Posted on 04/12/2005 11:34:55 PM PDT by flashbunny
I'll be the first then. I spent more than five hundred dollars several years ago to have a stray cat treated at a local veterinary hospital. I then spent the better part of a weekend finding a home for him---at a nursing home, as it turns out. It ended up as a companion for the old folks in the Alzheimer's ward. It worked out beautifully.
This year I rescued another cat and then canvassed local classrooms until I found a good home for her. I spent six hours volunteering at the local shelter, and in return they spayed her for free.
uh, duh, i do read and i also know knee jerk citizens who will take the law out of context and shoot before they ask questions. maybe you think its cute to murder innocent animals who didn't have a choice in the matter. but we are the ones that domesticated this animal knowing its nature. we are also the ones who get cute little kitties and then dump them into rural areas. THAT ought to be the crime not the animal trying to feed itself. i heard of it all the time. brat college students (or others) who would get a cat for the semester and then dump it in a rural area. makes me sick. and so do songbird anal retentives who claim their "rural" songbirds are being murdered by these kitties.
Heck, that may be the solution...intoduce more coyotes. That would take care of a number of cats.
Or would freepers call the coyotes a 'bunch of bullies'????
" and so do songbird anal retentives who claim their "rural" songbirds are being murdered by these kitties."
Uh, the facts back up those 'anal retentives'. The songbirds belong there. Feral cats don't.
And killing a feral animal isn't murder. It's killing. Amazing how out of whack the cat fanatics can get.
Nam Vet
"I'll be the first then. I spent more than five hundred dollars several years ago to have a stray cat treated at a local veterinary hospital. I then spent the better part of a weekend finding a home for him---at a nursing home, as it turns out. It ended up as a companion for the old folks in the Alzheimer's ward. It worked out beautifully.
This year I rescued another cat and then canvassed local classrooms until I found a good home for her. I spent six hours volunteering at the local shelter, and in return they spayed her for free."
Ok.
Now do that Ten thousand or so times. Or maybe more.
The problem isn't one that can be handled by one person picking up a cat and taking it in. It has to be done on a massive scale. That has to be paid for. And I don't want my tax dollars wasted on something like that to placate some cat fanatics who don't understand the way nature works.
Anyone who would rather have coyotes around that cats... ( I better not finish the sentence)
"And who can tell the difference between a farel and a stray? You have the Power of the Force or somthing? hmph"
For someone who claims to volunteer with an animal shelter, you don't seem toknow much about feral cats.
I suggest you get out in the country and try to interact with some. You will know the difference rather quickly.
"Anyone who would rather have coyotes around that cats... ( I better not finish the sentence)"
Coyotes belong in the wild. Cats do not. Try logic for a change on this.
When my neighborhood coyotes tried to eat my lambs I shot 'em.
Nam Vet
Exactly - feral cats will not only kill for food,they will kill just to kill. And it's not a humane killing either.
"Now do that Ten thousand or so times.
It has to be done on a massive scale."
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ONE person doesn't have to do it 10,000 times, 10,000 people could be compassionate just once.
Also, please re-read newsworthy's post 75
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1382605/posts?page=75#75
It would be fair to let the cats duke it out with the coyotes.
You didn't suggest that such a practice wasn't feasible; you suggested that anyone calling for humane practices was a hypocrite, which is not true. I will humor you, though.
I don't have a responsibility for ten thousand animals. I do have a responsibility to deal humanely with the animals that wander onto my property. I have done so. Extrapolate from that to the wider scene, and you would never have ten thousand stray cats. Irresponsible people/policies have generated this problem, not forlorn animals.
Exactly.
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