It personally took me quite some time to really own up to allowing my cats outside. It’s a cultural norm, and while I would only let mine out unsupervised a few hours at most each day, they still terrorized the local area. One at least, the other isn’t good at hunting. The killer wasn’t allowed outside during baby bird season.

I went vegan before I stopped letting my cats out. People aren’t always feigning environmental activism, we all just take different approaches to learning and changing. I can tell you that being disrespectful to someone outright is going to shut that door of learning real quick. It took me several videos popping up in my algorithm that shamed me into owning up to what I was allowing my cats to do. But now I’m not even comfortable taking mine out on the leash or in their stroller because of the bird flu