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Anonymous
I went out to get gas for my car and I saw this cat walking down the sidewalk and it was 38 degrees out there, I tried to call it over but it refused. It's only going to get colder, it'll be okay during winter right?
>> Anonymous
There are stray cats outside all year round. They find places to keep warm. Although it might be a dumpster or something, its better than nothing. They're smarter than we give them credit for.
>> Anonymous
many cats and dogs are known to freeze to death when winter hits hard. if u know the cat is a stray and stays in that area, you can trap the cat with a trap. i think you can rent traps from your animal shelter.
>> Anonymous
>>342813

Oh so that's what traps are for? Trapping stuff? In traps?
>> Anonymous
cats survive the winter all the around the world, they are not unable to take care of themselves

trapping it and sending it to an animal shelter at that age, is a death sentence guaranteed
>> Anonymous
Trap it and dump it of at some random farm.
>> Anonymous
Two little known facts: The felis catus was unable to survive all 4 seasons prior to the human inventions of the heater and air conditioner.

Furthermore, all homo sapiens were rendered completely unable to procreate prior to the invention of makeup, as the females of the species refused to leave their bedrooms and go find mates, saying "I can't go out like this!"

It's currently unclear as to how these creatures still exist in today's universe, but it's expected that they would be routinely exterminated and then, through convergent evolution, eventually reform elsewhere, until such a time as humans invented the necessary tools to keep both man and cat alive.
>> Anonymous
>>342847
LOLFAIL

The domestic cat is an immigrant species from Egypt and the Near East. Therefore it is adapted to the subtropic climate that dominates there. Without human settlements to dwell in, most of the world's cat population would die within a year.
>> Anonymous
>>342880

Ah, yes. That's why parts of Central Australia, for instance, and Cape York and Western Australia and South Australia all positively teem with feral cats, many hundreds of kilometres from human settlement. These animals often stand a good chance of never actually seeing a human in their lives and none, fortunately for them, know that they're not actually supposed to be able to survive like that.

*sigh*

Sometimes it seems like the closet 98% of /an/ has ever got to nature was to go out in their backyard one day when they got lost on the way to the bathroom.

Cats are extremely adaptable little sods and they breed very quickly. That's why they're fast exterminating much of Australia's wildlife. And before you say, "Duuuuur....Australia's HOT!!!1!!" much of it, in fact, is not. Some of it is quite cold. And in the desert, of which there is plenty of, it's both in one day.

However, the life of a feral cat is generally short and very nasty, and they have a depressing tendency to exterminate local wildlife. Both of which make for very good reasons why there shouldn't be any feral cats at all.
>> Anonymous
>>342839

That's a good idea, most farmers shoot the vermin every chance they get, so only good can come of that.

>>342885

The feral cat problem in Australia is why extermination should not only be allowed, but enforced in some areas. It's awful what the vermin have done there to the native wildlife.
>> Anonymous
>>342889
Correction: What humans have done by introducing foreign species into the ecosystem.
And: the ecosystem cannot be harmed, it may change, species go extinct, others follow, just like it did for the couple last hundred million years.
Otherwise there'd still be dinos walking around.
>> Anonymous
>>342889
>vermin

Just get off /an/ already.
>> Anonymous
>>342889

It's>>342885here again.

I'd just like to state, for the record, that I love cats of all shapes and sizes (except for the extreme deformities of breeds like the squashed faced Persians, Munkins etc, they should not exist) I like the way they move, I like the way they speak. I love the way they purr, I love the texture of their fur. I love cats. Always have, always will.

Unfortunately, what a lot of people on /an/ don't seem to realise is that doting on something is not the same as loving something. Doting on something is putting your cat out for the night and saying, "Now you behave snookums, I know you're a nice cat, you won't disembowel innocent birdies now because I know my snookums doesn't do anything like that." Loving something is saying, "I love you, my elegant little predator, but you are never going outside except on a leash. Ever."

And I should like to emphasise that while feral predators should, if possible, be removed from the affected areas, there is utterly no reason to do so with excess cruelty. Cane toad whacking is a favourite pastime where I come from and I have killed a large number myself (best method is to grab them in a plastic bag, knot the bag off and put it in a freezer. As humane as you can get without a vet's needle) but many people have used the excuse that they're vermin to torture the toads to death. Some pretty horrific things are done. If it were a puppy, or kitten or foal or calf that these things were done to the flames would reach the top of the sky and people would be hunting down the perpetrator with pitchforks in hand. Every animal feels pain, even vermin. And it should not be punished for human mistakes.
>> Anonymous
>>342885
Look who's calling who ignorant.

Having cold night time temperatures is completely different from having cold temperatures around the clock for months on end and nowhere to hide, nowhere to migrate to. I guess you never bothered to learn anything about climates other than on your little island continent. ALL deserts have cold nights and hot days. That means also the deserts the wild ancestors of domestic cats come from. They can deal with temperature extremes, as long as they aren't permanent. What they can't cope with is months upon months of freezing temperatures, frozen ground and snow.
>> Anonymous
>>342894


YES! This is true! However, many, many, many, many, areas where feral populations exist do NOT have these conditions! That's why there are many, many, many MANY areas where there are no humans but an abundance of cats!

Why do I feel that I'm just pointing out the obvious to the ignorant?
>> Anonymous
> Why do I feel that I'm just pointing out the obvious to the ignorant?

Welcome to /an/.
>> Anonymous
>>342895
Are there or are there not vast areas on the Earth where feral cats cannot survive? Pick one.
>> Anonymous
>>342914
Yes.
>> OP
So I wake up to find you all calling each other ignorant and now its snowing heavily outside, wonderful.
>> Anonymous
>>342810
It'll be fine.
The next time you see a stray have some food handy. It may befriend you.