Woman Let's Go Of Cat To Survive

"Cat Protector" wrote in message
news:I1R2d.46838$OZ6.41887@okepread06...
Are you saying you would have let the cat drown?

I am saying this person was in a situation where her life was at stake, things were
happening quickly and she had to make quick decisions. She may have decided going
into the truck to pull out the cage was futile and would have cost both lives. In any
case it's not right to make judgements on someone in that situation. For one thing
you don't know the details. Though I like animals I can't fault her that she saved
her life and not gone into the truck.

One of the rules you learn in lifesaving is that you must save yourself first as it
does no good for both to drown.

Another analogy is people who allow another to die so they may survive themselves--as
happens often in war. It's not right to make judegments on such actions as no one
knows how we would behave under such circumstances. It is certainly understandable to
sacrifice an animal to save yourself.

Adam

You make a good argument only a swimming cat has a better chance at survival
than one left in the carrier to suddenly drop suddenly and drown. Humans are
also born with two hands and she could have held on to the floating propane
tank while hugging the cat above water with the other.

--
Cat Galaxy: All Cats! All The Time!
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In addition to the problems with having to make instant decisions in an
emergency and trying to open a carrier while hanging on to it *and* a
floating object in the midst of powerful floodwaters, if you think a
little cat can survive being washed away in flood waters you're in a
fantasy world. We just had flooding in Austin, MN and a young, healthy
21 year old man got swept away in the flood waters. Needless to say they
did find his *dead* body yesterday.

"The police chief had the grimmest news: a man, who rescuers watched go
under flood waters is still missing and believed to have drowned.

The incident began late Wednesday afternoon north of the Austin Public
Library, where a man was seen toppling into the muddy Cedar River.

Austin Police Department officers and Austin Utilities employees rushed
to the Mill Pond Pathway walking bridge over the river as the current
pulled the man downstream.

"We watched him. He was yelling for help. We saw him go under and never
come up," the police chief said.

The river waters remain too dangerous to send any rescue boats into them
to search for the body, according to the police chief."


Megan



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material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his
way."

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You make a good argument only a swimming cat has a better chance at survival
than one left in the carrier to suddenly drop suddenly and drown. Humans are
also born with two hands and she could have held on to the floating propane
tank while hugging the cat above water with the other.

--
Cat Galaxy: All Cats! All The Time!
www.catgalaxymedia.com
wrote in message
...

In addition to the problems with having to make instant decisions in an
emergency and trying to open a carrier while hanging on to it *and* a
floating object in the midst of powerful floodwaters, if you think a
little cat can survive being washed away in flood waters you're in a
fantasy world. We just had flooding in Austin, MN and a young, healthy
21 year old man got swept away in the flood waters. Needless to say they
did find his *dead* body yesterday.

"The police chief had the grimmest news: a man, who rescuers watched go
under flood waters is still missing and believed to have drowned.

The incident began late Wednesday afternoon north of the Austin Public
Library, where a man was seen toppling into the muddy Cedar River.

Austin Police Department officers and Austin Utilities employees rushed
to the Mill Pond Pathway walking bridge over the river as the current
pulled the man downstream.

"We watched him. He was yelling for help. We saw him go under and never
come up," the police chief said.

The river waters remain too dangerous to send any rescue boats into them
to search for the body, according to the police chief."


Megan



"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do
nothing."

-Edmund Burke

Learn The TRUTH About Declawing
http://www.stopdeclaw.com

Zuzu's Cats Photo Album:
http://www.PictureTrail.com/zuzu22

"Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one
elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and
splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then
providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision,
raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and
material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his
way."

- W.H. Murray

Yes, it was read but you can actually grab onto a floating propane tank with
one arm while holding a cat in the other.

Yes, and then you can put the cat carrier in your mouth, grab a hammer, board
and nails as it floats by with the free hand, and build yourself a raft. Voila!

I don't know why she didn't think of that. Stupid bitch. That's what I would
have done for sure.

Sherry

Yes, it was read but you can actually grab onto a floating propane tank with
one arm while holding a cat in the other.

Yes, and then you can put the cat carrier in your mouth, grab a hammer, board
and nails as it floats by with the free hand, and build yourself a raft. Voila!

I don't know why she didn't think of that. Stupid bitch. That's what I would
have done for sure.

Sherry

"Sherry " wrote:

Stupid bitch. That's what I would
have done for sure.



Now, now, Sherry, is that kind of language really *necessary?*

[Tongue firmly planted in cheek.]

"Sherry " wrote:

Stupid bitch. That's what I would
have done for sure.



Now, now, Sherry, is that kind of language really *necessary?*

[Tongue firmly planted in cheek.]

In the fine newsgroup "rec.pets.cats.health+behav", "Cat
Protector" artfully composed this message
within news:2rZ2d.46879$OZ6.14881@okepread06 on 18 Sep 2004:

Beat me up all you want but I have to wonder how many of you
when given the situation would actually save their cats or
treated them as property and let them float away? I know I would
have saved my cats.

That's right CP. None of us love our cats as much as you love yours.
*rolls eyes*

--
Cheryl

In the fine newsgroup "rec.pets.cats.health+behav", "Cat
Protector" artfully composed this message
within news:2rZ2d.46879$OZ6.14881@okepread06 on 18 Sep 2004:

Beat me up all you want but I have to wonder how many of you
when given the situation would actually save their cats or
treated them as property and let them float away? I know I would
have saved my cats.

That's right CP. None of us love our cats as much as you love yours.
*rolls eyes*

--
Cheryl

"Sherry " wrote:

Stupid bitch. That's what I would
have done for sure.


Now, now, Sherry, is that kind of language really *necessary?*

[Tongue firmly planted in cheek.]

Sorry. I just got carried away by the sheer sport of it all.
If fishing is a sport, and hunting is a sport, isn't shooting fish in a barrel
also a sport?
Arrgh. Karen's right, you know.

Sherry