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Urgent - I need your help
Please help save two precious cats from needless harm.
My neighbor, Gloria, has two lazy housecats, named Leap-in-the-air and Tubs. There is a mouse in her house and is Gloria is setting traps for them. The kind of mousetrap you bait with cheese or peanut butter and when the mouse goes for the bait a piece of metal snaps down and breaks the mouse's spine. Gloria insists that such a trap if sprung by a cat's paw would do no harm to the cat's paw. I believe she is wrong. Although I would never use such a trap in the first place, even if I would consider using one I certainly would not leave it where a cat might accidentally get a paw caught in it. What I need from you guys is testimonials -- not opinions, but actual stories of injuries to cats who've encountered such mousetraps and been seriously hurt by them. I will show those to Gloria and hope she at least decides to put the mousetraps out of reach of her kitties. Time is of the essence! Thank you. |
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I don't think you're going to get much in the way of testimonials since
most of us have the sense to know that something that has the capability to kill a small animal can cause harm to a larger one. The only thing I can suggest, and I am very serious about this, is that you go over there, set a mousetrap, and *insist* your friend stick her own finger in it to prove her theory that it won't cause harm to a more fragile cat's paw. That might be enough to get the point across. 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 |
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Friendly-like, have Gloria "test" trap by sticking her own
finger on it and springing trigger on her finger....she must be a few sandwiches short of a picnic, and if so, is dumb enough to do your "test" if you suggest it. "Pat" wrote in message ... Please help save two precious cats from needless harm. My neighbor, Gloria, has two lazy housecats, named Leap-in-the-air and Tubs. There is a mouse in her house and is Gloria is setting traps for them. The kind of mousetrap you bait with cheese or peanut butter and when the mouse goes for the bait a piece of metal snaps down and breaks the mouse's spine. Gloria insists that such a trap if sprung by a cat's paw would do no harm to the cat's paw. I believe she is wrong. Although I would never use such a trap in the first place, even if I would consider using one I certainly would not leave it where a cat might accidentally get a paw caught in it. What I need from you guys is testimonials -- not opinions, but actual stories of injuries to cats who've encountered such mousetraps and been seriously hurt by them. I will show those to Gloria and hope she at least decides to put the mousetraps out of reach of her kitties. Time is of the essence! Thank you. |
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She told me that she did try it on her finger and it didn't even hurt, and
that's why she thinks it won't hurt a cat's paw. "Hopitus" wrote in message ... Friendly-like, have Gloria "test" trap by sticking her own finger on it and springing trigger on her finger....she must be a few sandwiches short of a picnic, and if so, is dumb enough to do your "test" if you suggest it. |
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wrote in message ... I don't think you're going to get much in the way of testimonials since most of us have the sense to know that something that has the capability to kill a small animal can cause harm to a larger one. The only thing I can suggest, and I am very serious about this, is that you go over there, set a mousetrap, and *insist* your friend stick her own finger in it to prove her theory that it won't cause harm to a more fragile cat's paw. That might be enough to get the point across. Megan, when she originally told me of her plan she claimed that she had let the trap snap on her own finger and that it didn't hurt and therefore it could not hurt a cat's paw. We've already had a long argument about how the bones in a cat's paw are smaller than a bone in a human finger. She is dead sure that these bones are close enough to the same size that a mousetrap not only could not break such a bone but would not even hurt the cat. See why I am desperate? |
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Pat wrote:
Please help save two precious cats from needless harm. My neighbor, Gloria, has two lazy housecats, named Leap-in-the-air and Tubs. There is a mouse in her house and is Gloria is setting traps for them. The kind of mousetrap you bait with cheese or peanut butter and when the mouse goes for the bait a piece of metal snaps down and breaks the mouse's spine. Gloria insists that such a trap if sprung by a cat's paw would do no harm to the cat's paw. I believe she is wrong. Although I would never use such a trap in the first place, even if I would consider using one I certainly would not leave it where a cat might accidentally get a paw caught in it. What I need from you guys is testimonials -- not opinions, but actual stories of injuries to cats who've encountered such mousetraps and been seriously hurt by them. I will show those to Gloria and hope she at least decides to put the mousetraps out of reach of her kitties. Time is of the essence! Thank you. I don't have any testimonials about cats getting hurt but when I had to use spring traps for a mouse problem years ago I shoved them way back behind the refrigerator and back in cabinets where the cats did not go. And if she's ever seen one that didn't quite DIE because it was caught in the trap, she'd abhor using such a thing, too. I switched to bait traps (again, shoved way back). I didn't have a cat at the time but I had a dog smaller than my cat. I made sure the bait wasn't anywhere near where my dog (or a cat) could reach. Her finger is not at all an indication of how this would hurt a cat paw and if she doesn't think it hurts, she's never really done it. I only had a trap spring on me once and it HURT like Hades. Jill |
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"jmcquown" wrote I don't have any testimonials about cats getting hurt but when I had to use spring traps for a mouse problem years ago I shoved them way back behind the refrigerator and back in cabinets where the cats did not go. And if she's ever seen one that didn't quite DIE because it was caught in the trap, she'd abhor using such a thing, too. I switched to bait traps (again, shoved way back). I didn't have a cat at the time but I had a dog smaller than my cat. I made sure the bait wasn't anywhere near where my dog (or a cat) could reach. Her finger is not at all an indication of how this would hurt a cat paw and if she doesn't think it hurts, she's never really done it. I only had a trap spring on me once and it HURT like Hades. I'm hurting from the very thought... Can you image what this could do to a cat's tongue? She doesn't feed them much, they are always begging for food and what food she did buy for them was rancid right out of the bag, the dogs won't even touch it when they are starving, so I can't imagine any little morsel of anything in the house going uninvestigated by her cats. Aren't they smart enough to catch and eat the mice? I guess not and I guess this is her way of punishing them for not catching those mice. Honest to Bast it makes me want to start packing and move away from here but where else could I live on $600/month and still have six cats. I am already in a trap. |
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On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 12:19:47 -0600, Pat wrote:
wrote in message ... I don't think you're going to get much in the way of testimonials since most of us have the sense to know that something that has the capability to kill a small animal can cause harm to a larger one. The only thing I can suggest, and I am very serious about this, is that you go over there, set a mousetrap, and *insist* your friend stick her own finger in it to prove her theory that it won't cause harm to a more fragile cat's paw. That might be enough to get the point across. Megan, when she originally told me of her plan she claimed that she had let the trap snap on her own finger and that it didn't hurt and therefore it could not hurt a cat's paw. We've already had a long argument about how the bones in a cat's paw are smaller than a bone in a human finger. She is dead sure that these bones are close enough to the same size that a mousetrap not only could not break such a bone but would not even hurt the cat. See why I am desperate? I would suggest you take the cat to your house until she traps the mouse. Could you convince her this is the best way? MLNB |
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"mlbriggs" wrote I would suggest you take the cat to your house until she traps the mouse. Could you convince her this is the best way? There are two cats there, one of which can't be touched. The other, Tubs, used to live here but anytime he has tried to come back and visit Tommy and Eli have read him the riot act. Remember we are dealing with an extremely stubborn woman. Two years ago when I saw hemp dogbane growing thick in one of the pastures I told her it is deadly poison to livestock and she should eradicate it. She said it was OK and even stopped me from pulling the plants out by the roots. The following summer one of the baby foals ate some of that plant and died from it. Then she went about eradicating the weed from all the pastures. The only way she learns anything is through hard experience. The best advice is unwelcome and universally rejected simply because it was not *her* idea or because she believes it is wrong. |
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