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Leaving a cat alone for 24 hours, first time
"Upscale" wrote in message
... "G Hardy" wrote in message Imprisoning them is not (in my opinion) a solution to the problem. Who the hell are you to say that having a cat in an apartment is imprisonment? Where would you suggest the millions and millions of apartment dwelling cats go? If those cats weren't in the loving homes of people living in apartments, they'd be euthanized because there would be no place for them to go. Is that your solution, better to kill all those innocent animals because society can't conform to your opinion of total freedom? You really are that unthinking aren't you? The answer is not to have got a cat in the first place. I do think it's imprisonment. It's my opinion, yours is different. Get over it. There's always one of you assholes running around spouting off your bull****. For future reference, you can always tell you've lost an internet disagreement when you have to resort to personal abuse. |
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Leaving a cat alone for 24 hours, first time
"Matthew" wrote in message
... You never will have you ever seen or heard someone in a heated debate change sides nope it does not happen I've been known to change my opinion when an argument is made that makes more sense than mine. |
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Leaving a cat alone for 24 hours, first time
"G Hardy" wrote in message The answer is not to have got a cat in the first place. I do think it's imprisonment. It's my opinion, yours is different. The difference is that your opinion is based solely on emotion, mine is based on logic. Cats are euthanized in many animal shelters all the time. They're held for a certain period and if they're not adopted, they get put down. So your opinion is that it's better that cats are put to death instead of going to someone who might live in an apartment. How do you justify that opinion? |
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Leaving a cat alone for 24 hours, first time
"G Hardy" wrote in message ... "Matthew" wrote in message ... You never will have you ever seen or heard someone in a heated debate change sides nope it does not happen I've been known to change my opinion when an argument is made that makes more sense than mine. I would too, but there has never been any...... (just kidding) |
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Leaving a cat alone for 24 hours, first time
"Matthew" wrote in message
... "G Hardy" wrote in message ... "Matthew" wrote in message ... You never will have you ever seen or heard someone in a heated debate change sides nope it does not happen I've been known to change my opinion when an argument is made that makes more sense than mine. A debate and a argument are different I don't understand your point. A debate is a series of arguments. Upscale & I have been exchanging arguments in the debate of whether it's cruel to keep cats indoors. His latest about rescue cats is the best argument from his side so far (again, in my opinion) but as you'll see from my reply, it's not convinced me to change my opinion. |
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Leaving a cat alone for 24 hours, first time
"Upscale" wrote in message
... "G Hardy" wrote in message The answer is not to have got a cat in the first place. I do think it's imprisonment. It's my opinion, yours is different. The difference is that your opinion is based solely on emotion, mine is based on logic. Cats are euthanized in many animal shelters all the time. They're held for a certain period and if they're not adopted, they get put down. So your opinion is that it's better that cats are put to death instead of going to someone who might live in an apartment. How do you justify that opinion? I'm not sure that I have to. It's still cruel, but (as you say) it's better than being dead. The argument is something akin to suggesting that it's OK to keep Siberian tigers in zoos, because they are almost extinct in the wild. Not sure about the US, but here in the UK zoos and circuses are very much berated because normally free-roaming animals go mad when confined. So for lions, camels, elephant, giraffe etc it's cruel to confine them. For endangered animals there are mitigating reasons for keeping them. It's still cruel, but it's a lot better than being extinct. Are you suggesting that apartment cats are EXCLUSIVELY rescue cats? If that's the case then you've got a good point (if not quite a winning one). I'd certainly agree that being cooped up in an apartment all day is better than a one-way trip to the vet. If the proportion of rescue cats versus non-rescue cats in apartments is the same as rescue cats versus non-rescue cats in unrestricted accommodation, and I see no reason why that shouldn't be the case, then your argument falls flat. |
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Leaving a cat alone for 24 hours, first time
"William Graham" wrote in message
