[I_Like_Plants]

Ah, some sensible posts here along with the loony cat lover shit.

cool!!

and I'm very very proud to be considered a dickhead, and I love shooting small animals and watching 'em drop.

I am just sensible about it. Starlings, stray cats, feral dogs, basically animals that have no place and are a plague, and that includes any neighbors that give me trouble that I can get away with dispatching. bang bang.

Are you doing YOUR part towards the dieoff? (insert happy face pointing finger at viewer here)

[Cornelian]

Feral cats are a massive problem in Australia - many local councils keep very strict bylaws on cat ownership. People have to be responsible for their cats and they cannot allow their cats to stray. I keep my cats either inside or in enclosures.

However, the feral cat problem was created by people. Do we address the cat problem first, or the people problem which causes it? I find it interesting that people seem to focus their hate on the victims of humanity's sins, rather than on the perpetrators.

Hatred directed towards the victims of our own behaviour, I think, is always driven by a sense of deep self-failure and self-loathing.

[Narz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', 'a')nd I'm very very proud to be considered a dickhead, and I love shooting small animals and watching 'em drop.

I am just sensible about it. Starlings, stray cats, feral dogs, basically animals that have no place and are a plague, and that includes any neighbors that give me trouble that I can get away with dispatching. bang bang.

Are you doing YOUR part towards the dieoff? (insert happy face pointing finger at viewer here)

[I_Like_Plants]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Narz', '
')I am just sensible about it. Starlings, stray cats, feral dogs, basically animals that have no place and are a plague, and that includes any neighbors that give me trouble that I can get away with dispatching. bang bang.

Are you doing YOUR part towards the dieoff? (insert happy face pointing finger at viewer here)

[eastbay]

oh ILP's just trying to be humorous.

I read a book once called '101 things to do with a dead cat'. Something like that anyhow.

It was really funny.... in an ILP sort of way.

Merry Christmas ILP and to everyone else as well.

[tecumseh]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('seldom_seen', 'A') stray cat is a dead cat. Keep your cats in your house!

I will kill your cat. Sorry. I like wild birds more than your cat.

[gg3]

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Just a reminder:

There was a medieval pope who decreed that cats were the devil's familiars, and that all good Christians should go out and kill cats, inflicting as much suffering on them as possible in order to torment the devil.

The people of Europe did as they were told.

Minus cats, major increase in rats and mice.

Thence the plague.

The moral of the story is, be careful what you wish for, you might just get it.

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I say forget about cats and ration babies instead.

Calculate the amount of time we have to ramp down the population to a sustainable level without tipping the planet into anything worse than a +2 Celsius scenario, and then calculate the number of births each year to reach that point, and divide by number of families, gives us the number of permissible babies per family.

This number will be less than 1.

Thus, a less-than-one-child policy worldwide. Probably something like one child per three or four families.

Hold a lottery or let families compete in some way for the baby permits.

Locally of course. Auctioning baby permits on Ebay won't do any good as they'll all be bought by people in the most consumption-intensive countries.

Instead do it by zip code in the US, postal code in the rest of the developed world, and tribal affiliation or any other characteristic that maps to locality in the rest of the world.

Human population goes down, number of cats goes down along with.

Problem(s) solved.

[Narz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', 'T')hanks....... Yeah...... I know......

[Jenab6]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('psyop101', 'T')he real feral cats are tough to get a good shot at. Invest in a small bait trap and don't waste your ammo

[Falconoffury]

Stray cats let loose in New Zealand is why the Kiwi bird is on the brink of extinction. Shoot them!

[I_Like_Plants]

I'd like to see some real proof on the medieval rats and mice thing.... for one thing, if it was around the time of the plagues, a decrease in humans means an increase in rats and mice often.... ask any WWI vet who was in the trenches. Also, an increase in grains and vegetation in general means an increase in rats and mice, every wet summer in the West means more deer mice and more hantavirus...

