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RE: Declawing Cats
July 30, 2019 at 6:36 pm
(July 30, 2019 at 6:32 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: I don’t have kids and, frankly, I prefer most animals over most people.
And there’s not a shortage of humans, either. I get that, but...again...that’s a comment on you that doesn’t really provide any leverage with regards to other people. People who don’t have that to spend on a cat and wouldn’t even if they did. That’s not going to strike people as anything other than a misanthropic opinion attached to a deep wallet.
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RE: Declawing Cats
July 30, 2019 at 6:44 pm
(July 30, 2019 at 6:36 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: (July 30, 2019 at 6:32 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: I don’t have kids and, frankly, I prefer most animals over most people.
And there’s not a shortage of humans, either. I get that, but...again...that’s a comment on you that doesn’t really provide any leverage with regards to other people. People who don’t have that to spend on a cat and wouldn’t even if they did. That’s not going to strike people as anything other than a misanthropic opinion attached to a deep wallet.
Possibly.
And, frankly I don’t care.
Simply put, having a pet requires a certain amount of commitment in both time and resources.
If you’re not prepared to make that commitment, don’t get a pet.
Where I am there are “people” who seen to make a habit of abandoning cats. I’ve adopted three strays over the past 5 years and one of my current cats I adopted after he was abandoned about 6 years ago.
People who abandon animals should be left naked in the middle of the desert in winter but, again, that’s my opinion
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RE: Declawing Cats
July 30, 2019 at 7:03 pm
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Yeah, exactly....and you don’t have to care. Your opinion, your cat, your wallet.
People who “commit” to pets aren’t committing to medical bills they’d strain to pay even if it were a human child. That part, not what you would do or what you did or what you -can- do...is the ridiculous bit.
The other end of that is their cat, their opinion, their wallet.
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RE: Declawing Cats
July 30, 2019 at 7:29 pm
(July 30, 2019 at 5:19 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: (July 30, 2019 at 5:17 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Cats are capable of learning what they can and can’t do. All it takes is the patience many prople aren’t prepared to commit to.
You willing to pay $1000 a lesson till kitty gets it right?
Not most people I know...
Where do you live where you pay your weight in gold for cat training?
(July 30, 2019 at 5:22 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Let it die. Pets aren’t children. My beagle got hit by a car yesterday. We didn’t rush to the er. I took her down to the creek, told her she was a good girl, and then I blew her head off.
She’s buried better than I’m likely to be, since it would be illegal to bury me the way I lovingly buried her. Pets are property, not people.
People are pieces of shit, not worth more than any beagle I ever met.
(July 30, 2019 at 5:51 pm)EgoDeath Wrote: (July 29, 2019 at 9:48 pm)Shell B Wrote: No. I'm so lonely I just want to die. You start slinging shit and then cry when I play in the sandbox. Boohoo, buddy.
Once again nothing more than condescending nonsense and insults. You must be #foreveralone
I mean, if it makes you feel better.
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RE: Declawing Cats
July 30, 2019 at 8:38 pm
(July 30, 2019 at 7:03 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Yeah, exactly....and you don’t have to care. Your opinion, your cat, your wallet.
People who “commit” to pets aren’t committing to medical bills they’d strain to pay even if it were a human child. That part, not what you would do or what you did or what you -can- do...is the ridiculous bit.
The other end of that is their cat, their opinion, their wallet.
Actually, when you commit to a pet you take responsibility fir its wellbeing, not just for when it’s a kitten and/or healthy, but for its entire life.
Again, if you’re not prepared to take the responsibility, then don’t get a pet.
Also, probably best not to have kids, either. Lack of responsibility for animals may be mirrored in how kids are treated.
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RE: Declawing Cats
July 30, 2019 at 9:16 pm
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Taking the responsibility of caring for a pet, in no lucid sense of that phrase, means agreeing to 4K worth of vet care.
It’s cool that you could do that, and cool that you did....it’s just not a comment on the decency of others, or even if they loved fluffy, if they can’t or don’t do what you did.
IDK whether or not there’s a relationship to parenthood there, but I’ll get back to you if I take one of my heathens into the woods and shoot them, lol.
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RE: Declawing Cats
July 30, 2019 at 10:12 pm
(July 30, 2019 at 9:16 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Taking the responsibility of caring for a pet, in no lucid sense of that phrase, means agreeing to 4K worth of vet care.
It’s cool that you could do that, and cool that you did....it’s just not a comment on the decency of others, or even if they loved fluffy, if they can’t or don’t do what you did.
IDK whether or not there’s a relationship to parenthood there, but I’ll get back to you if I take one of my heathens into the woods and shoot them, lol.
We’ll have to agree to disagree on the first point.
The last wasn’t a dig at you. But if you want your kids shot, I know people...
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RE: Declawing Cats
July 30, 2019 at 10:36 pm
Oh, you know me, not big on outsourcing that sort of stuff.
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RE: Declawing Cats
July 30, 2019 at 10:39 pm
It's not the claws that bother me, its the cat that is attached to the claws 
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RE: Declawing Cats
July 30, 2019 at 11:06 pm
I find it rather obscene to spent $4K to prolong the life of a cat if one could have helped humans dying for the want of ability to afford $4K of medical care.
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