Comments on: A new tagline for The Price is Right?

By: Mishee™

Mishee™ — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:27:09 +0000

As anglophile would lovingly point out, this thread is subject to Godwin’s Law as of post #1.5 and should now be shut down.

Thank you Terry.

By: Canthz_B

Canthz_B — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:16:02 +0000

Shut up. Both of you, just shut the fuck up.

Any fool that steps out into the road without looking both ways ought to be hit by a car!

Cute little kitten?
So cute animals should be protected just because they make you feel all warm and fuzzy?

Drowning kittens is just the way it is?
No, asshole. That’s just the way it was. You know, before modern transportation and animal shelters.
Country people have to destroy “vermin”?
Did it ever occur to you that you happen to live where deer, woodchucks and opossum have always lived and that communing with nature, not destroying it, is part of living in the country?

By: Devoid

Devoid — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:40:57 +0000

Sometimes the cats get killed, and sometimes they don’t.

For you to say you wish I would be killed tells me a lot about you. I don’ t know you, but you sound like a misanthropic pitaphile to me. Or as the hippies so aptly name them, Blissninnies.

Here is a hypothetical question:

You are driving down a road lined on both sides with trees. It is imposable to leave the road. Out from one side steps a cute little kitten. Out from the other side steps a human. When you try to engage your breaks, they fail. You can’t avoid the human without hitting the kitten. You can’t avoid the kitten without hitting the human. You have one second to choose. What do you do?

If you are honest, you will say that you will automatically avoid the human.

You won’t even think about it.

If you want to spend a lot of money on vet bills for the sake of keeping barn cats from breeding, go ahead, but the first time you avoid the cat, or cull a human, the rest of us humans will lock you up.

By: Meesh

Meesh — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:42:54 +0000

By the way, I am very familiar with barn cats. Sure they don’t get love and attention, but they most certainly get vet care. All of ours were fixed because we didn’t want kittens. We were responsible cat owners.

And your point above makes no sense. Why do we have to “cull” the population of cats when they have all those predators that you list above? If you don’t intervene with nature and have your cat spayed, you shouldn’t intervene with nature and kill the resulting litter.

By: Meesh

Meesh — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:37:03 +0000

Man, I wish someone would “cull” people like you. There are far too many of you.

By: Devoid

Devoid — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:34:24 +0000

Who? This is something that has been going on for ages, and not just in the U.S. Remember in the “Prince and the pauper” when the prince had to flee the farm house right in the middle of the task of drowning a litter of kittens? (written by an American, it took place in England) This is how farm families have always dealt with barn cats. It may not be P.C., but it has nothing to do with Hitler; it’s just how it’s always been done. In the country, cats sometimes just show up. They have all kinds of natural and man made enemies. Country people also kill woodchucks and other vermin. If we didn’t, they would destroy our buildings and gardens. It’s easy to be an all out animal lover when you live in the city where most of the animals are well fed dogs and cats. Out here it’s a war with the vermin, and that includes deer, rabbit, woodchuck, coyote, Opossum, (pronounced possum) and moles.

Cats and dogs are weapons in our arsenal, and we can’t spend a lot of money on them, especially the cats. Cats run wild out here; we give them a warm barn and sometimes a little food, but when there are too many of them, we have to cull them out.

Barn cats don’t even get names. Like it or not, that’s how it is.

By: Delphina

Delphina — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:27:08 +0000

The obvious solution to that is to not get a cat you cannot afford to spay/neuter.

But the US is full of idiots that have children without being able to afford it, so god knows cats are no exception.

PS. Drowning kittens? Are you the Hitler of the animal world? Who actually does that in the US (not being xenophobic or anything, this is just where the situation took place)?

But, okay, the note is still totally funny.

By: Nonny

Nonny — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:38:38 +0000

They were probably feral kittens. If the note-poster was so concerned about the problem, she should trap and get them fixed herself. I bet there is a low-cost or free trap-neuter-release program in New Jersey…

By: livlah

livlah — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:10:57 +0000

i don’t think this was harsh enough.
i would have put the dead kittens on their doorstep, with the letter, then stolen their cat and have him/her fixed, then send them the bill, then report them to the RSPCA. Then i would find a myriad of other ways to make their lives awful.
This is really sad though..

By: ronnie

ronnie — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:06:44 +0000

I actually completely sympathize with this woman. There are far too many cats dying needlessly because people can’t be bothered to get them spayed or neutered!

Don’t mess with Bob Barker, y’all.

By: Lover

Lover — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:34:00 +0000

Cooperation accomplishes more than fighting. Maybe if the kitten had been a cooperator instead of a fighter she would have lived. Oh, the follies of youth.

By: luna

luna — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:24:45 +0000

ok….maybe i’m wrong to be annoyed by this….but it drives me foolish when people try to up the ante on the guilt trip by mentioning their children. i, personally, don’t give a rat’s ass about your kid.
i agree that any cats outdoors should be altered, but really, isn’t a dead kitten enough to get your point across?

By: cat fight!

cat fight! — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:16:44 +0000

[...] last summer, sylvia in new york was just chillin’ out, watching tv one night when she noticed a cat had wandered through the open window. sylvia, an animal-lover, assumed he was a stray (he didn’t have a collar), but “he was super cute and affectionate, so we let him stay a little while. he decided to make himself comfortable and fell asleep.” a few days later, sylvia saw the same cat running down the sidewalk outside her apartment. not wanting the poor kitty to get hit by a car or picked up by animal control, sylvia scooped him up and brought him inside. “i was going to ask around and see if anyone nearby owned him,” she says, but her neighbor beat her to the punch. “she knocked on our door and explained that an employee at the nail salon downstairs had seen me take him inside, and i told her i thought he was a stray. the woman seemed okay, took the cat, and i thought that was the end of it.” the neighbor, it seems, thought otherwise. related: a new tagline for the price is right? [...]

By: TheOldSchool

TheOldSchool — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:29:21 +0000

Once again, it’s the humans who suffer.

BLAME. It’s like a sheep’s bladder — easy to toss around (or heave, hurl, punt, bat, hike, kick, pass, lob, throw, bounce, or roll) — but more difficult to accept, catch, or dribble.

The woman who created this flier has made a classic error. In her fit of furious indignation, she has lashed out at the very people who are closest to her: her neighbors.

If she’d paused long enough to think things through, she’d have realized that her fury was being misdirected.

If she’d made herself a nice hot toddie, dimmed the lights of her boudoir, put on a nice negligee, and then stared at her reflection in a full length mirror (from the most flattering angles), she would have recognized where the blame for the all the dead kittens truly lies.

Feral cats should not be having unprotected sex.

It’s irresponsible.

Don’t kid yourselves. Unwanted pregnancies aren’t the only problematic end result. The rate of feline STDs is as high now as it has ever been.

We’re talking “rocket pube high.”

For just a few dollars a day you could help me help her supply every feral cat in the neighborhood with nine lifetimes’ worth of kitty condoms.

(Ribbed for purr pleasure.)