From: chamilton5280@invalid.com   
      
   On 2025-08-02, hubops@ccanoemail.com  wrote:   
   > On Fri, 01 Aug 2025 23:49:37 -0400, Clare Snyder    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Tue, 29 Jul 2025 14:44:58 -0400, hubops@ccanoemail.com wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>On 29 Jul 2025 17:46:32 GMT, rbowman  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>On Tue, 29 Jul 2025 07:54:01 -0400, hubops wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>    You have much better shelters than we have here  !   
   >>>>> Ours are teeming with  _cats_  ..  and   worse yet - cat lovers.   
   >>>>> ..  but they   _do_   have good PR and advertising budgets.   
   >>>>>   Most of the dogs available are  hard-cases, to be kind.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>What do you have against cats? I've got a couple on the payroll. After the   
   >>>>hay field was mowed a couple of weeks ago I wasn't overrun by mice looking   
   >>>>for a new home and the cats looked happy.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>Now if I could only get them to do something about the magpies. I've seen   
   >>>>them sit there and watch the magpies eat their kibble. Pretty birds, but   
   >>>>songbirds they ain't and they get up early in the morning.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>I didn't have to go to a shelter. Around here put out a can of Friskies   
   >>>>and you've got a cat.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>>  Cat-Lady   next door,  who volunteers at the Humane Society  -   
   >>>she can't understand why the rest of the neighbourhood   
   >>>are less-than-thrilled  with all her cats pooping in our gardens   
   >>>and flower beds.   Raccoons and oppossums are fond of her   
   >>>bowls of cat food  ...   critter smorg  !   
   >>>   John T.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>Cats should NOT be outside. If you like your cat and want it to live a   
   >>long healthy life KEEP IT INSIDE - then it doesn't bother the   
   >>neighbors.   
   >>   
   >   
   >   Big  + 1.   
   >  But in the case of my neighbour - she does the  catch-fix-release   
   > program for feral cats  ..  which does have some merit  ..  as far as   
   > helping to prevent several new litters every year.   
      
   It's still a death sentence for songbirds.   
      
   If it were legal to kill cats that wander into our yard, my husband   
   would be all over that.  As it is, he traps them, urinates on them,   
   and lets them go.  None of them look like ferals; too plump and   
   clean.  I hope their owners are thrilled by the smell when the   
   cat shows up at the door.   
      
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   Cindy Hamilton   
      
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