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From: rcd@opus.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: Re: who says pets should run loose?
Message-ID: <502@opus.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-May-84 23:56:36 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 21 23:56:36 1984
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>What if you were given the choice of living the life your currently
>life with all the hazards, heartaches and problems or were offerered
>the chance to live in a beautiful, large home which you could never
>leave.  Which would you choose?  A beautiful, large home which you
>could never leave would just be a pretty cage.  I don't know many humans
>who want to live in a cage.  I don't know of ANY cats who would care
>for it.

This would be just irrelevant emotionalism if it weren't for the fact that
it kills so many cats every year--as it is, it's cruel ignorance.

The average lifespan of a cat which lives outdoors is less than half that
of an indoor cat.  Our cats all live indoors, and believe me, they don't
suffer much.  (If they're annoyed at being denied something, they let us
know post haste - if they needed to go outside, we'd hear about it.)

Would you like to live in a world like the one in which you were born and
brought up - or one in which there is a very real possibility that you may
be smashed to bloody death by something entirely beyond your understanding?
(How's that for a cheap/emotional reply?!)
-- 
...A friend of the devil is a friend of mine.		Dick Dunn
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