Yes, a typo sure concludes my illiteracy, doesn’t it Gaspode, we all know you’ve never made them, right?
Yes. Well then.
I know the definition of vigilante, and murder. They fit easily into this argument.
It’s getting old, you concluding that everyone who argues with you on this issue must be illiterate, stupid, self-centered, and hypocritical.
No, I am not a religious fanatic, you fuck. Not in the least, if you’d care to make anything other than an assumption on a one line comment made in one post.
In no way do I doubt your experience in biology, you would know more about the nature of animals in your part of the world than I do. And the fact that you’re an Aussie does change things, in the US we do not have a widespread problem with feral cats, as you do.
You’re right. So much ignorance, so little time. All I seem to be seeing here is your own egotistical justifications for killing someone else’s pet. We’re not focusing on the environmental implications of the cat being allowed out of the house, nor are we focusing on the fact that you lost sleep over your plant. You can tell us your reasons for killing the cat all day long until you turn blue in the face, in the end someone’s pet is still dead and you’re still the person who killed it.
There is obviously no way that anyone here will be able to convince you that you did something morally wrong, whether it be legal or not.
No, if YOU weren’t so lazy and so cowardice, YOU would get off that fat ass of yours and make an attempt, especially if this demon cat is making you so hysterical, unless of course you’re only a tough guy when it comes to small animals, eh? Of course, you may have already stated somewhere in this thread that you have actually walked over to a neighbor’s house and asked if it was their cat or if they knew whose cat it was, I dunno, nor do I really give a shit. I have to confess that I pretty much stop reading your posts the second they degenerate into full blown temper tantrums.
Are you aware of just how tough it is to break a shitting in the garden habit?
Not that I give a shit one way or another but you may want to get that blood pressure checked (unless of course you have me in your will, then I will cross my fingers that the pulsating vein in your forehead does finally burst, putting you out of your obvious misery and sparing the rest of us from your incoherent yammerings). Seriously. Hysterics are never good for the heart and brain, Punkins’.
Says he of the impending coronary. :rolleyes:
Now, if you want to talk about enjoying this immensely, I just have to ask if anyone else is finding the irony of GasBag’s claims that the rest of us are stupid, illiterate, self-centered, and hypocritical? I’m beginning to doubt this idiot can even read, let alone comprehend what is written. It’s all quite pathetic if not entertaining, really.
Ewwwww, I’m all tingly and warm in anticipation of what he will call me next! Then again, maybe I just need to take a shit.
If Gaspode had taken the cat back to the pound again, rather than disposing of it himself, and the people at the pound had put it to sleep…would you be lambasting the pound people in the same manner as you are Gaspode?
If so, why?
If now, why?
Facts are facts. People are responsible for their pets. When they fail to meet that responsibility and their pets become a nuisance (and in this case, damaging the property of others), they lose the right to dictate what becomes of that pet. Whether Gaspode put the cat down or the pound put the cat down is irrelevant. What Gaspode did (as he has reitered, but everyone seems to ignore) was just as legal as what the pound would have done had he chosen to take the cat back there again, at his own inconvenience and expense. And the end result is no less moral because Gaspode performed the act rather than the faceless pound employee. The owner of the cat had a chance to correct their cat’s behavior. They gave up that chance. They no longer have a cat.
I found it funny that someone suggested that he take the cat to a pound out of the area so that the owner couldn’t retrieve it again. Ummmm…what exactly did you expect to happen if Gaspode had chosen that avenue instead? Guess what…the cat would have been just as dead, and the family just as presumably distraught at the disappearance of their beloved (ha!) pet. But this suggestions was met with approval…I can only guess because, yet again, it would have been an anonymous stranger doing the dirty deed.
It seems pretty cut and dried to me, and to try to vilify Gaspode for doing the dirty deed himself rather than foisting it onto someone else seems rather laughable.
I have a cat. She has never been outdoors except in her cat carrier on the way to the vet. I like it that way. She likes it that way. No problem. If she were to escape and get hit by a car, or disappeared and never retured (possibly because she was a nuisance to someone else and they killed her) I’d be rather upset…and I’d be overwhelmed with guilt that I’d allowed that to happen. I’d blame no one but myself.
Speaking for myself, I have not once offered any suggestions. You can see by looking back on this thread that I only mention that the impression I get from Gaspode’s hysterical temper-tantrum is that he is an cowardly asshole who didn’t make an honest attempt to find the owners. Instead, he contacted them anonymously through a note on the cats collar instead of finding them and reaming them a new asshole face to face.
