To think defending your cat when it's crapping on my lawn is pathetic!!

[LegoComplex]

Not me but DP right now was washing up and saw the same massive fat cat start to take a dump in our front garden, bearing in mind this one cat always leaves massive dog size droppings where the kids play and a constant aroma of the stuff!

So he banged on the window but it didn't move so he opened the window and hissed at it, cue my neighbour comuing up and shouting at him that he threw something at it and she'd throw something back, he said what did i throw? she said she didn't know but kept having a go.

Are we supposed to watch the thing do that on our lawn?! we have our own cat and if i saw it doing that on someones front garden i'd shoo her away myself!

Lordy. A lie down in a darkened room might not go amiss there code. You've lost it.

Summery I disagree with some of the things you are saying on here, but I think that Code's attacks are out of order.

Oooh goody, a cat hating thread

Couldn't give a shiny fuck. A few bits of name calling will hopefully get this pulled and if that stops a single cat being kicked up the arse that will be enough for me. Look at yourselves feeling sorry for nutters who would happily hurt your cat.

Thanks Gabilan.

Name calling is one thing - using terms which mock mental ill health is another and is totally unacceptable (and won't actually stop anyone aiming a kick at a cat).

You are a prize ain'tcha. Just don't call the cat a cretin as you kick it up the arse in case you offend the mentally ill cats. Listen to yourself (I bet it's only you on the outside world isn't it)?

Maybe it's bed time for some of the more "tired and emotional"

Anyone who complains about political correctness offending people and uses MH terminology in a perjorative manner deserves sympathy, I think.

I don't/won't/wouldn't kick a cat - but I will challenge offensive language which mocks any form of mental illness.

Loving this.

I'm a bona fide cat hater. And I've planted lilies in my garden as they are poisonous. And I have nerf guns and whippets.

And I've got bipolar

BINGO! FULL HOUSE!

Code, just report the thread and leave. Im starting to think that some of the posts are just goading on purpose.

I have reported Kali but Mumsnet decided to comment with the word 'ahem' then came back on and referred to animal abusers as 'folks'. Now those animal abusers have come on crying because apparently they DO care about some things (as do Mumsnet who evidently care more about political correctness than abuse of animals) I'm hoping that this will pull the thread nicely.

galiban

Look up 'The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States' an excerpt
Here 'We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.3–4.0 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals annually. Un-owned cats, as opposed to owned pets, cause the majority of this mortality. Our findings suggest that free-ranging cats cause substantially greater wildlife mortality than previously thought and are likely the single greatest source of anthropogenic mortality for US birds and mammals. Scientifically sound conservation and policy intervention is needed to reduce this impact'

So yes, people are causing mass extinction. One of those ways is by selfish people owning pointless cats which kill wildlife and waste the worlds resources.

Let's just kick them up the arse then. Or better still shoot them.

Well my 'pointless' cats have helped my depression tremendously

unless you're dealing with a particularly slow cat, i doubt you'd get close enough to kick one if you tried, and if you do get close enough to aim a foot, then just shoo it with your hands!

my pointless cat hasn't killed anything, except a couple of spiders she found in the bath, and she's terrible at marauding moths in the garden!

'Un-owned cats, as opposed to owned pets, cause the majority of this mortality'.... So yes, people are causing mass extinction. One of those ways is by selfish people owning pointless cats

I haven't looked up the survey that you site but it doesn't back up your point anyway, since according to that survey, feral cats are the problem. There are irresponsible owners who abandon cats and leave them to breed in the wild and then hunt, disrupting predator-prey balance. Thus the ecological problem, according to that survey, is irresponsible owners and abandonment, not the pets per se.

Does the helping with your depression outweigh the damage the cats may do the local (not helping you) wildlife?

Poor wrens, they just weren't depression alleviating enough to be saved. Mr Tiddles from number 53 got them.

So many cats where I live and so few birds. That saddens me.

My very helpful cats keep rats out of my kitchen. I have a choice between living with rats, trapping the rats, poisoning them or keeping cats. I choose cats.

unless you're dealing with a particularly slow cat, i doubt you'd get close enough to kick one if you tried

The trouble is if you have a friendly or very placid cat, all too often they are open to cruelty or abuse.

My pointless cat can't catch anything to save her life bless her
sir I understand why you object to some of the comments and names used here, and I agree with you.

It's fine to dislike or even hate cats and not want them in your gardens but saying it's fine to mistreat or abuse them is totally not on. Regardless of whether people think others shouldn't keep them, they're living creatures and I don't understand how anyone could harm one. Some of the posts and suggestions on here have been really out of order and upsetting to me. I would be devastated if anyone ever deliberately hurt my cat.

I'm hoping OP finds a solution to her problem without harming any cats in the process. This thread has become vile.

Maybe those getting upset should shuffle over to the litter tray, where you can do as much "nutter bashing" as you want

AIBU is not for the fragile

summery we are discussing it over in The Litter Tray, however some of the more aggressive trolls posters have stirred things up there too.

My cats have never killed birds since wev had them.They're scared of birds and other animals.
Yes i do know this as we've handreared baby birds, rabbits and hedgehogs and they were terrified of them all. They still are.
I only have to get the blanket out now and they know that a creature is coming out, they leg it.
No natural cat instinct what so ever.