To be annoyed that people think it's funny to make jokes about killing/injuring cats?

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Just that, really.

Have noticed this on all forums/groups I am on. Someone will mention a cat/a problem with a neighbour's cat and someone else will 'joke' about killing or injuring it.

No idea why people think this is ok and it doesn't happen to the same extent with dogs. It's fine not to like cats but why in the world would you say, especially to someone who clearly does like cats, that you'd like to see them hurt?

Feel like this constant drip of casual cruelty translates to real life and people being callous towards other people's pets in real life too.

PortiaCastis Sun 01-May-16 19:29:33

"You can put pepper down that scares the furry feckers away but trouble is the rain washes it away"

Also, it only works if there is somewhere else they can go: they can't hold it in forever: if the remaining territories are full of big scary cats or if all the neighbours put down pepper, it won't do much good.

Ah well I'll use my super soaker

There was an unneutered tom cat who used to attack our cats and come into our house and spray. If I'd had my dad's ancient, from his national service days airgun handy I might have been tempted. As it was, when we installed a microchip cat flap the first time it hurtled after one of my cats and slammed into the securely shut cat flap I laughed. A lot. We now have a very territorial Bengal cat next door who is all over our cats like a rash and forever sneaking into our house. I wonder what happened to that airgun?

The reality is of course that I've never laid a finger on these cats. I'm never going to lay a finger on Richard Armitage either, am I not allowed to fantasise about that too?

Any sort of animal abuse sickens me. DH sees numerous cases of it in his surgery weekly. He had a cat in last week that so,some had tied a firework to. People that do these things are disgusting excuses for human beings. I often see posts on here about kicking dogs. Anyone that dared kick any of my dogs would take their life in their hands doing so. My DD has a boyfriend whose mother hated my dog, really hated her. When she was caught booting her discreetly under a table she was asked to leave my home in no uncertain terms. The only thing that brought my attention to what she was doing was when DH heard the dog whimper. She was lying they're being kicked bless her. That woman was lucky she didn't leave head first through a window.

There not they're and someone not so,some

DameXanaduBramble - you've hijacked this for your ramble and rant. And just proved my point.

If your dog - or anyone else's dog - went for my child, a kick would be the very least it could expect. Any ensuing threat from the owner would be completely disregarded by me until it went to court.

Presumably you don't mean badly trained dogs though?

AYD2MITalkTalk - those owners are just as bad as my original grumble. No one should make mean-spirited jokes about killing other people's pets.

No Sir I don't . I've read so many posts on here that say they'd kick a dog if it sniffed them. Obviously if any dog went for a child or anyone else for that matter you do what you need to to get it off.

I threw a log into the fire. As it left my hand I saw a little woodlouse hanging on to the end of it. I reached back into the fire, (a Wood burning stove), but I couldn't get the log and the little woodlouse out. My young DS's, as they were, thought that I was bonkers, so I recited Christina Rosetti' s, "Hurt no living thing."
There is no excuse for taking the life, or wilfully hurting, any living thing, unnecessarily. Also, animal abuse is often the first step in developing an aggressive, controlling, abusive personality complex.
It doesn't matter if they brag about hurting a cat, a rabbit or a woodlouse; it's the personality that would wilfully want to hurt another living creature purely for the sh!ts & giggles that is worrying.

Really? I haven't seen so many posts that say that. Maybe a small handful, but certainly not 'so many' just because the dog sniffed them.

If I'd had my dad's ancient, from his national service days airgun handy I might have been tempted.

I'm pretty sure the British army never issued it's soldiers with air guns.

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I haven't mentioned injuring a cat once op. Not once. Merely illustrating why some people are frustrated with your cats. You are typical of the sort of pet owner who takes no responsibility.

He didn't do his national service in the army, acasual.

O.K. so who issued your father with an airgun during his National Service?

I don't know. He's dead. Why the fuck does it matter in the context of this discussion? He had a airgun. It was quite old. Whilst witnessing my cats being attacked by a vicious tomcat I occasionally dreamed of using it against them. The end.

Interesting thread. I read somewhere that a study of attitudes to dogs and cats found people much more likely to attribute unpleasant human motives and traits to cats (common word association results were things like "sneaky" "manipulative" "underhanded"); people were more likely to refer to cats as "she" and dogs as "he"; and cats were about 15 times more likely than dogs to be the victims of deliberate abuse.

Cats who shit in my garden get a swift kick up the arse if i can catch them. I dont really give a shit if that makes me a bad person. I dont want my kid catching toxoplasmosis and going blind. i'm weird like that...

GreatFuckability

www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Toxoplasmosis/Pages/Symptoms.aspx

Toxoplasmosis is essentially harmless unless the person is pregnant or has a weak immune system.

If a cat ever did cause anything bad to happen to my kids, blindness or whatever.....I would kill every cat in a ten mile radius to make sure I got the one who caused the damage.
If not loving vermin makes me a psycho, I'm ok with that.

Does that go for dogs too Kelandry? Just to be sure?

Dogs aren't vermin. No dog has ever managed to get over my 6 foot fences and shit on my lawn. Dogs are subject to laws that means I'd have legal recourse if they caused me damage.