✨🗝🪄♠️🎩♠️🪄🕸✨@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 days agohow far out of your way do you go to help wild animals each day on average?message-squaremessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up124arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up122arrow-down1message-squarehow far out of your way do you go to help wild animals each day on average?✨🗝🪄♠️🎩♠️🪄🕸✨@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 days agomessage-square31fedilinkfile-text
‘help’ can include ‘interacting positively with’ and anything else done specifically for their benefit.
minus-square11111one11111@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-223 days agoIf theyre stray domesticated cats, call your dog catcher to handle them. If theyre feral, leave them the fuck alone and stop fucking feeding them. More sources for the down voters: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349098809_WILDLIFE_CONSERVATION_IN_INDIA_ISSUES_AND_CHALLENGES https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4778448/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/223378778_Feeding_wildlife_as_a_tourism_attraction_A_review_of_issues_and_impacts https://thefurbearers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022-04-06-Feeding-Lit-Review-V.2.pdf https://scisimple.com/en/articles/2025-08-04-the-impact-of-feeding-wildlife-on-health--ak56p4m https://www.environmental-auditing.org/media/2939/2013_wgea_wild-life_view.pdf https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pan3.17 https://www.lpzoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Grades-6-to-8_FeedingWildlife.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/publication/29469598_Feeding_birds_in_our_towns_and_cities_A_global_research_opportunity https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320716306851 https://acvcsd.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/The-Negative-Effects-of-Feeding-Wildlife-with-new-letterhead.pdf https://environmental.larc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2018/06/Dont-Feed-the-Wildlife_2018.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370875582_Should_we_feed_wildlife_A_call_for_further_research_into_this_recreational_activity
If theyre stray domesticated cats, call your dog catcher to handle them. If theyre feral, leave them the fuck alone and stop fucking feeding them.
More sources for the down voters:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349098809_WILDLIFE_CONSERVATION_IN_INDIA_ISSUES_AND_CHALLENGES
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4778448/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/223378778_Feeding_wildlife_as_a_tourism_attraction_A_review_of_issues_and_impacts
https://thefurbearers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022-04-06-Feeding-Lit-Review-V.2.pdf
https://scisimple.com/en/articles/2025-08-04-the-impact-of-feeding-wildlife-on-health--ak56p4m
https://www.environmental-auditing.org/media/2939/2013_wgea_wild-life_view.pdf
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pan3.17
https://www.lpzoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Grades-6-to-8_FeedingWildlife.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/29469598_Feeding_birds_in_our_towns_and_cities_A_global_research_opportunity
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320716306851
https://acvcsd.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/The-Negative-Effects-of-Feeding-Wildlife-with-new-letterhead.pdf
https://environmental.larc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2018/06/Dont-Feed-the-Wildlife_2018.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370875582_Should_we_feed_wildlife_A_call_for_further_research_into_this_recreational_activity