#cause they are an invasive species

[musicfeedsmysoul12]

I feel like the first meeting between Kakashi and his feral new neighbour is probably cause of their dogs. I refuse to not believe that he doesn’t allow his dogs out all the time to hang with him and OC has a dog to, so it’s 100% the fault of them.

Just… Pakkun smells the new neighbour and the dog smells the pack and then it’s just canine love. They totally ignore the two very awkward adults start at one another cause like…

Kakashi: ninja since he was five. Has no idea how to be normal. ANBU. Mainly hangs out with his dogs, fellow ANBU members or Gai. Reads porn in public and is a menace.

OC: 100% was a nomadic hunter who looked for the most challenging game. Hunted Chakra enhanced animals to keep population down. Grew up on the move and whose main companion for years is a talking dog. Is a reincarnation of some nerd who knew about Naruto.

Just the awkward vibes.

Then the OC finds out Kakashi lives off the equivalent of MREs and goes: oh fuck no.

*bangs on door with meal in arms*

Kakashi: what- *meal shoved on him*

OC: test for poisons but eat the fucking food. *stomps off*

Kakashi: *breaks into apartment to leave bowl there along with like… pocky in thanks*

Relationship progresses so that OC has a key to Kakashi’s apartment and will bounce right into it to cook there, ranting about something or that Kakashi sometimes breaks into the other apartment to remind himself someone cares about him.

Later these two move in together cause fuck it why not and then Gai moves in and there are dogs everywhere cause OC’s dog totally romanced some other dog so puppies and then Naruto gets added followed by Lee and it all started cause dogs.

[rotteneldritchhorror]

I desperately need more botany/gardening/solarpunk/foraging posts that aren’t so fucking American-centric

“European plants are invasive” okay, in America— but which ones are invasive HERE, like are Spanish species invasive to England? Are French plants invasive to England??

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

just saw an article where someone attempted to use “science” to “prove” that cats are emotional parasites that should be culled and I have never felt such a surge of anger outside of like. actual human rights violations.

[whaleiumsharkspeare]

Thinking about the possible environmental impact of introducing a foreign insect species to a random coastal European town with a wildly different climate, and how this insect reportedly “likes chocolate more than leaves” and this town just so happens to have a massive reservoir of melted chocolate located beneath the city streets and 4 prominent chocolate salesmen and no jungle-like foliage to nest in but I guess that’s fine because they will, when asked nicely, lay precisely one little egg in individual chocolates

[jojotichakorn]

there is something so special to me about slowly settling into liking a thing without truly realising it. not being instantly possessed by it, but almost allowing it to possess you already after realising how much you've grown to love it. genuinely wanting it to be a part of your life.

[avinox]

Started a course about environmental indicators and ha. Everyone here's a professional in their field. I'm the smallest fish in the pond and I'm quite intimidated honestly

[apollos-boyfriend]

Purpled for qsmp I'm sorry

tjis is my nightmare scenario

[lesbiten]

outdoor cat people are crazy because theyll literally just be like "i dont want to deal with my cat being annoying so i kicked it out of my house"

[somerabidraccoon]

What if... if the boys had fursonas tho... 

You guys ever think about... what animal they would have as their fursona... 

I dunno dude, I’m just really fixated on furries lately and IDK if  I should be concerned about that. 

[spyrkle4]

I wonder if the reason I’m seeing the pikachu man again is to scare off the twitterrinas

[bylertruther-moved]

call me weird, call me ugly, but i think it’d be kinda interesting if they leaned into the idea of the mind flayer itself not being inherently evil. we saw vecna manipulate its shape when he first found it and we know that he used it as his vessel on earth. he possessed it, just as he possessed will, and just as he possessed so many more through its power. thus, the mind flayer was a tool for vecna. we don’t know if it ever wanted to do any of that. we have evidence of the demo creatures being docile when not under his influence, so it’s not like it’d be out of nowhere. and... i don’t know. i just think it would be cool: two beings, one big and one small, one potentially as old as time and one having been alive for all but not even a blink in comparison, from entirely different dimensions, with entirely different power sets, both connected by virtue of having been victims of the same entity that has infected and terrorized their worlds and the creatures in it and that now must find a way to rid themselves of said entity. because really... how strong is vecna without the mind flayer? he got his ass handed to him by an eight year old and then again by a group of humans and a slightly older eleven. the mind flayer is the one doing all the heavy lifting here.

[rainbowgothdisaster]

i think at one point there was a bougie ass ornamental garden at Wayne Manor with plants from all around, yknow as rich ppl have, but then one day after a fight with Poison Ivy where she complained about invasive species, the garden is full of contractors and landscapers and gardeners and plant specialists getting rid of all the foreign plants and replacing them with native plants, with emphasis on plants that were having trouble thriving with the ecological disaster that rich ppl gardens cause

(everything was safely moved to where it was supposed to be)

[milkybishop]

thinking about the tarzan & jane tv show episode on invasive species and had a good message but the ending was like "stop trying to introduce other things to fix the problem, nature will fix it itself" and like uhhh i don't think it can actually

[lockea]

I've been seeing a lot of Discourse around outdoor cats that talks past one of the biggest problems addressing community cats/outdoor working cats so I thought I'd chime in with my two cents.

Many arguments I see just... don't think about the cats at all? Or don't consider the logistics of actually addressing the feral cat problem in a humane way. It's always about how outdoor cats shouldn't be outdoors, which is neither realistic nor helpful.

I used to volunteer at an municipal animal shelter in the USA that had a TNR program (Trap, Neuter, Return) and also adopted out community cats to local farms and businesses. Here's my side of the story.

