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I find it weird how anyone would want to have a cat - especially if they claim to love animals. Why would you want a little tyrant in your house that occasionally goes outside to kill and torture smaller animals for fun and shit in your neighbours' gardens?

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It's possible to keep cats indoors all the time.

Well, you could argue that cats keep mice away. Specially wild or semi-wild cats. Not so much relevant now a days, but rats were plague spreaders in the dark ages, this is why cats were used to keep them at bay, by having the pet in your domicile and letting it recognise that as its territory, it would protect it, end result being less mice in the house.

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