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Coping With Human-Cat Interactions Beyond the Limits of Domesticity: Moral Pluralism in the Management of Cats and Wildlife

Although human interactions with cats are often even typically analyzed in the context of domesticity, with a focus on what sorts of interactions might make both people and cats “happy at home,” a large number of cats in the world live, for one reason or another, beyond the bounds of domesticity. Hu...

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Autores principales: Wandesforde-Smith, Geoffrey, Levy, Julie K., Lynn, William, Rand, Jacquie, Riley, Sophie, Schaffner, Joan E., Wolf, Peter Joseph
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8226003/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34179173
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2021.682582
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author Wandesforde-Smith, Geoffrey
Levy, Julie K.
Lynn, William
Rand, Jacquie
Riley, Sophie
Schaffner, Joan E.
Wolf, Peter Joseph
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Levy, Julie K.
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description Although human interactions with cats are often even typically analyzed in the context of domesticity, with a focus on what sorts of interactions might make both people and cats “happy at home,” a large number of cats in the world live, for one reason or another, beyond the bounds of domesticity. Human interactions with these more or less free-living cats raise deeply controversial questions about how both the cats and the people they interact with should be sensibly managed, and about the moral imperatives that ought to guide the management of their interactions through the laws and public policies regulating both human interactions with pets and with wildlife. We review the geography of human interactions with cats living beyond the bounds of domesticity. We acknowledge the contributions made to ideas about how to manage cats by the animal protection movement. We review the tensions that have emerged over time between advocates for the eradication of free-living cats, because of the impacts they have on native wildlife species, and those who have imagined alternatives to eradication, most notably one or another variant of trap-neuter-return (TNR). The conflict over how best to deal with cats living beyond the bounds of domesticity and their wildlife impacts raises the prospect of stalemate, and we canvass and critique possibilities for moving beyond that stalemate.
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spelling pubmed-82260032021-06-26 Coping With Human-Cat Interactions Beyond the Limits of Domesticity: Moral Pluralism in the Management of Cats and Wildlife Wandesforde-Smith, Geoffrey Levy, Julie K. Lynn, William Rand, Jacquie Riley, Sophie Schaffner, Joan E. Wolf, Peter Joseph Front Vet Sci Veterinary Science Although human interactions with cats are often even typically analyzed in the context of domesticity, with a focus on what sorts of interactions might make both people and cats “happy at home,” a large number of cats in the world live, for one reason or another, beyond the bounds of domesticity. Human interactions with these more or less free-living cats raise deeply controversial questions about how both the cats and the people they interact with should be sensibly managed, and about the moral imperatives that ought to guide the management of their interactions through the laws and public policies regulating both human interactions with pets and with wildlife. We review the geography of human interactions with cats living beyond the bounds of domesticity. We acknowledge the contributions made to ideas about how to manage cats by the animal protection movement. We review the tensions that have emerged over time between advocates for the eradication of free-living cats, because of the impacts they have on native wildlife species, and those who have imagined alternatives to eradication, most notably one or another variant of trap-neuter-return (TNR). The conflict over how best to deal with cats living beyond the bounds of domesticity and their wildlife impacts raises the prospect of stalemate, and we canvass and critique possibilities for moving beyond that stalemate. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8226003/ /pubmed/34179173 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2021.682582 Text en Copyright © 2021 Wandesforde-Smith, Levy, Lynn, Rand, Riley, Schaffner and Wolf. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Wandesforde-Smith, Geoffrey
Levy, Julie K.
Lynn, William
Rand, Jacquie
Riley, Sophie
Schaffner, Joan E.
Wolf, Peter Joseph
Coping With Human-Cat Interactions Beyond the Limits of Domesticity: Moral Pluralism in the Management of Cats and Wildlife
title Coping With Human-Cat Interactions Beyond the Limits of Domesticity: Moral Pluralism in the Management of Cats and Wildlife
title_full Coping With Human-Cat Interactions Beyond the Limits of Domesticity: Moral Pluralism in the Management of Cats and Wildlife
title_fullStr Coping With Human-Cat Interactions Beyond the Limits of Domesticity: Moral Pluralism in the Management of Cats and Wildlife
title_full_unstemmed Coping With Human-Cat Interactions Beyond the Limits of Domesticity: Moral Pluralism in the Management of Cats and Wildlife
title_short Coping With Human-Cat Interactions Beyond the Limits of Domesticity: Moral Pluralism in the Management of Cats and Wildlife
title_sort coping with human-cat interactions beyond the limits of domesticity: moral pluralism in the management of cats and wildlife
topic Veterinary Science
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8226003/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34179173
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2021.682582
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