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Good for you, John. I had a similar experience last summer when I was
in Spain and there were cats all over the hotel area. There were some
I fed at breakfast each morning (the standard hotel breakfast included
a jar of pate which the cats were rather fond of). And then there was
this sweet natured kitty who hung around the porch of our hotel and came
when I called her. She was so nice that I thought alot about taking
her back with me. I even took pictures of her, but I thought it would
be impossible to bring a cat back to the US from a foreign country.
I'm not sure whether to thank you for this information because I
might now start bringing cats back every time I go away!
Pam
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| You are a wonderful person! I applaud you. In 1983, my husband
and I visited his family in England. From England we flew to
Rhodes (Greece). There were thousands of cats there, most of
them starving. Once we were walking around the ruins of the
old fortress and I heard a horrible crying. After investigation,
I saw 6 newborn kittens scattered about rocks, their eyes not
yet open, and their mother was no where around. I thought that
either she'd abandoned them, or was looking for food.
I was disgusted with Rhodes because of this. I can't see how
people can live and see this suffering going on. I also saw
during my visit some stillborn kittens just laying about here
and there.
I realize that it is a major problem, but caring people cannot
stand by and let this go on. I could be wrong, but the impression
I got was that the people of Rhodes were neither caring nor
friendly (rude if anything...). I lost a great deal of respect
for those people -- their ancestors were some of the founders
of civilized life? Sure!
Anyway, England has very strict requirements about bringing
animals into their country, so I could not save any of those
blessed creatures. The only thing I could do was feed them,
and pray for them.
Again, I applaud your decency and compassion!!
Good luck in your new home, Mimi!
lp
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| Note to .4 This is NOT aimed at you as a person, I am merely referring
to a statement in your note.
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Yes, I have thought about it, but the difference between cattle
and cats is that cattle are raised expressly for consumption (sorry,
I don't like cruetly to animals, but I'm not so extremist where
I give up my steak). Cattle are basically ranged until they are
taken to the feed lot (yes, I have seen feed lots, the cattle don't
seem particularly unhappy, but they are not exceptionally demanding
or intelligent animals, they eat and sleep and poop), then either
sledgehammered or shot in the head. Not particularly nice if you're
the steer, but that's a bit different than, say, shotgunning a cat
that's cruising around your yard, or running down a dog just cause
it was on the road, or cutting open a monkey's head to see how it
ticks and leaving it like that until it dies. Yes, the way veal
is raised it not particularly nice, and it is rather grim to picture
how your steak got that way, but there is slaughter for food and
animal cruelty, and they are both different. Animal research is
indeed a necessary and valuable aspect of science, however, certain
research is NOT good. You do not have to spray hairspray in the
eyes of rabbits til they go blind--any fool knows not to spray
hairspray in their eyes, and they are not likely to do it until
they go blind.
I don't mean to rant--just to point out that there's cruel and uncaring
attitudes towards animals, and then there's the fact that people
eat meat. They are two different things--granted they can overlap,
but no one should feel bad cause they bought a hamburger. That
does not necessarily make anyone a hypocrite.
---kim
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