Comments on: Doing Something About the Strays

By: MrFixIt

MrFixIt — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:16:38 +0000

No, I really do like cats. They are deliciious.

Just kidding!!!!!!! Really, I am kidding but I couldn’t resist a little snark….

I love cats. I had two of them until they passed on of old age sort of things a couple of years ago. In fact I have always had cats. I plan to get more cats when I have fewer kids to contend with. In fact, the reason I don’t like seeing cats left on their own outside with dogs/coyotes/crazy people/cars is because I do like them, and I’ve seen first hand what happens to cats that are left to roam outside.

I also understand that a dog definitely has more potential to do harm than a cat.

What I don’t like is the holier than thou attitude of cat owners…. they think that leash laws only apply to dogs, when in fact, they apply to cats too. I’d just like to see cat owners be as responsible as they expect dog owners to be.

By: karass

karass — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:08:00 +0000

According to this blog, there’s packs of children and stoller-pushing Moms threatening Decatur although I haven’t seen those either.

By: "Naaman" Gibbets

"Naaman" Gibbets — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:51:54 +0000

Cats are a completely different species–clearly. Your neighbor should not have been petting a strange cat.
But, what’s odd is you have a problem when you hear about someone’s pet cat getting killed by someone else’s stray pet dog. I don’t hear too many stories about folks’ dogs getting killed by cats. I guess that explains the incongruous story about your neighbor.
Cats, like dogs and people, enjoy having their own space. I don’t hear a lot of complaints about squirrel poops.
People who let their dogs roam free have no control over their pets. On the other hand, can you imagine someone having the same seemingly necessary control over their cats?
Sounds like, a lot of folks on the Winonna Park listserv, you just plain don’t like cats. If so, just say, “Hey! strays are bad, bad, bad–oh, and, I hate cats.”
(Full disclosure: all my cats are the inside variety.)

By: hack

hack — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:08:25 +0000

I’ve seen all the postings, just not the pack of roaming strays threatening women and children.

By: FM Fats

FM Fats — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:13:19 +0000

The turkeys were running away from Julie Shaffer of Emory.