My declawed cat is only allowed in my fenced in yard while I am out there, just in case a frisky stray (or squirrel) is looking for a fight. Self-defense is probably beyond my Tommy’s capability.
Tommy can hunt, however, as proven by the weekly discovery of mangled rodential corpses at my previous tenement. He used his paws to catch and trap them, and his teeth to do the rest.
Did your read what I posted? Do you understand that these animals are causing hundreds if not thousands of dollars of damage. Are you really so stupid you believe that if someone’s child were caught roaming the street and taken to the police, that it would be collected by the ‘parents’ and promptly allowed out the back door? Shit are you saying someone who loved their child would let it wander the neighbourhood at all? Do you understand that car accidents kill and maim? Do you know how many filthy diseases a roaming cat that is feeding off wildlife is carrying? Did you see that fleas are likely transitting these to my cat? Do you realise that these diseases are easily caught by children playing in contaminated soil? Do you know these diseases can kill, blind and worse?
I am horrified that you beleve that I should place my neice’s life, my neighbours property and my happiness below the happiness of some self-centred turd who’s so egomaniacal as to asume she has the right to allow her pox-ridden cat to do as it pleases. That you maintain this attitude depsite the fact that I have made it quite clear that I have done everything in my power to avoid killing these fucking pests, when it would have been so much cheaper and easier to poison them, makes me sick at your complete lack of values.
See their pets almost as children! What a crock of shit. Because these people are thoughtless enough to let their animals destroy my property and my pets, that I love just as much, and emotionally crippled enough to build their lives around an animal, that does not mean that I should have to tolerate this shit.
You’re suggesting that I must risk everything I worked for, my family’s health, my pets’ lives and my happiness (all of which I take full resposibility for) because some self-absorbed shithead is overly bonded to an animal that she doesn’t want to accept any responsibility for
Mate if that’s the price of remaining human then I hereby hereby submit my resignation from the human race. The cost of membership is too high.
I’ll accept that resignation, Gaspode. You killed a cat for being a cat. You took out your anger with the pet owner on a small animal within your power - an animal whose previous experience with you led him to believe you could be trusted. Very nice. And you keep such a small animal yourself to actually attract your victims. Doubly nice.
If you knew the owner would look at the pound for the missing cat, what was wrong with taking it to the pound with another of your charming threats attached? If you were afraid the animal control people wouldn’t pass on your threat, you could have just left a phone number with a request the owner call you.
Heaven forbid your own cat ever slips her collar, bolts outside and runs into a maniac like you.
I am an emergency/critical care vet tech. I have seen some awful things happen to pets and no one will ever be able to convince me that it is OK to let their cats roam free. The only time I make an exception to the rule is if the cat started out as a stray and simply cannot be trained to stay indoors. Sometimes the urge to roam is just too strong. I DO NOT agree with people who take a cat that CAN be totally indoors and let it out. Trust me, the cat isn’t missing anything. I have five cats and none of them go outside-ever. They are perfectly happy.
And that is the second most illogical peice of tripe I’ve heard this week.
I did not kill the cat for being a cat. I killed it because it posed a clear risk to my health and property. The same reason you kill rats, mice and cockroaches. Or perhaps hire others to kill them because you are too incompetent or gutless to do it yourself. :rolleyes:
No anger at the cat was required. I am certainly angry at the people, just as you would be angry if I let a bullock shit in lounge room every single evening. Unfortunately the only way I can remedy this situation is to remove the cat permanantly, either by killing it in a painless manner or taking it away and dumping it.
Yes aseymayo, of course my flatmate keeps a cat for the purpose of attracting other cats for me to kill. It’s not being kept for companionship at all. It’s just like you keep food to attract mice and blood to attract mosquitoes. Oh, how inhumane of you. :rolleyes: I even use the cat as bait in the trap. I don’t use catfood. :rolleyes:. And of course I wanted to have all this interaction with this animal so I could lull it into trusting me so it would be all the more fun to kill it. No, really, it just wouldn’t have been fun if I’d killed it first time. It wouldn’t have had any reason to trust me then, and that’s how I get my kicks don’t ya know? :rolleyes: (This board needs a set of really big rolleyes for when peole spew ignorant shit like this. The normal ones just don’t do this emotive garbage justice.)
