Fences - Cats - DIY?

dgk wrote:
On Sun, 9 Sep 2012 23:00:29 -0700, "Bill Graham"
wrote:

dgk wrote:
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 00:06:31 -0700, "Julie Bove"
wrote:


"Brooklyn1" Gravesend1 wrote in message
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"Bill Graham" wrote:

Well, to bring the discussion back to cats, I take in strays and
feed them and water them, and offer them a warm place to sleep in
the Winter time. What I don't do is imprison them. They were free
when they came to me, and they remain free while they are with
me. Part of the reason they choose to stay with me is the fact
that the door is always open. Both for me and for them. Slavery
ended (or should have ended) back in the 19th century, both for
animals and men.

Tell the truth, **** for brains... you're another of those lazy
cheap *******s who can't exert themselves to deal with litter and
pay for it... you don't take the cat to a vet and you feed it the
cheapest crap food you can find because this isn't the first time
you made believe you are caring for an animal because you know
there's no reason to make any investment in yet another cat that
you'll find flattened in the road. I've met lots of fake
do-gooders like you... I don't believe a word you said, you don't
feed any cat, you're just trolling.

I tried to take in two strays once but Maui (my old cat) wouldn't
have them. I couldn't really afford three cats at the time anyway.
I had a feed store say that they would take them but they wound up
not doing it. They loaned me a big kennel for them and I could at
least let them sleep in that on the freezing nights in my house.
It was the only thing that kept them safe from Maui. And they
willingly came in to sleep. I did feed them.

Then my husband (we were not married yet) called around and found a
shelter that would take them if he would pay to have them spayed
and neutered, which he did.

Hopefully they went to a good home.


Hopefully. I'm always afraid to take cats to any organization other
than a no-kill shelter. And even that can be a problem because the
cat can stay in a small cage for a very long time. No fun for the
cat. PETA thinks that it's better for the cats to be PTS rather
than live their life in a no-kill shelter. It's a reasonable
arugment.

I think so too. All of my cats were free as the wind when I got
them, and living with me, they remain free. I would rather put them
down than imprison them in a cage 24/7. My cats and I believe as
Patrick Henry believed: Give me liberty or give me death! As I said
here once befo Only a stupid liberal thinks length of life is
more important than quality of life.

Both count. Liberty is important but so is food and a nice place to
sleep.
Absolutely! And my cats hase both. but it is a dangerous world, and there
are many hazards for outsice cats. Life itself is hazardous, however, and
you can't get out of it alive. As the gambler once said, "You can't win, you
can't break even, and you can't even get out of the game." So, in my humble
opinion, you might as well enjoy yourself while you are ahead, and play
every hand like it was your last.....