Wonder how much longer 'til we get put back in the hutch?

 

this thread is carp

 

I hake people who have no respect for anyone else's point of view

 

oi, stop muppeting my thread hALi-But!!!

 

I love a good Scoobynet Cat thread, theres one every month or two.

I like cats (dont have one though), they are a fact of life unless you live miles from habitation (then you have wild panthers), they are a pain in the **** for all the reasons cited, I am a cat victim and have been subjected to the terrors of footprints on my car windows, turds in the flowerbeds and meowling at 3am.

I propose a cat 'Borstal' for feline re-education.

Must be great being a cat.

 

This thread is going down a slippery sole...

or is it just a Thread herring??

 

The thing that gets me about cats is the crap. They carry just as many paresites as dogs, and some of them are a damn sight worse. As a dog owner I make sure I scoop after my dog, the cat owners leave it to everybody else to clean up their animals mess.

We worm and flea our dog regulary, unfortunatley, the flea treatment is poisoness to cats...ooops!

 

I think the very frequency of these posts and level of emotion involved displays that there is a problem. The crux of that problem, for me, is that our entire civilisation is founded on the right to live without the actions or property of other people causing harm or material loss to yourself or your property. All laws are written around this fundemental principle, and it extends to pets.

However somewhere along the way the line has been blurred and it has somehow become acceptable for cats, specifically, to damage property without the owner taking responsibility. This goes against the fundemental principle and is without reason which is why people, who don't own cats yet suffer the negative effects caused by those who do, feel they have a justifiable grievance.

If I owned a robot that behaved exactly as a cat does and I released it to roam around other peoples property knowing that it was programmed to kill wildlife and pets and that its behaviour would damage their property then I would be held liable for that damage.

The actions are the same, the outcome is the same, yet the onus of responsibility is not the same. That isn't right and it isn't fair and that is why people like me are driven to post cat rants with the frequency we do.