Victoria Clare26/3/04 11:28
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"Martin" wrote in
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Sacha wrote:

To state to others that they are vermin
is not only misleading but in your case it is downright dishonest and
if someone chose to take it far enough, could even be actionable.

I'm not interested in joining the debate about cats, but I strongly
believe that the statement above is just plain wrong at best. It would
not be possible to raise a successful action against someone who
called cats vermin in a newsgroup.

Indeed. I feel, though, that pointing out that deliberately hurting or
killing other people's pets is wrong was a worthwhile thing to do.

Except that I wasn't talking solely or even mainly about Mike telling people
here that cats are vermin. I *was* talking about someone reading his stupid
assertion, believing it, acting upon it by putting down poison for cats to
pick up, the cat/s dying and the possible legal consequences of *that* both
upon the poisoner and upon Mike who has given the wrong information
deliberately and perhaps encouraged an illegal action.
--

Sacha
(remove the weeds to email me)