A boy, a cat, and a .22 - it is a beautiful thing.
Now that I have your attention, CatPersons - please tell your fellow cat lovers that dumping “winter season pet cats”, AKA “Snowbird Stray” in the Everglades should be a flogging offense.
When a cat is dumped in the woods, it usually is soon torn apart and eaten by a larger predator. Even a possum can eat a cat, particularly after poor ‘Fluffums’ has been weakened by a lack of food.
Here in the ‘Glades, even getting a drink of water from a canal, ditch, or pond exposes poor ‘Fluffums’ to “Jaws”, otherwise known as an alligator.
One reason, among many, that I dislike Snowbird CatPersons is they usually are too cheap to euthanize their temporary pets at the vet, or they are too cowardly to do it themselves. Once they dump ‘Fluffums’, they force others to do it when their Lil’ Fluffums, the “Snowbird Stray” takes up residence and kills anything it can manage to catch.
Listen up, CatPersons! Ammo prices are sky high. Stop socializing your pet ownership costs and act like a humane human.
/Rant off
Man, the cats people dump down here in the Glades is a SHAME!!!!! If not the gators, than even the birds. Or the occasional python.
Makes me sick folks dump cats here.
Nope-I was taught not to shoot anything I don’t intend to eat...
Not only Florida has this problem-I’m guessing that any rural area where snowbirds winter has abandoned pets wandering around with frayed collars, becoming fast food for predators and feral dogs. And putting down a pet you are tired of isn’t the act of a decent human being, any more than turning them out into the wild is-people like that should never have a pet, other than a rock.
It has been my observation that winter people/snowbirds treat the properties they rent for the season even worse than they treat the seasonal pets-mostly, the rent they paid for the season is barely enough to cover the damages incurred to said property.
Many ice houses and businesses with cabins and RV spaces have signs asking that people who do not want a pet any more bring it to one of the several no-kill animal rescue centers nearby, and lists their addresses and phone numbers. Two of my three cats are former RV/snowbird cats from a local shelter-both are happy, healthy pets now, but one of them was starving and injured when brought in, and neither would have survived much longer in the woods.
JG is a HUGE supporter of RESPONSIBLE cat ownership, and you condemn him for irresponsible pet owners? This includes keeping cats indoors, unless on a leash.
That .22 and a boy thing you seem to like, do you also propose that all responsible gun owners be punished due to irresponsible owners and criminals?
Wake up.
Mark