Pedigree cats

[Guest guest]

It is better to adopt a homeless cat than to purchase a pedigreed

cat. Those who are interested in promoting animal welfare should not

support commerce in pets. We shouldn't be buying and selling our

friends as if they were things.

--Kim

 

 

 

>Legend has it that the first cat ever in China came from " the

>Western lands " (India) along with Buddhism: A cat is said to have

>followed the great monk Xuan Zang, who brought the first Buddhist

>sutras to China, in order to protect the sacred texts from being

>chewed by mice.

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>Recovered artifacts prove that the Chinese people had already

>accepted cats as domestic pets by 3000 BCE at the latest. However,

>stories trace the origins of relations between man and cat not to

>companionship, but to the catching of mice.

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>Chronologically, cats were the most recently domesticated of

>creatures. Some love cats to the point of irrationality. Others

>say " cats are treacherous whereas dogs are loyal. " Is it possible

>that people and cats are still in the " trial " stage of getting used

>to each other? And what feline phenomena exist in Chinese culture?

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>Unfortunately,today the relationships between ordinary Chinese and a

>cat is an " eater and food " relationship " .

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>I can say I know no famous center in China where one can buy a

>pedigree cat.If you know tell me... (cat_fan)

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Kim Bartlett, Publisher of ANIMAL PEOPLE Newspaper

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Something to think about: We believe that the Golden Rule

applies to animals, too. We don't accept the prevailing notion

that " people come first' " or that " people are more important than

animals. " Animals feel pain and suffer just as we do, and it is

almost always humans making animals suffer and not the other way

around. Yet in spite of how cruelly people behave towards animals

-- not to mention human cruelty to other humans -- we are supposed to

believe that humans are superior to other animals. If people want

to fancy themselves as being of greater moral worth than the other

creatures on this earth, we should begin behaving better than they

do, and not worse. Let's start treating everyone as we would like

to be treated ourselves.