"Karen" wrote in message
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"Lesley Madigan" wrote in message
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Hi all


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.(To the point where any advice about what I can do under UK law
would be appreciated) Basically he is spending a fortune on having his
car done up and he's worried about "Stamford" (The cat that seems to
have sort of adopted where I work) will sit on it and ruin the
paintwork. He even said that he would have to bring his airgun in
(And this guy is scary enough to make me think he would do it, he
vastly prefers cars to people) so I sent him the information from
Skippy that pointed out that a cat's claw can damage car finishes only
if the finish is a mess anyway. "Oh well" he dismissed, "All the same
if I see that cat get it's claws out on my car I'll take a pair of
pliers and take its nails out, that'll solve the problem"

And he still says he's a cat lover!

As I understand it, the UK has pretty tough laws. I would print out the
law
on animal abuse and let him know in no uncertain terms that you would feel
inclined to enforce that if anything ever appeared to happen to this cat
and
if his talk is "just talk" he should consider what he is saying more
carefully because now if anything should happen to that cat you will think
it is him.

Karen is absolutely right. The UK laws are pretty tough. I would contact
the animal protection agency (RSPA or RSPC?) and ask them about laws
regarding animal abuse. I would not hestitate to mention the incident and
ask them what to do.


She shrugged, "They don't count they're only mongrels, you can just
dump them."

Niiiiiiiiiccccce...I wish I had a whippy comeback for that.


A few months later she was complaining because she wanted a Devon Rex
and her parents had drawn the line at 3 cats.

"Ahh well" she finally concluded "My Siamese is nearly 14, he won't be
around much longer and then I can have the Devon Rex."


Jeez. Tell her you hope her family doesn't say that about her when she
gets
older.

::applause:: That is a perfect response.


I'm all about sarcasm when it comes to dolts like this.