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Why Cat Owners Should All be Penalized
Medscape Internal Medicine News ^ | 6/22/2012 | Arthur L. Caplan, PhD

Posted on 06/26/2012 12:11:10 PM PDT by fteuph

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To: fteuph
Even if you move the cat, so to speak, the presence of the cat is left behind.

Second-hand cat.

121 posted on 06/27/2012 7:18:59 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Occupy DC General Assembly: We are Marxist tools. WE ARE MARXIST TOOLS!)
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To: Eric Blair 2084; SheLion; Gabz; Hank Kerchief; 383rr; libertarian27; traviskicks; bamahead; CSM; ...

No catting in enclosed, public spaces!

Nanny State Satire PING!


122 posted on 06/27/2012 7:27:27 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Occupy DC General Assembly: We are Marxist tools. WE ARE MARXIST TOOLS!)
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To: fteuph
I have owned cats. I do not like cats. I had cats who lived outside and had to find their own food. They were rodent control. I did provide water.

If you own and feed cats in your living space, they will eat you if you should remain immobile for some reason through a couple of their accustomed feeding times.

123 posted on 06/27/2012 7:37:49 PM PDT by elkfersupper ( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: Salamander

Do I get the Doberman Stamp of Approval?

Golly Gee, I’ve dreamed my whole life about getting the Doberman Stamp of Approval!


124 posted on 06/27/2012 8:25:52 PM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: Altariel
The moment you've been waiting for.


125 posted on 06/27/2012 8:44:36 PM PDT by Salamander (I wanna hurt you just to hear you screaming my name.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Thanks for the ping!


126 posted on 06/27/2012 8:49:04 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: fteuph
I saw a recent poll that was published in Forbes magazine that said that most Americans believe that there ought to be a tax on people who are overweight.

Uh, so you institute, over the strenuous objections of any rational observer, an evil collectivist plan to pay for people's healthcare (and before anyone thinks I've overlooked something, yes, insurance, as presently constituted, is but another evil collectivist scheme), then when the results suck, and the results of evil collectivist schemes tend to do, the solution is MORE evil collectivism??? Gosh, I hope you're not a doctor or engineer and I ever have the misfortune to require your "services". Or plumber or electrician. Fry cook.

127 posted on 06/27/2012 10:09:55 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Salamander
I was wondering about how the kittehs do with your snakes. How's Alice, BTW? Still behaving himself and not plotting his next escape?
128 posted on 06/27/2012 10:52:52 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: Fawn

My Mom tells me that when I was about two, she and Dad were visiting neighbors in their yard and when she looked over at me, the neighbor’s Great Dane had my whole face in his mouth! I still have a few very slight scars to show for it. They have no idea what prompted the “attack” but it freaked everyone out, of course. It happens.


129 posted on 06/27/2012 10:57:56 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: boatbums

Ren’s not allowed around the snakes.

I don’t want him harming the Ball Pythons or the Boas harming him.

No matter how small the risk may be I’m not willing to take it.

Alice is doing well.

He’s gotten comfortable in his new home, is eating greedily and has finally settled down to where he’s back to giving me a ‘smile’ when I open his door and pet him.

Still waiting for him to shed to see if that mystery goop comes off of his back.

I think he’s explored his home enough to give up on any future escape plans.

There’s no way out and he seems to have accepted that.


130 posted on 06/28/2012 4:27:45 AM PDT by Salamander (I wanna hurt you just to hear you screaming my name.)
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To: Gabz
It is excellent.

Amazing how many people are completely missing the point...:-)

131 posted on 06/28/2012 6:21:55 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: Salamander; Altariel
R U 2 SERIES? lol. Ok...never hug your dog....

Salamander your ignorant comment says all that needs to be said about you....go back to DU where you fit right in.

132 posted on 06/28/2012 6:28:50 AM PDT by Fawn (DEAR JESUS....PLEASE LET OBAMA LOSE.....AMEN.)
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To: cripplecreek
It seems a lot of FReepers are experiencing SARCHASM.