Which council animal control officers make it quite clear they cannot and will not do. Did you stop to think how much shit they would be in if they did this and I abused the person over the phone? No of course you didn’t. Can you even spell litigation? And why the hell would I want someone who’s already presmably pissed off with me for trapping their animal to be able to contact me? Think before you speak next time, mkay?
And of course if self-righteous arseholes like you didn’t let their fucking pests out every night to piss off the world at large, then wandering cats would be a rarity rather than commonplace. People like me wouldn’t exist because I would tolerate this cheerfully if it only happened every 6 months when a cat got loose accidentally. I wouldn’t own a cat trap if this only happened every 6 months would I Einstein? Think about something it for five seconds before you spew your crap into the electronic ether willya? If a cat gets out for one night I’m not going to notice it until the next morning. Even assuming I have a large, expensive, bulky cat trap stashed in my garden shed for just such an emergency I won’t be able to use it until the next night. By this stage the cat is probably home. Even if I do catch it I take it to the pound where a responsible owner will collect it and lock it inside, I never see it again. Experience teaches me that this is the equally effective, cheaper and far more palatable alternative to killing.
Instead my experience has taught me that because bat-noodling fuck-pieces like you insist on letting their semi-feral vermin treat the world like one big toilet-cum-gym-cum-brothel-cum-smorgasboard the only way to stop cats from destroying my health and property is to kill them. If it weren’t for pathetic, irresponsible, lame brained dickheads like your esteemed self my flatmate wouldn’t have to live in fear of her cat getting loose and getting caught by soemone pissed off by cats. Hell, if irresponsible self-obsessed turds didn’t exist the council would be highly unlikely to be lending out their 50 fucking cat-traps would they? There certainly wouldn’t be such a huge demand that their is a constant 1 month waiting list so you can get one for 3 days. This is a city of 70, 000 people. That’s a fair percentage of the city pissed off with cats at any given time because of arseholes who don’t give a fuck about their fellow citizens.
I don’t have a dog trap. The council only has two and they’re virtually never loaned out. You know why? It’s not because dogs can cause less damage is it? No, it’s because a stray dog in my yard is such a rarity that I tend to just yell at it. If I can be bothered catching it I tie it up and call the pound to collect it. I’ve never heard of anyone asking for a horse trap, despite the fact that they too occasionally get loose in the suburbs. I wonder why? It’s a rarity. And why is it a a rarity? Because people keep their dogs and horses locked up. Get it? People don’t resort to killing other people’s pets out of a whim. They do it out of frustration. Frustration that your kind or rationalising, lily-livered scum are responsible for.
No, I’m sorry to say aseymayo that I do fear our cat getting loose because it may run into someone like me. But if arseholes like you who try to justify, using emotional bulshit, why vermin should be allowed to destroy people’s property didn’t exist then I know damn well that people like me, who won’t tolerate the constant destruction of our legally obtained property, wouldn’t exist. I also have reason to fear being shot by police officers who may think I’m drawing a firearm when I’m not. Why do police officers get like that? Because arseholes shoot them. Shithead acts such as letting cats kill my pets begets shithead acts such as killing cats. Neither is pleasant, but only one is necessary in order to protect one’s property and health. Can you tell me which?
My family’s right to health, my cat’s right to health and my neighbours right to his lawful property are worth more than anyone’s desire to allow their cat to wander the streets IMHO. If that belief makes me a maniac then I will wear the title proudly.
So please, next time you feel like hurling insults like maniac stop for half a second and use your brain.
A fail to see anywhere in your semi-coherent rant about your neice’s life being in danger due to a cat being allowed outside. If it’s somewhere in that stream of semi-consciousness you call prose, then you better extract it more transparently.
All I see is a bunch of half-baked excuses about your precious property. Well diddums. Most of us enjoy sharing our lives with other creatures and are willing to put up with a bit of inconvenience for the joy of it. No, I don’t have a cat. But no, I don’t leave a fucking bird in a cage on the floor overnight and expect the wonderous world of nature to ignore it. And there are perfectly natural ways to dissuade cats from digging where you don’t want them to. But you don’t care about that - you’d rather cause a family months of anguish because their pet has suddenly disappeared.
