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14-08-2003, 12:42 AM

(Nicholas Steel) wrote in message . com...
I fail to understand the angst towards cats especially when dogs
regularly tear kids/old ladies to pieces,
Most dogs don't do this. And 99.9% of dog owners are as disgusted by
the lack of training & responsibility as anyone else.

leave monster turds
Check my front yard for the size & number of cat turds. They are not
buried, and smell far more than the one's my dogs leave in my back
yard.

and can wreck a back garden.
True. But it's my dog, my garden.

Cats dont do this - they bury their droppings
a tiny scraping of dirt or mulch doesn;t consitute burial. And the
disgusting mess in a child's sand pit isn't much fun either.

dont attack people
cats are considered dangerous to infants.
and you cant detect their presence in a garden.
That's amusing. Should I send some of the cat crap from my yard to
prove this ?
Maybe your yard is crap free because it's visiting the surronding
yards.

There's a dichtomy here - cat haters are often dog lovers
True.
- usually men but men of a particular type.The aspects of a cat appeal to
someone who has no interest in domination but puts a high value on
affection and curiousity. Dogs appeal to someone who absolutely must
dominate - wives, mistresses, mates, work collegues, neighbours etc.
Mostly they're men.
Now you are just generalising based on the moronic minority that has
no understanding of the responsibilities of owning an animal.
I know a lot of responsible dog owners, a couple of indifferent ones
but not any moronic ones. I don't know any cat owners that keep their
pet on their own property though.

snip couple of examples of idiots with dogs.

He was typical of doglovers. I've had many confrontations with them
mostly over dogs intruding into my property when let off the lead. One
golden retriever ran at my cat. I had a shovel handy and threw it at
the mutt. It hit but not hard. The dog ran over beside its owner - an
alpha male with a shaved head astride a bike. I pushed him very hard
and he fell on top of the mutt. This was sufficient punishment for
both.
This suggests that you are being more aggressive / alpha male-ish than
the dog owner. I get more cats in my yard than dogs by a ratio of
about 20:1. Most dog owners keep their animals on a leash when they're
walking.

At my weekender at Pt Lonsdale another golden retriever ran onto my
property followed closely by its owner - this time an alpha male gone
to seed - he had it all - the shaved head, fat that he thought was
muscle,
arrogant disposition
Not the only one by the sounds of it.
I told him that his mutt running amok was breaking council by laws.
Good. It was.

This ratcheted up into an argument. There would have been a similar
reckoning to the previous incident (a shove)except that his two
children were behind him.
Back to the aggressive behaviour.

I don't care if someone wants to own a cat. Just remember that your
neighbours don't necessarily want one and keep it in your own yard.
Dog owners are required to keep the animal on their own property or
face fines (and rightly so), yet cat owners seem to let their animal
roam free with no understanding of the mess they leave in other
people's yards.
And a couple of examples :
* As mentioned before - cat crap all over my yard. Smells disgusting,
rank to clean up and it's also a danger to pregnant women ( ie: my
wife not long ago )
* Dead birds. We had a bird feeder for some of the native birds in the
area, but the neighbour's cats stopped this fairly effectively.
* Cat urine on the bonnet of our car, effectively ruining the
paintwork.
* Scratches down the bonnet of another car from a cat sliding off it.
* One person I know gets complaints from her neighbour that her dogs
are barking. The reason - the neighbour's cat intruding into the dog's
yard...