Posted on 01/27/2011 2:24:38 PM PST by decimon
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A valuable pedigreed cat that went missing from its New Zealand home turned up two days later a little different — it had been surgically castrated.
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"What am I supposed to do now? I can't exactly get someone to sew them back on," she told the newspaper.
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There are enough cats.....spay and neuter....
I can’t tell you how many cats i’ve trapped, spay/neutered and put back. I go looking for them and the cops tell me where to look too.
I understand how you want cats to stay couped up in the house their whole lives becuz perhaps you hate them in your yard, but cats have only been accepted as inside animals in the last couple centuries. My dads generation never allowed them in the house. cats were actually created with claws and hunting instincts for a reason..to survie outside...not sit on a ledge looking out a window.
That’s nice that you feel that way about your kitties. My property line, however, delineates space to be used as I choose. Teach your kitty to stay out of my yard, and I’m all for his/her rights.
It amazes me that otherwise sensible people can’t even understand that the use of MY yard is not at YOUR discretion.
I don’t have a problem with that. It might even work, although I have reasonable doubts about how effective it is in the case of males. If you catch and fix 10 of a population of 11, all the queens in the area are still going to get serviced. Just going to be one busy tom!
Personally, I think vasectomizing the toms is a better move — especially if they are pure strays. They will still be effective in defending their territory and servicing their queens, but they will no longer breed litters.
BTW, I am very much a cat person, and have five of the furry little bosses in my apartment right now. All five are well adjusted and have their own little cat society. None of them ever go outdoors.
This time. But how many notches have you on your scalpel, hmmm?
A trip to the SPCA certainly argues in your favor.
Too many to count...been at this for over thirty years. I have had quite a ball....
Too many to count...been at this for over thirty years. I have had quite a ball....
Pedigreed? What Cat Registry registers this breed? I have been out of the CFA for a few years, but have never seen these registered there. I checked TICA and could not find them there either. Sounds like a mixed breed designer cat, expensive with no registration available because it is not a recognized breed.
I did find some ads for breeders selling this cross as a Bengalmese, no registry listed, $350.00 and up.
Also who lets an expensive pedigreed cat roam the neighborhood like a mog? Maybe it just got out and while roaming some do-gooder group scooped it up thinking it was feral. There are groups who spay/neuter feral cats then release them back into the wild.
:-) You’re a good owner. I’ve had two little kitties...both of which were indoor sweeties.
There are pets; and then there are free, roaming animals.
They aren’t the same thing.
Owner? Surely, you jest!!
Every cat person knows that cat’s do not have owners...
They have staff.
How do you keep birds and other varmints off of ‘your yard’?
I know you love your kitty, and are/will be a wonderful parent/owner to it, but I believe keeping a cat isolated inside, never to feel the green grass under it's feet, never to know the thrill of the hunt, is immoral.
Yes, I know the lifespan for outdoor cats is several years less than wholly-indoor cats, but it is the quality of those years that I think is important.
I see sadness in the eyes of my neighbor's cat as it sits in her window, watching my cats frolic, and I also acknowledge fulfillment in my cats when they stalk geckos or slink through my corn.
It's a quality of life thing, and a moral one: God created these beasts to hunt, kill, and eat prey. By imprisoning my cats, I feel like I am thwarting the design of God, Kinda like when i got my Mom's Pinto wagon up to 92 PH and the motor blew up: It is just not meant to be.
Also, my cats kill and eat cockroaches, and I HATE cockroaches.
Like I said, we’re in a very rural area (hilly, woods). I never see cat or dog poop in the yard & my neighbor’s kitties are always in our yard. What I do see is deer poop!
But I do understand what you’re saying. When we lived in town we were annoyed by people walking their dogs & not scooping. Kitties didn’t go out there - too close to busy streets.
Did you know that birds bring over 60 diseases to your backyard?
Yes, we love our kitty, which is why we cannot let him go outside.....we don’t live in the country. We may allow him in our backyard, tethered....who knows. He was born a feral cat....and was probably the ONLY survivor of the litter....we like him too much. And, we don’t have the critters you have outside (cockroaches). He is PLENTY entertained inside, believe me. Plus, I really like the birds that come to our small backyard....and I know what a cat can do...I guess you just have to choose.
Ref post #4.
I have not doubt that was the reason.
So...we need to add to it? Don’t you understand that you’re expecting everyone else to live with YOUR choices?
Don’t you understand that your demands are unreasonable in the real world? You expect too much.
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