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From: denise@dadla.WR.TEK.COM (Denise Caire)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Cats & WIld Birds
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Date: 5 Dec 89 00:21:39 GMT
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In article <1760.25726f7f@mccall.uucp> scott@mccall.uucp writes:
>In article <822@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM>, denise@dadla.WR.TEK.COM (Denise Caire) writes:
>> I live in a mild enough climate to leave the cat out most of the time.
>> I keep him in when it is cold and wet or when he wants in.  I do not
>> keep a litter box in the house as I don't care to smell it.
>> Denise Caire

>If I every have to live in your neighborhood or you in mine, you may
>find a package of your cat's deposit somewhere on your property.  I
>hate stepping in shit, and just because you can't stand the smell
>doesn't mean I want to.  

My cat already makes his deposits on my property.  He loves barkdust
and that I have a planty of!  If you were a neighbor and stepped in
his shit, then you should try walking on the sidewalk or pathway like 
everyone else does.
one else.

>

Do you feel better now?  People who profess to love birds and 
hate cats are disgusting hypocritical snobs.

> I have indoor birds and like to feed the
>outdoor ones too.  I enjoy them both.  I also like cats but not when
>they're not under control(supervision).

Are you implying that cats are controllable or trainable?  How about
a little self-education here before spouting off!  

> I got a cat that visits my
    ^^^ have
>yard frequently. I've tried to shoe it away only to have it return.
>I would talk to the owner but I don't know who it is(if any).

So, instead of locating the owner (even a door-to-door canvassing would
work), you would simply shoot the cat if it weren't against the law?
Where do you live?  I thank God you are not my neighbor!

> My
>next trick will be a bucket of cold water(and winter is coming soon)
>on the cat.

You are truely demented.  What a premeditated bit of cruelty that is.

> If that doesn't keep him away then a kerosine wire brush
>on it's butt might give him an idea.  A cat that is fed at a home
>needs no birds for a meal. 

I doubt that the cat needs to kill birds for food.  But, on the
other hand, aren't you being cruel in luring the birds to within
range of the cat?

> For those of you that want to argue against
>that, then why should the cat be able to kill the birds?

I know it is hard to see a little bird's life snuffed out by a cat, but
what are the odds that it's going to survive pesticides, toxic wastes,
jet engines, deplenished nesting areas, possums, racoons, other
preditors, and on and on?  Get off the cats case.  We all play a part.


> Or why not
>fine the owners of the cat for cruelty towards birds?

Or bird owners for cruelty toward cats?

>Scott Davis (800)255-2762, in Kansas (913)776-4041
>The McCall Pattern Company, 615 McCall Rd., Manhattan, KS 66502, USA

Remind me to never, ever visit here!  Yech.

Denise Caire
denise@dadla.WR.tEK.COM