"Your cat doesn't need to be outside" -- Yes, correct. Your domesticated (non-feral) house cat does not need to go outside at all. They can have a fully actualized life safely indoors. When I see this argument, proponents of indoor only cats are correct in most or all their arguments regarding this.

"Outdoor cats are the largest invasive species in the world, and decimate bird populations." -- This is also correct, and part of the reason why you can help by bringing your house cat indoors. Cats are the largest invasive species. Spay and Neuter your cats, bring them inside, and socialize them so they don't become feral.

"TNR doesn't work." -- False. Whether we like it or not, feral cats exist. We have two methods by which we can address the feral cat population -- decimating them (humanely euthanizing the whole colony) or TNR. For a long time, euthanasia was the preferred way to address the feral cat problem. Afterall, if the cats aren't there, doesn't that save the local wildlife population?

Except that we found, studying these colonies, that when a colony is wiped out, the cats of another colony will spread into their territory and continue to have kittens and the population of feral cats is neither controlled nor diminished.

Hence, TNR. What we found performing TNR on cat colonies was that this controlled the population of the colonies, allowing them to stay in their territory, which kept other colonies from spreading (especially colonies we hadn't performed TNR on yet). We at the shelter felt this was the most humane way to control the feral cat population and safely deflate their existence without dealing with the population blooms that euthanasia caused.

"What about kittens?" -- Kittens from these colonies were brought into the shelter, socialized, and fostered out until they could be adopted. Some of these semi-feral kittens needed special homes to be adopted into, but this was the best quality of life for these cats.

"What about cats that get missed during TNR?" -- We would return to the colony several times over a period of several years to perform TNR on the same colony. We mark cats that have been neutered by clipping their ear (this is done humanely, but is the most reliable way to tell if a cat has been neutered so the poor thing doesn't have to have surgery 3-4 times in their life). Also, during the TNR process the cats would be vaccinated to ensure disease did not spread from the colony (i.e. rabies). Still, even getting 60% of the colony TNR'd would dramatically reduce the number of kittens being added to the colony each year. This controlled the population by allowing the territory to naturally deflate in size over time, buying us time to address the larger feral cat problem.

"What if the colony was in an unsafe location?" -- There were two ways we addressed unsafe colony locations -- remember, we know that when the colony is removed, a new colony will move into its place, so we tried not to move the colony unless we really felt the cats or the public was unsafe -- one was to move the whole colony to a new location. Preferably someplace like a warehouse where we have an agreement with the owners of the warehouse. Some of the cats were even relocated to shelter grounds as our community cats. If the colony was small enough we would bring them into our Feral Cats room and adopt them out as community cats.

"What is a community cat?" -- The way the program worked, was that anyone who needed a working cat could apply to the program. These were often rural farmers or businesses with warehouses that needed rodent protection. We trained the farmers and businesses on how to acclimatize the cats to their new home, and as part of the agreement, they had to care for the cats (veterinary care, vaccinations, food and water). This gave businesses and farms an alternative to expensive and environmentally unfriendly rodent control, and also gave these feral cats good places to live out their natural lives.

"Can't you just adopt out feral cats?" -- No. Cats that have not been socialized around humans as kittens, or who have several generations of feral cat in them could not interact with humans in a way that did not cause them undue stress. This was not a humane way to handle feral cats. However, when a cat was brought into the feral cat room, they would be monitored for up to a week. If the cat displayed signs of being semi-social or fully social (hanging out outside of their den, allowing staff to pet them, showing interest in staff in the room), then we would either move the cat into the adoption room or place them in foster to be socialized before adoption. Feral cats who displayed signs of being able to live full and healthy lives with human companions were NOT adopted out as community cats. We also observed this behavior during TNRs and would do the same for those cats too.

"But aren't cats bad hunters?" -- Compared to other species, cats are not the most effective form of rodent control. This is true. However, you have to understand that feral cats exist. There is no "undo" button we can push to stop them from existing. We have to deal with the problem we have right now, which is to safely and humanely decrease the number of feral cats in our communities. And yes, we do that by using cats as rodent control in the community.

"What can I do?" -- Stop saying community cats shouldn't exist. That's not helpful and doesn't solve the problem we have. Bring your cat indoors. Spay and neuter your cats. Adopt from shelters. Volunteer with a TNR team. Support TNR efforts in your community. Recognize that those of us actively dealing with the community/feral problem are trying to do what is in the best interest of our communities and the animals we love. We aren't sitting over here saying these cats should exist -- a feral cat will not have the same quality of life as one that is indoors with a family -- but we have to address the problem in practical terms. We don't have the moral high ground to just do nothing while pontificating solutions that have no basis in actuality.

And yes, it's okay to celebrate community cats. If your local farm has a couple of working cats, that means that farm is helping participate in the safe deflation of the feral cat population. Don't shame a farm or business for using community cats. We're all doing the best we can to solve the problem that we have.

[homunculus-argument]

"My italian boyfriend reacting to-" girl not only are you keeping a full-grown adult male italian as an illegal exotic pet, not keeping him appropriately enriched and causing needless stress by doing things like showing him incorrect pasta, you're filming your crimes and posting them on tiktok. That hand movement is a distress signal that they do when confused or agitated, it's not cute to trigger it on purpose. When was the last time this man has been to church.

Also if you're outside of Europe, that also makes him an invasive species. Whoever imported him into the country should be in prison, and if your boyfriend ever escapes (which he should), so will you.

[bisexual-joseph-joestar]

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