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- Fax_Benson0
Are we sure it's cats doing the killing? I've never seen a cat do anything remotely lethal. They're always fucking about on mini-surfboards or playing the piano or forcing themselves into impractically small boxes.
I'll bet they find the dead birds and bring them into the house for a laugh. The pictorial evidence would seem to back that up. They don't even kill the mice they do manage to catch.
- They have terrible grammar and spelling tooukit2
- lol ukitdetritus
- blame the owners.Fax_Benson
- set0
My cats kill (that I see) at least one mouse a week. I'm all for it.
The first day we let Demi out of the house she brought us back a big gold fish. Felt a bit guilty about that but I appreciated the gesture.
- I bet you tie the mouse's feet together first.Fax_Benson
- after they're killed yes, then hang them round my neckset
- 23kon0
Actually, cats just do what they're supposed to do.
+1Cats killing little birds, lizards or vermin is certainly better than dogs going around attacking humans.
- utopian0
Study backs up what owners already know: Cats don't care
http://io9.com/study-backs-up-wh…- All that shows is that they're not as thick as dogs and babiesset
- detritus0
My point.problem with this is the cognitive dissonance of 'animal lovers'. I feel the same with vegans who own cats — it's that willfully ignorant blinkered outlook that seperates the substance of their belief from their immediate wants.
I actually really like cats, but I'd never own one because it's an artificial relationship that would merely satisfy my own desires over that of others, including the cat's.
- “I actually really like cats” lol, what a wet rag.detritus
- ernexbcn0
I have 2 cats, they fucking rule.
- CyBrainX0
This was from last week. Yesterday, I found out she has leukemia and has to be put down soon. Don't you love life sometimes?
- set0
So your point is that it's an artificially created relationship as opposed to there not being a relationship from the cats point of view further than getting shelter and food.... ?
- randommail0
Better than dogs who take a dump and then look up at you like, "well what are you waiting for, pick that shit up... bitch."
- They fucken do, don't they ?mikotondria3
- They didn't do it first time, they do now because it's routine.MrT
- monospaced0
- and people paid money years to watch these things burst into song?CyBrainX
- maikel0
Cats (like other animals) kill other animals. It is, as detritus pointed, normal.
That is why people shout "you are an animal" to murderers and other things that kill.
Nobody gives a shit about frogs, and they kill plenty of bugs - fucking cruelty that is, aye?
- calling a murderer an animal is degrading to animals.zarkonite
- detritus0
If you own cats and are happy to have them decimate your local wildlife, then I have nothing to come at you with, Set. I can merely disagree with you.
If, on the other hand, you're an vocal friend and lover of all of God's creatures or a vegan who wouldn't dream of hurting a sentient being, yet have a curiously convenient blindspot where your fwuffy wittw fwend is, then I'm going to come at you with a spade then shit down your neck.
- monoboy0
Daddy! The cats are eating a rabbits brains in the living room. (How not to start a Sunday at 6am). Get me a dog any day.
- set0
Cats have been our pets for thousands of years. Who's to say that if all cats were gone we wouldn't be overrun with mice, rats, bird, lizards etc..
You don't *honestly* and seriously believe that cats decimate the local wildlife, do you?
- nomonospaced
- killing cats caused the black plague in the 1400s.zarkonite
- If you're a vegan you might have reason to say "ew". Otherwise, consider how many more animals humans kill.CyBrainX
- ukit20
- ...a little tragic though, his first order of business was to have all dogs in the town put downprophetone
- I bet Sarah Palin's jealousmonospaced
- next stop, vice presidential candidate!sarahfailin
- detritus0
"You don't *honestly* and seriously believe that cats decimate the local wildlife, do you? "
erm... well, no - I don't 'believe'* that at all, it's just what I think. I've been banging on about for years about this and so it's is somewhat behind my intent in posting the above here.
I've had cats around me my entire life and watched the little fuckers maul anything they can - I've never found it much of a stretch of the imagination to extrapolate that to a national impact.
*shrugs*
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* 'belief' appears to be a polar construct outwith the credible ambitions of scientifically-literate, correct-thinking men - at least if the recent Mars Science Laboratory thread is to go by.
- detritus0
if you wwere Britain's only cat owner, Set, I doubt I'd care much.
Given that there are 10m+ cats in Britain and given that their existence is entirely artifically supported, it strikes me as very obvious they're going to have an unhealthy effect on the otherwise natural wildlife.
- monospaced0
Damn, human lives are "artificially supported" if you use your logic too, and we have an unhealthy effect on the otherwise natural wildlife.
- Did you miss the bit about animal-lovers and vegans, by any chance?detritus
- I'm just having fun in your little cat argument threadmonospaced
- I didn't miss that part. I also struggle with the argument. Carry on.monospaced
- ‘Little’, eh? Bless, you're so sweet when you're condescending.detritus
- I try to be. ;)monospaced