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To feel sorry for the cats living in prison?

114 replies

Sallystyle · 24/01/2013 21:46

Now watching "Inside Death Row" with Trevor.

I feel very sorry for the poor cats who live in a cell, especially when they are in lock down.

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FrustratedSycamoresRocks · 24/01/2013 22:24

Not sure samu2 but I would assume that if the cats couldn't squeeze out then animal rights campaigners would be on the case.

I do now have inappropriate "aibu to get rid of my cat because.." ideas running through my head.

Maybe the cats don't like lockdown because they can't come and go as they please, not necessarily because they were in the cells, but because they have to be let in and out. (Possibly the same way as the inmates food?)

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Sallystyle · 24/01/2013 22:24

I found the whole programme so interesting.

I really felt for the man in it last week, the one who will spend his life in prison after committing a crime at the age of 13.

He seemed so remorseful and he never got a chance. I know so many people will feel like he deserved it but he was so young and it seemed like he really could have been rehabilitated.

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specialsubject · 24/01/2013 22:25

YABU. I feel sorry for the murder victims.

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Sallystyle · 24/01/2013 22:25

That makes sense Frustrated

No longer feel sorry for the cats!

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StickEmWithThePointyEnd · 24/01/2013 22:26

Telling a cat they can't do something is like telling a toddler they can't do something. Tantrums ensue. Makes sense they wouldn't like being in lockdown. Poor kitties.

Justreadthefuckingwords · 24/01/2013 22:28

I didn't see the programme so am coming at this blind Fairy.

Samu fair point, although my cats have barely moved from the sofa for the last week - I may send them to a death-row prisoner, they'd probably be in clover.

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Sallystyle · 24/01/2013 22:29

I can feel sorry for the cats and the prisoners. It's not one or the other.

I just thought that starting an anti death penalty here was a bit heavy for my first AIBU thread.. you guys are a bit scary Wink

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Sallystyle · 24/01/2013 22:31

Anti death penalty.

I am going to have to slow down my typing as there is no edit button here and I suck at it at the best of times.

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Justreadthefuckingwords · 24/01/2013 22:31

Ahh - just what I like, a turn-around AIBU.

Well played Samu

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Sallystyle · 24/01/2013 22:33

I am always the first to admit if I am wrong about something (except to my husband)

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DoctorAnge · 24/01/2013 22:35

I also felt for the cats after watching that the black one seemed pissed off at the lock down.

I am anti death penalty but that last mans senseless, unspeakable crime did make me totally understand why the family would want him dead.

KentuckyFriedChildren · 24/01/2013 22:37

You couldn't have that in UK prisons- no bars. I'm sure the cats are well loved though.

expatinscotland · 24/01/2013 22:38

Rascal was adorable! I love black cats.

Fairylea · 24/01/2013 22:42

I felt sorry for the cats too.

All seems quite odd.I couldn't get my head around a man who killed a child getting to have a pet in prison. Why should he have any comforts at all apart from the absolute minimum to survive?

Maybe I'm just hardcore. It just all made me feel quite ill and sad really.

ComposHat · 24/01/2013 23:14

Rascal was adorable! I love black cats

They are locking up the black cats. This is typical of the racist way the justice system operates in the US.

Justreadthefuckingwords · 24/01/2013 23:23

Compost, I have two black cats, I am white, I bought them so they could do tricks for me & look cool about the place.

It ain't just the justice system.

It's endemic.

tigerdriverII · 24/01/2013 23:25

Can't bear to think about Death Row. But please, why, why why do you have indoors only cats?

ilovesooty · 24/01/2013 23:26

Given the tension and violence in many US prisons (after all if you're on Death Row you have nothing to lose by committing further violent acts) it seems pretty sensible to me to allow the prisoners the companionship of a pet.

Devora · 24/01/2013 23:27

I was about to say that I bet there's some American animal rights group right now mobilising about pets behind bars.

Maybe there's also a Black Panther-wannabe group getting up in arms. Paws.

Devora · 24/01/2013 23:30

I think cats in prison makes a lot of sense. Not ideal for the cat, but a price worth paying for the undoubted benefits. It's a privilege, isn't it? I bet if you're on death row it would be a huge incentive to good behaviour. And I'm sure they get loads of love and attention.

I guess there's also a risk that they caught up in disputes between prisoners, with ugly results. And not going outdoors is not great. But hey, humans do much worse things to animals all the time.

SPsFanjoIsAsComfyAsAOnesie · 24/01/2013 23:31

I'm watching it now. I recorded it.

Cats will be able to roam around I'm guessing

bedmonster · 24/01/2013 23:35

I couldn't get my head around a man who killed a child getting to have a pet in prison

I couldn't understand this either. They weren't allowed to have contact with another human being without being restrained in handcuffs yet they were in charge of an animal?

But what I really got out of the programme is a new found love - Trevor McDonald!

SPsFanjoIsAsComfyAsAOnesie · 24/01/2013 23:37

Trev's voice is quite nice tbh. He could soothe your soul Grin

Shinyshoes1 · 24/01/2013 23:44

Still prefer Louis though

It made me wonder why these men killed men , women and children yet they have so much love for a cat and get treated better

ComposHat · 24/01/2013 23:48

I have two black cats, I am white, I bought them so they could do tricks for me & look cool about the place

They are a pair of Uncle Tom cats, letting themselves be used for your entertainment.

Maybe there's also a Black Panther-wannabe group getting up in arms. Paws

Possibly led by Meowcolm X