Dear Birding-aussers,
I admire what Andrew says. He is correct about the battery hens. It is
disgusting. The same with caging animals.
My personal point about all this, despite the humour, is that one of the
main offenders, when it comes to cat-keeping, are birders themselves.
Note my email addresses. Keep in contact and keep laughing.
Glen
Dr G.J. Ingram
Senior Curator (Amphibia & Birds)
Queensland Museum
PO Box 3300,
South Brisbane 4101,
Australia
"Get even: swoop on a magpie."
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> From: Hoschke, Andrew AH <>
> To:
> Subject: RE: DESEX CAT SUPPORTERS
> Date: Wednesday, 1 October 1997 11:26
>
> Glen,
> While you may agree with me, I don't think you get the point of what I'm
> saying. We must ALL take responsibility for our actions. Cat owners
> should desex and enclose their animals, further to that each of us
> should look at how our actions are affecting the world. Hiding behind
> felinephobia is an easy way to wash your hands of all responsibility.
>
> As for caging birds, in my view, the worst crime people are committing
> against animals, is battery farming. The birds are kept in cages so
> small they cannot stand or spread their wings, permanently sitting on
> wire deforms their feet, which often have to be broken to remove their
> carcass from the cage, their bones are so weak from their "life" style
> that 80% of them break a bone sometime in their life, when they cant
> even move. Please buy free range eggs and stop supporting this torture.
> Andrew
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> From: Glen Ingram
> To: 'Birding-aus'
> Subject: DESEX CAT SUPPORTERS
> Date: Monday, 29 September 1997 2:27PM
>
> I completely agree with Andrew. That is why I am pushing for desexing
> cat lovers and not cruelty to the much beset pussy itself.
>
> Just think, if we can get rid of this catophilic gene from the human
> population, we will decrease the commonness of cats and we will stop
> their spread. At the same time no harm will come to cats: they will just
> dwindle because of disinterest.
>
> Yes, we do have to face the fact that the human supporters of cats are
> the cause of the spread of these animals. However, while I agree with
> Andrew in substance, I think he is being disingenuous in pointing the
> finger at ALL humans for the cat.
>
> There is hardly any justice in blaming people who were not involved in
> their spread in the past, nor is their any justice in blaming those
> disinterested in them now, and into the future. Such a broad brush of
> accusation is hardly caring and very insensitive.
>
> ONLY cat lovers should be blamed. And, Andrew, you should have the
> emotional, ideological and intellectual courage to hand in your
> secondary sexual characteristics if you want to keep your pussy.
>
> I for one would be amongst the first to applaud you.
>
>
> Glen Ingram
> Brisbane, Australia
>
>
> "Cats don't have owners, only people who stock the refrigerator for
> them."
>
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