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"Rona Yuthasastrakosol" wrote: would you have a young child spayed or neutered? Chuckle. I know some kids who would have benefitted from this. |
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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 :-( |
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On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 18:18:19 GMT, "Mary" wrote:
"Kristine Kochanski" wrote in message .. . On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 07:01:10 -0600, "Rona Yuthasastrakosol" wrote: Using that analogy (cat and child)...would you have a young child spayed or neutered? If it was going to go out and shag at random with nobody to look after its offspring, yes. Nazi. :-) *s******* ;-) Don't want to get into a whole heavy philosophical debate, but we construct our society and our knowledge and understanding of it. Who knows, if Hitler had won the war it may well be perfectly normal and natural to have vast sections of our society sterilised now, if they weren't deemed 'fit' to produce genetically superior offspring. Scary thought. Hilter liked cats, I believe. And he was a vegetarian. So you can't believe the stereotypes ;-) |
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On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 18:19:07 +0000, Gwenhwyfaer de Tierveil
wrote: Quoth Kristine Kochanski: 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 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. OK, fair enough - and yes, you are; I just wanted to head off any Bobbing at the pass. In fact, I might be faced with that situation myself soon - I'm between jobs, and I may well be in a situation where I'm away from the house 5 days a week. Obviously, should that happen, I need to find my cats some nice new slaves... *sniffle* so I'm hoping it doesn't come to that. :-((( I'll have them!!! |
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"Kristine Kochanski" wrote: 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 :-( Well, and I think about, what if they swallow a string or get caught in something and choke? I'll never forget the time Gnarly stuck her head in one of those small tissue boxes. Yes, it was hilarious, and as soon as my husband got a load of her stumbling around, I removed it. If she had done this over a long weekend, she would have been a wreck at the end of it, and dehydrated too. |
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"Kristine Kochanski" wrote in message news On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 18:18:19 GMT, "Mary" wrote: "Kristine Kochanski" wrote in message .. . On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 07:01:10 -0600, "Rona Yuthasastrakosol" wrote: Using that analogy (cat and child)...would you have a young child spayed or neutered? If it was going to go out and shag at random with nobody to look after its offspring, yes. Nazi. :-) *s******* ;-) Don't want to get into a whole heavy philosophical debate, but we construct our society and our knowledge and understanding of it. Who knows, if Hitler had won the war it may well be perfectly normal and natural to have vast sections of our society sterilised now, if they weren't deemed 'fit' to produce genetically superior offspring. Scary thought. Hilter liked cats, I believe. And he was a vegetarian. So you can't believe the stereotypes ;-) Oooo, now you are in real trouble. We love our stereotypes of the bad guys. I appreciate that you know how to take me, btw. |
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On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:46:22 GMT, "Mary" wrote:
"Kristine Kochanski" wrote in message news On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 18:18:19 GMT, "Mary" wrote: Nazi. :-) *s******* ;-) Hilter liked cats, I believe. And he was a vegetarian. So you can't believe the stereotypes ;-) Oooo, now you are in real trouble. We love our stereotypes of the bad guys. I appreciate that you know how to take me, btw. It was the smiley at the end that gave it away ;-) If you'd said 'NAZI!' with no smiley I'd guess you meant it! Good old emoticons - change the whole tone of a sentence with a few well-placed punctuation marks! |
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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). rona -- ***For e-mail, replace .com with .ca Sorry for the inconvenience!*** |
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"Mary" wrote: What about if the cat has kitty companions and someone looking in on them twice a day? Or, you could just leave the television on for them. Video catnip, anyone? |
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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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