As with Niels, I do not have a cat nor children. Moreover, I think both are
extremely cute.
But, hey. We are only talking about desexing cat-lovers and letting them
keep their cats. That way there is no suffering to the moggies while we
select out the cat-loving trait.
Seriously, what worries me is how cat-supporters sound very much like
smokers. "It is not proven this and it is not proven that" while everything
goes down the plug hole.
The anti-smoking campaign is not an easy metaphor to dismiss. Its success
shows that people will come to accept the giving-up of a once widespread,
enjoyable habit to obtain other, more exigent benefits. In this case,
environmental ones.
With the cat-problem, it is a mistake to attack the cat. Watch again and
again on any bird bulletin board throughout the world, the lists are full
of cat-loving birders who will defend the poor helpless little creatures to
the end. The cat-problem is a people-problem. That is why we have to attack
the cat lovers and, as with smokers, make them socially unacceptable. Make
them defend themselves, not their cute pussies.
It is all over. I contend we cannot justify elites with moggies anymore.
The sensuousness they get from reptile-and-bird-fed purrs has to be seen
for the obscenity it is.
I rest my case: against cat supporters, and not against the cute, pussy
cats.
G.J. Ingram
Annerley, Australia.
"Cat philosophy: it doesn't hurt to ask for what you want."
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> From: Niels Poul Dreyer <>
> To:
> Subject: RE:Cats and Foxes and the Environment.
> Date: Monday, 29 September 1997 19:32
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