You either didn't read my post, or read it but couldn't understand it.
Never did I imply I wanted to train him to be a killing machine. It was just one bird or fish. The natural habitat of felines is to hunt, right? Cat health and "bird cruelty" aside, is it really that outrageous to give a cat one taste of it's natural instinct?
It's like a kid watches the ice-cream truck outside his window. He does it cause he's bored, or would really want an ice-cream. I want him to get an ice-cream cone, because the essence of being a kid means liking and wanting unhealthy and sugary things. It might have an effect on the cat, it might not. By giving him one icecream am I changing him? Am I making him a sugaraholic?
I apologize if I've come across mean, but the ignorance in your last 4 lines rubbed me the wrong way. For future posters' sakes, I hope this deters you from making posts out of misinterpretation~
Your post says 'to make him a man'. It doesn't say 'just to give him a treat'. Clearly you think by encouraging him to kill something, you'll have given him a 'right of passage', he won't be the timid kitten he used to be. That suggests to me you're not happy with how he is at the moment - you want him to be 'a man' instead.
A cat's instinct to hunt is a residual part of their biological make-up. If a cat doesn't appear to have that or does and is unwilling to indulge it, why do you feel the need to encourage it?
If the cat can't catch a dove by itself, what will catching one for it prove? What will it accomplish allowing a cat to kill a thing you already caught for it?
If he doesn't have the confidence to catch a bird or a mouse by himself, never mind. Trapping one in a room for him just seems weird to me.
Clearly you're very easily rubbed up the wrong way. No, this won't deter me - you only know you've misinterpreted something in hindsight. I'd rather post than not post.
Much much better post. More dual-perspective than slapping claims. But I have started losing interest and seriousness in this redundant debate, so I'll try to do this as quick as possible
I see your "It doesn't say 'just to give him a treat"
And I raise you my "I want to feed a bird" ... "Should I just get him a goldfish?"
A bird. A goldfish. A! A = singular = one = neo = matrix = a test = testing = disthing (when pronounced with a south african accent)
I actually do get your point. Im not sure if it would improve your cats overall quality of life if it got to kill something on its own though. I think live feeding can be justified if it improves the animals life quality (physically or mentally) or of course if that's needed to get the animal to eat. It happens in nature literally all the time, and the way humans produce meat either way isn't cruelty free (if anything often worse due to conditions we keep animals in). But I don't think its generally needed for a cat, given how many keep them and only feed them bowl food, and a lot of the time they seem to be thriving. Do what you want here I think
I want to feed a bird to my cat to make him a man
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You either didn't read my post, or read it but couldn't understand it.
Never did I imply I wanted to train him to be a killing machine. It was just one bird or fish. The natural habitat of felines is to hunt, right? Cat health and "bird cruelty" aside, is it really that outrageous to give a cat one taste of it's natural instinct?
It's like a kid watches the ice-cream truck outside his window. He does it cause he's bored, or would really want an ice-cream. I want him to get an ice-cream cone, because the essence of being a kid means liking and wanting unhealthy and sugary things. It might have an effect on the cat, it might not. By giving him one icecream am I changing him? Am I making him a sugaraholic?
I apologize if I've come across mean, but the ignorance in your last 4 lines rubbed me the wrong way. For future posters' sakes, I hope this deters you from making posts out of misinterpretation~
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Your post says 'to make him a man'. It doesn't say 'just to give him a treat'. Clearly you think by encouraging him to kill something, you'll have given him a 'right of passage', he won't be the timid kitten he used to be. That suggests to me you're not happy with how he is at the moment - you want him to be 'a man' instead.
A cat's instinct to hunt is a residual part of their biological make-up. If a cat doesn't appear to have that or does and is unwilling to indulge it, why do you feel the need to encourage it?
If the cat can't catch a dove by itself, what will catching one for it prove? What will it accomplish allowing a cat to kill a thing you already caught for it?
If he doesn't have the confidence to catch a bird or a mouse by himself, never mind. Trapping one in a room for him just seems weird to me.
Clearly you're very easily rubbed up the wrong way. No, this won't deter me - you only know you've misinterpreted something in hindsight. I'd rather post than not post.
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Much much better post. More dual-perspective than slapping claims. But I have started losing interest and seriousness in this redundant debate, so I'll try to do this as quick as possible
I see your "It doesn't say 'just to give him a treat"
And I raise you my "I want to feed a bird" ... "Should I just get him a goldfish?"
A bird. A goldfish. A! A = singular = one = neo = matrix = a test = testing = disthing (when pronounced with a south african accent)
hence proved
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Well I see your shitty response and raise you garbled nonsense of equivalent value:
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How is that shitty?! I went from the point I was making to your username by using word association
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I actually do get your point. Im not sure if it would improve your cats overall quality of life if it got to kill something on its own though. I think live feeding can be justified if it improves the animals life quality (physically or mentally) or of course if that's needed to get the animal to eat. It happens in nature literally all the time, and the way humans produce meat either way isn't cruelty free (if anything often worse due to conditions we keep animals in). But I don't think its generally needed for a cat, given how many keep them and only feed them bowl food, and a lot of the time they seem to be thriving. Do what you want here I think