I am not responsible for other people's irresponsible procreation.
Keep your dirty little children out of the street and my cats will stay stay in my yard.
Was this you paraphrasing the gal’s attitude or is it you?
If it was you:
1. “Your kids mean less to me than my cats.”
I can relate, my pets mean more to me than other people do. Not to the point I am actively going to go after children riding in the street or take them out if they run across my lawn (maybe yelling at them) not killing them.
2. “I am not responsible for other people’s irresponsible procreation.”
Yes. I am also not responsible for their planned procreation either, but that really is neither here nor there as it relates to this article as most of us have nothing to do with our pets’ existences either.
3 “Keep your dirty little children out of the street and my cats will stay stay in my yard.”
I’d say “off my property” is a more sound legal attitude to take. however the whole ‘my cats will stay in my yard’ thing is a total and absolute lie. Cats roam, I have never seen any cats ever stay in their owners yard 100% of the time. Not even very old cats. Unless they are fenced in and cannot get over, or are on an invisible fence system or leash/line, there is no way cats are going to stay in one yard. I know we have cats in the neighborhood, I know who owns them and where their houses are, and they are ALL OVER the neighborhood.