Cats

[BlaqueKatt]

The cat hatred is kind of worrying; what happen, did a cat piss in your wheaties when you were a rugrat? O.o

actually my dislike of outside cats comes from being attacked by one that was under my mom's car while I was putting my son in his carseat-the owner wouldn't fess up or turn the cat over to be quarrantined(we knew who it was) so I got a nice batch of rabies shots.

I wasn't the only one that got attacked by that cat-it was stomped to death by one of our neighbors when it went for her child-and the owner was fined for the attack on me, and for hiding a vicious animal.


I love house cats-but outside cats it just cruel to the animal-would you let your 3 year old out by itself? A cat's mental capacity is equal to that of a 3 year old human.

Average lifespan for inside cat-15 years
Avgrage lifespan for outside cat-8 years-exposed to cold, disease, predators, cars-etc.

[Lace Neil Singer]

My cat is now 10 years old and counting; most of the cats in my parents' neighbourhood are either 10 years or over, with a few new kittens and a couple of older cats, including one that's 21 years old and never allowed out at night any more in case she forgets where she lives; that's feline senility or something. My parents live in a quiet village, in a culldesac where there is zero traffic; where did you get your stats from? Of course anyone letting a cat out if they live on a main road is dicing with (cat) death; and you can't compare a cat to a toddler. That's crazy talk; the day a toddler comes in with a live bird in its mouth after playing in the garden or a cat suddenly calls its owner "mummy" is the day the two can be compared.

Put it this way; if a bomb dropped on a house and rendered the three year old and the cat homeless and parent/ownerless, which one would survive without human intervention?

[Sylvia727]

I think this all comes down to rights and courtesy. I have the right to privacy and the right to refuse entrance to my property. However, as common courtesy, I allow my neighbors to cut across my grass. I extend that same courtesy to their pets. I'm not required to let anyone or anything on my property, I do it because I live in a small neighborhood and doing each other favors is part of the community spirit. But if anyone or thing, be it cat, dog, child, or adult, starts damaging my property, that courtesy will be revoked. Trespassing charges for the adult, stern lecture to Mommy for the child or pet.

I'm not sure how I would handle a neighbor who refused to take responsibility for his pet. So far, all of my neighbors have been as courteous to me as I have been to them. While I do believe in my 2nd Amendment rights, I wouldn't want to kill a helpless animal for its owner's mistakes. But on the other hand, I'm certainly not going to sit there with a water gun and play games with it. I have better things to do. I think the cage and pound idea is the best, although that still requires me to invest too much time and energy cleaning up after someone else.