Frankly, I don’t give a shit about your so-called reasons. All I see is a pathetic excuse for a human who in his gung-ho vigilante way decided that he had the ultimate veto over somebody else’s emotions. Fuck you.
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Kabbes, you’ve obviously never had the cats from down the street decide that your flower bed makes a wonderful litter box during their nightly romps.
This isn’t like the occasional goose droppings in the yard that is easily overlooked. A weeks accumulation becomes somewhat of a noxious mess. You are forced to clean up after them. Not to mention the damage they do to the garden by digging and scraping. You may think Gaspode went to far, but he is right that when these animals become a nuisance some action has to be taken.
Cat owners need to be more considerate of their neighbors and keep their animals confined or under control. For quite a while now, it has been agreed that letting dogs roam is a bad practice, it is time for the cat owners to see the light. Quit being inconsiderate, fluffy is not all innocuous and lovable when she’s out prowling. Just because you don’t see it doesn’t mean it isn’t happening (your cat being a nuisance that is).
The next kid who steps on my marigolds is going to get shot in the back of its head.
Besides, the kid could very well be carrying a disease that endangers the life of my neice!
That comparison is so below you obfusciatrist.
I would expect that even you would take some kind of action if that kid stepped on your marigolds nearly day in and day out without end. I’d also expect a human being to be able to understand the concept of good and bad a little more easily. Thus a reprimand or a call to the young hooligans parents is likely to effect a change in behavior.
Cats and Dogs though often treated as surrogate children are not and cannot be compared to children equally.
Here is a link to a cat story that took place only a few towns over from where I grew up. (Be warned, this is not a fuzzy wuzzy story, this is a story of ignorance and cruelty and a sad end to many cats.)
http://www.duluth.com/editor/index.php?sect_rank=1&story_id=79437
If I want to put my bird on my porch, I shall. If I want to plant fucking catnip and expect it to flourish on my property, I shall. If you do not control your pet, it will go to the pound. If you do not control it a second time, it will go to the pound again. If you do not control it a third time, it’s dead.
What’s the problem here? It’s my property. It’s my money. It’s your pet. If I live-trap your shit monster, will you pay for my plants as ransom, or will you whinge some more?
If you’re going to keep a pet, just as if you’re going to have a child, you’re responsible for it. If it gets its neck wrung because you won’t monitor its behavior, then that’s your fault. Period.
Then let those people who enjoy cats company keep them in control, in thier own home. A lot of people dont enjoy them and should not be forced to pay for the damge they cause.
The family should have gotten the hint the first time. They had plenty of warning and they caused their own anquish by letting the it out again.
No, he had the right to protect his property. I love my dog, and I keep him on my property. If I let my dog run free the city will pick him up and fine me. Hes a brindle colored dog that looks like a pit bull(hes not), and when he has gotten out, in my own front yard, I got a nasty note from the city. If he starts tearing up someone elses home, and I am to inconsiderate to do anything about it after the city has already fined me, then its my own fault if the property owner takes matters into thier own hands.
If you like cats, fine. Keep all you want. But you have to be a responsible pet owner, not just let them run free and expect everybody else to put up with it.
That kabbes is because you do not want to see. You do not want to accept that your moral cowardice has an effect on other peoples live. Or maybe your just so fucking stupid you can’t read. Whatever.
I couldn’t really make it any clearer could I? Or are you implying that I should lock my neice inside so peices of anti-social shit like you can let your cat out, or should I supervise my neice constantly so your type of irresponsible scum don’t have to supervise their vermin? Or are you just so fucking pig-ignorant that you don’t believe that fucking cats feeding on raw offal are carrying fatal diseases. If the latter then shut your fucking mouth until you know what you’re talking about.
And if you had the capacity to read you would notce that these fucking cats are killing the creatures that I choose to share my life with, both domestic and wild. You of course would be happy to have my pack of hyaenas killing cats and dogs around the neighbourhood becasue it’s worth that bit of inconvenience for the joy of it. I already have a cat to share my life with, I niether need nor want yours destroying my health and property.
