• TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    It just isn’t worth it for the dogs. They could kill the cat, but they’d get badly cut up. Predators avoid fighting all together in most instances, and when they do fight, it’s usually over a scarce resource. Even when hunting, animals learn to minimize unnecessary injury.