Concerning Domestic Animals

[Red_Dragon_]

my old cat ran away for a night we whent searching then we found her in somebodys garden and she was stuck in a sand box the ones that the council use

[Blank Stare]

I have an amazing story My cat ran away and I thought it died or just got lost, so I tried to forget about her, then a month later while I was playing airsoft in the woods I saw her, at first I wasn't sure it was her, but she still had a cloor on, but the next part is even stranger. I went over to her and I saw her walk into a bush, I looked through the bush and there were literally 20-30 dead mice/birds half eaten, disgusting. Then we took her to the vet and they said she was fine, but she had fleas and one tick(that I knew of)

[Cataphract]

Another one of my cats (right now I have two, I used to have three) tried to catch this big-ass pigeon once. She succeeded in getting it into her mouth on the fly-by, but it was stuck in her mouth, and her jaw couldn't move...it was the cutest thing, she just kept making whining noises.

[candice]

I'm only against four things when it comes to domestic animals.

1. Trying to domesticate an animal that was born in the wild, like a baby deer (I know people who have done this ). If all it has ever known is being in a human home, it'll be happy...but if it was born wild, that's a totally different story.

2. De-clawing cats. The claws aren't actually removed, their middle digit is just cut off, so they can't extend them. I don't see the need for it. If you don't want a cat to sharpen its claws on your couch, then don't get a cat! Or get a couch you don't care about. The same goes for snipping the vocal chords of dogs so they don't bark.

3. Keeping them confined in a small area and never letting them out...especially if you give them no sources of amusement. My sister has a Budgie, and it's quite content to hump a little Tweety Bird statue she got for him for 95% of the day...so I don't think he's lacking in amusement.

4. Being irresponsible and not spaying or neutering your pet, and then letting them go outside when you have no intention of keeping any babies it may have. It's one thing if you raise the babies to sell them or something, but there are SO many cats and dogs without homes because of stuff like that.

My cat is an indoor cat...and she seems pretty content. I'm just really paranoid because there are a lot of kids who like to do horrible things to cats around here, and people who put poison in their yard to "get" animals who wander into their gardens (there have been a lot of arrests here for that, lately). She has a lot of things to play on and get exercise, and nowhere in the house is off-limits to her (one of her favorite spots is the top of the fridge). I often wish we lived out in the country, though, so she could run outside. I feel like it's unfair to her, but I did save her from going to the pound, so it's a tradeoff, I guess. Aww...I miss her. My ex got her, since he kept the apartment, and I can't have her here. I still get to visit her, though.

I don't think I'd ever have a dog unless I was going to live somewhere it'd have plenty of space to run, though. They're a lot more high maintenance than cats, and I don't think I could give it the attention it deserves. My cat gets attention whenever she wants it, but dogs are much less picky about that sort of thing and tend to want a lot more attention.

[Cataphract]

My cat is an indoor cat...and she seems pretty content. I'm just really paranoid because there are a lot of kids who like to do horrible things to cats around here,

Argh! When I was like 8 years old I had an outdoor cat named Smokey (who was 7 years old at the time). One day I thought it would be fun to try putting a leash on her...but when I tried, she ran away, with the leash still around her neck.

She didn't come home for three days.

On the fourth day, my neighbor found her hung from a tree, using the leash that I put on her.

We know who it was who did it (there was this guy down the street who turned out to be a rapist, and his son was a fricking punk who swore and got into fights all the time, and he has a history of this kind of thing), but we couldn't prove it was him. We tried to find some article of clothing that maybe he snagged on a branch and got torn or ripped...but with no luck.

For like a week I thought it was my fault because I tried to put the leash on her in the first place. I thought the police were going to come get me.


I am most concerned about people who have no respect for living things. Remember that book "Shiloh" with that guy (Judd Travis) who was this conspiracy theorist NRA guy who liked to kick his dogs and shoot squirrels in his front yard with a rifle? That guy was a monster.

[candice]

That's horrible, Cataphract!

I went to high school with some guys who thought it would be hilarious to microwave a cat. That sort of thing makes me feel physically ill. I just can't imagine doing that to a living creature...much less someone's beloved pet. It's just awful.

[Mihail]

I would not feel gulity for beating a man to death who has thought it would be and has mircowaved a living animal, or any other sort of abuse for that matter.

[Cataphract]

I would.

[colonel_bob]

Some people deserve justice, others revenge. If someone microwaved my cat, I would have my revenge.

[Cataphract]

No one deserves what they have. No one deserves to live. It's just the way things are. Our "justice" is merely a concensus of the people on what they feel is right.