Amsterdam councillors have voted to spend up to €100,000 installing special steps along city centre canals in an effort to save cats and another animals which fall in the water, the Parool reported this week.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    if this was in America it would be considered DEI and canceled immediately.

    let those cats pick themselves up by their bootstraps and pull themselves out of the mess they got themselves in.

    it’s not my job to pay for their problems.

  • Cam@scribe.disroot.org
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    2 days ago

    So… 100000€ because 19 cats, that shouldn’t be there, drowned. Domestic cats are extinction agents, cat colonies need to disappear (not by drowning the cats, ideally in my mind they should go to a really big building just for them, I am a silly dreamer) and if the cats aren’t feral, they should fine owners that let them roam outside. It’s bad for the ecosystem, dangerous for the cat and even for their humans (zoonosis).

    That money would be better spent taking cats off the street.
    I don’t find this uplifting at all.

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    3 days ago

    The light/dark face meme, with “aren’t the canals pretty” and “cats that fall in can’t climb out and drown”

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    4 days ago

    Obviously good. But, I’m gonna laugh if there is an uptick in the bubonic plague because rats aren’t dying in the canals.