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Oh my god

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Cats and humans have gotten along for millennia, spaying and neutering them only started to become common in the first world in the 1970s.\u00a0 (Which means when Bob Barker started ending Price is Right episodes by imploring people to spay and neuter their pets, it was still novel.)

Part of it\u2019s back when the world was a lot more agricultural, cats tended to be considered more \u201callied local wildlife\u201d than family members - you\u2019d never even think of neutering the squirrels in your trees, would you? And farmers are not squeamish about killing animals for practical reasons.

Killing surplus kittens was considered a matter of proper, pro-social animal husbandry and \u201ctied-off sack in a pond\u201d was a well-recognized trope for this.

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