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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: Re: Letting Cats Go Outside
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Date: Wed, 30-May-84 01:29:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 30 01:29:59 1984
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>More people die in/by car accidents each year than do cats.
Adam, you've got to post some source for this - I just don't begin to buy
it.  I know that, for example, Colorado's auto-death toll works out to one
or two people a day for the entire state.  There are probably more than two
cats killed per day in our town (of <100,000), let alone the rest of the
state.  And how about keeping the analogy correct - how many people are HIT
by cars.  If you've got some figures, let's see them.

>If you are one of those who won't let his/her cat outside
>because you grieve every time you see a dead one on the road,
>do you also grieve every time you hear of a person killed in
>a car?
Objection!  Again, you changed the analogy, from "see" for the cats to "hear
of" for people.  If I restore the analogy, I emphatically answer "Yes - I not
only grieve but am sickened when I see a dead person on the road killed by
a car."

>I'm not being cold.  I am also sickened when I see dead animals
>on the road, but that doesn't give me the right to take away
>a part of my cat's life.
Your cat's life is what you make it.  Do you feed your cat?  I hope not -
for the hunting instinct is as much a part of the cat's life as being
outdoors.

Sure, people and cats both can get hit by cars.  But we can train people,
while cats are very hard to train (in general; there are exceptions).
-- 
...Stop to smell the flowers.				Dick Dunn
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