Starving Kitten: AKA...What the Hell Is Wrong With People?

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This whole thread has gone fairly surreal.

If I stumble into the old dear's Circle of Leash and Fluffy bites me, Fluffy is likely to experience my foot before I've even realized it's lashed out. I don't care for poorly-controlled dogs in public.

(I didn't make it better, did I?)
 
Shot From Guns said:
alice_in_wonderland said:
Obviously you've never met my cat, 'cus he does all these things too.
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Okay, I have been drooled on by one of my boyfriend's cats. (Sometimes she gets really into it when you pet her.) But that's not remotely comparable to constantly trying to lick any exposed bit of skin you can find, especially my face, with a big slobbery tongue.

Also, yes, cats shit, but you don't need to let them outside for them to do it, nor do you have to pick up big stinking globs of shit.

And I've never met a cat who had anything approaching the funk most dogs do on a regular basis.
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You like the smell of ammonia permanently permeating your house? Cat piss freaking stinks, and its the only reason I won't keep them, and I like them generally. But without fail, I can always tell a cat household almost immediately upon entering despite a well-tendered litterbox. That stench of their urine is just sickening to me. Sorry cats. I'll take the random stinky dog farts that dissipate rather quickly. Cat piss stench NEVER goes away.
 
ivan astikov said:
So, if an old dear feels the need for a protective dog to accompany her to the post office when she cashes her pension money, anybody should be able to walk within the circle of her leash's limits without fear of being bitten?
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Are you fucking kidding me? Yes, they should.
 
Chessic Sense said:
ivan astikov said:
Chessic Sense said:
Again with the sociopath thing? They're fucking CATS! They're not part of society; they're fucking animals. I love that according to the SDMB, if you don't worship Teh Kitteh, you're now a sociopath. The bar has never been lower, lemmetellya.
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If you can be devoid of positive feelings for teh cute kittehs and puppies, you're definitely on the sociopath ladder by my scale.
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Coming from you, that's...meaningless. I'm having trouble expressing how little your evaluation of mental imbalances really counts for something.
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I'm so gonna kick your ass in our chess tournament for that one.
 
Fuji said:
You said it was OK to callously treat a cat and destroy it as you would a pot. Nobody here was proselytizing for the First Church of Latter-Day Felines. However, your post seems to indicate that you'd be fine with someone jamming a syringe into a cat's eyes through which to inject hydrochloric acid. Hence my earlier "yikes!".
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Well of course I wouldn't be OK with that. There are two kinds of people that would do such a thing: sick weirdos and people with good reasons to do that. I may think poorly of the person doing it (or I may not) but it's not like I'm going to feel bad for the cat.

And we destroy cats like pots all the time. Sometimes it involves a vet and sometimes it involves a shotgun and a pasture. In this case, it's just through neglect.

The point is, the OP can do anything they want to the cat and since I don't anthropomorphize cats like some pet owners, I'm not going to pity it. In this case, the people in the OP fall into the latter category of animal torturers- people with good reasons.
 
Contrapuntal said:
Freudian Slit said:
Okay, in what universe do dogs actually eat cats, outside of Tom and Jerry cartoons? From the way people are talking, throwing kittens to dogs to get eaten is something that happens on a regular basis. I've never heard of it.
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No, the dog probably won't eat the cat, only tear it to shreds. Cold comfort for the cat.

Using cats as bait animals is common practice in dog fighting circles, a practice that is apparently just fine with Chessic Sense, our resident sociopath.
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Again with the sociopath thing? They're fucking CATS! They're not part of society; they're fucking animals. I love that according to the SDMB, if you don't worship Teh Kitteh, you're now a sociopath. The bar has never been lower, lemmetellya.
 
I'm so sick of hearing this outpouring of support for cute things when those same people don't give a damn about ugly things. It's not the disparity that kills me, though. It's the refusal to recognize that it's subjectivity at work. No, no. It's like these people swear that it's an objective fact that kittens should be saved but baby crows are dispensable.

Just toss the critter in the creek or something. Too bad you're not in DC. I've got a hammer I'm not using and a paper towel you can have. Maybe you can just drop a brick on it.

Seriously, there are about a million ways to resolve this problem. Pick one and be done with it.
 