You want to share your property with semi-feral cats, good. I don’t and I have that right. Most of us enjoy a good party, does that give us the right to hold one on your property, at a time of maximum inconvenience, without your consent and in the process destroy whatever property of yours is necessary to make the partygoers happy? Can we shit on your lawn as well? You are a truly obnoxious self-righteous and presumptuous wanker kabbes
I don’t know where to start ripping this bit of ignorance to shreds. Decisions, decisions.
1)It wasn’t on the ground. It was suspended 7 feet from the ground. Thecat had leapt off the rail, onto the top of the cage.
2)This is my fucking house. I paid good money for it. If I want to put a birdcage in the middle of my front yard I shall. By what sort of megalomaniacal reasoning do you justify telling me where to put my pets on my own land so you can put your pets wherever you damhn well please, even if that includes my land.
3)I assume that if I had caught the cat and placed it in a pit with a dingo that would have been all right with you because that’s the ‘wonderous world of nature’? Sure the cat was in a cage, sure I brought the dingo to an area where it shouldn’t be, but the same is true of my bird and the fucking stray, you arsehole. Just do me a favour kabbes. Think before you start disemmininating ignorance. It’s really not that hard.
Such as? I’ve tried everything up to and including lion urine. It doesn’t fucking work. Are there also ‘natural’ ways to stop them ripping my door to peices, transmitting parasites, killing ‘my’ wildlife, ripping my neighbours greenhouse to peices and fighting on my lawn? Will you pay for them? No of course not, but in the fluffy-bunny, Sesame Street world you live in there is always a solution that can be found in five seconds so you don’t have to take responsibility for your actions. Sociopathic git.
As opposed to my years of anguish at having my neice die because I failed to take action? If that’s the choice then the family will have to live with consequences of their choices.
That is painfully obvious. You also obviously don’t give a shit about the facts, or about logic. You only want to feel warm and fuzzy and not be upset that someone is killing a disease carrying cat. You can kill disease carrying rats, mice, cockroaches and mosquitoes who are doing nothing that isn’t natural, but I have to tolerate some deliberately introduced vermin that should be someone elses responsibilty. You hypocritical, cowardly, two faced peice of weaseling, yellow-bellied shit.
That’s it. I did it soleley for the effect it would have on someoene elses emotions. Someone I’ve never met mind you, Someone I never will meet. But, yeah, I didn’t do this for the stated reasons of protecting my family’s health and my neighbours property or my pets’ lives. I did it so I could really upset some faceless stranger. :rolleyes: Wanker
BTW, you do realise in your state of semi-litaracy what a veto is. Get a dictionary.
And that, good readers, is the only thing kabbes has so far posted that isn’t either completely at odds with the facts as stated, totally riddled with double standards and egocentricity or extremely anti-social. By this we may judge the character of the man.
Kabbes if your own amoral, belly-crawling, presumptuous and uncaring self is the standard of the modern man then I can only say that I am glad I am not of your ilk.
I hold the right of individual to his own life and property higher than the right of strangers to impose on that life and property for the sake of convenience.
My dear Gaspode, would you please point out exactly where I said I let my cat roam free? I don’t remember saying that, but I must have, because we know you wouldn’t jump to conclusions about pet owners based on the flimsiest of circumstantial evidence.
It’s funny I would say that, though. As it happens, my cat only goes outside on a leash. I don’t do this to protect the neighbors exactly. I do this because the one time he got out on his own he made a beeline for the house across the street and was hit by a car. There’s another funny thing - he went straight for the one house in the neighborhood where he’d seen a cat in the window. Huh.
Could you also be a little more specific about these horrific cat borne diseases? I, too, have nieces and nephews I wish to protect. I know of a few diseases that can be carried by ticks on cats - but you didn’t mention ticks, only fleas and worms. I have heard of toxoplasmosis, which can be transmitted through direct contact with cat feces. The biggest threat there seems to be to pregnant women and their developing fetuses and according to this site,
It doesn’t sound like quite the life-threatener you mentioned, but I’m just a “bat-noodling fuck-piece,” so what do I know?
