:eek:
What, you just let it pile up around the house?
Or do you have a magic shit incineration device?
Confirmation bias.
Cats stink. Dogs stink. People stink. Especially when not bathed.
We’re in the middle of kitten season (there may be more than one in a year - that I don’t know). We had a news story last week about our humane society shelter being full of kittens, too, and won’t some people come adopt some of these adorable little fuzzballs (with the “Before we kill them” being left unsaid). I was in a pet store recently too, and it was also full of adorable little fuzzballs.
It doesn’t matter if I feel bad or not. That’s not the point. Go back and read my first post. I didn’t say that I get pissed off by people that like kittens. I get pissed off by people that think it’s some objective truth that kittens deserve to be saved. I like some animals (guinea pigs! :D) and will gladly stomp on some others (spiders :mad:), but at least I recognize that it’s subjective and not fair to the animals. I realize that I like some animals because they’re cute and fluffy and dislike others because they’re creepy and crawly. And I realize that that’s the ONLY reason I think that way.
Then you get all these people that go “Aww, how could you let this widdle puddy tat just DIE, you heartless bastard!” when the answer is obvious- the person hates cats! And there’s nothing wrong with that. They don’t think they’re cute and fluffy. Something about the cat doesn’t set off their “I should rescue this” response. But the criticizer would look at you bizzarely if you said the same thing about a millipede or a raccoon, or hell, an adult cat.
The OP found a good home for the cat? Good. I’m happy for her. I’m happy for the new mom. I’m happy for anyone that comes into contact with the cat and has their day brightened. The cat, though? Couldn’t give a shit.
Starving Kitten: What the Hell is Wrong with People? Answer: Nothing.
You stupid, stupid man.
Quoting from the same source where you obtained your stats above:
By way of contrast, oddly enough, home intruders are near universally seen as direct threats by the victims whose houses they burgle.
Re: Kitten season. Cats are seasonal polyestrous, they will start coming into heat when the weather warms up. And they will continue to do so until they have a litter and then start over again after those kittens are weaned. It slows down during the hottest parts of the summer, picks up a little in the fall, then drops way off in the winter. But spring is the biggest season for kittens.
Except when the homes are unoccupied, ie, in the vast percentage of burglaries, you mean?
Silly, silly woman.
Scooping up a dried clump of litter-crusted shit is *not *the same thing as picking up a big stinking glob of shit off of grass, dirt, or a sidewalk, which is my point. (And you can even buy litter boxes that will do that part for you, so all you have to do is empty a bag or container.)
That expression doesn’t mean what you think it does.
My point is that I, personally, am not bothered by generic-cat-smell. I do not, however, appreciate generic-dog-smell.
Still amused by everyone who sees my personal preferences as an attack on their pwecious widdle puppieeeeeees.
Seriously? A blog post that says:
Really?
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I hope that doesn’t sum up the level of effort this person put into their research.
Psh, that’s *southern *Italy. Clearly, a poor area where no one controls much of anything.
I think that person likes to do a certain thing (have purebred dogs) and reasons back from that.
Yes. It’s when the outside temperature is warm enough that newborn kittens won’t freeze to death. That is when the shelters also get flooded with them, because they didn’t freeze to death as the mother’s previous litter, born in (for example) early January would have.
My local Humane Society used to have Mother’s Day specials in May…adopt one feline, get a second one at no additional cost. The last time we adopted a cat there, we found two that we liked, and I jokingly asked if they were having a buy one get one free sale. To my surprise, they were ready to make a deal. I guess this was because they were overflowing, and also because I wanted to adopt an adult cat as well as a kitten. But yes, it was springtime, and they had plenty of kittens as well as adult cats.
I’ve done my share of taking cats to the Humane Society, and I hope I never have to do so again…but if I have to, I have to. It’s better than letting an animal die of thirst/starvation/getting run over.
