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If you drive past an animal that has been hit by a car and is not dead but dying and in pain, do you...

Poll ended at Thu Apr 16, 2009 7:32 pm

keep driving?
12
48%
call animal controle and keep driving?
0
No votes
call animal controle?
0
No votes
get out and knock on a neighbors door?
1
4%
get out and do the deed, then call animal controle?
12
48%
 
Total votes: 25

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krampus
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Post by krampus »

pru wrote:People really shouldn't let their cats roam outdoors and this kind of thing wouldn't happen.
Well that brings up another question. my cat has the option to go outside but chooses to stay in. However, is it humane to make your cat stay inside all the time? Would you not want to be euthanised if you had to remain inside all the time, its like prison. A risk of death outside is a small price for freedom is it not.
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Post by Crankmas »

Charlie- you've out done yourself on that one- "damn man, I never thought I'd get hit" from Platoon
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Post by pru »

krampus wrote:Well that brings up another question. my cat has the option to go outside but chooses to stay in. However, is it humane to make your cat stay inside all the time? Would you not want to be euthanised if you had to remain inside all the time, its like prison. A risk of death outside is a small price for freedom is it not.
My cats are happier than most and they do not go outside unattended. Death from fighting, people poisoning or otherwise hurting them (because plenty of people have an irrational hatred of cats and do these things. It happened to one of mine many, many years ago), or dying by the side of the road because most people are assholes and won't stop to help are all not good trade-offs in my opinion. YMMV
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Post by krampus »

Is that what your cat thinks? Do they sit and stair longingly out the window and attempt escape at every opportunity? Some do, and some don't, as I said, mine has the option as I have installed a cat door in my window and she seldom uses it, she would rather hang inside with me and the dog, but if I have been gone for a few days she ventures out.
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Post by pru »

You are anthropomorphizing, Krampus. I don't do that. However I do a lot to make sure my cats are happy, exercised and entertained in their safe home, or out in our back yard when I am with them. It is my responsibility to keep them safe and healthy and happy and they are all these things. No one is going to mow them down with cars, feed them radiator fluid or shoot pellets into their hides. The fact remains that if people wouldn't let their cats roam, they wouldn't be hit by cars - whether you agree with the rationale or not.
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Post by pigsteak »

how does one go about exercising a cat? pushups?
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Post by pru »

free weights.


Actually they have all kinds of climbing structures and toys. I play with them, the kids play with them. I also give them catnip and they chase the beat the tar out of each other every night when they are stoned. All play of course, no claws ever come out.
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Post by dmw »

Pru's cats are pretty lucky. Levi almost ended up having me as an owner (shudder) and I have seen the environment Pru's cats have - I wouldn't mind coming back in another life as one of her cats.
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Post by pru »

I love that little shit, and he still thinks I'm his mama. Man, dmw, he's such a beautiful, sweet and playful kitten still - even though he's TWO. The only thing he is lacking in his life is actual milk squirting from my lip when he sucks on it, haha.
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