Shh. Leave the d-bag be. It’s best not to fuss with a gal whose girdle is itching her.
Not to mention, the pet in question is a cat – a carnivore species.
Aren’t lobsters actually a kind of bug? They are effectively a large, underwater insect.
Seems like that fact makes it ok with some people to boil them and then eat them. What’s lost? They’re bugs! Beets scream when you bake 'em, so what?
So there is a spectrum of, uh, life forms, and below a certain point it is ok to snuff one out- maybe for at least some reason. The higher up the scale you go, the better reason is required.
That’s what I’m getting from the thread. Am I nuts?
Huh heh huh heheh …you said “nuts.”
That sounds about right, and it’s a point of view that, for example, Douglas Hofstadter (a cognitive scientist and vegetarian) defends in his book I Am a Strange Loop.
Life and death are natural things, we have to kill to live (Animals, Bug’s & Plants)…deep…I know.
There is just a little difference in killing for food, rather than for fun or in this case cruelty…it called being a civilized human being.
Pig’s are smart animals, sure the don’t build spaceships, neither do they have to, yet I still like to eat them… Bacon tastes lovely
However, I don’t let pigs sleep next to me, house train them, take them with me on hiking trips, have them as pets etc… For this I have my dogs.
I presume Lissner does not live in China or Africa or some other country where they eat cats or dogs or that he got the cat for food.
Getting pissed of with the cat is one thing, giving her away to some animal shelter or even put the cat to “sleep” are solutions to the problem. Putting her out in the cold to die, that is just plain cruelty.
I can understand, that some people say “Jez it’s a bloody cat” yet these people might get upset if their car gets scratched, which to me is “So? It’s an inanimate object, what’s the big deal?” What it comes down to, is each individual value.
Exactly. I’d bet most of those people saying “It is just a cat!”, are also the ones who go into hysterics if you dog-ear their fave book, or scratch a CD.
Correction. “Was” a cat!
Well… I thought that was exactly the situation we’re talking about here.
Hey I think it is cruel too. I also feel some people are going overboard and for some reason am constructing a defense. It may or may not convince you, the people of the Pit.
A book never pissed in my sauce pan.
My dog never pissed in my sauce pan either for two reasons:
1.) A dog can not open my cupboard and lift the pan out to actually piss into it
2.) He is house trained
Which leades me to the conclusion, that Lissner is a lazy clown who:
a) does not clean up
and
b) did not train his cat to go to her litter box, cat’s always like to piss and crap at the same place and
c) since he worked at a pet shop and should have known this, is a dimwit
So, it is his own fault for letting his cat pee into his sauce pan and he should have thrown himself out into the cold.
This is not taking into account about his work ethic as an employee of a pet shop.
Allow me to suggest one that will.
Let’s not forget my point, which is that lissener himself seemed near tears at the thought of a sweater getting shrunk in the wash.
Every time I dickride one of your comments, I kiss another little bit of my cool goodbye. But, when I start cracking up into my headset, while my customer angrily shouts me down for laughing at his very serious issue, I think I need to repeat it. You’re funny.
Actually, cats don’t have to be trained to use a litterbox – at least not by humans. The mother cat trains her kittens to do so.
In fact, they don’t always even have to be trained by their mother. When I ended up with custody of two kittens that were so young they had to be hand fed for the first few days they had no trouble figuring out the purpose of the cardboard tray filed with litter that I had put near their “nest”.
You don’t think they’d be willing to tutor my 9-week-old puppy, do you? All the tuna and scratching posts they’d ever want…
I’ve never heard of litter-training a dog, but nothing would surprise me; I have seen ads on TV for something that looks like a patch of sod that serves the same purpose as a litter box.
The “kittens” are now almost two years old, so I’m not sure how good they be at puppy tutoring. Come to think of it, I don’t know if they’ve ever seen a dog before, as they’re strictly indoor cats.
That’s pretty much why when a cat stops using its litterbox you know something’s wrong. (Unless, of course, you don’t clean said litterbox. Cats generally won’t use a really filthy box)
We can close this thread. Kitty is fine.