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Your cat is killing the Earth — but you can prevent it [barf]
Deutsche Welle ^ | 08.08.2017 | Irene Baños Ruiz

Posted on 08/08/2017 9:48:20 AM PDT by 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. …

(Excerpt) Read more at dw.com ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Weather; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: carnivores; cathaters; cats; climatechangehoax; dogs; envirowhackos; globalwarminghoax; kittyping; meateaters; methane
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To: Olog-hai

DW can do a lot better social work than to bemoan the ownership(?) of cats, such as how to hound that Merkel to a state of raving madness, so as to install someone that cares more about the German people than for mohammedans.


61 posted on 08/08/2017 11:14:45 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Olog-hai

My cat kills moles, mice, rabbits and other land based rodents..

I am to care why again?

Other than the fact that for a few months he would bring his kill and not so dead catch through the dog door for all to see. (he stopped.. Not sure why, but when good things happen you just accept it) it keeps them out of my boat and stored cars.


62 posted on 08/08/2017 11:23:40 AM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: Mariner

The cats kill the birds that are pecking your veggies and turn them into good plant food, and you are complaining???


63 posted on 08/08/2017 11:23:50 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: Olog-hai

I’ve had cats all my life, and never did one bring home a bird. They brought home mice and bugs.

But I’ve seen many eggs and baby birds - even pigeons and mourning doves - killed by crows; you see it daily in the Spring. And yet crows are still protected in this country - you can’t take one as a pet, even though in the past they were considered pests and dynamited by the roost-full.


64 posted on 08/08/2017 11:24:25 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: BlueLancer

They are my kittehs and I am their owner.

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ya... I’ll bet your kittehs see it the other way around, now, fill their dish and clean the box.. ;)

(it’s a cat thing, we understand)


65 posted on 08/08/2017 11:25:06 AM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: Olog-hai

Most likely a V32 with 8” pistons.


66 posted on 08/08/2017 11:30:46 AM PDT by SkyDancer (You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.)
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To: Olog-hai

Two great mental disorders combine in this article, earth worship and cat hating. Like it or not God put cats here for a purpose. The article reminds me of when arrogant and superstitious men who thought God made a mistake creating cats tried to eradicate them resulting in the decimation of Europe through plague.


67 posted on 08/08/2017 11:33:52 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

And they were idolized in ancient Egypt, probably for protecting the grain stores.

I don’t know anyone with horses who doesn’t want a few cats living in the barn.


68 posted on 08/08/2017 11:35:50 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Olog-hai

Yo Irene! My male short haired domestic (20 lbs), will attack on my command.

Come on over and see...

5.56mm


69 posted on 08/08/2017 11:39:36 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: cableguymn
"ya... I’ll bet your kittehs see it the other way around, now, fill their dish and clean the box.. ;)"

My three kittehs have developed the habit of waiting for me in the master bathroom for when I return home from work. I always go into the bedroom to change to house clothes and they are all up on the vanities by the two sinks. They will not leave the room and will not stop "meer"-ing until I turn on a trickle of cold water at each sink.

The two alphas drink their fill and leave the bathroom to the little beta, who moves first to one faucet and then the other, ensuring that she drinks from both of them. One afternoon, I turned off the second faucet before she got to it and she stood there, meer-ing indignantly until she was able to drink from the second.

Yeah ... sure ... "I'm the owner" here ... riiiiight.

70 posted on 08/08/2017 11:41:02 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Ex Scientia Tridens)
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To: SkyDancer

Heh. Largest single diesel prime mover I’m aware of is General Motors’ Electro-Motive 645 V20, which appeared in only a few locomotives (the SD45, SDP45, F45 and FP45 series) but had crankshaft problems. (The “645” stands for 645 cubic inch displacement per cylinder, so the 20-645E3/B would have a total displacement of 12,900 CID; bore is 9 inches and stroke is 10 inches.)


71 posted on 08/08/2017 12:02:28 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai
Yes you can prevent it, just take your cat, any pet will do really, to your local

People

Euthanizing

Tame

Animals

Office and they will gleefully terminate the threat to gaia and coincidently free the animal from it's slavery and deposit the remains in a completely heartless unsanitary manner in the closest dumpster,

72 posted on 08/08/2017 12:15:08 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Olog-hai

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Leftist insanity is killing everything!

Not to worry though; Yeshua will be here in about 7 years to fix the mess.

Got your ticket yet?
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73 posted on 08/08/2017 12:18:46 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Olog-hai

Was just kidding around. Those locomotives are huge so I just guessed at a number; not being very technical.


74 posted on 08/08/2017 12:20:52 PM PDT by SkyDancer (You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.)
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To: Olog-hai

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Those things are still moving most of our freight.
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75 posted on 08/08/2017 12:22:39 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

Not as much on the roads anymore. I haven’t heard a big rig with a two-stroke Detroit Diesel in a long time. They’re long gone from the buses too.


76 posted on 08/08/2017 12:23:34 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: M Kehoe

And I thought a 12-lb male was a heavy cat.


77 posted on 08/08/2017 12:25:26 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

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No, on the highway Cummins and Cat are the champs.
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78 posted on 08/08/2017 12:25:32 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Olog-hai

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We presently have a 21 lb male that rids the neighborhood of rats. (some almost as big as cats)


79 posted on 08/08/2017 12:27:34 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Wonder Warthog

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

What do you have against your cats?
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80 posted on 08/08/2017 12:29:36 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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