So why get little animals killed for no reason? Especially since the neighbour seemed to enjoy the pigeons. This seems a perfectly reasonable perspective to me. I live in a town with pigeons, too, and I don't have any great desire to send cats out to kill them all. And, having lived in Britain with plenty of pigeons around town, my first inclination if I didn't want to be near them was to, you know, move.
So why get little animals killed for no reason? Especially since the neighbour seemed to enjoy the pigeons.
This seems a perfectly reasonable perspective to me. I live in a town with pigeons, too, and I don't have any great desire to send cats out to kill them all. And, having lived in Britain with plenty of pigeons around town, my first inclination if I didn't want to be near them was to, you know, move.
Humans should move if the habitat they have created for themselves gets coopted by other species which they find harmful.
We are so unbelievably schizophrenic about nature!
Also note that in this storyline these were not pigeons that were bred, but that rather they were wild or feral pigeons being fed by someone who liked their presence.
All of these things are objectable from some angle. Domestic cats kept for sentimental purposes can become a problem for bird populations that are already under stress, but the sentiment 'aww poor little birds' also shows a rather odd relation to nature.
I want to tell people to get less sentimental and conflicted about these things, but that puts me against 95% of the human population, even on ET.
