I never understood people who counter the “keep your cat inside” notion with “but what about barn cats?”
Yeah? What about them? Barn cats die horribly every day. They die buried alive in grain bins, full of parasites, crushed to death by farm equipment, you name it. They aren’t considered pets. They’re at best working animals who exist as pest control, and at worst barely tolerated ferals that receive no vetting or help simply because it’s impossible to approach them.
You don’t want your pet cat to be a barn cat. Why do you think a barn cat has a soft, easy life? Even the best kept farm cats I’ve ever met had some kind of scar and they almost always have fleas. The last farm I went to had both pet cats and “barn” cats, but they never let the pet cats free roam- because they liked those cats and actually wanted them to come back alive. The barn cats got food, and that was it, because they were untouchable.
Leaving your housecat outside and trying to wave it away as “the same as a barn cat” is like leaving your cocker spaniel to free roam because he’s “the same as a livestock guardian dog.” Unless your only solution to a huge rat problem is laying down impressive amounts of dangerous poison, you have no business leaving your cat to roam.
Hike into Taliban-held territory while 7 months pregnant to “help the villagers” in unspecified ways.
Have 3 more children in 5 years (one didn’t survive) while hostages, locked in closet-size rooms and mistreated, because the biological clock is ticking and they wanted to homeschool anyway.
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“In the final analysis, it is the intentions of our actions, not their consequences, on which we all shall eventually be judged.”
Frag no! It’s the consequences. Three child-sized consequences.
This is probably in somewhere like Hawaii. When the climate is nice and there are no predators, bees just built honeycombs draping down from their chosen structure, they don’t bother with picking a hollow or building a protective shell.
Oh dear, sorry to hear you’re having problems with the humidity in your home! I’d think that any epiphyte/air plant would help remove unwanted humidity. Large air plants include Spanish moss and Tillandsia xerographica. Other cool epiphytes are staghorn fern (it often comes planted in soil but you can mount it on wood) and orchids like Vanda, Phalaenopsis and more.
Do keep in mind that despite the humidity these do still need additional watering. Soaking is the easiest watering technique for most epiphytes 🙂
Hope that helps.
I don’t think plants are going to have any significant impact on your humidity. You can get a dehumidifier for that, but it’d take a massive number of plants to reduce the humidity by much.
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