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Too many stray animals
What does your city do about stray animals?
I was just told by our "dog pound" that they are short on space. My guess is that they never have enough space. Can the city put a tax on businesses/individuals that sell animals? Maybe they could dedicate that tax revenue to a catch-neuter-release program, like providing free neutering to anyone who brings in an animal. |
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Too many stray animals
On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 1:05:31 PM UTC-4, John Doe wrote:
What does your city do about stray animals? They put them to sleep. What else are they going to do? Raise everyone's taxes so they can have them sleeping on feather pillows and eating pealed shrimp three times a day? I was just told by our "dog pound" that they are short on space. My guess is that they never have enough space. Can the city put a tax on businesses/individuals that sell animals? Maybe they could dedicate that tax revenue to a catch-neuter-release program, like providing free neutering to anyone who brings in an animal. Maybe they can just keep putting them to sleep. It's always worked well in the past, plus it's cheaper that way. IBen Getiner |
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Too many stray animals
Regular Google Groups troll...
-- IBen Getiner LloydsEelAaron aol.com wrote: X-Received: by 10.224.124.135 with SMTP id u7mr5227007qar.5.1385108013769; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 00:13:33 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.49.61.202 with SMTP id s10mr21533qer.21.1385108013756; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 00:13:33 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.bbs-scene.org!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nn tp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!i2no1498461q av.0!news-out.google.com!9ni106qaf.0!nntp.google.com!dz2no14 95185qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.g ooglegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats.health+behav Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 00:13:33 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: l4re8r$svl$1 dont-email.me Complaints-To: groups-abuse google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=173.78.5.79; posting-account=NOHl3QoAAABvFpqLRaWF78iW_ncWcAwM NNTP-Posting-Host: 173.78.5.79 References: l4re8r$svl$1 dont-email.me User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: b88dc1d9-2086-4451-bc64-cc86714b63c0 googlegroups.com Subject: Too many stray animals From: IBen Getiner LloydsEelAaron aol.com Injection-Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 08:13:33 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Lines: 22 Xref: news.eternal-september.org rec.pets.cats.health+behav:11506 On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 1:05:31 PM UTC-4, John Doe wrote: What does your city do about stray animals? They put them to sleep. What else are they going to do? Raise everyone's taxes so they can have them sleeping on feather pillows and eating pealed shrimp three times a day? I was just told by our "dog pound" that they are short on space. My guess is that they never have enough space. Can the city put a tax on businesses/individuals that sell animals? Maybe they could dedicate that tax revenue to a catch-neuter-release program, like providing free neutering to anyone who brings in an animal. Maybe they can just keep putting them to sleep. It's always worked well in the past, plus it's cheaper that way. IBen Getiner |
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Too many stray animals
IBen Getiner wrote:
On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 1:05:31 PM UTC-4, John Doe wrote: What does your city do about stray animals? They put them to sleep. What else are they going to do? Raise everyone's taxes so they can have them sleeping on feather pillows and eating pealed shrimp three times a day? I was just told by our "dog pound" that they are short on space. My guess is that they never have enough space. Can the city put a tax on businesses/individuals that sell animals? Maybe they could dedicate that tax revenue to a catch-neuter-release program, like providing free neutering to anyone who brings in an animal. Maybe they can just keep putting them to sleep. It's always worked well in the past, plus it's cheaper that way. IBen Getiner Few things are more satisxfying than catcvhing s stray animal, feeding it and taming it, and keeping it as a pet. But I have to say that this is the job of individuals and their organizations and not the business of the government. Since my retirement about 17 years ago, I have had eight cats. five of them were abandoned by people for one reason or another, and three were given to us by other people who couldn't keep them for one reason or another. One just left her family on this block and moved in with us, probably because they got a dog and she couldn't stand dogs. But I assumed this responsibility myself, and wouldn;t expect the rest of society to have it forced upon them. I have loved all of my cats. They all have had different personalities and have been a great joy to have as a part of my household. Over the years, they have cost me several thousand dollars, but they have been worth every penny. Right now, there is a stray who is missing part of his/her hind leg and who comes up on our rear deck at night and eats the dog food we leave out for the raccoons. My new job is to tame him and make him a pet. But he is very shy and runs as soon as he knows either my wife or myself is in the area, so it is a challenge. But I know that eventually, he will become a part of our household. Making this happen is almost as much fun as playing my trumpet in the dance band. First I will have to figure out some way of weening him off of the dog kibbles and into some good cat food without the raccoons eating the cat food before he can get it. This is the hardest step, but once it is done, the rest will be easy. |
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Too many stray animals
If I could afford it, I would trap, neuter, and release (TNR) the
cats that I can't keep inside. Please do not feed unneutered cats outside unless you plan on neutering them or bringing them inside. Dogs or cats that are eating dry food must have fresh water available. I'm sure that eating dog food is how some of the stray cats in my neighborhood have survived. For keeping an "eye" on stray animals in the area... Modern wireless motion sensors are dirt cheap nowadays. The 9 V battery in the remote unit lasts a very long time. Just needs to be placed out of direct sunlight and rain. I'm using one for monitoring neighborhood animals that come around my door. There are possums in the area that I don't want to encourage in any way. The wireless motion sensor I bought was a bit too cheap (made by Skylink), but opening it up and re-soldering a component lead made it work again. Wireless motion sensors are great for the purpose. Getting the detection correct might not be easy, but at least you don't have to mess with wires. Possible placement locations are infinite. Good luck and have fun. |
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Too many stray animals
To the comment about having nothing to do with feral cats...
I would agree that it's the kind of pet you would give an unwanted stepchild, but it provides my tame male cat with companionship. Some nights when it thinks I'm asleep, it romps with him. I caught a glimpse of it jumping into the air with its front paws spread apart, while playing. That's probably the most fun this feral cat has ever had, contrasted with its difficult/miserable life when it was in the not-so-great outdoors. That feeling of satisfaction makes it not a complete waste. |
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