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- Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
- From: malwen@junkpile.demon.co.uk (Sheila Thomas)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!junkpile.demon.co.uk!malwen
- Subject: declawing?
- Distribution: world
- References: <1992Dec26.221408.5685@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Organization: moderate to good
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 20:59:37 +0000
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- In article <1992Dec26.221408.5685@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> istuart@nyx.cs.du.edu writes:
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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.
- >
- > 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 }
- >
- >
- llelujah" |
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