HamburgerBoy
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- Apr 12, 2004
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Roaming cats suck, but the spoiled ten year olds are worse. You can kill cats if they destroy your property. Kids? Lay a finger on them and you'll be sued and tossed in jail. Both deserve death.
datalink7
Lifer
- Jan 23, 2001
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I don't know what the OP is thinking, but I don't think my dometicated animal (dog) is superior to anyone else's domesticated animal.
All I could do make sure that it stays on my property, and I did just that. That's why it irks me when someone else doesn't have the same respect.
Is that really too much to ask of people? Don't you think they should control themselves and their possessions?
He's not a horrible person. He did the humane and legal thing and brought the animal to the SPCA, where it can be given another chance at getting an owner that can care for it.
Sort of like if you have kids with deadbeat parents that don't feed them and don't care for them, the state will step in and take the children away. Sure, the deadbeat parents hate that, but it's in the kids' best interest.
Think of it this way- if someone's cat is finding a way into his trap on his property, what kind of responsible pet owner were they, anyway?
No? Because you clearly think that you as a person are better than people who own other domestic animals.
Amen 100%!!
We live next to a major flood control river that is a dumping ground for unwanted cats. They become feral overnight and kill song and sea birds.
The majority of cat owners are irresponsible pet owners...That's why they chose to have an outdoor cat. Shot!! My wierd lady next door neighbor puts food out for all the feral cats :| One night she got sprayed by a skunk thinking it was a feral cat. She bends over saying "here kitty kitty" then gets sprayed :laugh:
CAT OWNERS! Fix your animals and leash them in public.
...Galvanized
Well, speaking from my own experience, I had a neighborhood cat "mark" my car and scratch the hood when it climbed on it.
Also, they take the lid off the trash can and tear through the garbage, leaving a mess. In addition, they kill other people's pets, if they have rabbits or birds.
I can't believe that so many people talk about shooting a cat if it did this or that. I don't know when it became "cool" to say that. I think most of it is just talk, but I wonder...
Anyway, it would take one sick fvck to really shoot one.
Anyway, it would take one sick fvck to really shoot one.
Well, if someone was really tired of someone's cat coming into their yard, they may be allowed to legally do that. You can't kill someone's pet, but you could probably make a good case that it was a ferile stray if it's wandering into your yard at night.
As for me, I don't get any excitement killing animals. I went hunting with my dad when I was little, shot a goose, and felt bad about it. I wasn't going to eat it, and killing it only made me feel bad. I don't see how someone gets a thrill from needlessly killing something. Geese, deer, mice, rabbits- I like all the critters.
Geekbabe
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The average lifespan of an indoor cat is 17 yrs, the lifespan of aan ondoor.outdoor cat is 3 yrs.
That said, it is in the cat's nature to want to roam and if you ever saw the Discovery channel show about them, cats live an almost secret life outside at night, amazingly social animals.I can understand why some folks have cats that go outside.
That said, it is in the cat's nature to want to roam and if you ever saw the Discovery channel show about them, cats live an almost secret life outside at night, amazingly social animals.I can understand why some folks have cats that go outside.
Zenmervolt
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- Oct 22, 2000
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*shrugs* Our neighbors on both sides where I grew up had dogs. Our area also had several wild animals that would have eaten cats. Yet we had three that came and went as they pleased. One got hit by a car once and it was sad, but it happens. We went out and got another. Never had a problem with the cats going into the neighbors' yards at all.
Now, we had 1.5 acres and riverfront property, so the cats really never left our own property.
Living in an apartment, I don't let my cat out, that's just an invitation for disaster, but in a real place to live where one has an acre or two I don't see a problem with letting cats outside.
What does piss me off are the damn dog owners who let their dogs piss on my porch. I sat in the living room and watched this lady let her damn schnauzer piss on the concrete portion of my porch near a pillar. I have since bought a large supply of Chili Powder and every morning I dump a bunch around the pillar. Next time that little bastard sniffs around the pilar, he'll learn a little something. (Note, my girlfriend is a vet, she assures me that this will not permanently harm the dog in any way.)
ZV
Except I have evidence.
You claim that cat owners are "emotional wrecks", and that dog owners--as a whole!--are "more responsible." You once again claim that cat owners are "emotionally unstable", and prone to "stock up on cats"--unlike the rational dog owners. You claim there are a "huge number" of cat fanatics with 20, 40, 80+! cats. You enjoy the videotape that was made of your friend's Doberman ripping cats apart.
What am I left to conclude but that you have some sort of bizarre elitist mentality about your choice of pet? Your posts are just strange. You make multiple wild claims that have no resemblence whatsoever to real life, and you obviously nurse some sort of strange grudge against cats in general--perhaps the reason why your view of the world is so colored.
Seek help, dude. Irrational bigotry is no longer a family value.
Zenmervolt
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- Oct 22, 2000
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Why do people let cats roam around? Because people have always let them roam around. Because in the industrial age and before there was no such thing as sanitation or pest control. Rats were abundant in towns and cities - they ate the food, and carried disease, and so people kept cats to control the rats. People have always had cats, and they have always let the roam around.
So yes, they are supposed to be outside.
So yes, they are supposed to be outside.
Wrong. The law says that they are to be contained on your property. Using the argument that "people always used to do xxx, so it's right" isn't a valid argument. People used to behead "witches", too. I guess if they used to do it then, that makes it right now.
If your cat wanders into Ronstang's yard and he captures it and brings it 30 miles away, you can't complain, because what was it doing in his yard?
The same reason dog owners just let their dogs crap anywhere, or let their dogs run off the leash, or let them bark perpetually. Words don't exist to describe my hatred toward such a people.
Zenmervolt
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It's one thing to let the cats out in areas where there is lots of room. In the country, etc. I don't recall ever seeing a cat of ours in our front yard (house was set maybe 50 feet back from the road, back yard was over 1,000 foot from house to riverbank, cats just went back towards the river) and we had enough space that the rarely left our yard. One did follow us into the neighbor's yard when we were talking with the neighbor and was rewarded with a personal encounter from the neighbor's Airdale. Wasn't cheap to patch up the cat (wasn't terribly expensive either), but we sure as hell didn't blame the dog. Dogs eat cats, that's what they do. And the cat should have known better.
Now, if the owner had set the dog on the cat it would have been different, but I don't see anyone claiming otherwise.
I'm assuming that you just trap the cats that come onto your property and don't know whose they are. You really don't have another option other than to take them to the SPCA (actually, IIRC it costs money to drop off an animal at a shelter, so you're going above and beyond there). If you know whose cat it is and don't give them a warning the first time (after the first time, the cat's fair game IMO) then I'm a little disappointed, but it's not always possible to know whose cats they are.
ZV
Here Here! I'm a cat owner (all inside screened porch and fixed) and past dog owner but the current situation is this:
There is a leash law here and the neighbors think it's ok to let their dogs run loose. I have no clue as to why because all it takes is an excited dog to jump on a child walking with his/her parents or grandparents on the street, knock him down=..... Lawsuit and dog death..... Get my point?
I want a dog in the neighborhood to attack me on my lawn. I'm not going out of my way mind you, but if one does attack, it will get a HARD "TIMBERLAND" BOOT TO THE HEAD and broken bones and I'll kick it when it's down!!!!!! I chase them out of the lawn all the time as they run with their tails between their legs.
Dumb Neighbors never have courtesy that own large dogs! Why in the HELL do people get BIG dogs when they have such a small property with no fence? Why in the hell tie up a dog? Be smart people, have the acreage before aquiring a large dog ya' numbnuts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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