fighting like cats and dogs.....

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B " H

 

I'm SOOO glad you said that!!!

 

We moved recently to a quieter neighborhood. Before we moved, my Mom

was kept up late nights by barking dogs (neighborhood pets). They

also pooped copiously on our lawn and ran through our garbage,

scattering junk all over the place. The neighborhood cats had a habit

of hiding under our cars behind the tires and a neighborhood dog took

a " final " dip in our pool (he drown after repeated attempts on our

part to remove him before he slipped into the pool from the pool

cover).

 

Some of us are allergic to animals -- my sister if VERY allergic to

cats and dogs, my father is allergic to both also, I'm quite allergic

to cats (I was at a party at a friend's apartment -- she has 3 cats --

I started sneezing about a half hour after I got there, went through

about 1/2 a box of tissues in the 3 hours I was there, and felt

immediately fine upon exiting the apartment). OTOH, animals love me.

One of our neighbors/friends, who I used to babysit for, had a cat

that followed me home one night....

 

I like animals and feel for them, but I also want to be able to live

away from the ones I'm allergic to...... Give me a cute snake or

lizard any day ;-)

 

Debbie

 

 

Hi Lesley

 

> Another reason vegans should support laws to protect responsible

pet owners' housing rights is because this situation with so many

> landlords not allowing pets causes lots of healthy animals to be

put to sleep.

 

Time for someone on the other end of the situation to speak up here.

In our street, we have one household which owns 6 cats. These cats

sh*t in our garden regularly, meaning that we have to be very careful

if we ever wish to do any sort of activity in our own back yard. They

slaughter numerous birds and leave the dead bodies all over the

place. They climb all over our cars and are, to be blunt, a bloody

nuisance.

 

I personally would love to see cats banned from our street - it would

make our lives more pleasant, and would prevent the deaths of many

wild birds. It might also help to improve our morale if we weren't

constantly having to clean up after our neighbour's " companions " . Any

children living in our street would stand a very big danger of

catching nasty diseases from all the excretions left behind by these

cats. Stange that you state that children should not be exposed to

smoke, but that you think it's OK that they be exposed to cat sh*t.

 

People who own cats seem to forget that for everyone around them,

cats are nothing but a pain in the back side.

 

It's all very well to talk of " rights " , but you have to consider who

you effect - y'know Lesley, a bit like having people smoking near you.

 

BB

Peter