On second thought, Gaspode, don’t bother. You just go right on justifying your actions and I’m sure if you say it loud enough and long enough, you might even be able to believe it yourself. But I wouldn’t mention your cat-killing proclivities to your housemate, if I were you. She might decide to never let you near her pussy again.
Thank you. 
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Oh, I’m sorry. Was I comparing? I thought we were just describing what we do to things that mess up yards.
Actually, I do think the comparison is valid. Killing the kid and killing the cat are both over-reactions (though one is MUCH more of an overreaction than the other). What do you do when you learn that squirrels are pooping in your flower beds as well?
However, after all the flames I’ve received here for insisting on the distinction between people and animals it is nice to have somebody feel that I am not making that distinction.
Personally I like cats much more than micro-people but I am more likely to kill the cat than the micro-person.
I really can’t put it any better than that.
Would you please point out exactly where I said you did? Do you have sufficient knowledge of the English language to make the distinction between “people such as yourself” and “actions carried out by yourself”?
Don’t bother replying. You’ve made the answer quite clear. I won’t use the word rhetorical since there’s no way you’ll understand it.
And of course this just proves that my sole reason for keeping a cat is to act as a bell wether. :rolleyes: REALLY BIG :rolleyes:
Well it had to happen. Some dumb-fuck attemptng to use ignorance as a defence for irresponsible behaviour. * On a board deicated to fighting ignorance*.
OK in the interests of fighting ignorance might I suggest you read (just as a starter) Cecil’s column on roundworms..
From their you can try reading about Ascariasis, particularly means of transmision here: http://www.worldwaterday.org/disease/ascariasis.html
Then you can try reading about the pathogenicity of Ascariasis.
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hpb/lcdc/biosafty/msds/msds10e.html
Then you can read about visceral larva migrans: http://www.gsdhelpline.freeserve.co.uk/worms.htm
Not pleasant is it?
How about alveolar hydatid disease? http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/alveolarhydatid/factsht_alveolar_hydatid.htm
and associated Echinococcus species:
http://www.onlineveterinarypractice.com/health_advice/cat/info/tapewormscat.htm
It should be clear to all by now that Assemayo is in fact an ignorant, bat nooding fuck peice. No fucking idea about the potential health risks posed by wandering cats, yet more than prepared to say that it doesn’t justify someones actions. What a peice of shit.
I’m assuming by now that you are functionally illiterate Ass (I can call you an Ass can’t I?). But please for the sake of both your pet and your neices and nephews get someone to read the above links for you.
You are clearly an ignorant, cowardly, two-faced peice of shit.
Have a nice day. 
Obfusciatrist
I have to concur. That comparison is well below your normal standard. Killing a child would never be acceptable because it is illegal and in the belief systems of our societies immoral. Killing animals is not illegal and as far as I can tell no-one here finds the thought of killing rats and mice to protect health and property unacceptable. This invalidates the comparison. But I try not to flame in GD and I try not to debate in The Pit.
I don’t see many squirels, but I do have possums (the real ones, not those pussy opossums). When they destroy my garden I’m pleased. If you read what I posted above I have specifically designed my garden to feed and encourage wildlife. I love seeing possums and flying foxes eating my fruit. That’s my decision on how to manage my property. Other peoples decsions to let their cats run free prevent me from running my property that way. I want possums. I don’t want cats. Simple. Having said that if a possum was causing a problem I would trap it and NPWS would take it away for me. No problem. If it kept coming back despite this then I still wouldn’t kill it because that is illegal. If it wasn’t illegal then I would have no qualms whatsoever about killing it if it was threatening my health and property and no alternative could be found. How do you justify killing one rodent to protect health and property (rats) and yet find it unacceptable to kill another rodent (squirells) for the same reason? Seems like a huge double standard to me.
As for killing a child if it wasn’t illegal, well no of course I wouldn’t do it. I value human life far more highly than anyhting aside from human life. Clearly neither I nor 99% of the population value animal life more highly than human health and property.
Of course it’s not going to happen is it. If a child slashed my screen door with a knife every night the police would catch him. If they didn’t then I would and the poloce would take him away. He would be returned to the parents and if he re-offended he would be taken away until the parents satisfied the courts they had control of the child. Unfortunately in this society their is no such requirement of for cats and cat owners. The only solution unfortuately is to kill the animal. I feel little more remorse killing a feral act than I do killing a feral rat. The fact that irresponsible fuckhead someone is feeding the feral cat is the sole reason for any increased compassion.
