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- From: sstover@sumax.seattleu.edu ( Wilde Dame)
- Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
- Subject: Re: A moral dilemma
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 20:51:06 -0800
- Organization: Seattle University
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- In article <1i26spINNonk@mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE> carsten@pizza.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Carsten Schultz) writes:
- >In article <1i0cedINNbjt@sumax.seattleu.edu> sstover@sumax.seattleu.edu (
- >Wilde Dame) writes:
- >..
- >> My point is that while your support of neutering/spaying is admirable, it
- >> is far better aimed at present owners of domestic cats than at strays.
- >..
- >
- >If I (and Webster's) understand the words correctly, it seems to me that
- >it isn't necessary to neuter/spay strays. Sterilizing should suffice.
-
- I sincerely hope this is not all you got out of that post. Whether you
- neuter, spay, sterilize, alter, fix or break, you have to take the stray cat
- out of what has become its natural environment, subject it to a medical
- procedure, and then put it up for adoption, the which case guarantees the
- animal death if no one adopts it, except in the case of a tiny minority of
- shelters. Cats do not overpopulate the streets here (there are places in
- Mexico with few cars and poor waste disposal where it has become possible
- for them to do so, and no doubt the same is the case in other places), but
- they do overpopulate the shelters, making that chance of death even greater.
-
- --
- Sheryl Stover % If you ask me what I have come to do in the world,
- & Hemingway & Clio % I who am an artist, I will reply: "I am here to
- sstover@seattleu.edu % live aloud." -Emile Zola
-