[lormand]

I get a kick out of the audacity of cat owners who get upset when their free range kitties wind up missing or dead.

[beezdotcom]

I get a kick out of the audacity of cat owners who get upset when their free range kitties wind up missing or dead.

Well, here's why I don't TOTALLY blame them for being upset. The State has fostered a situation (through animal cruelty laws) that allowed pet owners to develop an unreasonable expectation of the State's protection of wayward critters.

If instead, a property owner had all options available to him, from doing nothing to notifying the pet owner to snuffing Fluffy, then you would probably have more polite pet owners, and property owners would probably feel LESS of a repressed urge to snuff Fluffy.

[Lx]

I love cats, have several and foster them for rescue organizations and nothing frosts me more when people have a free range cat. It’s like they’re too lazy to use a litter box. Sure, cats want to play outside, so do dogs, it doesn’t mean we should let them.

[Fawn]

Yet...I’ll bet you feed the birds....LOL. God has a special place for those of you who purposely harm an animal out of hate.

[Mom MD]

My 3 kitties have never been outdoors

We have mountain lion, coyote, owls to name a few that roam our neighborhood. I always sigh when another missing cat sign goes up on the mailboxes. Newbies to this area never learn.

Of course that does not mean my viking kitties would not take on the coyotes if given half a chance. I keep them in to protect the coyote population! ;-)

[Mercat]

I wasn’t upset when my blue russian went missing. I knew we have a great horned owl in the neighborhood and that Chewie loved to sit in the evening on cars. I figured that his last thought as he was carried off by that owl was, “I can fly!!!!” He had a great life. If he had lived inside, I would have killed him.