Posted on 04/27/2015 10:50:28 AM PDT by QT3.14
By now, you’ve probably heard of Kristen Lindsey. She’s the veterinarian from Brenham who’s given more bad press to the state than Blue Bell after she posted a picture on Facebook of herself, smiling and holding an arrow with a dead cat on the end of it:
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At the beach I have never seen that come up, or ever heard of it coming up.
You got to realize this brouhaha is not about J. Random Redneck but a veterinarian.
Sounds like that vet just got a F grade in “dealing with pet owners.” J. Random’s beer buddies might not care, but the vet’s customers will.
That’s a little disrespectful, don’t you think, to just assume that cats have some sort of right to enter everyone else’s property?
Hmm. The vet will probably find herself a new job in Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Montana, or etc. where “vermin” is defined as anything with four legs or two that doesn’t belong on your land.
Yeah, the shih tzu is a known ferocious breed.
“What do you do with an animal that has no owner? There are several choices, not every choice is right for every person.”
I can’t tell you how many times I hear stories we found this stray dog or cat in our neighborhood and kept it. Happens all the time. I’ve done it myself. But there is a reason some of my taxes go for animal control. And sometimes it is the only humane and practical solution.
I just told you that I never heard anyone complain who lives in those communities, and I have never heard anyone mention anyone having complained, evidently it isn’t a problem.
Cats are very popular among the beach living people, and being upscale people, their cats tend to be very well taken care of, and appealing in nature.
Which isn’t relevant to the discussion.
Is that the type of loose dogs you have in your neighborhood?
You are yelling, and there is no need to do so-particularly since I just pointed out my solution to the cat/dog thing, and it was not a big deal.
Apparently people who live in a rural area where you do are very, very different from here-I thought you lived in a condo or something the way you talk about animals on your property.
Where I live-on 5.6 acres-the nearness of the river dictates that we must only use bio-safe, plant based insecticides and weed control because of possible runoff-no raid, no roundup, etc. No point bitching about it-live on acreage, maintain that acreage.
The stuff works, smells better than poison, isn’t all that expensive-and I don’t get all wrapped around the axle over my neighbors’ animals for the sake of good relations-and I’ve had their goats and even a horse walk through a weak place in the fence-I made a simple, polite phone call, they came down the road and I helped them corral the runaways-I didn’t even go nuclear about the horse crap in the driveway, right by my truck-if I were freaked by animal crap/filth, I would not be living in the country-animals get out and wander down the road-it is not always the owner’s fault-I’ve found that copping an attitude just annoys that neighbor more.
Well it probably won’t be with any cat owners.
Oh, come on. You responded to a poster who expressed anger toward the vet, and your response was this:
I’ll never understand the mentality that elevates animals equal to or above humans — the vindictive mentality that expresses concern for animals, but is silent or favorable on abortion"
What have I made up?
That you cannot recognize that some people don’t want other people’s animals on their property is beyond ridiculous. You have no respect for other people’s property. And then when someone takes care of the problem you fail to recognize as a problem you blame that person instead of the deadbeat cat owner who could have avoided the whole issue by keeping the cat on their own property. People who cannot respect another person’s private property are jackasses.
Yep, her veterinarian days will now be a lot more difficult, and moving will probably be required, and she won’t be popular with pet owners.
Who will want to hire her and her internet reputation?
Well, it’s socialism.
They are upset that someone didn’t ask the government to do something about their problem.
That self-reliance thing really sticks in some people’s craw.
“Do you car as much for the small animals that cats kill? The cats decimate the population of birds, rabbits, squirrels and so forth.”
That is hilarious. I kill a zillion more squirrels with my car in my driveway than my barn cats have ever been able to do. There’s one out there right now that the buzzards are feasting on.
Oh come on, I quoted what you made up.
Your rage is making your posts more and more absurd, off topic, and hostile.
Try to stay on this specific situation.
Yep, I was yellinf, because you seem to want to equate your own animals that you are taking care of to someone else who turns their animal loose to roam where ever it wants to and then asking me if you should shoot your own cats. Ridiculous.
I would like to know what kind of pest and weed control you use that works so well. I’m sure you recognize how expensive it is to treat that much property. That someone else has no regard for my private property by allowing their animals to roam is bothersome. That someone doesn’t think I should be allowed to maintain my private property as I see fit is beyond bothersome.
Ping me to the post where you quoted me. I have no idea what you are talking about and I cannot find it.
Do I have the right to private property and to reasonably expect other people to respect my private property by not trespassing or allowing their wards to trespass?
You posted to it, responded to it.
You are raging so much you are getting confused and rambling.
I live on a farm in Texas and find this thread very interesting. It would never in a million years occur to me to shoot a cat in the back of the head with a bow and arrow. That is just...bizarre. And if I saw a picture of one of my vets holding up a cat at the end of an arrow, I’d take my business elsewhere.
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