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"Mary" wrote in message om...
This really is a good point. Much as I love my cats I had not thought of this. It's as though my mind stops at the worst possible outcome, that they might get hit on the busy street first thing. Both have collars, but I will have some tags made with their names and my contact info this weekend and attach them. Yeah! That makes me happy! I didn't really mean to start a debate about leaving cats alone for the weekend. What I meant to point out is that stuff does happen, even to owners with the best of intentions, and it's so much better for a lousy $15 per cat or less, to make it easy for neighbors, vets, shelters and animal control to do the right thing and get that kitty back home before something bad happens to it : |
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"Tracy" wrote: ... stuff does happen, even to owners with the best of intentions, and it's so much better for a lousy $15 per cat or less, to make it easy for neighbors, vets, shelters and animal control to do the right thing and get that kitty back home before something bad happens to it : Yes indeed. That's what I love about this group, sharing ideas with others who love cats as much as I do. The old "two heads are better than one" thing is true. |
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"Tracy" wrote: ... stuff does happen, even to owners with the best of intentions, and it's so much better for a lousy $15 per cat or less, to make it easy for neighbors, vets, shelters and animal control to do the right thing and get that kitty back home before something bad happens to it : Yes indeed. That's what I love about this group, sharing ideas with others who love cats as much as I do. The old "two heads are better than one" thing is true. |
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"whayface" wrote in message
... Get someone to stay at your place when repair people or anyone has to enter the place!! Very simple. Not so simple. My family is three hours away, and the only people I know well enough in town to ask to check in on my cats are my co-workers, and the vast majority of them work the same days and schedules that I do, or have other jobs, or school. |
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"whayface" wrote in message
... Get someone to stay at your place when repair people or anyone has to enter the place!! Very simple. Not so simple. My family is three hours away, and the only people I know well enough in town to ask to check in on my cats are my co-workers, and the vast majority of them work the same days and schedules that I do, or have other jobs, or school. |
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Kristine Kochanski wrote:
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:04:26 +0000, Gwenhwyfaer de Tierveil wrote: Quoth Kristine Kochanski: Single people do leave cats alone for two nights. It's not that unusual. It's not unusual but it's very wrong IMO. If you can't look after 'em, don't have 'em. Please don't turn this into another indoor/outdoor debate. Your opinion is a perfectly valid opinion, but it doesn't make opposite opinions invalid, especially not when they're backed up with evidence. Of course it's just my opinion, I don't go around removing cats from homes that are treated in a way I find abhorrent! I find lots of things other cat owners do quite unbearable but I have my own beliefs and I have to live by them - and if I had to leave my cats regularly Wait a minute. Who said anything about leaving your cats regularly? It's not often I get to go away for a weekend. On the rare occasions that I do, I have left my cats alone with plenty of food and water. When I come home, they are fine, and usually in the same places I left them (each has its own place -- the boycat is on the chair by the window and the girl is on her cat pedestal by the window). I wouldn't have them, it's as simple as that. That's my opinion as a cat owner and I'm entitled to express it. -- nimue "There was a time when I was young and gay -- but straight." Max Bialystock Do not taunt happy fun ball. SNL |
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Kristine Kochanski wrote:
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:04:26 +0000, Gwenhwyfaer de Tierveil wrote: Quoth Kristine Kochanski: Single people do leave cats alone for two nights. It's not that unusual. It's not unusual but it's very wrong IMO. If you can't look after 'em, don't have 'em. Please don't turn this into another indoor/outdoor debate. Your opinion is a perfectly valid opinion, but it doesn't make opposite opinions invalid, especially not when they're backed up with evidence. Of course it's just my opinion, I don't go around removing cats from homes that are treated in a way I find abhorrent! I find lots of things other cat owners do quite unbearable but I have my own beliefs and I have to live by them - and if I had to leave my cats regularly Wait a minute. Who said anything about leaving your cats regularly? It's not often I get to go away for a weekend. On the rare occasions that I do, I have left my cats alone with plenty of food and water. When I come home, they are fine, and usually in the same places I left them (each has its own place -- the boycat is on the chair by the window and the girl is on her cat pedestal by the window). I wouldn't have them, it's as simple as that. That's my opinion as a cat owner and I'm entitled to express it. -- nimue "There was a time when I was young and gay -- but straight." Max Bialystock Do not taunt happy fun ball. SNL |
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Kristine Kochanski wrote:
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 18:16:09 GMT, "Mary" wrote: "Kristine Kochanski" wrote in message ... On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:49:25 GMT, "nimue" wrote: The big deal is cats need company and stimulation. How would you like to be trapped in a house all weekend with nobody to play with?! Would you leave a child alone all weekend so long as it was healthy and enough food and water? I don't think so. What about if the cat has kitty companions and someone looking in on them twice a day? I would say that's fine (again, only my opinion!) . Having companions, feline, canine or otherwise, and some human intervention to check up on them is fine - leaving a solitary cat alone in a house for 24-48 hours isn't fine. What stimulation do they have? Nothing to chase, nothing to snuggle up with, nothing to distract them. What a boring existance that would be :-( Nothing to chase? That's exactly what my cats chase sometimes -- nothing! One or the other will go wildly tearing around the place after -- nothing! If they want to play, they play. A piece of paper, a pen, or some nothing and they are off. As for snuggling, my girlcat thinks my stuffed animal on my bed is real. She snuggles with that in a way she will not snuggle with us and the boycat -- a big snuggler -- snuggles up with pillows, humans, blankets, whatever. -- nimue "There was a time when I was young and gay -- but straight." Max Bialystock Do not taunt happy fun ball. SNL |
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Kristine Kochanski wrote:
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 18:16:09 GMT, "Mary" wrote: "Kristine Kochanski" wrote in message ... On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:49:25 GMT, "nimue" wrote: The big deal is cats need company and stimulation. How would you like to be trapped in a house all weekend with nobody to play with?! Would you leave a child alone all weekend so long as it was healthy and enough food and water? I don't think so. What about if the cat has kitty companions and someone looking in on them twice a day? I would say that's fine (again, only my opinion!) . Having companions, feline, canine or otherwise, and some human intervention to check up on them is fine - leaving a solitary cat alone in a house for 24-48 hours isn't fine. What stimulation do they have? Nothing to chase, nothing to snuggle up with, nothing to distract them. What a boring existance that would be :-( Nothing to chase? That's exactly what my cats chase sometimes -- nothing! One or the other will go wildly tearing around the place after -- nothing! If they want to play, they play. A piece of paper, a pen, or some nothing and they are off. As for snuggling, my girlcat thinks my stuffed animal on my bed is real. She snuggles with that in a way she will not snuggle with us and the boycat -- a big snuggler -- snuggles up with pillows, humans, blankets, whatever. -- nimue "There was a time when I was young and gay -- but straight." Max Bialystock Do not taunt happy fun ball. SNL |
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Rona Yuthasastrakosol wrote:
wrote in message ... Chuckle. I know some kids who would have benefitted from this. I know some adults who still would :-(. I know I'm going to get flamed for this, but for a certain segment of the population, I would be in favour of some sort of mandatory birth control (though I'm not sure I would go so far as sterilization because I always have hope that people will change). I won't flame you. I wish we could sterilize certain people, I really do. I would love to fix men and women who had abused and/or abandoned children. There is an organization that will provide long-term birth control to hopeless addicts who request it. I believe it will also sterilize them for free if they request it. I can't remember what it's called -- anyone know? rona -- nimue "There was a time when I was young and gay -- but straight." Max Bialystock Do not taunt happy fun ball. SNL |
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