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Lodi Cat Controversy Brews-Neighbor Posts Sign: Hit A Cat I'll Hit Your Kid
kcra ^ | May 24, 2009

Posted on 05/24/2009 2:34:10 PM PDT by JoeProBono

LODI, Calif. -- A community controversy is brewing in Lodi.

A neighbor posted a sign with the words, "Hit a cat, I'll hit your kid." Some neighbors said they are concerned their children's lives are being threatened.

"Basically what this is saying is: Hit a cat and I'll hit your kid," said Tina Teixeira.

Teixeira got a lot of attention after she put the sign up in front of her West Elm Street home in Lodi.

"You don't want me to hit your kid so don't hit mine. You hurt mine, that is just like if I went over and ran over your kid. Basically, that is what I was intending," said Teixeira.

Teixeira said she decided to take action after a driver ran over and killed her cat on the bike lane on Friday.

Some parents were outraged over her cardboard note.

"Basically she is threatening to hit people's kids," said concerned neighbor Joann Larsen.

"One parent said that I was psychotic," said Teixeira.

Teixeira said she wanted to shock drivers, not harm their kids.

Teixeira said she knows her sign would upset people but she put it up because she is tired of people driving 65 mph on a 35 mph zone.

She said she noticed some cars slowing down and reading her sign so she wrote a new sign.

"After burying the cat and calming down a little bit ... (I realized) that it was a little shock value. It got attention for people, so I thought that I would put it in more understanding terms," said Teixeira.

The revised sign reads: I watch for your kids, so please watch out for mine.

"That is the whole point here is to stop hurting animals," said Teixeira.

Teixeira said she isn't shy about yelling at drivers and even her neighbors. She said she even mentioned she spit on someone to protect her cats.

Only one neighbor wanted to talk about her sign on camera. Others said they wanted to avoid any problems.

"I do like that she changed it," Larsen said.

The animal lover said she can only hope she can keep her cats from losing another life.

Teixeira said some of her feral cats don't like to stay indoors.

She said she hopes her sign will get city leaders to install speed bumps in her neighborhood, which is right near a school.


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: animalsarepeopletoo; cat; crazycatlady; teixeira
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To: RC one

I had to laff.
We went to a chinese restaurant once, and a friend had tendonitis. The old Chinese woman assured her she could fix it up.

Well she wrapped it in noodles and ginger and various spices and sent her home with the warning:

“Dont let you dog in the bed! You gonna wake up and the medicine gonna be gone!”


41 posted on 05/24/2009 3:10:39 PM PDT by mylife (The Big Tent Is A Big Mistake)
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To: RC one

At another Chinese Buffet, My friend marveled at a delicious stir fry labeled “chicken,vegetable”

He called over the proprietor, an ol gal named “toy” and asked whats in this?

She loudly admonished: “What? you cant read?!! Chicken!!, Vegetable!!”


42 posted on 05/24/2009 3:18:36 PM PDT by mylife (The Big Tent Is A Big Mistake)
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

Agreed, but way too many cat owners feel that their felines are exempt from licensing, leashes or outside control. Instead, they let little Fluffy run loose at night to kill songbirds and small mammals for thrills and crap in your rose beds. As far as I’m concerned, ANY cat on the loose is a feral cat and should be treated as any other predator.


43 posted on 05/24/2009 3:19:19 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth (Palin/Bachman 2012: Conservative Viagra)
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To: JoeProBono
Isn't spitting on someone considered assault?

This idiot woman needs to learn a bit about animals - they can't read and don't realize cars go fast and hurt if they hit you...keep your damn cats out of the road you dumbass

44 posted on 05/24/2009 3:24:32 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: oldenuff2no
We have a few acres and when someone else's cat gets in our yard the pellet gun comes out and the cat goes in the garbage can.

What a stud! Maybe you could shoot the cat in front of the little girl trying to find her pet.

People who think they are bad-asses because they abuse animals are something else.

