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Are you saying you would have let the cat drown?
-- Cat Galaxy: All Cats! All The Time! www.catgalaxymedia.com "Adam Helberg" wrote in message ink.net... I don't think it's fair for you to make judgements on people in crisis situations in which their life was at stake, when you're sitting safely by your computer. And as others have pointed out it would have served no one if all had drowned. Adam |
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I hadn't realized this thread was created to be putting me down. Did your
lifeguard training require put-downs of people here? It is amazing that some can't discuss a topic without acting like kids. I certainly will not apologize for my love of my cats. I would not allow them to drown if faced with that decision. -- Cat Galaxy: All Cats! All The Time! www.catgalaxymedia.com "Mary" wrote in message om... CP would still be deciding if he had the guts to pee his pants as they *all* went under. |
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I hadn't realized this thread was created to be putting me down. Did your
lifeguard training require put-downs of people here? It is amazing that some can't discuss a topic without acting like kids. I certainly will not apologize for my love of my cats. I would not allow them to drown if faced with that decision. -- Cat Galaxy: All Cats! All The Time! www.catgalaxymedia.com "Mary" wrote in message om... CP would still be deciding if he had the guts to pee his pants as they *all* went under. |
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"Cat Protector" wrote in message news:QoN2d.46818$OZ6.8633@okepread06... A woman in this story due to the floodwaters caused by Hurricane Ivan actually let her cat's cage (yes with the cat inside) go so she could survive. This is horrible. It just goes to show you that some people care more about themselves in a crisis situation. Her response about the whole situation of letting her cat go was the following: ""All of these material things I'm thinking about floating down the river don't mean a hill of beans," she said. "I do miss my kitty, though." I find it disgusting that there are plenty of people like this who take such a passive view. I can only picture with sadness as this cat is meowing and meowing as he/she floats (or probably went under the water causing the cat to drown) down the floodwaters while the human waves goodbye. My only hope is that this woman does not get another cat. You can read the entire story here. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...d=519&ncid=716 -- Cat Galaxy: All Cats! All The Time! www.catgalaxymedia.com Did you read the full story? I can't imagine how devastating it would be to face something like this. One of my greatest fears has always been that I would lose one of my cats in something like a fire or flood and not be able to save it. At the same time, the man and woman in this article had stepped out of their truck only to find that the vehicle had actually been floating because they were in water over their heads. According to the article, they swam as hard as they could and managed to grab a floating propane tank. In rapidly swirling water like that, how could the woman possibly hold the cat's carrier or even open it? She was probably hanging on as hard as she could to avoid being washed away. Flood waters are unbelievably powerful, and I don't see how any of us can really say what we could or would do in those circumstances. I do think her remark about "missing her kitty" was entirely too cavalier, but we also do not know if she was accurately quoted or what her state of mind was at the time, considering what she had been through. http://tinyurl.com/66feb MaryL |
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"Cat Protector" wrote in message news:QoN2d.46818$OZ6.8633@okepread06... A woman in this story due to the floodwaters caused by Hurricane Ivan actually let her cat's cage (yes with the cat inside) go so she could survive. This is horrible. It just goes to show you that some people care more about themselves in a crisis situation. Her response about the whole situation of letting her cat go was the following: ""All of these material things I'm thinking about floating down the river don't mean a hill of beans," she said. "I do miss my kitty, though." I find it disgusting that there are plenty of people like this who take such a passive view. I can only picture with sadness as this cat is meowing and meowing as he/she floats (or probably went under the water causing the cat to drown) down the floodwaters while the human waves goodbye. My only hope is that this woman does not get another cat. You can read the entire story here. