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RE: Declawing Cats
July 31, 2019 at 12:27 am
(July 30, 2019 at 11:42 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: (July 30, 2019 at 11:39 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Not the original post, you didn’t.
Also, I really don’t give a flying fuck about your opinion of MY actions with MY animal companions with MY money.
See, I wouldn’t have thought it to be a good idea to try to pass a law to impose my sensibilities on you.
So a law to ban animal cruelty is “imposing sensibilities on people?”
What a joke!
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
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RE: Declawing Cats
July 31, 2019 at 12:32 am
(July 31, 2019 at 12:27 am)The Valkyrie Wrote: (July 30, 2019 at 11:42 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: See, I wouldn’t have thought it to be a good idea to try to pass a law to impose my sensibilities on you.
So a law to ban animal cruelty is “imposing sensibilities on people?”
What a joke!
Considering across the world cruelty to animals is far more commonly accepted as a matter of course than rejected as immoral, attempts at banning is certainly mere representation of the sensibility of some people.
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RE: Declawing Cats
July 31, 2019 at 2:13 am
(This post was last modified: July 31, 2019 at 2:31 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Many an animal lover could make the argument that we should ban cats. Sure sure we bait our yards and homes and we know exactly what the cats are going to do, then we blame the cats.....but it’s us. Banning some set of cruelty and reveling in some other.
Fuck, might even get the idea that we’re animals too.
Or, are we talking full on gitmo prisoner cats who just might wish for death having never so much as seen outside?
Here’s a fun q, since we’re really waltzing the line between equating cats, property, and people.
Let’s do it! Would you pick life without parole, or lost fingers? If you were stuck in a prison, would you do anything that might risk life or limb to get out?
How about a gilded cage, where you were your owners prize possession? Does that change the equation?
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RE: Declawing Cats
July 31, 2019 at 8:02 am
(July 30, 2019 at 11:23 pm)Shell B Wrote: Some people don’t arbitrarily value one species of animal over another. Utter bullshit.
You do, I do, everyone does.
I guarantee you don't have any "rescue maggots"..
Bacteria are living beings.
Are you against antibiotics?
Do syphilis bacterium house train easily?
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RE: Declawing Cats
July 31, 2019 at 8:16 am
(This post was last modified: July 31, 2019 at 8:29 am by LastPoet.)
(July 30, 2019 at 12:01 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Well, they don't simply cut off the claws. The cats' toes are partially amputated. Sort of like if you were to cure a child's nail-biting by amputating his fingers at the first joint.
Secondly, neutering is good. It increases a cat's life span and makes the animal generally healthier. It also helps to reduce the population of feral cats.
Lastly, animals don't have a 'sex life' as you imagine it.
Boru
Wait what? They do that? I thought by declawing, you meant using a nailcutter or something to cut the tips of the claws. I don't like either. There are scratching poles, they seldom use. Easy to make at home even.
As to a sex life, by human standards they are pretty much S&M.
Regarding the comparision between neutering and declawing, it is plain silly. One is an elective surgery the other is a matter of public health. I will always put my species above others.
A couple of cats can generate like 10 K cats in 10 years. That is a lot of cat shit, more worrysome in urban areas.
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RE: Declawing Cats
July 31, 2019 at 8:58 am
(July 31, 2019 at 8:02 am)onlinebiker Wrote: (July 30, 2019 at 11:23 pm)Shell B Wrote: Some people don’t arbitrarily value one species of animal over another. Utter bullshit.
You do, I do, everyone does.
I guarantee you don't have any "rescue maggots"..
Bacteria are living beings.
Are you against antibiotics?
Do syphilis bacterium house train easily? But! Without bacteria we would have no politicians!
Or is that slime mold? I confuse the two.
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RE: Declawing Cats
July 31, 2019 at 9:51 am
(July 31, 2019 at 8:02 am)onlinebiker Wrote: (July 30, 2019 at 11:23 pm)Shell B Wrote: Some people don’t arbitrarily value one species of animal over another. Utter bullshit.
You do, I do, everyone does.
I guarantee you don't have any "rescue maggots"..
Bacteria are living beings.
Are you against antibiotics?
Do syphilis bacterium house train easily?
Not to be pedantic or anything, but bacteria are not animals.
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RE: Declawing Cats
July 31, 2019 at 9:54 am
(This post was last modified: July 31, 2019 at 9:59 am by onlinebiker.)
(July 31, 2019 at 9:51 am)Grandizer Wrote: (July 31, 2019 at 8:02 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Utter bullshit.
You do, I do, everyone does.
I guarantee you don't have any "rescue maggots"..
Bacteria are living beings.
Are you against antibiotics?
Do syphilis bacterium house train easily?
Not to be pedantic or anything, but bacteria are not animals. Really?
So are they plant or mineral?
Cuz them' s the options.
And yeah - i know they're not classified that way...
I' m not here to pick nits.....
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RE: Declawing Cats
July 31, 2019 at 9:58 am
Bacteria are in their own kingdom, there are 5, last I checked.
Not that it matters, your point is solid without any need to bicker. All of us, individually and collectively, value some life over other life and this effects what we consider to be the appropriate range of behavior when interacting with that life.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Declawing Cats
July 31, 2019 at 10:20 am
I don’t value your life over an animal’s life. When it comes to valuing specific animals over others, it’s only my family and pets over everyone else.
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