And thank you Michael Ellis and other fans. Thank you, I love you all.
(Exits bowing)
Yup, you’re right - I’m a complete and total moron. I’ll let you in on a little secret: I don’t come here mainly to fight your ignorance - that would be much too daunting a task. I come here to fight my own.
But as long as I’m here, I might as well point out one or two little things, my dear Gaspode. I never said cats should be allowed to roam free without consequence and nowhere did I defend the people who permit their pets to become a nuisance in the neighborhood. I do agree you have rights as a property owner.
What I don’t agree with is that you have the right to destroy someone else’s property simply because a cat, not this particular cat, mind you, but a cat
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[li] almost killed your bird[/li][li] could conceivably infect a child (remind me, I’m stupid, what are the exact odds of your niece picking up a fatal disease from a cat, again?)[/li][li] might be giving your cat fleas[/li][li] possibly dug up a prized plant (And you have video on this, right? You have proof that none of the other wildlife you attract to your yard could have done this, yes?)[/li][li] left muddy footprints on the car[/li][/ul]
However wrong it is for people to allow their pets to roam free, you were wrong to kill the cat. Two wrongs do not make a right. It’s as simple as that.
But the part that made me speak up was your insistence that you like cats. Let’s get this perfectly straight - no, you don’t. Someone who likes cats doesn’t kill them without compunction. Someone who likes cats would have given the cat another chance - hell, in our society, even vicious criminals get three strikes before they’re out - but this little moggie went down on a two count. Someone who likes cats would have continued to trap the intruder, day in and day out if necessary, and would have continued to take it to the pound until one of the following occurred:
a) the cat owner or the cat himself got the idea
b) the Animal Control people got fed up with continually taking in the same cat, and issued a few threats of their own the next time the cat was retrieved, or
c) the trapper adopted the cat because the animal was obviously neglected by its owner.
No, you don’t like cats - and your level of vehemence defending your irrational act suggests to me that you know that perfectly well. I may be stupid, but at least I’m not a liar.
Ahh so of course my dearest Ass you don’t kill mice or rats or cockroaches. After all you can’t prove it’s the mouse you’re killing that:
could conceivably infect a child (remind me what are the exact odds of your niece picking up a fatal disease from a mouse or cockroach, again?)
might be giving your cat fleas
ate your food
gnawed your books
:rolleyes:
Hypocrite
Your ignorance is showing agian you cretin. Cats produce catshit. Possums produce possumshit. I would have thought even a complete moron like yourself would be able to nut this out. Fuck you’re dense.
I suggest that from now on you stick to emotive arguments. They don’t make any sense but at least you don’t look like a complete dipshit when you use them. You just look like a teenager who’s just realised that she knows how the world should be run and how great the world would be if everyone were as perfect as her.
OK people, according to the long considered opinion of this valuable memeber of our SDMB community I should “have continued to take it (the cat) to the pound until”
Of course there is no evidence this was going to happen. But hell if I took a buffalo into Ass’s lounge room and let it shit on the carpet and smash the furniture ass wouldn’t object. It wouldn’t matter how often I did this or how much it cost, she’d keep letting me do it until I got the hint. :rolleyes:.
Not only would Ass exhibit the patience of Job but in Ass’s Christ-like way she would actually foot the expense of removing the buffalo every morning. :rolleyes:
Hell by that logic if I came round and started smashing your stuff up deliberately you wouldn’t make any attempt to stop me because you “Love People”, right? Wake up and smell the roses Ass. In the real world loving someone or something does not equate to letting them destroy your life and property. I can only pray you don’t reproduce until you lose this naive notion. Pity the children.
And what would those threats be Ass? They wouldn’t threaten to painlessly kill the animal would they. Surely if I placed the cat with someone who was going to kill it, that would be just as unloving as killing it myself? Or does your moral cowardice make it acceptable for some faceless governement officer to be forced to kill an innocent animal because people like you try to justify irresponsibility?
