emerging economies such as China. Moreover, cats that go or live outdoors eat urban wildlife, particularly newborn chicks. Environmental groups are calling for an to end this vicious cycle. So is it possible to love and respect your pet, while still protecting the planet? […]

“Cats tend to kill weak and sickly birds, so it is not clear whether cat predation replaces other forms of death, or is in addition to natural death,” Sarah Elliott, central veterinary officer with Cats Protection, said in a press release. […]

Reducing the CO₂ emissions is more of a challenge. A vegetarian diet is not an option for a cat. Owners can, however, switch to organic feed —which supports biodiversity and reduces pollution since it avoids pesticides —and more environmentally friendly packaging. They can also avoid using hot water for cleaning the litterbox —and above all, buy compostable cat litter. …

[Olog-hai]

Daily dump of garbage.

[dfwgator]

Oh, just kill yourself, Irene.

[ETL]

"A recent study confirms that pets’ meat-based diet has a fatal impact on the climate"

[Wonder Warthog]

How about I bump off a dozen or so green weenies and feed them to my cats??

[mewzilla]

Cats are obligate carnivores. What do those boneheads suggest we feed them?!

[Olog-hai]

Even worse, the professor whose name is on the so-called study, Gregory S. Okin of UCLA, is a professor in the Department of Geography.

[BlueLancer]

First of all, my cats are not my “companions”. They are my kittehs and I am their owner. They mean far more to me than any Green SJW. Let’s eliminate the CO2-breathing SJW; they’re a far more worthless entity than my kittehs.

[smokingfrog]

ping

[Opinionated Blowhard]

LOL. I used to think that the Global Warming Zealots just wanted a world without people. Now carnivorous animals are part of the problem too. Does this mean that some humans will have to stay alive solely for the purpose of hunting carnivores who eat too much meat?

[Cicero]

"Kill Mother Gaia!!!"

[LostInBayport]

How about I bump off a dozen or so green weenies and feed them to my cats??

Cats are very discerning. They would refuse to eat such slop.

I've posted this before and will again: liberals hate, hate, hate, hate anything that makes people happy. Freedom, pets, air conditioning, cars...it has nothing to do with the environment. That is just the excuse they use to try to make others as miserable as they are.

The joy my cat has brought me for two decades now exceeds any concern I have about "carbon emissions" by infinity squared.

[eyedigress]

Cats kill birds. Libtard MSM news update at 11:00.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

George T Cat horks a hairball in her general direction.

Good kitty!

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

You are mistaken! You do not ‘own’ your cats. THEY own YOU! Unless and until you cease providing food and shelter and all they deem that they need, THEN they will dump you like a hot potato! You are theirs, they are not yours.

[Olog-hai]

None of my cats have ever brought a baby bird home. They’re too high up in the trees and out on limbs that won’t support a cat’s weight even if the cat was inclined to climb up a tree that far, which no cat would be in my experience. The only chicks that a cat would have access to would be those who fell out of a nest.

[BlueLancer]

"You are mistaken! You do not ‘own’ your cats. THEY own YOU!"

Oooohhh nnnoooooees! Say it ain't so! I tell them what to do after they've shown me what they're going to do! I'm always right when I do it that way. That makes me the boss, doesn't it? ......

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[whimpering] ... doesn't it?

[mewzilla]

Paging The Cravendale Cats ...

[Still Thinking]

“Cats tend to kill weak and sickly birds, so it is not clear whether cat predation replaces other forms of death, or is in addition to natural death,” Sarah Elliott, central veterinary officer with Cats Protection, said in a press release. […]

Oh, so now cats have been added to the list of species whose actions are somehow not a part of nature. Oxygen thieves (the moron libs, not the cats).

[dfwgator]

Dogs have owners.

Cats have staff.

[Grampa Dave]

These attacks by eco liberal fascists on American pets will drive the liberal pet owners away from the Enviro Nazis.

They will not care that the Gorebull Warming BS is based on fake data, they will fight to their death keep Rover or Kitty!