Furthermore, I would like to see more people refer to the term
"guardian" rather than "owner". "Ownership" implies that your pet is an
inanimate object like your DVD player or television. Untill that happens
we are going to have pile of **** people who do these things to
defenseless animals because they think of them as property.

As far as I'm concerned, pets/animals are just like childern and should
be protected as such. You can bet that if this woman had done this to a
child she would be in jail for child abuse!

I do agree with some of the other posters, drag her ass out into the
middle of nowhere and let her swim back (NO flotation device)
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Makes a great deal of sense to me. Putting any creature in harm's way is
inexcusable, even when ASPCA and like agencies, which dare to call themselves
'shelters' rather than the anterooms to death that they actually are, euthanize
healthy animals because there are so many. The don't do this in third world
countries, because there are too many people.

Damned hypocrisy makes me nauseous. And this thing with the surfing cat is an
obscenity. Maybe the crazy bitch should plead insanity.

No offense, colleagues, but I have encountered more misfits and screwballs in
this line of work than I have ever found elsewhere. No doubt it is because
cats cannot write letters to editors and Congresspeople.

Why do we attract so many misfits and malcontents?

Beats me. Every once in a while, I get so tired of it. And as for social
workers and adoption agencies... never mind. Better not go there.

Jeanne