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Bloodless Cat Mutilations In Bellingham, Washington
Earth Files ^ | June 2002 | Linda Moulton Howe

Posted on 06/08/2002 9:16:21 PM PDT by Hellmouth

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To: Hellmouth
If no cautery, the implication is that if it were a normal kill and cut like that with removal of organs, for the cat to be bloodless, it would have to have been taken someplace else and cleaned up before being returned?

Or the cats could have been dead for awhile before being mutilated.

21 posted on 06/09/2002 12:17:21 AM PDT by Double Tap
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To: Hellmouth
No, there is nothing like a nuclear plant or gov't installation of any kind. We do have some witch covens and some Satanic activity as well. As a matter of fact, a few years ago, it was rumored that a group of Satanists were meeting in the woods, not far from where I live, and that they had left notes on doors of nearby homes suggesting that families do not let their animals out at night because they might be mistaken for strays and sacrificed. It sounded more like someone didn't like loose pets to me, but we did have some kids who were into Satanism, like I said.
22 posted on 06/09/2002 12:27:50 AM PDT by Eva
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To: Myrddin
Actually, this is true about the cats in Bellingham, but we also have a very lax juvenile system in this state. Kids have to do something really awful before they put them away for more than a month.

Just about a month ago, a sixteen year old killed his seven year old neighbor in a park by injecting him with insulin and then choking him with a stick. The kid had already been charged with setting two fires and stealing at school and breaking and entry at a neighbor's house, but the authorities didn't deem him to be dangerous, so he was still at home, going to public school

23 posted on 06/09/2002 12:33:40 AM PDT by Eva
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To: Hellmouth
Chit. I am moving to Bellingham in a couple of months and have 2 cats...JFK
24 posted on 06/09/2002 12:35:19 AM PDT by BADROTOFINGER
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To: beaversmom
That was hilarious! Thanks for posting the link.
25 posted on 06/09/2002 1:12:48 AM PDT by pbmaltzman
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To: BADROTOFINGER
Keep the cats indoors.
26 posted on 06/09/2002 1:16:14 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
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Looks like I may have to. They dont go far (they are both formerly male) and I usually dont let them out at night. I guess I will have to watch...JFK
27 posted on 06/09/2002 1:39:05 AM PDT by BADROTOFINGER
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To: MarMema
are a lot of wierd articles about our part of the world here on FR recently
Liberal extremists are sick puppies and you are living in socialist ground zero. That explains a lot. Move? No, I say we fight back, making it so unpleasant they all emmigrate to France with their hollyweird bud, Alec Baldwin.
28 posted on 06/09/2002 10:32:08 AM PDT by Libertina
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To: Hellmouth
I hear the cats are being stole by people who are into Kitty Porn... perhaps they are now moving up to snuff films????

Stop Kitty Porn

It is October 17, 1998.

A young man using the handle "flea" uploads a pornographic picture to an Internet "newsgroup".

It happens an estimated 2000 times a day, but this time, it's different. The picture shows a naked six year old, whom we will call Kallie, helplessly tied in thin blue yarn... and what is perhaps even more disturbing, the man distributing the picture is Kallie's legal guardian.

To this date, no legal action has been taken and Kallie is still in the custody of "flea".

Why has justice failed Kallie? Why has the law not intervened? The answer is simple... Kallie is a cat.

KITTY PORN

The problem is growing. Each day it is estimated that as many as twenty pictures of young cats go up on the Internet without their knowledge or consent. With a computer and phone line, anyone, even children, can easily find and view these pictures.

In fact, in a frightening new trend children themselves are increasingly responsible for taking and distributing these startling pictures. What is to be done? Where does free speech end and compassion begin?

In a recent study conducted by Richard Little it is estimated that there are over a million billion pictures of cats on the Internet. That number is expected to rise by some 30000000% over the next year.

Projections for the year 2,010 show that there will be more cat pictures on the internet than molecules of oxygen in the atmosphere. Of course some critics have questioned Richard's study pointing to the fact that Richard is only ten and a half and call the study "dangerous, unfounded fiction" Supporters claim it's not dangerous at all. Both sides agree however that it would be impossible to come up with accurate numbers... so we'll use these.

All over the world there are increasing reports of kitty porn. China, Japan and the Netherlands have all become hot spots on the kitty porn circuit. Several organizations track these phenomena such as the "WWW Cat Map" recently awarded POINT'S prestigious "Top 5% of the Web" award. It chronicles some of the world's most notorious cat pages. Pages like these can be a boon to those concerned with kitty porn, but they can also be misused by those seeking cat pictures for prurient purposes.

Kitty porn spans economic lines as well as national borders. The kitty porn scene is no longer characterized by poorly lit amateur photographs of underprivileged cats, but reaches all the way to the top as this picture of the First Kitty "Socks", photographed by the Smithsonian, shows. No cat is safe no matter what their upbringing or how powerful their family is.

Though humans are responsible for most of the startling pornography on the internet, a growing number of cases are being attributed to the Feline Mafia Organization (FMO). Who are they and what has been their effect in the kitty porn controversy? Is anything being done?

We talked to Special Agent Punner about the problem. "Well, the problem has paw-satively become cat-astrophic in its pro-paw-tions. Just last week I was helping track down a flea-ing fur-getive who was making a feline for neuter-al territory be-claws of crimes against a young fur-gin named Fuzzy Love. The fur-ious women who spayed at home surfing the Internet wasn't lion when she called in the crime. To say it stroked us the wrong way around here, barely scratches the surface. The purr-petrator litter-aly came within a whisker of getting away, but it was the cat's meow, interestingly enough, that lead to our apprehending of the hair-ied fat cat responsible. Now he's praying not to get collared and either tossed in the kennel or thrown to the wolves."

We tried to contact Fuzzy Love, but she had no comment. This was partly due to shame and unwillingness to endure further exposure, and partly because, like most cats... Fuzzy Love can't talk.

This is the true tragedy. While we labor to protect our freedom of speech, who will protect those that cannot speak. Such spokescreatures for the feline community such as Puddy, who writes the very successful column "Ask Puddy" have been strangely silent on the subject. Of course many people feel that animal pundits such as Puddy are mere pawns themselves and are being controlled by other interests. We asked Puddy for his comment, but so far we have received no reply.

Part of the problem lies in the availability and design of computers. Not enough effort is being made to empower the feline community. They have no voice, they are shut off and isolated. They are part of something they do not understand and cannot participate in. They have no power to change the Net. Of course there are more cats with access to computers than women, minorities, and economically depressed people... but that's not really saying much is it? Until the Web embraces everyone equally, the problems of exploitation will continue.

Although legislation against posting cat pictures is an option, a more intriguing option has been suggested in a report published by the Coalition of Those Attempting to Think Clearly and Probably Failing.

"Society should spend a lot more time trying to educate and help people stay mentally and physically healthy instead of making them sick and then trying to stop them from hurting each other. If we must pass laws about pornography on the Internet, we advise a law that requires EVERYONE on the internet to post a pornographic picture of themselves. We don't know if that would solve the problem, but it would sure be interesting."

For more information, smell the third step outside your house.

29 posted on 06/09/2002 11:46:10 AM PDT by Chad Fairbanks
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