Letters to the Editor
AKA Smith
Published Letters: 4698 Editor's Choice: 83
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LW, Can I Borrow Your Cat?
[Read the article: I hate my cat!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have a stalker and my German Shepherd isn't agressive enough.
Okay. I lied. Sorry. Can't take the cat.
However I am going to offer you some advice that will probably get me tons of criticism, and I suggest you only use it as a last resort.
First, a little intro. A few threads back there was a woman who had moved house and whose mother had died and whose little girl was having some emotional problems. In the midst of all that, their two cats ran away. Various advisors offered various helpful hints, warnings, and critiques to help the little girl. Interspersed with all of those replies was a woman I will call The Cat Lady. (Okay. Could've been a guy but I doubt it.) She kept coming in with harsh words because this family had let the cats outside. Apparently, one should never ever let a cat outside.
I am going to issue this advice with certain caveats and assumptions. Let the cat outside.
One caveat is that you only do this after you have tried everything else. The other is that you do not live on a busy street or at a street corner. The assumptions are that you have already neutered the cat and that you are smart enough to do this gradually. Begin this outdoor experience for you cat with a crate placed in a shady spot and only gradually transitioning to being loose. If he cries, bring him in immediately. Repeat and repeat and repeat. Animal training is really people training. You may need to have patience to do this.
Why do I make such an insane suggestion? Because I don't want to see the cat killed. Just by your description, I am rather fond of your cat. Even if he is without balls, your cat has balls.
Years ago I lived in the country. Guess what? The cats were allowed outside. In fact, since I had had them since they were kittens, I trained them to go to the bathroom outside. Every cat I ever had went to the bathroom outside. I hate litter boxes, I hate the smell of them, and I would never tolerate them in the house. That cat piss smell is a real killer, isn't it? My neutered male cat never had an "accident" and never hesitated to let me know when he needed to go out. He yowled quite loudly. My neutered female cat mewed more softly and once, when we had accidentally left her indoors when we went to town, she situated her ass over the bathtub drain and did her business there. I simply washed it down the drain when I came home. It was her only accident.
I don't know how long the cats lived because I left them with my ex-husband when we divorced. The female was seven when I left and the male was three. I went on to city life and I assume they continued to kill baby chicks and birds, snakes, rabbits, and mice. Cats are much closer to wild animals than dogs.
However, do not be tempted to dump your monster out by some farm. We took many more abandoned cats to the pound than we kept.
Okay, Cat Lady. Come and get me. I just know you're out there, ready to pounce.
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To the Anonymous (Cat Lady? Is it you?)
[Read the article: I hate my cat!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Are you really a bird lover instead?
I knew there'd be people like you around. Maybe we should take the same solution for cranky people. Everyone who doesn't play well with others: Zap 'em!
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If this had been in any way consensual . . .
[Read the article: District attorney won't take gang rape case]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]then nobody would have needed to hold the doors shut to prevent others from coming in. After all, a woman who would engage in sex with so many other guys around would hardly mind if others observed, would she?
I suspect the DA doesn't want to prosecute for political reasons. Even if they screwed up the physical evidence collection, there are still eye witnesses.