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smokingbootOK, I am going to have a quick rant. It may get a little shouty.
Do not take it personally, anybody out there. Bear with me, I am not always like this. I have just been under a little bit of stress and this is getting it out of my system. If you are the owner of an un-neutered cat, you may prefer not to read this. There are swear words in it.
The rant is about the lone stranger, the cat who keeps coming in and trying to make this his territory by spraying all over it.
It isn't his fault really. I have spotted him twice now, big, black, low slung to the ground, and collarless naturally. Bet you anything you like, that if I catch him and get him checked, he's not microchipped either. He's gentlemanly and courteous to the kitties, decrying his rep with one of our neighbours who swears she will wring his neck when she catches him, because he chases her silver tabby around. But that is not his fault either, really.
It's the fuckwit who owns him I want to chew out. What is it with people? Do they consider the damage their pets cause? When they are ignoring or defending the lack of neutering, do they ever consider their neighbours, their neighbourhoods or even their cat's welfare?
Maybe it's OK for people to be fuckwits about other people's houses.
Maybe it's OK for strangers to have to clean their floors endlessly to get rid of the pong of said fuckwit's pet.
Maybe it's OK that other cats have to stay indoors and experience a lesser quality of life.
Maybe it's OK for other people to spend masses of money on cat-flaps cos back doors can't be left open.
Clearly it's OK for hedgerow birds and beasties, already under threat from loss of their environment, to suffer from a huge population of strays.
And of course it's absolutely fine for a tom to father hundreds of kittens, many of whom are the feral infants of half-feral strays.
What do people think happens to their cat's amorous conquests? Do they think pussy cats marry in Thomas O Malley style? Do they ever go anywhere near a cat refuge? Do they ever see the results of their cat's virility, litter after litter of pathetic kittens who lead miserable, worm-infested, starving and often very short lives? And the ones who live, the ones who hit their sell-by out-of-cuteness date at 6 months. What happens to them?
Lots of kitties gained from cat refuges are not wormed, despite worms being a debilitating health condition, almost inevitable in every kitten. Worming costs money, and when more and more strays are coming in every day, the money goes on the necessities. And all this misery because some munter either doesn't know or has some kind of bizarre emotional attachment to their cat's genitals. Who are these people? Are they the feline equivalent of stereotypical rottweiler owners? Is there some sort of chav cat/macho moggie thing going on? A strange pride in having a bruiser boy, you know, the kind you don't mess with, a king cohones among cats?
Fuck them. Fuck them and their colossal ignorance and selfishness, fuck their stupidity! Someone rescue cats from them and someone rescue them from me, because the moment gun laws change in this country their arses are mine!
BANG!
That's better.
This rant was brought to you by the four Deborahs of the Apocalypse; War, Fire, Fire, and Fire.
Have a nice day.
Do not take it personally, anybody out there. Bear with me, I am not always like this. I have just been under a little bit of stress and this is getting it out of my system. If you are the owner of an un-neutered cat, you may prefer not to read this. There are swear words in it.
The rant is about the lone stranger, the cat who keeps coming in and trying to make this his territory by spraying all over it.
It isn't his fault really. I have spotted him twice now, big, black, low slung to the ground, and collarless naturally. Bet you anything you like, that if I catch him and get him checked, he's not microchipped either. He's gentlemanly and courteous to the kitties, decrying his rep with one of our neighbours who swears she will wring his neck when she catches him, because he chases her silver tabby around. But that is not his fault either, really.
It's the fuckwit who owns him I want to chew out. What is it with people? Do they consider the damage their pets cause? When they are ignoring or defending the lack of neutering, do they ever consider their neighbours, their neighbourhoods or even their cat's welfare?
Maybe it's OK for people to be fuckwits about other people's houses.
Maybe it's OK for strangers to have to clean their floors endlessly to get rid of the pong of said fuckwit's pet.
Maybe it's OK that other cats have to stay indoors and experience a lesser quality of life.
Maybe it's OK for other people to spend masses of money on cat-flaps cos back doors can't be left open.
Clearly it's OK for hedgerow birds and beasties, already under threat from loss of their environment, to suffer from a huge population of strays.
And of course it's absolutely fine for a tom to father hundreds of kittens, many of whom are the feral infants of half-feral strays.
What do people think happens to their cat's amorous conquests? Do they think pussy cats marry in Thomas O Malley style? Do they ever go anywhere near a cat refuge? Do they ever see the results of their cat's virility, litter after litter of pathetic kittens who lead miserable, worm-infested, starving and often very short lives? And the ones who live, the ones who hit their sell-by out-of-cuteness date at 6 months. What happens to them?
Lots of kitties gained from cat refuges are not wormed, despite worms being a debilitating health condition, almost inevitable in every kitten. Worming costs money, and when more and more strays are coming in every day, the money goes on the necessities. And all this misery because some munter either doesn't know or has some kind of bizarre emotional attachment to their cat's genitals. Who are these people? Are they the feline equivalent of stereotypical rottweiler owners? Is there some sort of chav cat/macho moggie thing going on? A strange pride in having a bruiser boy, you know, the kind you don't mess with, a king cohones among cats?
Fuck them. Fuck them and their colossal ignorance and selfishness, fuck their stupidity! Someone rescue cats from them and someone rescue them from me, because the moment gun laws change in this country their arses are mine!
BANG!
That's better.
This rant was brought to you by the four Deborahs of the Apocalypse; War, Fire, Fire, and Fire.
Have a nice day.
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Monty Burns...
Date: 2005-03-31 11:28 pm (UTC)Lovely to hear from you btw. How is everything?