# Woman gets a bloody fortune for "emotional distress" after her cat is mauled by a dog **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 10, 2005, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-gets-a-bloody-fortune-for-emotional-distress-after-her-cat-is-mauled-by-a-dog/303200 "2005-05-10T10:47:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 21
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-gets-a-bloody-fortune-for-emotional-distress-after-her-cat-is-mauled-by-a-dog/303200/401 "2005-05-17T20:08:30Z")
> [@coleridge78](#): > > You know… it’s okay to love your pets. > > Just don’t _love_ your pets. That’s been resolved too. Can I interest you in some brine? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-gets-a-bloody-fortune-for-emotional-distress-after-her-cat-is-mauled-by-a-dog/303200/402 "2005-05-17T20:12:12Z")
> [@coleridge78](#): > > You know… it’s okay to love your pets. > > Just don’t _love_ your pets. What if your pets are Sea Monkeys? ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-gets-a-bloody-fortune-for-emotional-distress-after-her-cat-is-mauled-by-a-dog/303200/403 "2005-05-17T20:14:09Z")
> [@coleridge78](#): > > Sorry, that’s called being insane. If you killed someone to protect your pet, I’d be personally willing to flip the switch on you–and I’m against the death penalty. :rolleyes: Nice job, tardling. Next time, finish the thread before replying. Because we resolved this issue, and as it turns out, that’s not what **PinkMarabou** meant at all. If you want to participate in a thread, come when the debate’s still happening. There’s no point in you trying to have a debate with a position that no one took. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-gets-a-bloody-fortune-for-emotional-distress-after-her-cat-is-mauled-by-a-dog/303200/404 "2005-05-17T20:18:04Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > There’s no point in you trying to have a debate with a position that no one took. No one, Gracie? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-gets-a-bloody-fortune-for-emotional-distress-after-her-cat-is-mauled-by-a-dog/303200/405 "2005-05-17T20:53:55Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > No one, Gracie? 😉 Who said they’d be willing to murder for their pets? **PinkMarabou** was talking about killing a _dog_ - the rest was a mixture of misinterpretation and hyperbole. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-gets-a-bloody-fortune-for-emotional-distress-after-her-cat-is-mauled-by-a-dog/303200/406 "2005-05-17T20:58:36Z")
Misinterpretation and Hyperbole – the very mascots of this thread. Who’ll ever forget them? ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-gets-a-bloody-fortune-for-emotional-distress-after-her-cat-is-mauled-by-a-dog/303200/407 "2005-05-17T21:12:46Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Misinterpretation and Hyperbole – the very mascots of this thread. Who’ll ever forget them? Man, it still has nothing on me and **catsix** arguing about circumcision a while back. ---
**Author:** ![PinkMarabou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@PinkMarabou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PinkMarabou)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-gets-a-bloody-fortune-for-emotional-distress-after-her-cat-is-mauled-by-a-dog/303200/408 "2005-05-17T21:24:10Z")
> [@coleridge78](#): > > You know… it’s okay to love your pets. > > Just don’t _love_ your pets. > > Sorry, that’s called being insane. If you killed someone to protect your pet, I’d be personally willing to flip the switch on you–and I’m against the death penalty. Please don’t beat this horse back to life asscake. And just for this, you get a special treat just from me . . . :wally ---
**Author:** ![coleridge78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@coleridge78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coleridge78)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-gets-a-bloody-fortune-for-emotional-distress-after-her-cat-is-mauled-by-a-dog/303200/409 "2005-05-17T21:33:42Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > :rolleyes: Nice job, tardling. Next time, finish the thread before replying. Because we resolved this issue, and as it turns out, that’s not what **PinkMarabou** meant at all. If you want to participate in a thread, come when the debate’s still happening. There’s no point in you trying to have a debate with a position that no one took. Oh, blah blah. Someone did take, whether it was hyperbole or not, it’s what was said–if not, I’d say _you’re_ the “tardling” for arguing it for six pages. Genius. That said, yeah, I should’ve read to the end and I look like a chump now. Whoopeee. Apologies to PinkMarabou. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-gets-a-bloody-fortune-for-emotional-distress-after-her-cat-is-mauled-by-a-dog/303200/410 "2005-05-17T21:41:09Z")
> [@coleridge78](#): > > Oh, blah blah. Someone did take, whether it was hyperbole or not, it’s what was said–if not, I’d say _you’re_ the “tardling” for arguing it for six pages. Genius. > > That said, yeah, I should’ve read to the end and I look like a chump now. Whoopeee. Apologies to PinkMarabou. Yeah, see, I argued it because _PinkMarabou hadn’t clarified what she meant yet._\* Plus, arguing’s fun. You argued it even though _PinkMarabou had already made herself perfectly clear._ You just didn’t bother to find out. And why didn’t you do that? I’m guessing drug-induced brain damage, but I’m withholding judgment till I’m sure. Have a pleasant evening, dear. