If someone intentionally caused harm to any of my cats, I live near a large national forest, and once you get a few hundred yards off a trail, no one is going to find a body.

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yep you harm a hair on my cats head, my vengeance will be swift and brutal

[–] rainerloeten@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Speciesism

[–] quoll@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

plot twist: kids a radical ecologist, keep ya cat indoors.

[–] solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I agree with the "don't be shitty to animals" sentiment, but I'm honestly a little surprised no one else has bothered to consider how shitty that cat might be. If it was always shitting in your yard, picking fights your cat or dog, using your bird feeder as a cat feeder, and tearing up your flower beds, then a cup of water is a pretty benign deterrent that still has a chance of being effective.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 points 2 weeks ago

If they're caught in the act, sure. A great cat training tool is a spray bottle of water. But from the story it sounds like the cat wasn't doing anything at the time, so even if it is a nuisance animal, no correlation is made with an act and a punishment. Not true on the kid, he got something right when he did his malicious action, so if he has any intelligence he might connect the two and not do it again.

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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Exactly. There are endangered birds and amphibians who call my garden home. I do not want cats going in there and killing them for sport.

Get a catio! Don't destroy native wildlife.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

How DARE you interact with my poor, helpless cat, who I lovingly toss outside to slaughter songbirds, pick up parasites, and maybe get flattened by a car. I don't generally give a single solitary shit what happens to it out there, but this splash of water is TOO FAR.

Edit:

Please stop letting your cat out. It's not good for your cat or the local wildlife.

https://daily.jstor.org/environmental-danger-outdoor-cats/

https://www.bbc.com/news/scienceenvironment-21236690p

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380

https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cats-responsible-for-driving-many-species-to-extinction/all/amp.html

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