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Costumes For Cats A Felony?
ClickonDetroit ^
| February 21, 2007
| AP
Posted on 02/22/2007 3:48:27 AM PST by ShadowDancer
Costumes For Cats A Felony?
Restaurant Giving Out Cat Costumes
POSTED: 11:23 pm EST February 21, 2007
TAMPA, Fla. -- Letting the cat out of the bag isn't the problem. It's putting the cat in the bag that's causing controversy.
The Checkers Drive-in chain is running a "Rapcat" promotion. The Tampa-based, fast-food company has a special take-out bag with cutaways for a cat's legs and tail.
Checkers is encouraging customers to dress up their cats with the bag, which is designed to look like a basketball jersey. But officials of Hillsborough County Animal Services warn that putting an unwilling cat into a "Rapcat" bag could be considered felony animal cruelty.
Officials of Checkers said they meant no harm, adding that since the chain began airing Rapcat commercials last fall, customers have been clamoring for Rapcat merchandise.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cats; donutwatch; goodluck; impossible; recipeforscratches
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To: Miss Marple
I had one kitty, a long time ago, that I could dress up and play with just like a doll. He was the mellowest mew I've ever seen. I dolled him up as Carmen Miranda one day, complete with fruit-laden hat. He actually posed for pics. I suppose the Carmen Miranda get-up would've gotten me life from the bunch down in FL.
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posted on
02/22/2007 4:57:23 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: ShadowDancer
But officials of Hillsborough County Animal Services warn that putting an unwilling cat into a "Rapcat" bag could be considered felony animal cruelty.
Our government of the people, by the people, and for people.
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posted on
02/22/2007 4:59:08 AM PST
by
Vision
("Delight yourself in the Lord; and he will give you your heart's desires." Psalm 37:4)
To: Miss Marple; proxy_user
Feeding. Cats are usually enthusiastic about being fed. Until they see the swill you are trying to poison them with and make that front paw flick burying gesture at it.
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:05:05 AM PST
by
magslinger
(Ask Dad. He'll know. And on the off chance he doesn't, he'll make up something good.)
To: Miss Marple
I f you ask me, cats are pretty much unwilling about anything you want them to do. I have two, so I know.That's the truth. We have two cats as well, and the only thing I can get them to do when I want - is eat. they both have the habit of getting onto the roof, and there is no way they will come down, until they are ready to do so.
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:06:27 AM PST
by
Arrowhead1952
(The dims and Ron Paul screwed our troops.)
To: Vision
Ever feel like slapping some sense into people like that?Won't work,at the end of the day they're still stupid and your hand really hurts.
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:08:16 AM PST
by
Farmer Dean
(Every time a toilet flushes,another liberal gets his brains.)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:10:51 AM PST
by
grjr21
To: mainepatsfan
What a cute baby! We put a Santa costume on our dogs one year - they almost seemed to be proud of being decorated for Christmas.
Carolyn
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:12:37 AM PST
by
CDHart
("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
To: ShadowDancer
Every time I see "ClickonDetroit" what pops into mind is Chicken Detroit.
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:12:46 AM PST
by
CPOSharky
(Coming soon, the Global Warming Inquisition.)
To: ShadowDancer
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:17:54 AM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.)
To: Arrowhead1952; Miss Marple
I have four cats and I've teach them to walk with me when outside, they know when I say "lets go out" that it means going for a walk. They also know what treats, eat and playtime and combing (they liked to be combed)is. Yes, they stay with me when going for walks.
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:27:03 AM PST
by
Strutt9
To: ShadowDancer
The Checkers Drive-in chain is running a "Rapcat" promotion. The Tampa-based, fast-food company has a special take-out bag with cutaways for a cat's legs and tail.
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:32:45 AM PST
by
machman
To: Farmer Dean
I don't know what to do with them. They're bad Americans.
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:34:46 AM PST
by
Vision
("Delight yourself in the Lord; and he will give you your heart's desires." Psalm 37:4)
To: Miss Marple
Dogs have owners. Cats have staff.
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:34:59 AM PST
by
MortMan
(Middle Age: When playing like a child makes you feel like an old man the next morning.)
To: MortMan
Boy, isn't that the truth!
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:38:36 AM PST
by
Miss Marple
(Prayers for Jemian's son,: Lord, please keep him safe and bring him home .)
To: ShadowDancer
"Costumes For Cats A Felony? "
Clothes for dogs should be too. Fashion felony!
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:39:06 AM PST
by
Hoodlum91
(I support global warming.)
To: ShadowDancer
Fun thread.
My philosophy;
As a child "Dogs" is how you bellieve life is going to be when you're all grown up.
When you are an adult "Cats" is the way life really is.
If you don't get it I can't explain it
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:39:53 AM PST
by
incredulous joe
(Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. -Redd Foxx)
To: mainepatsfan
Dear God. THe person that did that walks the streets!
If you dress your dog, you should seek therapy.
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:39:56 AM PST
by
Hoodlum91
(I support global warming.)
To: ShadowDancer
Hmm.
Cats. Rap.
I hate both almost equally, so I suppose this is a non-story?
Carry on!
To: Strutt9
I have four cats and I've teach them to walk with me when outside, they know when I say "lets go out" that it means going for a walk. My wife can get the both cats to walk with her and the dog, but they will not walk with me. I can start walking the dog, and they sit on the chairs in the back yard and watch. If I start digging in the garden, one or both will be there "helping" me dig. One or both just dug up about half the radishes that had just sprouted this week.
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:49:09 AM PST
by
Arrowhead1952
(The dims and Ron Paul screwed our troops.)
To: proxy_user
Typically, testimony from cats is rather ambiguous Cat got your tongue?
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:53:08 AM PST
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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