. .. "David" wrote in message . .. "William Graham" wrote in message . .. "David" wrote in message William, I would appreciate it if you consider this hypothetical situation for me and tell me how you would react in it. Let's say that you own 10 cats and are forced to move to a very busy city. Your home is several thousand square feet with all sorts of room for the animals (remember, we're talking hypothetical). You allow your cats to roam outdoors. The first night that you live there, one of your cats is splattered on the road and another makes it back into your home but is seriously injured, hardly able to move, shaking from the severe pain it is in. You try to get it to the animal hospital but it dies before you get there. On day number two you lose three more cats, all close enough to your home that you can stand on your porch and see their flattened corpses on the busy road you live next to. Day number three is pretty good- one cat comes home and was obviously tortured by a neighborhood kid but he will live. Although this cat used to be the most emotional cat you ever had, purring and rubbing up against you on a hourly basis, he now sits under the kitchen table, almost motionless, never making a sound. The only time he ever moves is when you come near him, and then he runs in the opposite direction as fast as he cant. On day number four you lose one cat to a neighbors robotic lawn mower and another cat to neighbor hood kids playing with pellet guns and slingshots. Another was killed by a car. In case you haven't been counting, you now have two cats left. Are you honestly telling me that you would LET these cats out and shrug it off as "just life" if they died? Personally, I would find YOU responsible for their deaths. David It is true that cats can't have everything they want, any more than any other animal or human can have anything he/she wants, but it is also true that you will have to put up with your indoor cat running out every chance he gets for a long long time, so you will have to get used to it. As to your hypothetical situation: So, your hypothetical situation couldn't possibly occur with me. William, The neat thing about hypothetical situations is that you can consider them regardless of if they actually have a chance of becoming reality. You give advice and try to persuade people who are in very different situations than you are- the least you can do is consider this topic from the perspective of a different situation! I'll try again: __IF__ you were in the hypothetical situation (pretend you had some sci-fi life-swap if it helps you), WOULD YOU allow the remaining two cats to roam outside on day number five? David I thought I made it clear that I am totally unable to answer that question, since it is beyond my experience. As to my giving advice to others, I always make it clear that I have no experience with their situation if that happens to be the case.....I usually start out with that disqualifying statement. I will usually say something like, "I only have outside cats, but....." Yes, you do a good job qualifying your responses. This doesn't make you incapable of considering a situation. If someone takes my advice on the matter as that of an expert on inside cats, well, that's their bad judgment, and not mine. Realistically, how can you expect an answer to your hypothetical question? You paint a picture of someone who lives in such a horrific environment that 8 of their 10 outside cats are killed in a relatively short period of time, and then ask them whether they might consider keeping their cats inside.....this is ridiculous. It's an exaggerated situation. The point of it was to see if there were any conditions whatsoever under which you would justify keeping a cat "locked" indoors. I would consider not keeping any cats at all before I considered keeping 10 cats inside. Is that an answer? Not really but I guess I could make assumptions based on it. Perhaps if you were in the given situation you would simply lock all the cats out of your home and not care for any of them... Please realize that I am not insinuating that you would actually put yourself in the situation that I described. I was just wondering what you would do if you had magically found yourself in that situation. If you refuse to play along, that's fine. Just for the record. I lived on the intersection of Santa Cruz Avenue and Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California for 15 years. During that time I had a couple of cats, and my neighbor had one, and none of the three were run over by vehicles, even though cars, trucks, and busses went by 24-7. Because of the traffic on that intersection, I would never have considered getting a cat. The two I had wandered in from somewhere else, and all I did was to give them shelter and food. I made no attempt to get them to stay with me at all, nor did I expect them to survive for very long. They both did survive for over ten years, however, and died natural deaths. |
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Leaving a cat alone for 24 hours, first time
On Dec 28 2007, 5:35�am, RPSinha wrote:
William Graham wrote: : I use cat doors.... I appreciate that as a long term solution, if she was my cat, but this trip is a sudden family development and I can only strive to make her as comfortable as possible for 24 hours and then face he ranger when I return! You leave her indoors for 24 hours. I mean, its either you leave her outside or inside, I think inside is the much better idea. |
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