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In om,
Steve G composed with style: "Cheryl" wrote in message ... (...) No, it wasn't directed your way. I can't say that I've ever seen you post vicious attacks anyway. I post viscous attacks sometime ... glutinuous fool! lol Ouch. And please don't get me wrong; everyone has the right to say what they want to say. And long may it be so! Long may Usenet live!! |
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In om,
Steve G composed with style: "Cheryl" wrote in message ... (...) No, it wasn't directed your way. I can't say that I've ever seen you post vicious attacks anyway. I post viscous attacks sometime ... glutinuous fool! lol Ouch. And please don't get me wrong; everyone has the right to say what they want to say. And long may it be so! Long may Usenet live!! |
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In om,
Steve G composed with style: "Cheryl" wrote in message ... (...) No, it wasn't directed your way. I can't say that I've ever seen you post vicious attacks anyway. I post viscous attacks sometime ... glutinuous fool! lol Ouch. And please don't get me wrong; everyone has the right to say what they want to say. And long may it be so! Long may Usenet live!! |
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"Cheryl" wrote in message ... In om, Steve G composed with style: "Cheryl" wrote in message ... (...) No, it wasn't directed your way. I can't say that I've ever seen you post vicious attacks anyway. I post viscous attacks sometime ... glutinuous fool! lol Ouch. And please don't get me wrong; everyone has the right to say what they want to say. And long may it be so! Long may Usenet live!! Here here! or is it Hear hear! G |
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"Cheryl" wrote in message ... In om, Steve G composed with style: "Cheryl" wrote in message ... (...) No, it wasn't directed your way. I can't say that I've ever seen you post vicious attacks anyway. I post viscous attacks sometime ... glutinuous fool! lol Ouch. And please don't get me wrong; everyone has the right to say what they want to say. And long may it be so! Long may Usenet live!! Here here! or is it Hear hear! G |
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"Cheryl" wrote in message ... In om, Steve G composed with style: "Cheryl" wrote in message ... (...) No, it wasn't directed your way. I can't say that I've ever seen you post vicious attacks anyway. I post viscous attacks sometime ... glutinuous fool! lol Ouch. And please don't get me wrong; everyone has the right to say what they want to say. And long may it be so! Long may Usenet live!! Here here! or is it Hear hear! G |
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It wasn't the road kill risk that convinced me to keep my cats in. It was a
few factors. The first was other cats. We had one cat (our first) that just didn't want to stay inside. She tried scratching right through the drywall to get out. She had at least 3 stays at the animal hospital for abscesses from cat bites. That doesn't count the bites I was aware of early enough to treat with peroxide and triple antibiotic so they didn't abscess. Then there's the fleas - tapeworms. I just couldn't see where it was healthy to be constantly treating for fleas and tapeworms. It just seemed to me the fewer chemicals I had to use on them the better. Add to that the demon-spawn children in the neighborhood who thought tormenting cats was the latest sport and I was convinced. My husband caught a couple of kids trying to drown our cat in their swimming pool. All our cats since then have been inside cats and none of them seem to mind. Wendy "Steve G" wrote in message ... itty (Sherry ) wrote in message ... (..) seems (from reading the cat groups--I've never been there...that road kill isn't the problem in the UK that it is here. Any idea why? I'm not sure; however, there are marked differences in the way suburban (and city) areas are laid out in the USA and US - at least based on the areas I've experienced in both countries. For example, the US seems to have far wider roads. The US is geared up as a car-oriented society (pun intended); there are far fewer pedestrian options. Roads in the US are often busier, and the traffic seems to be on the roads more consistently. Street lighting in suburban areas in the US seems a great deal worse than in the UK. Even the fact that people have larger cars in the US could be a factor (larger blind spots). Even the way people's land (gardens and such) are arranged could be a factor. All of these factors don't address any general sociocultural differences in the way people think about animals in the two countries. I don't know if there's any evidence for such differences. It may also be that the