Don't shoot the cat ...

another point I would like to bring up.

Everyone is talking about how much they love their house cats (I do too :) ) but wild cats can be deadly to a house cat. As far as I know cats are territorial animals, so if you let you cat out one evening to roam the yard there is no telling what wild cats it may encounter. I can just imagine my fat ol house cat going up against a hardened wild cat. She would not stand a chance. Just something for thought.

yeah, but what if you like to take a siesta in your back yard and let the cats out too. why should they be denied the simple pleasures in life, of sunshine and a warm breeze?
they say indoor cats r just that......meant for indoors...so they say.

thats what I was saying. We let our inside cat outside every now and then. Say we are having our siesta in the back yard, the cat is out and wanders into some wild cats territory in your yard (or neighbors yard if you dont have a big yard). I have seen wild cats fight before....it is not pretty :( . I think that decreasing the population of non-local wild cats (by what means...I dont know) would be great for the health of other animals.

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Originally Posted by BallPythonBabe448

I have had my cat my ENTIRE life. He's basically my brother. I had his mother, his dad, his uncle, is other uncle, and is grandpa (all cats). (as you probably figured out I used to have alot of cats and we bred them). We also had some of his brothers and sisters. He went through a horror story when he was a kitten. I went to work with my dad, and when we came home there was blood and fur all over the floor, including a majority of the kittens were dead . We searched the house and the mom cat couldn't be found. Well, we finally gave up searching for her and the remaining kittens hoping that she ran away from whatever happened and took the remaining kittens with her. I opened my dresser droor, and there was Quazi and a few other kittens. The mother cat was never found and we still don't know what happened to the cats that day or if the mom cat was killed or if she ran away. Well one of his uncles was bitten by a snake and was killed. His other uncle was attacked by a raccoon and had his back torn out, so we had him put to sleep. The grandpa cat shared a food bowl with the uncle that was attacked by a raccoon, so the vet told us we need to put him to sleep too incase of rabies. (plus grandpa cat had feline aids and wasn't doing so well)

So, now we only have one cat.

He's a huge cat, he probably weighs 20 pounds. We have tried all his life to get him to wear collars and tags, but he always was able to take them off. He roams around, and he's a nice cat so everyone pets him and enjoy's him.

Well what if they passed this law and my cat was shot because he "didn't have a collar"?

I don't think shooting is the way to go.

I think everyone should have the right to put out a trap, and if they catch a cat with no collar then they should take it to the humane society and if no one claims it, then if its nice adopt it out, or if its like ferocious then euthenize it.

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that is horrible, absolutley devastating!
years ago.....a cat of mine was bitten by a snake, @ least i thinkso. i was @ the shore w/ some friends, came home my old cat was sick, foundtwo fang marks in her. my bf said he had her out in the yard for a while.either a timber or a ccopperhead.but we were goin deep sea fishing, so we dropped her off @ this animal hospitol. i felt real bad, i didn't want to go....but a few days later, i went back andshe was doing great.t couldn't believe it...thank god, she made it. like over 700 dallors later.but she is worth it! they gave her iv antibiotis and iv stuff. when i left her there she was in bad shape.........thank god for vet techs! her name was angel there was definetly an angel lookin' out for her.

my 2 girls now wont keep a collar on either. i wouldn't want your cat to get shot either.........
we have cookouts and stuff and @ night we put those glow braclets on them around thier necks ....its hillariuos! we connect like 3of them to put on the dog!i got like a tube of 100 on ebay.....they keep us amused...

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I think everyone should have the right to put out a trap, and if they catch a cat with no collar then they should take it to the humane society and if no one claims it, then if its nice adopt it out, or if its like ferocious then euthenize it.

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There's the dilemma. Oviously there are many more humane alternatives to keeping the feral cat populations down, but unforatunely there is not enough money to implement these strategies. Without turning this into a political debate, many local communities are having to deal with a lack of funds but they are also responsible for dealing with these types of unfortunate situations. I am opposed to people running around having carte blanche to shoot any cat that they personally feel is a threat. However, look at the alternatives. You will either have a community putting funds into trapping feral cats and reducing services such as fire, police, libraries, etc. Or you put up with feral cats continuing to breed and impacting the environment and community.

well, we do have a few chinese resteraunts around here....hmmmm....

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well, we do have a few chinese resteraunts around here....hmmmm....

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Don't do it. Cat is creepy to eat. I (unintentionally) found out the hard way. :omfg: :puke:

oh gross. i'm sorry you are unfortunate enough to know what cat tastes like. yucko. :bleh:

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oh gross. i'm sorry you are unfortunate enough to know what cat tastes like. yucko. :bleh:

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Yeah, it's not very fun to stop for a bite at a Chinese restaurant as you're out running errands with the family, feel like the texture and flavor of your sweet and sour "pork" is just wrong -- totally different from any pork you've had before and lighter in color to boot, and then see on the news the next night that *that exact restaurant* has been closed down that day by the health department for substituting cat for chicken and pork. I could barely keep *any* food down for a few days after that. :puke:

Cat,.....The other white meat......


just when you think it's beef n' broccoli.....