I dont know if it is still in effect, but when I was a kid growing up in a small Pennsylvania town, the state paide a bounty, IIRC 25 cents, on stray dogs. The ears had to be turned it to claim it. Every so often there would be some jerk arrested for shooting pets.
It always struck me as funny how a bounty hunter for animals like that or for any kind of critter could possibly start raising them if the bounty was high enough, just to cut off their ears or tails in order to collect said bounty. Bubba's dog ear farm or fox tail farm. :-)
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Look up "Towser" who, for 23 years, was the mouser-in-chief at the Glennturrent distillery in Scotland, makers of Famous Grouse (yum). During her tenure, she dispatched 28,898 mice plus a few rats, pheasants, and rabbits.
She is not only enshrined in the Guinness Book of Records, but has a bronze statue in front of the Glennturrent building.
Got no use for your "real cat", just as I have no use for dogs that aren't allowed in the house. A neighbor's was kept outside on a chain, 24/7. Terrible.
Both animals are for my entertainment.
"How come we only get Dobie ears - from the local vet?"
The authenticators from the Guiness Book publishers counted them (some extrapolation and interpretation was done I think). Plus who really cares if it was only 28,897 or 28,896? It was still quite a feat.
Very few diseases are transmissible from cats to humans. The other way is even more rare.
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To which I have to give the standard tomcat reply- 'Whaddya mean FIXED? They worked FINE!'
(Yes, I know, if you insist a keeping a cat in an un-natural environment, you do have to keep them from reproducing....)
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Do they call you Massah or Ceasar?
Hey, whatever floats yer boat. I cats, and if I wasn't allergic to them, and gone from the house ten hours a day M-F, I'd probably have one. But I don't feel I have the right to subject any living creature to that much boredom. I like dogs too, but not as inside animals. If I had acreage, I'd probably have a couple working dogs, with suitable outside pen space and shelter, as a burglar alarm.
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Ear and tail docking, and cat declawing, should be illegal. Just as bad as what most of western world does to male baby humans.
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I was thinking of something like that, the bounty hunter could go from vet's office to the next getting the carcasses of animals that were put down due to disease or serious injury. :-)
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That's fine. Not for everyone.
just as I have no use for dogs that aren't
Had a neighbor that did the same thing. The dog lived for the break from that. And was still loyal to his owner.
Mine are very entertaining. Even the neighbors love em and have bequeathed their own names on them. Got one named after Rush's cat Punkin. They are fascinating creatures. Thinking about getting them do some tricks like Dominique and his trained House Cats.
Jeff
No, they call me "Meow!".
Your assumptions are faulty => wrong answer.
All nonsense.
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You have to keep them from reproducing in ANY case. Either that or start shooting them.
I. You can get shots for your allergies.
II. Cats thrive on boredom. Give them a perch and a window to look out of and they are happy.
They spend their waking hours imagining things - like what balsa wood tastes like.
Ooo! Good Idea!
On the other hand, I've known people who read the last chapter of a book first - to see how it turns out.
One I know read Revelations.
He's now a practicing Buddhist.
We had a couple, thirty years ago. One finally decided to stay inside and lived to a ripe old 22. The other refused to stay inside. A dog got it. After those two we never let the cats get a "taste" of the outside.
Sure. We used to jump the fence to pet and play with him and my son would feed him when the neighbors were gone. My son once surprised him (eating) and the dog ripped my son's leg open. Other than missing a few weeks swimming, no big deal.
It's not like house cats are stationary "plush toys". ;-)
One of ours goes nuts over ground coffee and turns his nose up at ham. Have you tried the shrimp(?) flakes?
Well, that's one way to get them out of the bathroom faster. ;-)
Scared him?
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