1. The cats live here. You don't.

2. If you don't want the cats to be near you, stay outside.

3. Yes, they have some disgusting habits So do I and so do you. What's your point?

4. OF COURSE they smell like cats.

5. It's their nature to try to sniff you, please feel free to sniff back.

6. I like them a lot better than I like most people.

7. To you they are cats. To me, they are adopted children who are short, hairy, walk on all fours and don't speak clearly. I have no problem with any of these things.

8. Cats are better than kids. They eat less, don't ask for money all the time, are easier to train, never drive your car, don't hang out with drug-using friends, don't smoke or drink, don't worry about whether they have the latest fashions, don't wear clothes, don't need a gazillion dollars for university, and they won't get pregnant if you have them castrated, altered, spayed, nuetered, whatever.



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Andrew (imported) wrote: Mon Apr 21, 2003 4:11 pm and they won't get pregnant if you have them castrated, altered, spayed, nuetered, whatever.

I'm going to throw THIS one at the 15 yo. next time he pipes up about something. In this case, CAUSE pregnancy, though. heh

(BTW: I'm not a cat hater, and I've never purposely injured any animal for my own or other's amusement. Heck, the only animals I've ever hunted were humans, and even then only because they had the temerity to shoot at ME!)

Here's some food for thought - offered only as a challenge for others to express why they would be selective in only defending some animals, but not others ...

Actually, if I were to hunt down any animals it probably would be cats, not because I dislike them, but because I have an extreme allergy to them. For me, cats are as life threatening as things like tetanus are to others.

My most serious exposure to cats was to two tiny kittens that put me in hospital for just under three months as a child, and in a coma for the first 6 days of that.

Needless to say, I try to stay away from cats, and others often interpret that as an aversion or hatred of them. Then they try to show me, up close and personal, just how loving and cute their deadly ball of fur is.

Does that give me open season on any cat that approaches, just as it's open season on germs and viruses? If not, why not?

Is it because cats have fur and germs don't? Because we can see cats but not germs? What?

Hmmm ... can't be the fur or the visibility because we kill rats and mice and moles and "X" all the time.

We eat many animals, even dogs and cats, which is arguably not especially good for them, eh? (How 'bout chickens and fish?)

Just to let you know, I do love animals. I've had dogs and mice and gerbils and birds as companions and pets all my life. I defend them and strongly object to their abuse. I feel that the weak sentences handed out for cruelty are insufficient.

I also happen to value my life more than a cat's ...

Tom

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