[Zipperfish]

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There's one stray cat that has been seen in our yard multiple times over the last year or so; I think it's one of our close neighbours. Hasn't caused us any problems at all, just see him run whenever we walk outside. I think it fraternizes with one of our cats, I have no idea why else it'd skulk around. Still, no harm so far and our cats are male; so no risk for random litters.

Either way, driving over it never crossed my mind. This guy is monstrous. He says its black humour. I don't know, sounds like something that just enough people think is okay and he felt he would have some sympathizers. He probably does.

At least anyone in that town knows who ran over their cat just because it crossed a street. Some fucking scumbag did that to my cat, was outside for 5 whole minutes before we found his body right in front of our house.

I'm sure the guy that did that has a toast in store for you, Mr. Mayor! Congratulations on your sadistic heartlessness, enjoy tearing the world down around you.

Yeah, I've never got along with people who are cruel to animals. I just find that they tend to be kind of flat and uninteresting. A friend of mine's brother got out of jail once--when I was a young teenager--and when he got home pretty much the first thing he did was hoof a kitten into a wall. Poor thing dragged it's broken body a couple of feet, looked up at me and died.

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[ShepherdsDog]

yet you proposed eliminating people who didn't agree with your political beliefs.

[Zipperfish]

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Well, clinically speaking, violence towards animals (and enjoying it) is always that tell-tale sign for finding a violent psychopath. I like to think that I disassociate from people like that, but who knows. I've got more problems with peopel than I do cats.

Also, that's heartbreaking. I am perplexed at how anyone can so easily kill without a second thought

He was crying about it later. He wasn't a psychopath, just an asshole. There's a lot of them out there. The emotionally retarded, the attention whores, the misanthropes, the power-trippers and, yes, the psychos.

It was heartbreaking, but in the neighbourhood I grew up in, I was pretty inured to it all by my mid-teens. On the plus side, that experience made me develop a keen sense of assholery. I can usually tell within the first few sentences.

[herbie]

Cats have the right to roam under Common Law because they kill rats and mice protecting you from disease and guarding grain crops. It's how they domesticated themselves.
They don't kill fucking chickens, nice try Bart.
You can be like the old fart who antifreezed half the neighbour's cats in our town a decade back. Yeah his flowerbed was on private property. So was what's left of his car.
Must've been spontaneous combustion the cops said after a five second investigation. Guess the Sgt. wasn't sympathetic after his two girls watched Fluffy take three days to die.

[Zipperfish]

Do you shoot them with an air rifle? I can't imagine you're allowed to shoot a gun on your property in order to take out a varmint.

[Curtman]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

I've had to cull barn cats, but I never enjoyed it for as much as I dislike most cats.

...

nailing gophers on the shoulders of the road, or as they run across the road is a game here on the prairies.

... and you wonder why people don't invite you to parties.

[BartSimpson]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

Do you shoot them with an air rifle? I can't imagine you're allowed to shoot a gun on your property in order to take out a varmint.

Depends. I generally use a .177 Remington air rifle but I also have a legal suppressor for my RAV-22 and I usually have at least one magazine of subsonic rounds ready to go. Either one will do the job but I prefer the .22 for body shots if I'm uncertain of a headshot. The .177 is absolutely not humane unless it's for a 100% headshot. I won't even shoot a rat with that thing unless it's a headshot. Too many bloody nightmares as it is, I don't need to add a suffering animal to the Midnight Movies.

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[Zipperfish]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

Do you shoot them with an air rifle? I can't imagine you're allowed to shoot a gun on your property in order to take out a varmint.

Depends. I generally use a .177 Remington air rifle but I also have a legal suppressor for my RAV-22 and I usually have at least one magazine of subsonic rounds ready to go. Either one will do the job but I prefer the .22 for body shots if I'm uncertain of a headshot. The .177 is absolutely not humane unless it's for a 100% headshot. I won't even shoot a rat with that thing unless it's a headshot. Too many bloody nightmares as it is, I don't need to add a suffering animal to the Midnight Movies.

Yeah, my buddy tried to take out a skunk with an air rifle. Fine if you kill them with the first shot, but otherwise--nasty. He gave up after one particularly bad experience.

[BartSimpson]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

Yeah, my buddy tried to take out a skunk with an air rifle. Fine if you kill them with the first shot, but otherwise--nasty. He gave up after one particularly bad experience.

A mental picture forms that I just don't care to entertain.

And your description of the kitten looking at you and then dying breaks my heart.

[Proculation]

I've heard the 'radio show' live and that guy was clearly joking. Very dark joke, but you have to know the 'shock jock' he is. He explained later in the show that stray cats are a real nuisance in his town and that several citizens asked for him to do something.

He is hosting a show on a new radio station clearly 'stationed' on the right spectrum of politics. Something Montreal do no like at all.

[GreenTiger]

This just proves that not all of the mentally ill politicians are on the American side of the border.

Elliot Spitzer and Anthony Wiener are sick but in a slightly different way.

[ShepherdsDog]

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ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

yet you proposed eliminating people who didn't agree with your political beliefs.

I do? Despite saying opposite, constantly? Hmm.

I don't, not anymore than you do, at least. I'm sure you'd rather see me dead than the other way around, bub, what with the totally-acceptable "dump the reds in a pile" rhetoric...

Yes...you did (last year I believe). You were taken to task by a few people, for proposing that those who didn't agree with your great revolution, should it ever come to pass, would be eliminated if they refused to accept it. Haven't seen any kill the commies posts...but then again, you keep insisting that all the other communists in the world don't practice the 'real' communism you envision.

[Zipperfish]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Yes...you did (last year I believe). You were taken to task by a few people, for proposing that those who didn't agree with your great revolution, should it ever come to pass, would be eliminated if they refused to accept it. Haven't seen any kill the commies posts...but then again, you keep insisting that all the other communists in the world don't practice the 'real' communism you envision.

Shep never forgets. Learned that one the hard way.