Cat Herding on the Military Range.

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[Chad Fairbanks]

How many kittens must die??? Huh? How many!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[Tennessee_Bob]

Cats on base - hmmm...here's something that happened at our base - purely accidental, honest, swear on a stack of Bibles. I won't go into details - just the highlights

Stray cat. Test Cell.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Kitty Gun!! LOL!

[Chad Fairbanks]

I would recommend that these cats could be frozen and used for aircraft windshield strength tests, but my cats are looking at with 'that look'... so I won't...

[csvset]

Yeah, the Norfolk Naval Shipyard announced it was going to quit caring for feral cats. The annoucement created a hubbub of protests. I looked for the local paper's story , it didn't show up in an archive search. I did find this though.

NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD INSTITUTES TRAP/NEUTER/RETURN POLICY FOR ITS FERAL CATS

[fourdeuce82d]

to the tune of "the Cat's in the Cradle"

Did you ever think
when you eat chinese
it aint pork or chicken
but a fat siamese

But the food tastes great so ya don't complain,
But that's not chicken in your Chicken Chow mein
Seems to me I ordered sweet and sour pork, but Garfields on my fork, he's purrin'here on my fork...

There's a cat in the kettle at the Peking moon
The place I go to eat every day at noon.

They can feed you cat and you'll never know
Once they wrap it up in dough boy
They fry it real crisp in dough

Chow Lin asked if I wanted more
as he was diallin' up his buddy at the old pet store
I said "not today I lost my appetite, there's two cats in my belly and they want to fight".

I was suckin' on a rolaids and a tumms or two
when I swear I heard it mew boys
and that's when I knew...

There's a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon
I think I gotta stop eating there real soon
They swear it's beef or shrimp or pork,
but it's purring there on my fork boys,
There's a hairball on my fork....

[radu]

This sort of thing makes me sick at heart. The cats are the problem at the present but the initial problem was irresponsible pet owners. They don't spay/neuter their cats and end up with unwanted kittens, or they move and leave their cat behind, or they dump their unwanted cats off somewhere to find a new home. I know the last to be true...I have 37 of the critters to testify to that!! They all get spayed/neutered as soon as they show up on our doorstep (or as soon as they're old enough) and get their shots.

Mine are the lucky ones. The cats at the bases are the ones who suffer now because of people's irresponsibilty. They do become a problem, though, and how to deal with them is always a tough call. I wouldn't want to be the one who has to make those decisions.

And NO, they can't trap 'em and send them here!! My hands (and lap) are full enough already! LOL!!!

[radu]

Catzilla

Hilarious! LOL!!!

[radu]

One life down, 8 to go! That was a lucky kitty.

[SAMWolf]

Yeah. People are always leaving others to clena upthe problems the create.

[SAMWolf]

Let me try that again. I am so sore right now.

Yeah. People are always leaving others to clean up the problems they create.

[radu]

Exactly. Not just with critters but in all aspects of life. Whatever happened to taking repsponsibily for your own actions? Aaaargh!

The Oz-Man is in my lap watching the letters show up on the screen. He meowed and I think that was a "Hi, Sam". :-)

[radu]

LOL!! What did you do to get so sore? Were you cleaning your carpets, like I was? I can barely move today. LOL!!

[cmsgop]

You Da Man! LOL!

[NEWwoman]

cat lover bump

[Renatus]

I hate cats! Kill them all or trap them and take them to the country for coyote food. Coyotes have to eat too.

[SAMWolf]

Digging out a section of front lawn to put in a gravel pad and then moving 3 yards of gravel. I feel like dying right now.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Sam, those photos are great. I couldn't kill something so adorable.

[LibKill]

Cat is the fruit of the junkyard.

You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sautee it. There's, um, cat kebabs, cat creole, cat gumbo, pan fried, deep fried, stir fried. There's pineapple cat and lemon cat, coconut cat, pepper cat, cat soup, cat stew, cat salad, cat and potatoes, cat burger, cat sandwich... That's, that's about it.

Mega-apologies to "Forrest Gump". :)

[SAMWolf]

Wait'll one of em tries to scratch your eyes out.