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"kaeli" wrote I guess I was just trying to put out the point that there is nothing inherently bad about letting cats kill and eat mice. Predators torture prey. That's the natural order of the world. It's our own human desire to think mice, being cute and all, are somehow "better" than crickets. To make a line of "better than" is very human. If you don't care when your cat eats ants, but care when it eats a mouse, that's just you being human. But it's not immoral for a person to let their cat be a cat and kill prey. Maybe icky, maybe gross, maybe kinda odd, but not immoral. Equally, it's not immoral for a human to bring prey to a cat. Mother cats bring prey to their kittens to teach them to hunt. Most experts believe domesticated cats are all cute and cuddly and we love them because they retain so many kitten-like qualities. Is is that much of a stretch for us to behave like a mama cat and bring our kittens prey? Not that I could bring them anything cute and furry, I'm just sayin'. Agreed on all points. However, when faced with a human being watching a well-fed cat torture a mouse to death, "What the hell is wrong with you" will probably always be my response. |
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