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Teacher lets her cats starve because they didn't fit into her social life

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Originally posted by: lxskllr
That woman should be shot. Treating an animal that way is unconscionable. They aren't automatons that bumble around the house, consume food, and shit. They have feelings like any human does. I wonder how long it took them to give up hope...


The longest I've left my cat by itself, was 5 days. I put out 2 litter boxes, lots of water, and lots of food. Just in case, I left the food bag within easy reach, and left the toilet seat up for emergency water.

I never leave my cat unattended for more than two days, but I'm lucky to have a coworker who also needs someone to check up on their cats every now and then, so we trade off.

That said, after four days of no human contact, my cat is RIDICULOUSLY clingy.
 
Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS

Edit: Not to mention that about 20,000 PEOPLE starve to death EVERY SINGLE DAY.

I don't really give to much of a shit over starving people. In the end, people can take care of themselves. If they're starving(in America), it's because they don't have what it takes to take care of themselves(hint, it doesn't take money ;^)).

When you take an animal into your house, they rely on you for everything. That goes back to a different thread, where I said violations of trust should carry the steepest penalties(death). That applies here also...
 
Originally posted by: So



That said, after four days of no human contact, my cat is RIDICULOUSLY clingy.

The cat I was referring to is now dead :^(

But her and the 2 I have now, are always happy when I get home. The longer it takes me to get home, the closer they stick to me for the rest of the day. The girl's already clingy. She's like a Remora, and as long as she isn't sleeping, she's either in my lap, or following me around the house.
 
Originally posted by: lxskllr
Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS

Edit: Not to mention that about 20,000 PEOPLE starve to death EVERY SINGLE DAY.

I don't really give to much of a shit over starving people. In the end, people can take care of themselves. If they're starving(in America), it's because they don't have what it takes to take care of themselves(hint, it doesn't take money ;^)).

When you take an animal into your house, they rely on you for everything. That goes back to a different thread, where I said violations of trust should carry the steepest penalties(death). That applies here also...

You are apeshit insane, buddy. Of the 20,000, 16,000 are children, and most of them are infants. Go fuck yourself for wasting your life caring about the wrong things. Your priorities are fucking unconscionable.
 
Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS
Originally posted by: lxskllr
Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS

Edit: Not to mention that about 20,000 PEOPLE starve to death EVERY SINGLE DAY.

I don't really give to much of a shit over starving people. In the end, people can take care of themselves. If they're starving(in America), it's because they don't have what it takes to take care of themselves(hint, it doesn't take money ;^)).

When you take an animal into your house, they rely on you for everything. That goes back to a different thread, where I said violations of trust should carry the steepest penalties(death). That applies here also...

You are apeshit insane, buddy. Of the 20,000, 16,000 are children, and most of them are infants. Go fuck yourself for wasting your life caring about the wrong things. Your priorities are fucking unconscionable.

Us caring about animal welfare one way or the other won't do anything to help put food on the table for kids in Africa. You and Sally Struthers can worry about that. :cookie:
 
Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS
Originally posted by: lxskllr
Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS

Edit: Not to mention that about 20,000 PEOPLE starve to death EVERY SINGLE DAY.

I don't really give to much of a shit over starving people. In the end, people can take care of themselves. If they're starving(in America), it's because they don't have what it takes to take care of themselves(hint, it doesn't take money ;^)).

When you take an animal into your house, they rely on you for everything. That goes back to a different thread, where I said violations of trust should carry the steepest penalties(death). That applies here also...

You are apeshit insane, buddy. Of the 20,000, 16,000 are children, and most of them are infants. Go fuck yourself for wasting your life caring about the wrong things. Your priorities are fucking unconscionable.

If you have the time to insult someone and call someones priorities "fucking unconscionable", then maybe you have the time to go help another one of those 20,000 people yourself.
I know I'm wasting my time here, so I'm leaving this thread and AT now.
 
Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS
Pretty inhuman to do that to an animal, but it's sicker fooling ourselves that as a nation or community or whatever that we can afford to have police involvement in this type of petty criminal activity. We police ourselves to death, put warning labels of everything, make sure every bob damned thing in the world is ultra safe, and sue the shit out of each other over anything and everything, and house a full 3% of our population in prison (mostly over petty shit), then we wonder why we are broke. Poor kitties, but come on!

Edit: Not to mention that about 20,000 PEOPLE starve to death EVERY SINGLE DAY.

we already know you're a schmuck, but a person starving to death is one thing, while locking a person in a room and starving them to death is another.
 
Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS
Pretty inhuman to do that to an animal, but it's sicker fooling ourselves that as a nation or community or whatever that we can afford to have police involvement in this type of petty criminal activity. We police ourselves to death, put warning labels of everything, make sure every bob damned thing in the world is ultra safe, and sue the shit out of each other over anything and everything, and house a full 3% of our population in prison (mostly over petty shit), then we wonder why we are broke. Poor kitties, but come on!

Edit: Not to mention that about 20,000 PEOPLE starve to death EVERY SINGLE DAY.

Hey dumbass there is a big difference in being out there and just not having food vs someone electing to put you into a room and not feed you.

You either fucking try too hard to be 'right' or a simply beyond clueless.
 
Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS

You are apeshit insane, buddy. Of the 20,000, 16,000 are children, and most of them are infants. Go fuck yourself for wasting your life caring about the wrong things. Your priorities are fucking unconscionable.

If your priorities are in such order, how do you have time to even post here?

I doubt you have donated a penny nor an iota of time to the very causes you bring up.
 
Originally posted by: Crono
Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS
Originally posted by: lxskllr
Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS

Edit: Not to mention that about 20,000 PEOPLE starve to death EVERY SINGLE DAY.

I don't really give to much of a shit over starving people. In the end, people can take care of themselves. If they're starving(in America), it's because they don't have what it takes to take care of themselves(hint, it doesn't take money ;^)).

When you take an animal into your house, they rely on you for everything. That goes back to a different thread, where I said violations of trust should carry the steepest penalties(death). That applies here also...

You are apeshit insane, buddy. Of the 20,000, 16,000 are children, and most of them are infants. Go fuck yourself for wasting your life caring about the wrong things. Your priorities are fucking unconscionable.

If you have the time to insult someone and call someones priorities "fucking unconscionable", then maybe you have the time to go help another one of those 20,000 people yourself.
I know I'm wasting my time here, so I'm leaving this thread and AT now.

Go rebuild any homes after Hurricane Katrina? Send any money to NYC after 9/11? Do any volunteering? Maybe you have, and that just fantastic, but generally speaking the answer is no.

The fact of the matter is that the Earth is a closed system of finite resources and energy wasted on one thing is not used on another. The cost of running the quoted article could have sprung every cat in the Boca animal shelter. The ONLY purpose of the article is to make you angry. I just hope to anger you over a FAR FUCKING MORE IMPORTANT PROBLEM by showing you how petty this is in comparison. Maybe you'll wake the fuck up, or maybe you'll just wait for Jesus to come and save everyone.
 
Originally posted by: Spoooon
Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS
Originally posted by: lxskllr
Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS

Edit: Not to mention that about 20,000 PEOPLE starve to death EVERY SINGLE DAY.

I don't really give to much of a shit over starving people. In the end, people can take care of themselves. If they're starving(in America), it's because they don't have what it takes to take care of themselves(hint, it doesn't take money ;^)).

When you take an animal into your house, they rely on you for everything. That goes back to a different thread, where I said violations of trust should carry the steepest penalties(death). That applies here also...

You are apeshit insane, buddy. Of the 20,000, 16,000 are children, and most of them are infants. Go fuck yourself for wasting your life caring about the wrong things. Your priorities are fucking unconscionable.

Us caring about animal welfare one way or the other won't do anything to help put food on the table for kids in Africa. You and Sally Struthers can worry about that. :cookie:

WRONG!
 