Sarchasm: the gap (chasm) of understanding between someone being sarcastic and the person who thinks they are serious.

133 posted on 06/28/2012 6:35:13 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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To: fteuph
..?MEOWS?..*SNARLING*
*SCRATCH/BITE*
*SCRATCH/BITE*
*SCRATCH/BITE*
*SCRATCH/BITE*

134 posted on 06/28/2012 6:36:19 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (WA DC E$tabli$hment; DNC/RNC/Unionists...Brazilian saying: "$@me Old $hit; different flie$". :^)
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To: Salamander
You are absolutely correct! Dogs are not human, with human emotions, and even though sometimes it seems like they are are, it's your imagination telling you that. In other words, don't ever hug someone else’s dog, especially a pitt bull.
135 posted on 06/28/2012 6:42:02 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: Fawn
My “ignorant comment” is based on 35+ years of studying canine behavior and body language.

I've never been bitten by anyone else's dog nor have any of my dogs been biters.

People bring their problem dogs to me to be ‘fixed’.

[not to mention that I'm instantly pinged *here* if somebody’s dog needs help]

Seems I'm doing something right.

Why would ~you~ be disappointed over “never hug your dog”?

During hurricane Katrina, you wanted ALL the displaced dogs suffering in the aftermath to be summarily KILLED, to be sure none of them ‘harassed’ any of the stray cats.
[who were doing quite well on their own, by the way]

You are a dog hater.

You would be perfectly happy if all dogs were killed.

You accuse me of being ideologically aligned with DU while you seem to dovetail perfectly with the desires of pETA.

How ironic.

136 posted on 06/28/2012 6:43:42 AM PDT by Salamander (I wanna hurt you just to hear you screaming my name.)
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To: Fawn

Posting “Just sayin....” at the end of a statement not only negates the statement it is proof positive that the statement was made by a retard.

She should have kept her face away from the dog’s face.


137 posted on 06/28/2012 6:48:21 AM PDT by Eaker (When somebody hands you your arse, don't give it back saying "This needs a little more tenderizing.")
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To: Salamander
first.. it was the pigs..
..cows..
..horses..
..chickens..
..pit bull dogs..
..cats..
..are the reptiles next? 8-)

138 posted on 06/28/2012 6:49:17 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (WA DC E$tabli$hment; DNC/RNC/Unionists...Brazilian saying: "$@me Old $hit; different flie$". :^)
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To: Ditter
A magnificently condensed bit of common sense and wisdom, there.

Pity that some people cannot seem to grasp that simple concept.

I have, in the past, trained protection Dobes.

Had I treated them as “people” rather than working with their completely predictable canid instincts, I'm sure I would have been eaten a long time ago.

:)

I confess I ‘baby’ Odin a lot out of my love for him but the second he acts inappropriately in any situation, we instantly go into “master/dog” mode.

He gets no behavioral “breaks” just because I love him more than my own skin.

He is [as are all dogs] capable of doing damage and I cannot forget that for one nanosecond.

Making sure he never gets into trouble is -my- responsibility, not his.

He is incapable of making inerrant ‘human’ conscious moral/social decisions so I must make them for him, always.

The blame or celebration of whatever he is or does rests squarely on my shoulders.

139 posted on 06/28/2012 7:01:25 AM PDT by Salamander (I wanna hurt you just to hear you screaming my name.)
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To: Fawn

“R U” ready to educate yourself and shuffle off that dark cloak of ignorance?

http://www.winknews.com/National-World/2012-04-10/Hug-your-dog-day-harmful-or-harmless

http://doggonesafe.blogspot.com/2010/12/dogs-dont-like-hugs-and-kisses.html

I’m bored of continually proving you wrong.

Why can’t you take it upon yourself to actively seek objective -facts- instead of constantly posting biased, hate-driven drivel?


140 posted on 06/28/2012 7:10:36 AM PDT by Salamander (I wanna hurt you just to hear you screaming my name.)
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