This, coming from the guy who took others to task for using deadly force in response to home intruders, is mighty fucking rich.
I love all the people leaping to respond to my hyperbolic statements as though they’re things that can actually be challenged. As though they’re going to somehow magically convince me that, wait, I *DO *like dogs more than cats!
It’s still got a tongue that’s much slimier than any cat’s.
Dogs smell like dogs. Not a problem if that smell doesn’t bother you, but I don’t particularly care for it. (And the specific examples I’m thinking of are all well-groomed dogs kept indoors, in very clean homes.)
No shit? (Pun intended.) The point is that they leave lovely gooey lumps of it all over for you to (one hopes) pick up. I’ve never had to comb cat shit out of the lawn when I had one, and I’ve never had to wipe cat shit off my foot because some asshole couldn’t be bothered to pick up after their pet in public.
Oh yes, I did forget about that one. I’ve never had a neighbor’s cat bother me like a neighbor’s dog.
You can immediately tell the cat households… that you could smell. You *haven’t *spotten the ones you couldn’t.
You said it was OK to callously treat a cat and destroy it as you would a pot. Nobody here was proselytizing for the First Church of Latter-Day Felines. However, your post seems to indicate that you’d be fine with someone jamming a syringe into a cat’s eyes through which to inject hydrochloric acid. Hence my earlier “yikes!”.
This whole thread has gone fairly surreal.
If I stumble into the old dear’s Circle of Leash and Fluffy bites me, Fluffy is likely to experience my foot before I’ve even realized it’s lashed out. I don’t care for poorly-controlled dogs in public.
(I didn’t make it better, did I?)
I’m so gonna kick your ass in our chess tournament for that one.
Well of course I wouldn’t be OK with that. There are two kinds of people that would do such a thing: sick weirdos and people with good reasons to do that. I may think poorly of the person doing it (or I may not) but it’s not like I’m going to feel bad for the cat.
And we destroy cats like pots all the time. Sometimes it involves a vet and sometimes it involves a shotgun and a pasture. In this case, it’s just through neglect.
The point is, the OP can do anything they want to the cat and since I don’t anthropomorphize cats like some pet owners, I’m not going to pity it. In this case, the people in the OP fall into the latter category of animal torturers- people with good reasons.
So wait, let me get this straight–it’s okay to chuck kittens over the wall to be torn to shreds by dogs because they’re “fucking CATS” and not humans? Basic compassion for living things is a pretty common human trait. There’s a big difference between, say, shooting a critter that’s hassling your chickens or harrassing your kids, and tossing a helpless, innocent creature to a larger creature to be painfully killed just because you don’t value its existence. Yeah, I’d say the latter is pretty damned abnormal. Note that I’m not calling **Chessic Sense **a sociopath or abnormal–I’m saying that anyone who would condone (or even not be affected by) that sort of behavior has something loose in the cranial region. I mean, hell, I hate monkeys–but I certainly would never think there’d be any proper time to toss a baby monkey to a killer dog.
ETA: Just saw Chessic Sense’s latest post. Yeah, we kill cats all the time–but presumably, the vet’s injection or the shotgun will kill them humanely and quickly. There’s a big difference between that and the slow, painful death described previously.
Oh come on, *that’s *the best you can do? I’ve come to expect a much higher quality post from you.
Obvious troll is obvious.
I can summon hate for her.
I also cannot understand why the OP hasn’t fed and watered the cat herself.
If a starving cat came around my property (and a couple have) and if, for some reason, I didn’t take it to the Humane Society…I would sure as hell leave food and water out for it. If I saw it happening on a neighbors property, I would go grab the thing and bring it back for food and water.
As for other cute or not cure furry things starving…well, I understand the point but I also consider dogs, cats, horses etc as having special status than something like a skunk (though is a starving baby skunk came onto my property I would still feed and water it 
First of all, the dog’s perspective is irrelevant. Second of all, does that mean I should be able to carry a firearm around with me and open fire on anyone, anyone at all who comes within five feet of me? Your position is stupid. I think you probably realize that now. Just give it up.
Yeah, this line of argument isn’t really working for me, either. I’ll leave you to your bed-wetting and fire-starting.
You wouldn’t pity the cat? or feel bad for the cat? I’d feel bad even for a jerk like you if you were tortured or mistreated.
The difference being, a home intruder doesn’t enter the home to confront the owners in 99.9% of the instances it happens***** - unless you can provide independently verified figures confirming otherwise? - whereas a stranger entering the circle of a dog-walker uninvited can be seen as a direct threat.
Yes, of course, because the two situations are entirely alike and only a complete ignoramus would need to ask such a question.
***** - I’m talking from real, down n gritty experience, not your fancy Dan fucking guesswork.
Thanks for reminding me that I’m in the pit.
The situations aren’t as different as you’d like to think. Why is it acceptable for a leashed dog in public- say, at the park, a sidewalk in a busy shopping district, etc- to bite anyone who comes within a few feet while it’s unacceptable for me to shoot anyone who comes within a few feet in those same locations?
If you would like to climb back down off that fucking high horse of yours and actually read what I, the OP, posted in my own thread…you would know that I did ensure the cat was fed until I picked it up and took it to a new home.
:rolleyes:
And as for taking it to the Humane Society…during kitten season that’s pretty much a not-so-funny joke. Every shelter I contacted was at capacity.
So I told the woman in question–my ex-coworker in the OP–that if she would feed the cat til I could find a home for it, I would do so. I didn’t even know where she lived, btw. She agreed, and I followed through, and the cat is happy and indoors and well fed and I get daily pictures from her foster mom. Whom I’m pretty sure will be her permanent mom.
This idea that I ranted and raved and did nothing for this kitten pisses me off. I heard about the problem and I solved it. I still think my ex-coworker is a bitch and I still think that a quick humane death at the city pound is preferable to watching an animal–any animal, even a skunk–starve to death.
But this is a loving, social, sweet, totally adoptable little kitten, and I thought she deserved a chance. Now she has one.
And the prize for not reading the whole thread and making yourself look like a douche bag goes to…
BlinkingDuck!!
Well done.
That’s right, kids–it’s now illegal to walk too close to someone.
All of New York City, you’re under arrest.
Also, about to be eaten by dogs.
There’s a kitten season?
Thanks for taking the time to help out this little baby. I’m so glad it sounds like she’s got a permanent home, too. I’m an absolute sucker for kittens, so kitten stories with happy endings make my day.