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From: jbf@ccieng5.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: Re: who says pets should run loose?
Message-ID: <446@ccieng5.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-May-84 00:16:42 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 22 00:16:42 1984
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I don't think dogs should run loose.  Cats should.  This is not a
question where there is a wrong and a right answer.  The cat's risk
is less if it is kept at home.  (But if a fire should start while
you are out, you have just devised a fiendish torture for your pet)
Personally, I would rather give my cat a choice.  We had a cat in
Guam that could come and go as he liked.  We kept a bowl of dry
food for him in a bowl in the kitchen, which would last weeks since
he was perfectly capable of feeding himself on the ambient rats and
the neighbor's chickens (no complaints from the neighbor -- he let
the chickens run wild, and expected to lose a baby chick now and
then).  He was a free companion, and I would never have considered
choosing for him whether or not he wanted to live his life in a
safe place.  He did catch pneumonia once...

Azhrarn

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