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From: denise@dadla.WR.TEK.COM (Denise Caire)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Apology request denied
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Date: 5 Dec 89 18:49:23 GMT
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Reply-To: denise@dadla.WR.TEK.COM (Denise Caire)
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In article <1043@dinorah.wustl.edu> mary@dinorah.wustl.edu (Mary E. Leibach) writes:
>
>I meant take the discussion of ways to keep your pet in your yard is a
>better topic for rec.pets, not the discussion as a whole.  If
>tethering a cat would risk strangling him or her (which I would NOT
>want) then the people in rec.pets would know better ways than that.
>It was the only way I have seen or heard of to safely keep your cat in
>your yard, which as I recall, was what you were asking.  

No.  The discussion was how to keep the cat away from the bird feeder.
One of you demented bird people suggested shooting it and I took the
bait.  I tried to take the discussion one step farther by asking how
to keep the cat in my yard while out.  I was actually trying to get
at the facts of nature which you folks don't quite get. 

>
>>>Putting a cat to sleep that has been badly
>>>mangled isn't exactly our idea of fun!!!
>
>>My idea of fun is putting a mangled Blake's Bird to sleep.  
>>What a hoot!!!  (Sheesh.  It's just a joke, okay :-)
>
>You have a very sick, disgusting, cruel and insulting sense of humor.
>The cat in question belonged to my ex-stepfather.  I had known him, and
>loved him since birth.  I had played with him when he was a kitten.  I
>had seen him eat his first solid food.  His owner let his cats roam
>the neighborhood.  One day the cat came back and hid under the bed.
>My ex-step-father pulled him out from under it to discover he was
>badly hurt.  The cat had to be put to sleep.  To wish such a horrible
>fate on someone else's pet, even as a joke, is just plain cruel.  No,
>it is not okay.  It is inexcusable.  I believe you owe five birds,
>myself, and the net a big apology.  Smileys don't count.

Why?  You clearly implied that is what would happen to my cat and you 
sure didn't sound very sorry about it.  As stated in another respnse, I
will find out what are the major causes of death among cats.  I suspect
there is a wide range of causes including old age.

Also, I agree that my joke was cruel and uncalled for.  But I am also
tired of being called names by people who don't know me, just that I
like cats.  Believe it or not, I am a good person, a single parent, a
new-home owner, a full-time employee, a canner, a gardener, a happy
balanced individual.  You all make me out to be a terrible person.


>		BLAKE'S 7: "Orbit"

What did that little diddy at the end mean?  (Sorry, I seemed to have
accidentily wiped it out.)

Until next time,
Denise "I love cats" Caire
denise@dadla.WR.TEK.COM