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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: Vigilantcitizen

Bummer. My Pup is a laying in the fenced back yard.


21 posted on 05/24/2009 2:51:59 PM PDT by mylife (The Big Tent Is A Big Mistake)
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To: JoeProBono

When I was in high school, we used to joke about sail cats.

You know what a sail cat is? It’s a cat that’s been run over repeated and is so flat that you could scrape it off the asphalt and sail it like a frisbee.

A sail cat.


22 posted on 05/24/2009 2:52:05 PM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: RegulatorCountry

It was clearly a bike lane.
Not a “cat lane”


23 posted on 05/24/2009 2:53:03 PM PDT by mylife (The Big Tent Is A Big Mistake)
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To: JoeProBono

24 posted on 05/24/2009 2:53:13 PM PDT by Vigilantcitizen (This tagline has been shutdown due to lack of funds.)
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To: JoeProBono

I can understand her anger- some people will go out of their way to run over a cat, just for kicks and giggles. If her cat was hit by a car in the bike lane; then some idiot ran over her cat on purpose, not by accident. That would tick me off too. By the same token I do not equate the life of an animal with that of a person and for her to relate her cat to a child is far beyond how I see it. I do understand her anger, but she took it too far.


25 posted on 05/24/2009 2:54:29 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please Support & pray for our Troops; they serve us every day. Veterans are heroes not terrorists!)
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To: Vigilantcitizen
Does the doll have a spring loaded arm that actually flings cats? ☺
26 posted on 05/24/2009 2:54:39 PM PDT by mylife (The Big Tent Is A Big Mistake)
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To: savedbygrace

27 posted on 05/24/2009 2:55:19 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Snurple

Hory Clap!


29 posted on 05/24/2009 2:56:09 PM PDT by mylife (The Big Tent Is A Big Mistake)
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To: JoeProBono
A neighbor should buy the cartoon book
“101 Uses for a Dead Cat” for her.
30 posted on 05/24/2009 2:56:49 PM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ((B.?) Hussein (Obama?Soetoro?Dunham?) Change America Will Die From.)
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To: JoeProBono

She said she even mentioned she spit on someone to protect her cats.
****

So how does that work, exactly?


31 posted on 05/24/2009 2:57:14 PM PDT by Sylvester McMonkey McBean
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To: Snurple

Hmmm....
I was supposed to go to an asian party last night.
BBQ duck heads were on the menu.

I aint kidding.


32 posted on 05/24/2009 2:57:39 PM PDT by mylife (The Big Tent Is A Big Mistake)
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To: JoeProBono
Ha1000
33 posted on 05/24/2009 2:57:47 PM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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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.

Same with kids. I hate cats and kids. Keep your cats and kids away from my lawn.

Just because you think your kids are cute, and child molesters think your kids are cute, doesn't mean I do. They smell, they litter, they're loud and they're obnoxious. And cats give me allergies.

34 posted on 05/24/2009 2:58:11 PM PDT by exist
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To: JoeProBono
I hate cats. Plain and simple. I'm a dog person. I keep my dogs in well designed kennels that are inside of a substantial fence that is inside of my perimeter fence. 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.
House cats are very effective hunters. They have totally destroyed the bird population in most city parks across the nation. It is not a good thing to let your cats out to run. They do damage to the wildlife that is supposed to be there. People who let their cats run deserve what they get.
35 posted on 05/24/2009 3:01:28 PM PDT by oldenuff2no (I'm a VET and damn proud of it!!! I did not fight for a socialist America!!!!!!!)
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To: Sylvester McMonkey McBean

What? You never heard of the 501 Airborne Spitter Brigade?


36 posted on 05/24/2009 3:01:57 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: exist
Just because you think your kids are cute, and child molesters think your kids are cute, doesn't mean I do.

That right there is funny, I don't care who you are.

37 posted on 05/24/2009 3:02:09 PM PDT by Vigilantcitizen (This tagline has been shutdown due to lack of funds.)
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To: exist
"I said 'Git off my lawn' "


38 posted on 05/24/2009 3:02:44 PM PDT by mylife (The Big Tent Is A Big Mistake)
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To: exist
You mean you did not buy your children toys
and tell them to go play in traffic?
39 posted on 05/24/2009 3:04:28 PM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ((B.?) Hussein (Obama?Soetoro?Dunham?) Change America Will Die From.)
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To: Snurple
This place has had it with the sterotypes I guess.
40 posted on 05/24/2009 3:05:04 PM PDT by RC one
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