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- From: tim.burton@cutting.hou.tx.us (Tim Burton)
- Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
- Subject: Re: A moral dilemma
- Message-ID: <9588.82.uupcb@cutting.hou.tx.us>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 03:33:00 GMT
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- Organization: The Cutting Edge - Houston, TX - 713-466-1525
- Reply-To: tim.burton@cutting.hou.tx.us (Tim Burton)
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- JL.Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
- .From: jkl@fsl.noaa.gov (Jennifer Longstaff)
- .Subject: Re: A moral dilemma
- .Organization: Forecast Systems Lab, NOAA - Boulder CO, USA
- .Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:34:15 GMT
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- JL. Wilde Dame (sstover@sumax.seattleu.edu) wrote:
- :>: [story about stray cats being fed by lots of people and surviving
- :>: just fine on the streets ...]
- :>:
- :>: Any of these animals, as I observe them, would be stifled by a
- :>: single-owner, designated-home environment such as the one they would
- :>: likely be forced into by a shelter. The streets are no place for kittens
- :>: who may have trouble defending themselves, but these adult cats have grown
- :>: accustomed to their present way of life and I would feel as though I had
- :>: patronized and betrayed them if I was responsible for their loss of
- :>: freedom. My policy, and my advice, is to help the cats who need help, and
- :>: simply enjoy those who are managing for themselves. :)
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- JL.I don't have any trouble with adult cats getting along by themselves "in
- .the urban wild", but the big problem with our promoting this, and not
- ."turning them in" to the shelter is that those streetwise strays *WILL* come
- .in heat and they *WILL* have kittens. I think we've got to make some
- .attempt to keep cat over-population down by adopting these cats and at least
- .having them neutered/spayed!
-
-
- I agree 100%! We need more people like you out in the world.
- Most cats can fend for themselves, and just they do not need to keep
- having kittens. I think that all cats, unless they are going to be
- mated so that the kittens are for sell, should be neutered/spayed.
- Same goes for dogs too.
-
- - Tim
- Internet: Tim.Burton@Cutting.hou.tx.us
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- . 1st 1.01 #1199s . You're never a loser until you quit trying.
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