Originally posted by: jonks
Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS
Pretty inhuman to do that to an animal, but it's sicker fooling ourselves that as a nation or community or whatever that we can afford to have police involvement in this type of petty criminal activity. We police ourselves to death, put warning labels of everything, make sure every bob damned thing in the world is ultra safe, and sue the shit out of each other over anything and everything, and house a full 3% of our population in prison (mostly over petty shit), then we wonder why we are broke. Poor kitties, but come on!

Edit: Not to mention that about 20,000 PEOPLE starve to death EVERY SINGLE DAY.

we already know you're a schmuck, but a person starving to death is one thing, while locking a person in a room and starving them to death is another.

Logic fail. WRONG!
 
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS

You are apeshit insane, buddy. Of the 20,000, 16,000 are children, and most of them are infants. Go fuck yourself for wasting your life caring about the wrong things. Your priorities are fucking unconscionable.

If your priorities are in such order, how do you have time to even post here?

I doubt you have donated a penny nor an iota of time to the very causes you bring up.

WRONG!
 
Why do I waste my time here?

BECAUSE YOU ARE ALL INTELLIGENT HUMAN BEINGS THAT EITHER HAVE OR WILL ONE DAY HAVE POWER AND MONEY.

I am also guilty of every single thing I bitch about. When I call someone out over whatever, it is because I have been a stupid idiotic unthinking vacuous retard over the exact same issue at some point in my own life.
 
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS

You are apeshit insane, buddy. Of the 20,000, 16,000 are children, and most of them are infants. Go fuck yourself for wasting your life caring about the wrong things. Your priorities are fucking unconscionable.

If your priorities are in such order, how do you have time to even post here?

I doubt you have donated a penny nor an iota of time to the very causes you bring up.

You waste your time arguing with idiots like this. In his narrow little world you can only be focused on exactly 1 issue at any given time. Any empathy expressed for the suffering of a one creature is empathy not felt for the suffering of another. Just be grateful that you are evolved enough to not be limited in the amount of empathy and concern you can feel for any living creature forced to suffer like those poor cats did.
 
SphinxnihpS, how smart is it to come into a thread full of people who care about cats and lecture them on what they should care about?
That sure sound like trolling to me.
 
Originally posted by: KB
How hard is it to stop by your house at the very least every other day?

you don't even need to stop by ever other day for cats...
for my cat, I just fill up her regular sized food bowl and it lasts a good week. cats are basically maintenance free.
 
Originally posted by: Number1
SphinxnihpS, how smart is it to come into a thread full of people who care about cats and lecture them on what they should care about?
That sure sound like trolling to me.

Well, I hate cats. But I would not starve them to death either.
 
Originally posted by: Number1
SphinxnihpS, how smart is it to come into a thread full of people who care about cats and lecture them on what they should care about?
That sure sound like trolling to me.

People are talking about killing a person over 2 cats. I don't contain enough LOL for that kind of attitude.

This is probably the danger of anthropomorphic cartoon characters.

I am truly sorry 2 cats have died in such a horrible way, and one that could have easily been prevented. Just because I point out the flaws in other's thinking without making much mention of the actual cats in question doesn't make me oblivious or unfeeling to their fate. I love how people react when pushed. They always seem to assume you disagree with every aspect of whet they are saying. Clearly the owner has her priorities skewed and zero conscience. She should seek help, no question, but a bullet in the back of her head? Lock her up and let her starve to death? Arrest her and send her to jail, fine her, or whatever, pullease... They're cats! Anyone eat some chicken or steak today? If I had to choose to be one of those cats or a poultry chicken or beef cow, knowing what my ultimate fate would be, I would be the cat in a heartbeat. Any of you crying over your lunch?

The problem here is context. I'm sitting here railing on people for elevating this to more than what it is. I am pointing out that far worse things occur every millisecond of every day on this dust ball, and that people who think we should waste the resources of the legal system, law enforcement, and newspaper articles on something so RELATIVELY TRIVIAL is mind bogglingly callous. If you asked someone starving to death in Africa just how much they give a shit about this story they would probably cry for the state of humanity upon finding out that the rich busy themselves with autopsying cats instead of sending them their way.

I chose to speak out on this topic because it so clearly illustrates EXACTLY why this country is going down the shitter.
 
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