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Cats Are Evil
Slate ^ | 1-25-13

Posted on 01/25/2013 3:54:40 PM PST by SJackson

Why New Zealand is right to consider banning them in order to save its wildlife.

You know what animal makes a good pet? No animal.

Dogs will bite you to death and then eat your corpse. Snakes will asphyxiate you, escape, infest the Everglades, and eat all its mammals. Pet parrots perpetuate a trade that upends ecosystems, and hamsters pass you dangerous zoonotic diseases. But perhaps the worst pet of all, environmentally speaking, is a cat.

Domesticated cats started out as parasites on human civilization. Unlike other species, and admittedly to their credit, they domesticated themselves. When humans started growing grain, the crops attracted rodents that attracted cats. Wild cats evolved into housecats, and they were quite useful for thousands of years, killing disease-ridden rats and mice and protecting our food stockpiles. But now that we have industrial farming, reliable food storage, and mostly mouse-proof houses, cats are mere parasites again. Playful and often affectionate parasites, sure, and adorable when young, but a scourge on the landscape.

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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
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To: ConradofMontferrat

Good kitty!


21 posted on 01/25/2013 4:27:18 PM PST by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: ConradofMontferrat

Good work by the cat!


22 posted on 01/25/2013 4:28:00 PM PST by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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To: SJackson

I agree that cats are evil, or at least generally malevolent, but not because they kill birds. They’re evil because they usually have no appreciation at all for the human hosts upon whom their existence depends. Even the lowly rat appreciates humans enough to show us some respect and only come out to raid our garbage at night, while running and hiding at the sight of us. Cats strut around like they own the place, have no respect for our property, and would definitely try to eat us if they could figure out how.


23 posted on 01/25/2013 4:29:34 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: AnAmericanMother

~And~ what *I* would have given him later, too, if he were my own hell spawn.


24 posted on 01/25/2013 4:30:34 PM PST by Salamander (Do not remove this tagline under penalty of law.)
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To: ConradofMontferrat

ROFLMAO! I love cats.


25 posted on 01/25/2013 4:30:43 PM PST by Past Your Eyes (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
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To: Boogieman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srrw_UnlRII


26 posted on 01/25/2013 4:34:03 PM PST by Salamander (Do not remove this tagline under penalty of law.)
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To: JRandomFreeper
It means you are JUST LIKE THESE PEOPLE
27 posted on 01/25/2013 4:37:07 PM PST by Lazamataz (LAZ'S LAW: As an argument with liberals goes on, the probability of being called racist approaches 1)
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To: ConradofMontferrat

Little Johnny learns early on not to take out his frustrations on a pet...


28 posted on 01/25/2013 4:37:23 PM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Actually, this is a case of edited video.

The whole video shows the cat to be the A$$hat. Kid was on the bed minding his own biz when the cat tried to chew his feet off.

What you see here is Johnny boy defending his feet from being chewed off.

Cat did in fact need smacked.

LOL, but I blame the mom behind the camera for letting it go on too long.

Kid WILL grow up, cat WILL lose all future encounters.


29 posted on 01/25/2013 4:37:23 PM PST by ConradofMontferrat (According to mudslimz, my handle is a HATE CRIME. And I HOPE they don't like it.)
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To: SJackson
IN SOVIET UNION, RATS CATCH CAT!
30 posted on 01/25/2013 4:38:25 PM PST by Lazamataz (LAZ'S LAW: As an argument with liberals goes on, the probability of being called racist approaches 1)
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To: SJackson
But now that we have industrial farming, reliable food storage, and mostly mouse-proof houses, cats are mere parasites again.

Stop reading right there.

Where does this guy live? Before we rescued our current house cat -- abandoned under the barn behind our property -- we were overrun with field mice every autumn when the first frost arrived. Our house was built to code in 1997. There is NO such thing as a mouse-proof house. Certainly no such thing as a rodent-proof barn.

In addition to which, we raise a good bit of our own food, which our cat protects: killing moles, voles, grey squirrels (rats with bushy tails), red squirrels (extremely evil red rats with bushy tales) and rabbits (rats with long ears) and seed eating birds. Hell, our cat has even treed several raccoons.

Luckily, when a very large black bear wandered into our cookout on Memorial Day last he did not go after the bear. Had he done so I would not have been able to reach my shotgun in time to save my wife...

31 posted on 01/25/2013 4:43:22 PM PST by FredZarguna ("The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." -- Henry the Sixth Part II, 4.2.71-78)
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To: SJackson
I know evil when I see it. Blow Fly Barry.

I enjoy every bit of the "evilness" in my cat.

32 posted on 01/25/2013 4:44:29 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: Boogieman
and would definitely try to eat us if they could figure out how

Which makes them good at what they're designed for, but not evil.

33 posted on 01/25/2013 4:45:10 PM PST by FredZarguna ("The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." -- Henry the Sixth Part II, 4.2.71-78)
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To: ConradofMontferrat

Holy Toldeo! That kid needs some anger management. Hope that cat took a good bite - brat asked for it.


34 posted on 01/25/2013 4:45:45 PM PST by fivecatsandadog ("Six callers ahead of us, Jimmy. ")
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To: ConradofMontferrat

Little Johnny just found out cats don’t read Dr. Spock.


35 posted on 01/25/2013 4:45:55 PM PST by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)
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To: Charles Martel; AnAmericanMother

Before you go blaming the kid, you should know that his MOTHER was at fault.

The kid was DEFENDING himself, and his mom thought the whole thing “funny.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMIhL63KPxw

You decide.


36 posted on 01/25/2013 4:46:50 PM PST by ConradofMontferrat (According to mudslimz, my handle is a HATE CRIME. And I HOPE they don't like it.)
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To: fivecatsandadog

That little sh-t definitely had it coming.


37 posted on 01/25/2013 4:47:04 PM PST by Past Your Eyes (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
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To: fivecatsandadog

Actually, the cat DID take a ‘good bite.’ That’s why the kid slugged him.

Cat had it coming!

LOL

An edited vid can change everything. Just ask FATBOY Moore(on)!


38 posted on 01/25/2013 4:50:53 PM PST by ConradofMontferrat (According to mudslimz, my handle is a HATE CRIME. And I HOPE they don't like it.)
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To: ConradofMontferrat

Yep, Mom should’ve broken that up and swatted the cat long before it got that far. There are some mean ones out there that make rotten pets, no doubt about it. Still, I’ll bet that kid thought twice about future fisticuffs with that bundle of claws, teeth and muscle.


39 posted on 01/25/2013 4:50:54 PM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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40 posted on 01/25/2013 4:52:29 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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