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- From: istuart@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ian Stuart)
- Subject: Re: declawing?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.221408.5685@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 22:14:08 GMT
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- I don't want to start a flame war or anything, but I feel that cats are
- outdoor creatures who condesend to allow humans to suppliment their diet
- with inferior tinned food (from their perspective!).
- A cat is a carnivore, that needs to be able to hunt within it's guarded
- terratory. To restrict a cat to any indoor only environment is
- psycologically damaging for the cat (in my opinion), and causes them to be
- more aggressive than normal. Any attempt to minimise the damage that cats
- inflict because of mental cruelty by humans *cannot* include physical
- mutliation.
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- CATS SHOULD NOT LIVE IN CONCRETE JUNGLES
- THEY NEED GREENERY AND LIVING PREY.
-
- PS yes, I do live in a city. Yes, I do own a cat. Yes, I has brought me
- *live* birds to teach me to hunt (it took me 2 days to get the bird out of
- my house! :-( ). No, my cat will nmever be de-clawed.
-
- Any hate mail will be read, and used to line Draws ;-)
- --
- --- Kiz (aka Ian Stuart) istuart@nyx.cs.du.edu
- { Chivalry is not dead! - Just the Horse }
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