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Stray Cat : Eradication Is the Only Solution?

   Recently, hating stray cats related crimes, such as killing the stray cats or assaulting cat moms, are increasing. Stray cats are commonly known cause problems that they disarrange the street, attack people, spread the diseases to humans. Also most people think the act of cat moms that feed the stray cats would lead to increased the number of stray cats.
   Do stray cats and cat moms really cause this problems on the human communities? Should we eradicate stray cats and restrain cat moms activity? In my opinion, eradication of stray cats and restraint of cat moms activity are not the right solutions. First of all, it is a misconception that stray cats cause a lot of problems in human communities. Actually, they are not aggressive to humans. The probability that they carry the disease to people is very low. They rather have a good influence to public health, because they catch mice which are carriers of infectious diseases. Second, cat moms behavior does not cause stray cats's problems and the increase in stray cats's population. If they are able to get food stably, there is no reason to scavenge through food garbage for something to eat. Also, it is true that the population of street cats growing little by little, but it is less concerned with feeding. The root causes of the increase in their populations are their high reproductive rate and increasing of abandoned cats.
   For these reasons, we must clear up the misunderstandings about stray cats and cat moms, and should find ways that can coexist with them.

Reference

Stray cat : KBS (2013). 길 고양이 [Online image]. Rretrieved Nov. 28, 2015 from http://news.kbs.co.kr/news/view.do?ncd=2679799

Blog Post #5

Production and Ownership of Knowledge

   When I posted my writing on my blog at first, I just thought, 'That is troublesome homework'. However, I shared my knowledge and thoughts with others, and I learned a lot of things. For example, if I used my class review ppt just one time and deleted it immediately, maybe the result of my efforts would have disappeared. I realized the benefits gained by sharing knowledge production to others by posting on my blog. Also, I learned about the importance of using proper citation. I realized that using proper citation for the outside source when writing informative posts makes my post more credible.

   In brief, my experience from the blog writing has helped my understanding of knowledge production and knowledge ownership.