Conference misery::feline_v1

    
    
    	That has got to be one of the most inhumane things I have
    	ever heard!!
    
    	I too hope they find him....and I won't print here what I
    	think they should do with an arrow....
    

    I am absolutely SICK over this.  I hope the officials get this
    creep.
    
    Mary
    

    I once had a black Persian cat named Martha (I was little and lived
    with my parents at the time).  We had this next door neighbor who's
    father was a taxidermis.  Well, this little kid ~8 yrs old had rabbits
    caged in his backyard.  Martha had been over there a couple of time to
    play with the rabbits.  Next thing I know she's gone.  A neighbor told
    me that she saw this kid playing target practice with Martha.  Broke my
    heart - the bas!#*&.
    
    Where we live now, I was sitting on our screened in porch in the spring
    of last year.  We have plastic around the porch windows, but you can
    still hear pretty good outside.  All of a sudden I hear a pop/pop/pop
    on my garage wall.  I had heard the sound before and knew it was a BB
    gun.  I was FURIOUS.  I feed birds and we have *many* cats in the area. 
    I could not actually see the kids but knew the general vinicity.  I
    went outside with my cordless phone so the creeps could hear me and
    called the police and asked them very loudly what the laws were about
    BB guns in the area.  They told me that to fire a BB gun you have to be
    over 18 or accompanied by a parent.  You have to be shooting at a
    target (I forget the name of it), not at any human or moving thing.  We
    never heard the BB gun again.  I wish every problem with neighbors
    could be that easy.
    
    I hope they find the creeps and teach them a good lesson!  What do
    these kids think a cat is, anyway?????
    
    Anna/Zildjian/Spunks
    
    

    OH, THAT'S AWFUL!  that poor KITTEN!!  I'm glad to hear she survived.
    
    (how about all of us getting together and pierce HIS A** with an arrow)
    
    I'm disgusted                                           

    Nah.   Let's shoot him through the head like he did to the poor
    defenseless baby.
    
    That poor kitten must have been in terrible pain and sooooooooooooo
    scared.   I am so glad she is going to be ok...
    
    Sandi mom to 4 furry friends
    
    

    
    it sickens me when i think how so many in our society have become
    completely inured to violence.  they see it in movies, t.v., etc. and
    believe it is acceptable.  and since cats are just "dumb animals"...
    
    it is fortunate that this one will be o.k.  but what of the myriad of
    others who aren't?
    
    <sigh>  
    
    diane (in quiet desperation) stanley & stella  
    

    I firmly believe that anyone who commits such depraved acts against
    animals should be jailed - just as if a humane had received the
    same kind of treatment.  

    
    
    	okay, <set mode saner now>
    
    	I had read this note earlier and have revamped my reply to
    	it several times to tone down the FRUSTRATION I feel about
    	this kind of thing happening.  That POOR baby! What is it
    	that makes some persons so callous and so destructive to
    	other creatures (this includes each other)? I don't personally
    	think that bars are what I would do for the one who did that.
    	I sure believe in the maxim that states what you give out,
    	you get back sooner or later. You don't necessarily know
    	wherefrom either.  
    
    	Give that baby a little hug from the Nipper and me when she
    	needs one. We wish her a speedy recovery and a big FORGETFULLNESS
    	of that horrible experience. 
    
    					Hugs from kim and Catnip
    

    I assume the animal control officer will do a lot more than "put the
    name in the paper".  There are criminal penalties almost certainly.
    

    I once heard a wonderful quote that bears repeating.
    
    "Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar
     is as important to the child as it is to the caterpillar"
    
    It may have been a child who had not been taught better.  
    Very very sad.  
      Nancy DC

    I hope they find out who did this and the law does something about it.
    There is a case scheduled for arraignment this week in Georgia against
    a 34 yr. old "man" (I use the term loosely) who tortured and killed 77
    cats and even took photos of them.  One of the photos was a
    "self-portrait" of him with some of the tortured cats; an employee at
    photo developing lab alerted police who arrested the "man".
    
    Of course, by court order, he's undergoing psychiatric treatment and
    evaluation.  He has been charged with 77 misdemeanor counts of cruelty
    to animals and faces a maximum of 77 years if convicted on all counts.
    The "man's" attorney said his client will plead not guilty to the
    charges.  Oh, I didn't mention this before.  It seems this "man" is a
    "law school graduate". @#$%$#@   :-{
    
    <This information was printed in the National Humane Education Society's
     Quarterly Journal, Winter 1989.>
    
    Pat, D.P., Buffy, Holly, Thai, Midnight (& Cookie)
    

    
    	A friend of mine has an ex that shot her son's 7 month
    	old lab puppy because the puppy chewed $60 of Christmas
    	presents.  Her son's 5 year old stepbrother is the one who
    	told him about it.  "John" (not his real name) then went to
    	the MSPCA and turned his father in.  The MSPCA and the
    	local Humane Society have filed charges against him for
    	cruelty to animals.  I don't know if the puppy died or if
    	he was just seriously injured.  My friend is very proud of
    	her son and with good reason.  It must have been difficult
     	for him to turn in his own father.
    
