Dear Heidi:
Thanks for trying to respond to this "natural predator" thing. You've a bigger person than me. There are just some things I can't reply to because the ignornace of it makes me want to scream and then I can't think!
As for the other comments posted:
Since when are domesticated cats as wild as wolves and coyotes? As far as I know they have never been equipped to be considered a "wild animal". A feral is a cat that is left to it's own resources, but never is it able to tackle a wolf, cayote or even a domesticated dog. Bringing in other animals to kill them is cruel and should never be thought of as "animal control". I think they should take the people who dump the animals, put them in the wild, and see how they survive. Hell, humans are the superior species right. Well, let the idiots who throw animals away prove it!
I just learned that a fellow rescuer caught a man putting a sick kitten out by our lake front area. She saw him putting the kitten on the ground and she asked what was he doing. He said his wife told him the cat was dirty and he should bring it out to the lake because there were other mama cats out there that would take care of it. The cat was so infected with upper respiratory it wasn't funny. How stupid is that? If that is not a typical senereo. Unfortunately, the lady who rescued the kitten did not get his license plate number which I would have done and he would be explaining his actions before a judge!
I have a dream, that someone with some money, make a documentary, put it on primetime television to show what happens to the animals that are dumped and abandoned. Show the idiots the dead, mangled, suffering animals that were going to make it own their own. Maybe, just maybe, some will catch on.
I told a friend today, how can you expect people to care about animals when they in fact don't care about themselves. Think about it, if you wake up in the morning and have no purpose, how can you find compasssion for something else?
Later gator - a slang used by us New Orleans folks!
Patsy
Thanks for trying to respond to this "natural predator" thing. You've a bigger person than me. There are just some things I can't reply to because the ignornace of it makes me want to scream and then I can't think!
As for the other comments posted:
Since when are domesticated cats as wild as wolves and coyotes? As far as I know they have never been equipped to be considered a "wild animal". A feral is a cat that is left to it's own resources, but never is it able to tackle a wolf, cayote or even a domesticated dog. Bringing in other animals to kill them is cruel and should never be thought of as "animal control". I think they should take the people who dump the animals, put them in the wild, and see how they survive. Hell, humans are the superior species right. Well, let the idiots who throw animals away prove it!
I just learned that a fellow rescuer caught a man putting a sick kitten out by our lake front area. She saw him putting the kitten on the ground and she asked what was he doing. He said his wife told him the cat was dirty and he should bring it out to the lake because there were other mama cats out there that would take care of it. The cat was so infected with upper respiratory it wasn't funny. How stupid is that? If that is not a typical senereo. Unfortunately, the lady who rescued the kitten did not get his license plate number which I would have done and he would be explaining his actions before a judge!
I have a dream, that someone with some money, make a documentary, put it on primetime television to show what happens to the animals that are dumped and abandoned. Show the idiots the dead, mangled, suffering animals that were going to make it own their own. Maybe, just maybe, some will catch on.
I told a friend today, how can you expect people to care about animals when they in fact don't care about themselves. Think about it, if you wake up in the morning and have no purpose, how can you find compasssion for something else?
Later gator - a slang used by us New Orleans folks!
Patsy