AClockworkMelon said:
ivan astikov said:
So, if an old dear feels the need for a protective dog to accompany her to the post office when she cashes her pension money, anybody should be able to walk within the circle of her leash's limits without fear of being bitten?
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Are you fucking kidding me? Yes, they should.
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Why? A dog's protective nature is one of the first things early humans would have harnessed them for. The main reason old dears don't have large, ferocious-looking dogs is because they couldn't guarantee always being able to control them, not because they don't want them. So, if an elderly person needs to rely on a smaller dog, she should have every right to train it to bite people who enter her space uninvited.
 
Chessic Sense said:
ivan astikov said:
Chessic Sense said:
Again with the sociopath thing? They're fucking CATS! They're not part of society; they're fucking animals. I love that according to the SDMB, if you don't worship Teh Kitteh, you're now a sociopath. The bar has never been lower, lemmetellya.
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If you can be devoid of positive feelings for teh cute kittehs and puppies, you're definitely on the sociopath ladder by my scale.
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Coming from you, that's...meaningless. I'm having trouble expressing how little your evaluation of mental imbalances really counts for something.
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So wait, let me get this straight--it's okay to chuck kittens over the wall to be torn to shreds by dogs because they're "fucking CATS" and not humans? Basic compassion for living things is a pretty common human trait. There's a big difference between, say, shooting a critter that's hassling your chickens or harrassing your kids, and tossing a helpless, innocent creature to a larger creature to be painfully killed just because you don't value its existence. Yeah, I'd say the latter is pretty damned abnormal. Note that I'm not calling Chessic Sense a sociopath or abnormal--I'm saying that anyone who would condone (or even not be affected by) that sort of behavior has something loose in the cranial region. I mean, hell, I hate monkeys--but I certainly would never think there'd be any proper time to toss a baby monkey to a killer dog.

ETA: Just saw Chessic Sense's latest post. Yeah, we kill cats all the time--but presumably, the vet's injection or the shotgun will kill them humanely and quickly. There's a big difference between that and the slow, painful death described previously.
 
Chessic Sense said:
Again with the sociopath thing? They're fucking CATS! They're not part of society; they're fucking animals. I love that according to the SDMB, if you don't worship Teh Kitteh, you're now a sociopath. The bar has never been lower, lemmetellya.
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If you can be devoid of positive feelings for teh cute kittehs and puppies, you're definitely on the sociopath ladder by my scale.
 
Chessic Sense said:
In this case, the people in the OP fall into the latter category of animal torturers- people with good reasons.
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Oh come on, that's the best you can do? I've come to expect a much higher quality post from you.

Obvious troll is obvious.
 
Chessic Sense said:
I'm so sick of hearing this outpouring of support for cute things when those same people don't give a damn about ugly things. It's not the disparity that kills me, though. It's the refusal to recognize that it's subjectivity at work. No, no. It's like these people swear that it's an objective fact that kittens should be saved but baby crows are dispensable.

Just toss the critter in the creek or something. Too bad you're not in DC. I've got a hammer I'm not using and a paper towel you can have. Maybe you can just drop a brick on it.

Seriously, there are about a million ways to resolve this problem. Pick one and be done with it.
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I like baby crows. I like almost all baby animals ... well, except humans, they smell funny.

I'm going to ignore the rest of what you said. I think that's for the best.


To the OP. Go get kitten, take it to a shelter. Even if it's euthanized, it's better than starving to death or some of the other suggestions.
 
Wile E said:
To the OP. Go get kitten, take it to a shelter. Even if it's euthanized, it's better than starving to death or some of the other suggestions.
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And while you're at it, think about disassociating yourself from someone who threatens to feed kittens to the dogs. She's a vile piece of shit.
 
Audrey Levins said:
Didn't mean to abandon my thread...my computer went down and now I'm heading off to work shortly, so I haven't read all the responses yet, but...

UPDATE ON THE KITTEN:

I found her a foster home where she's fed and safe and happy until I can find her a permanent home. :)
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Glad to hear it! Thank you. :)
 
Mosier said:
It's a cat! It's not even HER cat! How can you summon such hate for someone who refuses to feed a stray cat? It's not her responsibility to feed it any more than it is yours. If you care so much about it, go feed it yourself.
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I can summon hate for her.

I also cannot understand why the OP hasn't fed and watered the cat herself.

If a starving cat came around my property (and a couple have) and if, for some reason, I didn't take it to the Humane Society....I would sure as hell leave food and water out for it. If I saw it happening on a neighbors property, I would go grab the thing and bring it back for food and water.

As for other cute or not cure furry things starving...well, I understand the point but I also consider dogs, cats, horses etc as having special status than something like a skunk (though is a starving baby skunk came onto my property I would still feed and water it :)
 
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