I can see where you’re coming from now. It’s not the act of killing that proves I don’t like cats. I can arrange for as many as I like to be killed. I just can’t kill them myself. My God I am genuinely appalled.
Ass the depth of you hypocrisy is astounding. You are truly a gutless peice of shit. You don’t give a fuck if animals die needlessly, you just don’t want to face the fact that your type of weak-willed, amoral, childish, irreseponsible philosophy necessitated it. You truly do represent what is worst in our societies’ attitudes towards both animals and our fellow humans. I can see now why it has become necessary for courts to order criminals to view the resulst of their actions first-hand. I never understood this before. I always assumed the capacity to see the obvious results of one’s actions was a basic human trait. Having read what you just posted I’ve got a new insight into how the shit-end of humanity actually thinks. The result of an action isn’t important so long as you’re not their to see it. You can take a cat to the pound in clear conscience, knowing that eventually it will be killed. But you could never pull the trigger. For the sake of humanity grow up and start taking responsibilty for your actions you childish peice of shit.
Oh yeah, that’d solve the problem. Because people like you are so self-absorbed they can’t take responsibility for their actions I should be forced to bear the cost. Either I lose my property or I am forced to feed, worm, provide vetcare for and leash train a cat that your type chose to bring onto my property. Jesus H. Christ what sort of fucking morality is that. Either I pay for your irresponsibilty with my property and my lifestyle, or I pay for your irresponsibility with my property and my lifestyle. By what fucking Disneyland standard is that fair? By what Dr. Seuss level of thinking does refusing to accept that as the only alternative make me less caring towards my own pets? Ass I can only guess at your upbringing, but whatever it may have been it has resulted in you being completely divorced from reality. Get out more.
Gee, now I know why I never see you in GQ or GD.
1)My actions are rational. I have explained my rationale (check it out in a dictionary) above very clearly. That fact that something does not tally with your pre-school view of what’s fair does not make it irrational.
2)My level of vehemence is the direct result of being forced to waste time and money and, more importantly, perform what is to me an unpleasant act because people who live in fairyland lack the courage, conviction and morals to accept the ultimate consequences of their actions.
3)If your entire life experience has been that people only become annoyed at being forced to perform a distasteful action if they know the action is wrong then you have led a very sheltered life. Try removing the rose coloured glasses sweetie, the world may not be as pretty without them but it’s a lot more worthwhile.
I’ll let the facts speak for themselves.
You should have realised by this that the readership of these boards has more than sufficient intelligence to decide on who may be lying and who isn’t. If your only evidence is that my actions don’t fit with your weak-willed, mummy-tuck-me-in, gimme-cookie-or-I’ll-throw-tantrum view of what constitutes love then I’ll let your accusation ride on its merits.
I have no evidence you are a liar it’s true. I have much evidence that you are stupid, willfully-ignorant, illogical, over-emotional, naive, selfish, irresponsible and anti-social.
I think I’d feel happier with the state of humanity if you were a liar.
Okaaaaaaaay… first thing for me to say is I did not read any posts past the original one. I can’t read stories about cats that have been hurt, or people who hurt or neglect them, or actually any animals that have been hurt, they send me into an unpleasant emotional orbit.
But I will submit the following site for your information, it explains the facts and things about keeping cats indoors and SAFE.
http://home.hiwaay.net/~keiper/indoors.htm
I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night if my cats went outdoors. And with feline leukemia and feline AIDS (no, humans can’t get this) out there as well as cars and cruel human beings, indoors is the only option for my kitties. And we are all happy about it.
Regards,
Bethany
Having had to comfort a child who cried for a month because kitty never came home, I don’t react well to the thought that the reason may have been that some macho vigilante allowed his anger to justify destroying somebody else’s pet.
That’s a hell of a lot of vituperate you’re spewing Gaspode - I wonder why? Certainly I suppose your words here are in line with your real life actions it would appear, so I shouldn’t be too surprised.
I have nothing further to say to you. My opinion of you has been irrevocably damaged. Whenever I see your name around the SDMB henceforth I shall remember this thread. As such, there really is no point in my indulging your desire to engage in your own version of Tourette’s syndrome any more.
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