45 posted on 05/24/2009 3:27:28 PM PDT by Hacksaw (You Can't Take the Yinz out of the Burgh)
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To: JoeProBono
Seems that a lot of people are missing that the cat was hit in a bike lane and it could easily have been a kid.

And there are people doing 65 in a 35 zone where there are children.

This time it was a woman's cat. Next time a kid?

46 posted on 05/24/2009 3:33:44 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: DJ MacWoW

And if the kid is in the road and oblivious it will increase the likelihood. Or perhaps if the adult in the auto is on the road and oblivious.

Maybe we need more laws? /s


47 posted on 05/24/2009 3:36:57 PM PDT by mylife (The Big Tent Is A Big Mistake)
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To: DJ MacWoW

It aint a “catlane”


48 posted on 05/24/2009 3:37:23 PM PDT by mylife (The Big Tent Is A Big Mistake)
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To: All

I wonder how many people have been killed or hurt when some wishy washy animal person swerves to miss a squirrel and loses control?


49 posted on 05/24/2009 3:39:16 PM PDT by mylife (The Big Tent Is A Big Mistake)
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To: DJ MacWoW
And there are people doing 65 in a 35 zone where there are children

There are? Where? I mean besides Cops?

50 posted on 05/24/2009 3:42:19 PM PDT by mylife (The Big Tent Is A Big Mistake)
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To: DJ MacWoW
She said she hopes her sign will get city leaders to install speed bumps in her neighborhood, which is right near a school.

That means its zoned 20 ~ 35 Mph

51 posted on 05/24/2009 3:44:12 PM PDT by mylife (The Big Tent Is A Big Mistake)
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To: WorkingClassFilth
I got really slammed by cat freaks about a feral cat
thread when I suggested a new sport.

Take your rod and reel put on a weedless triple hook
lure and cast out across a field of weeds because a
3 pound feral cat puts up a better fight than an 8
pound bass.

52 posted on 05/24/2009 3:52:39 PM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ((B.?) Hussein (Obama?Soetoro?Dunham?) Change America Will Die From.)
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

Not my cup of tea, but, hey, if you’ve got a license for it - knock yerself out. By the way, unlicensed cats are not protected by season laws . . .


53 posted on 05/24/2009 3:57:21 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth (Palin/Bachman 2012: Conservative Viagra)
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

Large Mouth or Small Mouth?


54 posted on 05/24/2009 3:57:43 PM PDT by mylife (The Big Tent Is A Big Mistake)
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
Take your rod and reel put on a weedless triple hook lure and cast out across a field of weeds because a 3 pound feral cat puts up a better fight than an 8 pound bass.

Bwaahahaha!! What kinda rig do you suggest?

I'm thinkin 7 ft med heavy action with an abu 6500.

55 posted on 05/24/2009 3:57:45 PM PDT by Vigilantcitizen (This tagline has been shutdown due to lack of funds.)
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
A person that does not keep their animals under personal control 24/7 is a bad animal owner and a worse neighbor.

Not certain about the neighbor part but I agree with the animal control. That being said, I'll take her as a neighbor over the potential murderers who choose to speed thru her residential area any day......

56 posted on 05/24/2009 3:58:25 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (This country isn't going to hell in a handbasket, it's riding shotgun in an Indy car....)
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To: Vigilantcitizen

Meowlina rig


57 posted on 05/24/2009 4:00:12 PM PDT by mylife (The Big Tent Is A Big Mistake)
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To: SkyDancer

LOL!! That’s funny!


58 posted on 05/24/2009 4:02:49 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Satisfaction was my sin)
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To: JoeProBono
"Basically what this is saying is: Hit a cat and I'll hit your kid," said Tina Teixeira.

Congratulations to Tina whose reading comprehension has reached the second grade level.

59 posted on 05/24/2009 4:02:56 PM PDT by meyer (Obama is to the USA as Mugabe is to Zimbabwe.)
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To: mylife

Rattle cat.


60 posted on 05/24/2009 4:03:13 PM PDT by Vigilantcitizen (This tagline has been shutdown due to lack of funds.)
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