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...d=519&ncid=716 -- Cat Galaxy: All Cats! All The Time! www.catgalaxymedia.com Did you read the full story? I can't imagine how devastating it would be to face something like this. One of my greatest fears has always been that I would lose one of my cats in something like a fire or flood and not be able to save it. At the same time, the man and woman in this article had stepped out of their truck only to find that the vehicle had actually been floating because they were in water over their heads. According to the article, they swam as hard as they could and managed to grab a floating propane tank. In rapidly swirling water like that, how could the woman possibly hold the cat's carrier or even open it? She was probably hanging on as hard as she could to avoid being washed away. Flood waters are unbelievably powerful, and I don't see how any of us can really say what we could or would do in those circumstances. I do think her remark about "missing her kitty" was entirely too cavalier, but we also do not know if she was accurately quoted or what her state of mind was at the time, considering what she had been through. http://tinyurl.com/66feb MaryL |
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Subject: Woman Let's Go Of Cat To Survive
Path: lobby!ngtf-m01.news.aol.com!ngpeer.news.aol.com!feed2.newsrea der.com!news reader.com!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!proxad.net!newsfe ed.stueberl.de!peer01.cox.net!cox.net!p01!okepread 06.POSTED!53ab2750!not-f or-mail From: "Cat Protector" Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats.health+behav Lines: 24 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Message-ID: QoN2d.46818$OZ6.8633@okepread06 Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 19:51:25 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.2.239.112 X-Complaints-To: X-Trace: okepread06 1095475888 68.2.239.112 (Fri, 17 Sep 2004 22:51:28 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 22:51:28 EDT Organization: Cox Communications A woman in this story due to the floodwaters caused by Hurricane Ivan actually let her cat's cage (yes with the cat inside) go so she could survive. This is horrible. It just goes to show you that some people care more about themselves in a crisis situation. Her response about the whole situation of letting her cat go was the following: ""All of these material things I'm thinking about floating down the river don't mean a hill of beans," she said. "I do miss my kitty, though." I find it disgusting that there are plenty of people like this who take such a passive view. I can only picture with sadness as this cat is meowing and meowing as he/she floats (or probably went under the water causing the cat to drown) down the floodwaters while the human waves goodbye. My only hope is that this woman does not get another cat. Oh, yes... I agree... How selfish human beings can become at a time when their lives are on the line. Selfish vermin swine. Look, tweedle-dee.... If you were the size of a mouse, your own cat would EAT YOU. Believe that. IBen Getiner |
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"MaryL" -OUT-THE-LITTER wrote in message ... "Cat Protector" wrote in message news:QoN2d.46818$OZ6.8633@okepread06... A woman in this story due to the floodwaters caused by Hurricane Ivan actually let her cat's cage (yes with the cat inside) go so she could survive. This is horrible. It just goes to show you that some people care more about themselves in a crisis situation. Her response about the whole situation of letting her cat go was the following: ""All of these material things I'm thinking about floating down the river don't mean a hill of beans," she said. "I do miss my kitty, though." I find it disgusting that there are plenty of people like this who take such a passive view. I can only picture with sadness as this cat is meowing and meowing as he/she floats (or probably went under the water causing the cat to drown) down the floodwaters while the human waves goodbye. My only hope is that this woman does not get another cat. You can read the entire story here. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...d=519&ncid=716 -- Cat Galaxy: All Cats! All The Time! www.catgalaxymedia.com Did you read the full story? I can't imagine how devastating it would be to face something like this. One of my greatest fears has always been that I would lose one of my cats in something like a fire or flood and not be able to save it. At the same time, the man and woman in this article had stepped out of their truck only to find that the vehicle had actually been floating because they were in water over their heads. According to the article, they swam as hard as they could and managed to grab a floating propane tank. In rapidly swirling water like that, how could the woman possibly hold the cat's carrier or even open it? She was probably hanging on as hard as she could to avoid being washed away. Flood waters are unbelievably powerful, and I don't see how any of us can really say what we could or would do in those circumstances. I do think her remark about "missing her kitty" was entirely too cavalier, but we also do not know if she was accurately quoted or what her state of mind was at the time, considering what she had been through. http://tinyurl.com/66feb MaryL On the few occasions when I had personal knowledge about a story published in the newspaper they got the story wrong every time. Some mistakes were worse than others but in every case