    	JJ
    

    Foks seem to get a lot more upset about dogs being either hurt
    rather than cats.  Hit and run for dogs is punishable, but not
    for cats.  My opinion is that anyone that hurts or doesn't
    take proper care of a cat ought to have done to them exactly what
    they did to the cat and maybe more.  Just my opinion - I probably
    ought not to even reply to notes like this cause it reallyl
    shortens my fuse and I don't have a lot of patience with anyone
    that could or would consider hurting an animal of any kind.
    It's beyond my brain - all animals do is give give give -
    they ask for nothing in return.  
    

    RE .13
    
    Boy you really said it all.  They give,give,give......LOVE!
    
    

    re: 13 + 14
    
    DITTO - DITTO - DITTO !!!!!

    Round here they set dogs onto the cats - our friend lost 2 - one
    she actually had to watch from her flat. She was hysterical.
    She knew the dogs - a doberman and an alsatian - but the police said
    that they couldn't do anything. Looks like it has to be a child
    badly mauled before they can act.
    The neighbour said it was a teenager in charge of the dogs and that
    it was quite deliberate.

    re:.13
    
    ET
    
    I was in a bookstore the other day making up a wish list, and one of
    the CAT books I was leafing thru had a section on MAss laws and cats.
    It is ileagle(SP) in Mass to hit  a cat and leave it there.  the other
    one said that a cats owners are not repsonsible for any damage
    done to someone elses property by their cat (outside).
    
    I would guess there must be other laws like these and we just don't
    know about them....
    
    M

    
    Re:  Law school graduate, just because someone is educated doesn't mean
    that he is not ignorant.  
    
    Especially of the things that really mean something in life, like love,
    life (any form), really who are we as a species to set ourselves as
    more valuable than other forms of life?  I takes ar REAL man or woman
    to value that which they can not truely understand, and to treat with
    respect all life.  
    
    After all killing is easy, bringing life into the world is not.
    I hope that B*$3RD roasts in hell for what he/she did to that poor
    kitten.
    
    Just my two cents,
    
    Sue, Mummie to Panther & Spot

    M
    
    It's about da*&n time!  When I was 5 years old, my mother had locked
    us out of the house (forgot her key) - a neighbor accross the street
    alway kept a spare key (guess this happened a lot !!) - my mother
    asked me to go over and get the key.  Mother was standing on the
    curb watching me cross the street - my cat, Frisky, must have
    been right behind me - I didn't know it - don't know if my mother
    knew it - but, I started to cross - got just to the other of
    the street, when a car zoomed up the hill.  What I didn't know 
    until I heard mother scream, was that the bast*^d hit Frisky and
    then took off never to be seen again.  Frisky was "on my heals"
    so to speak - probably inches in back of me.  From what mother
    says, she saved my life.  Mother got the license number of the
    car and the police didn't even care and wouldn't even bother
    coming to the house.  Of course, this was 40 years ago !!  
    I have Frisky's twin at home - my little sweetie, SilVee.
    Her full name is QuckSilVee.  Frisky and SilVee are my only
    longhairs.
    
    Thanks M - it's nice to know that some things do change for the better!
    
    E.

    OOOOH, SO MAD.  There's decie with very offensive personal name about
    "don't have to stop when you ..." and I wanted to have everyone send
    him hate mail excpet that I realized it was against the PP&P ...
    
    SO, I cooled off and I'm not going to give you his node::name.
    
    No, I didn't cool off, but,...
    
    ed

    re: value of humans vs animals - I agree with the noter who said
    that human life is no more valuable than animal life.  ALL LIFE IS
    VALUABLE.  It should NEVER be wasted or thrown away.  Every living
    thing out there has something to offer.  
    
      One thing I find even more heinous than the guy that tortured
    77 cats is the use of animals in unnecessary research!!  THAT
    SORT OF TORTURE IS CONDONED BY THE LAW!!!    I'm not talking about 
    the stuff that leads to fabulous medical breakthroughs.  I'm talking
    about some of the sicko stuff that gets done in the name of
    biology or psychology.  
    
    'nuff said.  I'm getting myself really worked up.  I'm going to
    think about my rescued kitties for a few minutes.  That'll help.
      Nancy DC