No i didn't, that's part of providing a safe environment. Feeding creatures food isn't manipulation, it's providing for their basic needs. If my parents had stopped feeding me, I would have left the house too!
Every grown up animal can feed himself just fine, since forever, and also without your car, a supermarket and food shops, I wonder how long you can do it, animals know if you let them live in their natural environment
It depends, hens and birds in a field will prefer the tasty bugs & insects over the cultivated plants, many animals are happy with what they find themselves. A spider or lizard would also make a great pet, just like a plant
Choosing dogs or cats as pets is probably the worst choices in terms of sustainability
The total weight of pet dogs is higher than all other wild mammals, this is just shocking https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/environment/weight-respons..., not even talking about livestocks which are 10 times higher mass than wild animals, and serve for 20% to pets food. The amount and type of pets is pure destruction and nonsense
Obviously we're talking about cats and dogs here. Spiders and lizards don't bond with humans so they would not make for the same kind of pet. Your fact diarreah is a little bizarre. I think we're all aware of the horrors of the modern industrial world.