risk in the US is often overstated, and perhaps the risk in the UK underemphasised. Hard to tell, really. Also, I am in 100% agreement with both you and Cheryl that there *are* places left that cats can, and should be able to go outdoors. Maybe not many, Well, I tend to in principle favour the side of somewhat increased risk with the tradeoff being a richer environment (for the cat). However, there are certainly places where I'd consider the tradeoff to be unacceptable, and would keep the cat indoors. In such cases I'd consider it imperative to build an enriched indoor environment for the captive. (...) But on the highway I drive to the city, the road is always littered with roadkill. Both domestic animals and wildlife. I cycle to work every day (in central NC). I see a 'significant' amount of roadkill, but no cats as yet; the animals are usually deer, groundhogs, and the occasional raccoon and squirrel. There are also quite a few cats I see out of doors here, although these are mostly away from the most busiest areas. There's even a Dept. of Transportation truck who's job it is to pick up everything from dead cats to dead deer off the road. (I always thought that an awful job. I bet he doesn't get invited to the Middle School on career day) I dunno - maybe he can provide fresh venison steaks. Steve. |
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It wasn't the road kill risk that convinced me to keep my cats in. It was a
few factors. The first was other cats. We had one cat (our first) that just didn't want to stay inside. She tried scratching right through the drywall to get out. She had at least 3 stays at the animal hospital for abscesses from cat bites. That doesn't count the bites I was aware of early enough to treat with peroxide and triple antibiotic so they didn't abscess. Then there's the fleas - tapeworms. I just couldn't see where it was healthy to be constantly treating for fleas and tapeworms. It just seemed to me the fewer chemicals I had to use on them the better. Add to that the demon-spawn children in the neighborhood who thought tormenting cats was the latest sport and I was convinced. My husband caught a couple of kids trying to drown our cat in their swimming pool. All our cats since then have been inside cats and none of them seem to mind. Wendy "Steve G" wrote in message ... itty (Sherry ) wrote in message ... (..) seems (from reading the cat groups--I've never been there...that road kill isn't the problem in the UK that it is here. Any idea why? I'm not sure; however, there are marked differences in the way suburban (and city) areas are laid out in the USA and US - at least based on the areas I've experienced in both countries. For example, the US seems to have far wider roads. The US is geared up as a car-oriented society (pun intended); there are far fewer pedestrian options. Roads in the US are often busier, and the traffic seems to be on the roads more consistently. Street lighting in suburban areas in the US seems a great deal worse than in the UK. Even the fact that people have larger cars in the US could be a factor (larger blind spots). Even the way people's land (gardens and such) are arranged could be a factor. All of these factors don't address any general sociocultural differences in the way people think about animals in the two countries. I don't know if there's any evidence for such differences. It may also be that the risk in the US is often overstated, and perhaps the risk in the UK underemphasised. Hard to tell, really. Also, I am in 100% agreement with both you and Cheryl that there *are* places left that cats can, and should be able to go outdoors. Maybe not many, Well, I tend to in principle favour the side of somewhat increased risk with the tradeoff being a richer environment (for the cat). However, there are certainly places where I'd consider the tradeoff to be unacceptable, and would keep the cat indoors. In such cases I'd consider it imperative to build an enriched indoor environment for the captive. (...) But on the highway I drive to the city, the road is always littered with roadkill. Both domestic animals and wildlife. I cycle to work every day (in central NC). I see a 'significant' amount of roadkill, but no cats as yet; the animals are usually deer, groundhogs, and the occasional raccoon and squirrel. There are also quite a few cats I see out of doors here, although these are mostly away from the most busiest areas. There's even a Dept. of Transportation truck who's job it is to pick up everything from dead cats to dead deer off the road. (I always thought that an awful job. I bet he doesn't get invited to the Middle School on career day) I dunno - maybe he can provide fresh venison steaks. Steve. |
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