Also, owls and birds of prey in general do a good job on rats and mice. So do weasels.

I like that coons can let themselves out of a trap, since I don't want to trap them.

Housemate here has suggested that if we trap any cats, throw 'em into the yard where a friend's dogs are kept, one dog is mellow but the other one will eat the cat. Entertainment for all!

I grew up with cats, had favorite cats, named cats, played with cats, and in general had a friggin ball with cats growing up. But they are dirty, smelly, spread hair and piss everywhere, and show me someone who depends on cats rather then fellow humans for companionship and I'll show you a psychological cripple.

If you want to appreciate an animal for what it is, learn to appreciate birds, while we still have a wide number of species of them.

[I_Like_Plants]

I'd like to see some real proof on the medieval rats and mice thing.... for one thing, if it was around the time of the plagues, a decrease in humans means an increase in rats and mice often.... ask any WWI vet who was in the trenches. Also, an increase in grains and vegetation in general means an increase in rats and mice, every wet summer in the West means more deer mice and more hantavirus...

Also, owls and birds of prey in general do a good job on rats and mice. So do weasels.

I like that coons can let themselves out of a trap, since I don't want to trap them.

Housemate here has suggested that if we trap any cats, throw 'em into the yard where a friend's dogs are kept, one dog is mellow but the other one will eat the cat. Entertainment for all!

I grew up with cats, had favorite cats, named cats, played with cats, and in general had a friggin ball with cats growing up. But they are dirty, smelly, spread hair and piss everywhere, and show me someone who depends on cats rather then fellow humans for companionship and I'll show you a psychological cripple.

If you want to appreciate an animal for what it is, learn to appreciate birds, while we still have a wide number of species of them.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', ' ')
I grew up with cats, had favorite cats, named cats, played with cats, and in general had a friggin ball with cats growing up. But they are dirty, smelly, spread hair and piss everywhere, and show me someone who depends on cats rather then fellow humans for companionship and I'll show you a psychological cripple.

If you want to appreciate an animal for what it is, learn to appreciate birds, while we still have a wide number of species of them.

[I_Like_Plants]

had a problem with a neighbor's cat pissing all over my front steps, I'd come home from work and get a big whiff of cat pee, that's the last things I needed.

I came home one night and the cat jumped off of the front steps and started ambling away..... it thought it was more safe because of darkness, well, I kept a pellet gun around cocked and ready to go .... got it, aimed, damn can't see through the peep sight, wait, at night you aim down the side of your M16 lol, this pellet gun has a flat side... did that, YEOW got him.

Problem solved.

Later, had a problem with a cat pissing all over what was once an enjoyable to be in backyard. Caught him sitting out there, Pow in the ass - what was interesting was the cat levitated so fast, it was like an old film that they've spliced together, missing a few frames lol. He really howled too.

Problem solved.

I'm sorry I have no sympathy for crazy cat people and their little bird killing piss machines lol.

Dogs can be very very cool. Recently there was a film clip on Reddit showing a dog defending his injured pal against full-on traffic, in Korea no less. A cat would just walk away.

[Narz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', 'I') grew up with cats, had favorite cats, named cats, played with cats, and in general had a friggin ball with cats growing up. But they are dirty, smelly, spread hair and piss everywhere,

[I_Like_Plants]

Here's a good holiday song for those who go out for Chinese food on Xmas...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmXxrMC5Pv4

No, cats are not all bad, not bad at all fried extra crispy....

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', '
')No, cats are not all bad, not bad at all fried extra crispy....

[Narz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', 'N')o, cats are not all bad, not bad at all fried extra crispy....

[I_Like_Plants]

It will pay them back for all the old people who die in their apartments and are chewed on by their faithful cats, or, in the words of Dewey in the show Malcolm In The Middle, "Cats ate her face!"

[Narz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', 'I')t will pay them back for all the old people who die in their apartments and are chewed on by their faithful cats