there was an inaccurate statement or quote. We don't know if this woman said something between saying her property wasn't important and saying she missed her cat. We also don't know if she elaborated about her feelings about the cat and that wasn't included. Her inclination was to save the cat or it wouldn't have been in the truck with her. It makes sense to have the cat confined so if it freaked out it couldn't get away. Once they realized the truck was floating there probably wasn't time to roust the cat out of the cage/carrier or she still felt the cat would be safer confined so it wouldn't leap out of her arms into the flood waters. Maybe by that time she was so scared she just couldn't think straight. Maybe in those circumstances there is no thinking straight. It's hard to say what one would do in her position. None of us was there. I'm sure all of us would do the best we could to save our guys but who knows whether we would be able to save them or not. W |
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"MaryL" -OUT-THE-LITTER wrote in message ... "Cat Protector" wrote in message news:QoN2d.46818$OZ6.8633@okepread06... A woman in this story due to the floodwaters caused by Hurricane Ivan actually let her cat's cage (yes with the cat inside) go so she could survive. This is horrible. It just goes to show you that some people care more about themselves in a crisis situation. Her response about the whole situation of letting her cat go was the following: ""All of these material things I'm thinking about floating down the river don't mean a hill of beans," she said. "I do miss my kitty, though." I find it disgusting that there are plenty of people like this who take such a passive view. I can only picture with sadness as this cat is meowing and meowing as he/she floats (or probably went under the water causing the cat to drown) down the floodwaters while the human waves goodbye. My only hope is that this woman does not get another cat. You can read the entire story here. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...d=519&ncid=716 -- Cat Galaxy: All Cats! All The Time! www.catgalaxymedia.com Did you read the full story? I can't imagine how devastating it would be to face something like this. One of my greatest fears has always been that I would lose one of my cats in something like a fire or flood and not be able to save it. At the same time, the man and woman in this article had stepped out of their truck only to find that the vehicle had actually been floating because they were in water over their heads. According to the article, they swam as hard as they could and managed to grab a floating propane tank. In rapidly swirling water like that, how could the woman possibly hold the cat's carrier or even open it? She was probably hanging on as hard as she could to avoid being washed away. Flood waters are unbelievably powerful, and I don't see how any of us can really say what we could or would do in those circumstances. I do think her remark about "missing her kitty" was entirely too cavalier, but we also do not know if she was accurately quoted or what her state of mind was at the time, considering what she had been through. http://tinyurl.com/66feb MaryL On the few occasions when I had personal knowledge about a story published in the newspaper they got the story wrong every time. Some mistakes were worse than others but in every case there was an inaccurate statement or quote. We don't know if this woman said something between saying her property wasn't important and saying she missed her cat. We also don't know if she elaborated about her feelings about the cat and that wasn't included. Her inclination was to save the cat or it wouldn't have been in the truck with her. It makes sense to have the cat confined so if it freaked out it couldn't get away. Once they realized the truck was floating there probably wasn't time to roust the cat out of the cage/carrier or she still felt the cat would be safer confined so it wouldn't leap out of her arms into the flood waters. Maybe by that time she was so scared she just couldn't think straight. Maybe in those circumstances there is no thinking straight. It's hard to say what one would do in her position. None of us was there. I'm sure all of us would do the best we could to save our guys but who knows whether we would be able to save them or not. W |
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in article , Sherry at
itty wrote on 9/17/04 11:48 PM: She didn't need to let the cat go especially with the poor feline inside the cage. I would have done everything possible to make sure the cat was also saved. This woman also took a rather passive view at the whole thing as if to treat this cat as an object. That cat was a life and she let that cat drown so she could save herself. I have to wonder if she would have done this to another human. Dont judge the woman by the one single quote the reporter chose to use. She may be totally devasted by the loss of her cat for all you know. Sherry You Guys!!!! This is CP? Are you bored or something? Accept and move on. |
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