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![coleridge78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@coleridge78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coleridge78)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-gets-a-bloody-fortune-for-emotional-distress-after-her-cat-is-mauled-by-a-dog/303200/411 "2005-05-17T21:45:44Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > Yeah, see, I argued it because _PinkMarabou hadn’t clarified what she meant yet._\* Plus, arguing’s fun. You argued it even though _PinkMarabou had already made herself perfectly clear._ You just didn’t bother to find out. And why didn’t you do that? I’m guessing drug-induced brain damage, but I’m withholding judgment till I’m sure. Oh, come off it. You said I argued a position that “no on took”. Someone, actually, did take it-- they changed it later. What you said was not accurate. And, like I said, I’m the doofus for not reading to the end. Whoopee, again. Dumb thing that everyone does at least once. (Drug-induced, but not brain damage–out sick and medicated…) ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-gets-a-bloody-fortune-for-emotional-distress-after-her-cat-is-mauled-by-a-dog/303200/412 "2005-05-17T21:54:01Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > I’m sure the owners of the horse that won last week’s Kentucky Derby would beg to differ. Yeah, but that’s a market value, isn’t it? Is anyone suggesting that this woman would have gotten $45,000 for her dog if she had attempted to sell it? The “value” attached to this ruling comes from “the emotional value” she had invested in the dog, not the market value. Apples and oranges. or something 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PinkMarabou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@PinkMarabou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PinkMarabou)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-gets-a-bloody-fortune-for-emotional-distress-after-her-cat-is-mauled-by-a-dog/303200/413 "2005-05-17T21:55:12Z")
And the dog owner’s uncaring attitude that his dog chew up the entire neighborhood. ---
**Author:** ![PinkMarabou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@PinkMarabou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PinkMarabou)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-gets-a-bloody-fortune-for-emotional-distress-after-her-cat-is-mauled-by-a-dog/303200/414 "2005-05-17T21:58:57Z")
> [@coleridge78](#): > > whether it was hyperbole or not, it’s what was said It was hyperbole . . . mixed in with traumatic childhood experiences and some raging PMS I might add. Things got carried away, I have since apologized and so has **Excalibre**. > [@coleridge78](#): > > That said, yeah, I should’ve read to the end and I look like a chump now. Whoopeee. Apologies to PinkMarabou. Apology accepted. Just let this thread die they way it should have days ago . . . ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-gets-a-bloody-fortune-for-emotional-distress-after-her-cat-is-mauled-by-a-dog/303200/415 "2005-05-17T22:25:37Z")
> [@PinkMarabou](#): > > Just let this thread die they way it should have days ago . . . No, _you_ shut up! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-gets-a-bloody-fortune-for-emotional-distress-after-her-cat-is-mauled-by-a-dog/303200/416 "2005-05-18T00:53:35Z")
[Clark Gable] Chalk up one for your side. [/Clark Gable] ---
**Author:** ![buns3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-gets-a-bloody-fortune-for-emotional-distress-after-her-cat-is-mauled-by-a-dog/303200/417 "2005-05-18T01:42:22Z")
[Ferris Bueller] You’re still here? Its over… Go home. [/Ferris Bueller] ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-gets-a-bloody-fortune-for-emotional-distress-after-her-cat-is-mauled-by-a-dog/303200/418 "2005-05-18T07:54:54Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > We’ve resolved this issue already. However, if you’d like to be brined, some posters would be willing to help you out. 🙂 Dang it, I should have known better with a 7 page thread! Okay, ready for tarring and feathering. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![PinkMarabou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@PinkMarabou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PinkMarabou)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-gets-a-bloody-fortune-for-emotional-distress-after-her-cat-is-mauled-by-a-dog/303200/419 "2005-05-18T12:40:32Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > No, _you_ shut up! No . . . YOU shut up! Meanie-Pants! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-gets-a-bloody-fortune-for-emotional-distress-after-her-cat-is-mauled-by-a-dog/303200/420 "2005-05-18T12:55:04Z")
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