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, The Stewarts <stews9@c...>

wrote:

 

> My Darling, surely his response is predicated on

the cat being able to do > this.

 

No way to tell this from what he said, but your defense

of your son is charming. I'd respect it more if he'd join

us to defend himself, though I know his genius level

academics keep him mighty busy.

 

>A de-clawed cat, for example, would stand no chance.

 

Not true. I am the guardian of a declawed cat.

The goddess Fiona is declawed and catches snakes

and mice quite well; she even climbs trees better

than my clutsey clawed friend, goddess Latte the

sockmoney. However, I would not want her eating

only mice and snakes to get her nutrition.

 

>Most domestic

> cats, however, continue to hunt and kill. The level

of domesticity is > often more in the humanoid's gaze

than in the cat's heart.

 

Not really. If you have ever seen the negative effects

of the forced feral existance upon domestic cats you

would also disagree with your statement. Their quality

of life is horrible and their mortality rate very high.

They are more fragile than you have been lead to believe.

 

 

> You can't force a cat to do a damned thing, unless you

knock it out first.> lol

 

Cats can be trained, but indeed they are more stubborn

than dogs. However, my point was that if you force the cat

(by not giving them other food sources), to live only on

the food they manage to hunt, you are doing them a huge

disservice and treating the inhumanely; I still stand by that.

 

 

> I'm absolutely sure my son would never let a cat starve

simply because it > was a klutz hunter, nor would he have

meant that.

 

Again, I was only going by what was typed... and this is

your second charming display of Da-ism. *lol*

 

 

> >>> Certainly, though, you should think before you act.

> > And if you have a > > cat -- keep the cat, and feed it, too!

> > (You shouldn't get rid of the > > poor unethical beast!)

> > We should stop trying to force a cat into the same

> > category as humans in regards to ethics; calling them

> > an " unethical beast " because they are naturally

> > carnivorous is just silly.

> No, it's called joking. The element of silliness is part of the

humor.

> Settle down, girl. lol

 

I was only going by the typed word and saw no indication

of implied humor. I just wanted to be clear to him that it is

silly to apply human ethics to cats. I am glad he was merely

joking and not seriously doing that. BTW, this is #3. *lol*

 

 

> > Make sure you provide for all of their essential needs

> > and give them regular check-ups. If they hunt for additional

> > food outside, make sure they get wormed on a regular basis

> > as they will get deadly parasites from eating mice or moles.

 

You ignored my above statement. No domestic cat should live

or could live soley on hunted food. Sure they would live for a

while, but they would get diseased and full of worms,

and thus their quality of life would be next to nothing

of what it should. It would surely be nowhere close to treating

them in a humane " vegan " standard.

I grew up around dairy farms where the farmers would

typically have a whole passle of near feral cats in the barns.

They would daily slop them some milk and stale bread and

the rest of the " food " they were to hunt themselves.

They were generally straggly, pathetic and sickly beasts

with all too short lives. They didn't typically get the medical

care they required. I was a very sensitive child and seeing them live

like that caused me sadness. This is likely why I didn't find

Jr. Stewart's ideas as inspired as some of the rest here

have found them. But still, your defense of them is cute and

understandable.

 

~ feral ~

 

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience,

but to their capacity for experience.

~ George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)