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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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SPsFanjoIsAsComfyAsAOnesie · 24/01/2013 23:54

How can someone kill a woman and a child but love an animal as much as he says he does?!

Lueji · 24/01/2013 23:58

Well, if they have a cat, they can't expect Green Mile mice in there.
Let's hope they don't get cancer or anything. It might kill them...

SPsFanjoIsAsComfyAsAOnesie · 25/01/2013 00:01

Oh I forgot bout Green Mile. The scene where he going off to be put in the chair and hes giving the big guy the mouse Sad

This fella is really creeping me out. I'm not sure what it is about him but it seems like all he said was just him playing up to the camera. I honestly don't think he is genuinely remorseful

Catchingmockingbirds · 25/01/2013 00:03

Could the cats go into the yard (learnt about 'the yard' from watching films about prison) for a wander? Maybe that's why they don't like lock down, because they have to stay inside the prison, rather than just inside the cell. I recon the cats could definitely squeeze through the bars without a problem.

Justreadthefuckingwords · 25/01/2013 00:18

Compost - you may be right - I could have sworn one of them was getting all uppity & wearing a pair of spats last week.

cateerob · 25/01/2013 00:48

my kitties live inside, we live in a flat in london, they have no sense at all would run under a car if they went outside, they seem happy enough they have each other to play with, they would prob love a prison, lots of beds to sleep on and someone to pet them all day...

Birdsgottafly · 25/01/2013 01:50

I don't know if this link will work, but the cats in prisons programme was started by cat charities, as an alternative to them being PTS.

www.catster.com ? The Scoop

valiumredhead · 25/01/2013 08:07

God that programme gave me the creeps last night

One cat was on a lead so not free to get through the bars.

expatinscotland · 25/01/2013 08:37

'But please, why, why why do you have indoors only cats?'

Why not? They don't get hit by cars, drink antifreeze or eat poisonous stuff that inconsiderate people leave out, get shot with air rifles or set on fire by thugs, get pregnant or get other cats pregnant, get into fights with other cats, get attacked by dogs, kill birds. All sorts of reasons.

The murder of Cory and Jenna Clark, for which Frederick Baer is on Death Row, was horrific! Baer chased down little Jenna after murdering her mother. Cory Clark's husband, the father of her two daughters (her elder child was at school), was in Florida looking for work at the time of the murders.

valiumredhead · 25/01/2013 08:40

expat interesting, dh said last night he would like to hear the police's version of events to see if they matched Baer's.

expatinscotland · 25/01/2013 08:51

At first, Baer did not admit his guilt. He has also a very long criminal history and IIRC, may be tried in another state for at least one rape (although probably not as he is on Death Row already).

valiumredhead · 25/01/2013 08:54

Dh said he bet that it wasn't the first time he had raped/attempted rape.

mrsjay · 25/01/2013 08:57

load of people have house cats who never go out I had an outside cat who hated being in I guess the cats are there for company and probably catch the odd mouse or 2 I think they will be well cared for and loved

mrsjay · 25/01/2013 08:57

oh thread has moved on

Shinyshoes1 · 25/01/2013 09:04

I wonder what would happen to the cat if he did squeeze through the bars . I wonder if he goes in solitary confinement and loses all privileges Grin

LetMeAtTheWine · 25/01/2013 09:07

Perhaps the cats were all little rogues like the one that was arrested in Brazil...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-20920848

expatinscotland · 25/01/2013 09:08

No, it was not the first time he raped/attempted rape. He had a long history of criminal behaviour, which he admitted to, and drug use.

ilovesprouts · 25/01/2013 09:11

they should not be allowed cats in with them :(. i really felt sick wen he said hed killed the mother and her dd .

FrustratedSycamoresRocks · 25/01/2013 09:19

letmeatthewine "it's hard to know who's behind the action because the cat doesn't speak" Grin

LetMeAtTheWine · 25/01/2013 09:24

I know sycamore - the whole thing is genuis. I think, considering they managed to figure out that the phone was smuggled in to enable communication, they are on top of it though. PHEW! Grin

LetMeAtTheWine · 25/01/2013 09:24

Sorry - Frustrated!

expatinscotland · 25/01/2013 09:26

It's to try to keep violence down, ilove. This is always a major problem in prisons, as you saw from the show.

SummerRainIsADistantMemory · 25/01/2013 09:28

Surely it's not safe for the cats, those men have killed humans for the sheer hell of it, what's to stop them hurting an animal?

expatinscotland · 25/01/2013 09:29

I do wonder about that, Summer. A lot of these men admit to having 'snapped' when they committed murders, and if they couldn't see the human being they killed as a person, what about the poor cat? But then, a lot of them were under the influence of drugs when they killed.

Catchingmockingbirds · 25/01/2013 09:44

I wonder what would happen to the cat if he did squeeze through the bars

:o it has it's catnip confiscated for a week.