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From: barry@aurora.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: Imported woman's Fox Fur Coats
Message-ID: <1323@aurora.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Nov-87 03:05:56 EST
Article-I.D.: aurora.1323
Posted: Fri Nov 20 03:05:56 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Nov-87 12:15:46 EST
References: <132@blic.BLI.COM> <4830@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <1841@chinet.UUCP> <357@gethen.UUCP>
Reply-To: barry@aurora.UUCP (Kenn Barry)
Organization: QQQCLC
Lines: 22
Keywords: Fox Coats
Summary: ssstupid humansss

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	I'm posting this for the cat I live with, who is unable to cope
with keyboards.

In article <357@gethen.UUCP> farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren) writes:
>"keep animals as pets":  Yes.  My cat would much rather be in my house,
>being fed regularly, and having a lifespan some five times longer than
>the average cat living in the wild, I'm sure.  I am denying her the 
>right to live a free life on her own, it's true, but that free life,
>in reality, means one which will be short, painful, and a continual
>struggle.  Do you seriously contend that keeping this from happening
>to my cat constitutes cruelty to the animal?

	Whaddaya mean, PET?? I don't belong to nobody! I let Kenn handle
a few boring details of life because it's convenient. When I want to go
out, I tell him, and he has to open the door for me. I come back because
I want to (and he has to open the door for me again), and if I want, I
can take off ANYTIME! I am a free being. *I* adopted *him*. People don't
keep cats, cats keep people. You wanna talk abouts pets, talk about
dogs.

						-Autumn