Oddly, it’s true that the stray dogs seem to be limited to the south. In the north it’s cats (at least in Tuscany).
OK - let’s try a “Dick and Jane” version of this.
Story A:
Dick is going to the post office to pick up some sheisse-porn from his P.O.box. Jane is an elderly lady who goes everywhere with her vicious cur, Daisy. As Dick arrives at the post office, he meets Jane and Daisy on the curb outside. While passing within a couple meters of Daisy, Dick notices his shoes are untied and stoops to tie them. Daisy bites his face. As he is being wheeled into the ambulance, Dick thinks to himself, “Gee, that was odd. In the vast percentage of times I’ve come within a couple meteres of a person and their dog, I haven’t had my lips ripped off. Is it right that Jane is allowed to take that dog out in public unmuzzled?”
Story B:
Dick is climbing in Jane’s ground floor window to get at her rumored stash of scheisse-porn. Jane is an elderly lady who lives alone and keeps a loaded Glock in her nightstand. Dick climbs the stairs and enters Jane’s bedroom. Jane quickly reaches for her piece and lands three slugs center-mass in Dick’s shadowy form. As Dick crumples to the floor in a ventilated heap, his last thought before drifting off towards that bright light in the ceiling is, “Gee, that was odd. In the vast percentage of times I’ve burgled other houses and establishments, I haven’t been shot. Is it right that Jane is allowed to shoot at home intruders?”
Your answer to Dick’s question in Story A is “yes”, whereas in Story B your response is “no”. Ergo, you are an imbecile.
Here’s another story. Jane is coming back from the shops with her angry, but extremely protective cur, Daisy, when, as they are walking along a footpath, a man called Dick suddenly drops down to tie his shoelace. Jane keeps a short hold on her leash, knowing what a bugger Daisy can be, and Dick starts edging his way on one knee towards where she is stood. Jane immediately loosens the leash, thinking she has an upskirt freak on her case, and lets Daisy chew his face off.
Hey, isn’t this fun?
So you’re allowed to *viciously attack people *because you think they *might *be *preparing *to do something illegal?
Who do you think you are, a cop?
Jesus Christ, you are thick.
The point of my parallel stories was to show how you, either through hypocrisy or sheer stupidity, hold contradictory positions regarding the approriate usage of force to defend one’s personal space.
Unfortunately, I hadn’t anticipated the extent of your shitheadedness. My apologies for the confusion.
Dick’s fist opens up as he passes out. The five dollar bill that had fallen from Jane’s pocket that he was trying to return is revealed lying in his hand.
The funnest!
Southern Italy is indeed an overwhelmingly poor areawhere there are many problems commonly associated with poverty, unemployment, lack of infrastructure - including stray animals. I see no disconnect. From article: With such an economic profile, if southern Italy was thought of as an independent European country, it would be the European country with the highest poverty rate, weighted for national income.
Well of course. She’s compiled information and presented opinions that lay out her position - as a breeder of purebred achondroplastic show dogs.
*"There are no scenarios under which the deliberate breeding of dwarfed dogs is without cost. It is a genetic malformation and it makes a whole bunch of the dog defective in function.
What I strongly suspect that dwarfed-dog breeders ACTUALLY mean is that health is the top priority AFTER the maintenance or improvement of the breed itself. So do giant-breed breeders, and Boxer breeders (cancers) and Flatcoat breeders (even worse cancers) and so on."*
It appears that you’re against non-random-bred dogs, especially those with certain physical characteristics/malformations. Because I know this I assume you don’t breed and show Pekingese (and might look down on those who do).
As a ‘dog hobbyist’ for my entire life, I’ve heard the major arguments from both sides 10 times over. I don’t agree with yours.
There is a huge difference between thinking the kitten should not be saved and taking it to a shelter to be humanely euthanized versus thinking the kitten should not be saved and intentionally inflicting pain on the animal in order to cause it’s death. If you need a clue, the keyword is “humane”.