Forgive me (or not) for thinking that if the problem is so upsetting to him, he is either too lazy or too stupid to find the home (or at least ask around - shit, it ain’t rocket science), or that he is a cowardice little pussy who was too afraid to confront something (or someone) that might fight back.
You’re confusing two separate incidents. For the cat that had a collar, he attached a note to its collar and sent it on its way. The owners had the good sense to change their behavior in regard to allowing the cat to roam and Gaspode never saw that particular cat again. All is happy with the world regarding that cat.
The deceased cat in question had no collar, hence Gaspode has no idea who it belongs to. All he knows is that he took it to the pound, the owner came and paid their fine, took the cat home and changed nothing. The cat continued to roam onto Gaspodes property (and why this is unacceptable has been explained ad nauseum by Gaspode himself, all of which I see as eminently valid reasons). Rather than taking it back to the pound repeatedly, at his own inconvenience and expense, he took the same action that the pound eventually would have. He euthanized it. As is perfectly within his rights, as he has explained, again ad nauseum.
To call him a coward for not devoting his life to repeatedly correcting the actions of irresponsible pet owners while suffering the ongoing effects of that irresponsibility is ridiculous, and more than a little bit illogical. The owner had every chance to do the right thing. They failed. So Gaspode did the right thing for his interests.
One could speculate that the outcome would have been the same eventually. How many times would Gaspode have to have taken the cat to the pound before the owners got tired of paying the fine to retrieve the cat, and the pound put the cat down on their own? How long will the pound hold a cat before they put it down? Days? Weeks? The possibility is very real that the very next time the cat was delivered to the pound, it wasn’t retrieved by the owner in time and was put down.
The fact remains that it is the owners who failed in their responsibility.
What’s the matter, afraid to stick to your guns (as you are attempting to do here) when confronted face to face with those “otehrs”?
Now wait, isn’t it supposed to be YOU “presmably” pissed off at THEM for putting you in the situation of having to trap their animal? Should it be THEM that should be shaking in their boots for the spanking you are going to give them for ruining YOUR property?
Wow, aren’t you the badass. . . . :rolleyes:
Gotta ask though, did the little kitty put up a hard fight? Was it able to answer when you called it an irresponsible prick? Did it wince at your over-use of vulgarities? Did it shake in fear at your foot stomping temper-tantrum?
From where? Your diet? By the way, “a lot” is two words.
Can someone please tell junior here where to download a good spell check program or perhaps an online dictionary?
If this isn’t the funniest irony I have seen on this board since the days of RosieWolf and Idnew, I don’t know what is! HA HA HA HA!!!
No I am not. I do realize they are two separate issues.
However, if these cats were making Gaspode’s blood pressure rise out of control as it is appearing to be doing in this thread, why for hellsake didn’t he ask around the neighborhood to find out where the owners live (show me one place in this thread that shows he made an attempt)?
I’m not asking him to devote his life to finding the owners :rolleyes:, I’m just saying that his yammerings reek of cowardice behavior in that he would rather take his argument up with a defenseless animal than actually :::GASP::: confront a real-life human being!
And here people, we see the umpteenth peice of evidence that Gaspode is an asshole, or needs anger management classes.
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No, dipshit. It’s like saying you’re taking out your anger on the wrong target. The easier target. It’s like saying “my neighbor is a jackass; let me kill his cat.”
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Biggirl apparntly feels the two issues are seperate, here in my Peter Pan world where someone who sneakily kills someone’s pet and then rationalizes such an assholish act away by saying the pet deserved to die are, indeed, assholes.
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Of course you’re assuming. This is what assholes do. Which part of “this is all just trying to rationize a mean and cowardly act” don’t you understand? I’m taking bets. It must be the big words like “rationalize” and “cowardly”.
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Care to come up with logic that is not simple rationalizations? You’re own logic seems to be that, if an pet was killing a person, it is reasonable to kill the animal, so why isn’t it reasonable to kill a pet because it’s pissing me off? Or: My neighbor’s dog is ripping up my flowerbed, I’m justified in putting a .45 into it’s skull. I anonomously told my neighbor I’d kill the fuck. Now, all these people on some messageboard are illiterate, crazed, drugged-out assholes for daring to tell me is should have acted more like a decent human being. The bleeding-heart liberals!
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Of course! Let’s ignore the fact that killing someone’s pet is an assholish thing to do. If we ignore this, then no one can say what I did was an act of an asshole!
Keep looking for justification, asshole, maybe you’ll find some. And I’d stop calling people illiterate because of typo’s if I were you. But I’m not an asshole, so I guess I’m not you.