Kitten Rescue! With Pictures!

wildturkeycanoe said :

Ben_Dover said :

wildturkeycanoe said :

So, the government can spend money on this, but at the same time [in another story running simultaneously] we see vandalism going pretty much uncontrolled because they can’t afford to send police. What gives, when a feral animal comes before people’s property?

I take it you are being sarcastic.

Actually I am being quite serious. I mean, a kitten stuck up a tree and you have the brigade called out. It is a six hundred plus dollar fee if you accidentally call the brigade due to a false alarm whilst working on fire systems. Yet, they seem quite willing to spend their time and our money getting a dumb animal out from a tree without charging anyone.
Feral animal, yes. According to the story the owners are unknown. Did they check for a microchip? Did it have a collar or registration tag to identify the creature? In my book that makes it feral. It could have been roaming the neighborhood looking for food and decided to climb the tree in search of birds. I can’t tell from the tree but who knows if it was after a native species. If they’d found a dead chick or several small smashed eggs on the ground below, would anyone still think “Aww, isn’t it a cute little kitty?”. In my eyes, any cat that wanders around at night unsupervised is a predator that should be locked up. We lost goldfish from our pond in the front, witnessed the cat attempting to scoop them up at around 9:30 at night. I though cats had curfews, or is that just another feelgood for the northern suburbs which nobody polices?
They caterwaul outside your bedroom window when on heat, they make all the neighborhood dogs bark at all hours of the night and day. They pee in your children’s sandpit. Honestly, I can say I hate cats with good reason. They aren’t loyal, they scratch you, they don’t taste good unless served in a black bean sauce.
Leave the next one to die, there’s plenty more where that came from.

Next you’ll be saying that you don’t find this sort of thing cute:
http://cheezburger.com/7079340032

I don’t particularly like cats, but we shouldn’t allow any animal to die a slow death if we can help it.

Ben_Dover said :

wildturkeycanoe said :

So, the government can spend money on this, but at the same time [in another story running simultaneously] we see vandalism going pretty much uncontrolled because they can’t afford to send police. What gives, when a feral animal comes before people’s property?

I take it you are being sarcastic.

Actually I am being quite serious. I mean, a kitten stuck up a tree and you have the brigade called out. It is a six hundred plus dollar fee if you accidentally call the brigade due to a false alarm whilst working on fire systems. Yet, they seem quite willing to spend their time and our money getting a dumb animal out from a tree without charging anyone.
Feral animal, yes. According to the story the owners are unknown. Did they check for a microchip? Did it have a collar or registration tag to identify the creature? In my book that makes it feral. It could have been roaming the neighborhood looking for food and decided to climb the tree in search of birds. I can’t tell from the tree but who knows if it was after a native species. If they’d found a dead chick or several small smashed eggs on the ground below, would anyone still think “Aww, isn’t it a cute little kitty?”. In my eyes, any cat that wanders around at night unsupervised is a predator that should be locked up. We lost goldfish from our pond in the front, witnessed the cat attempting to scoop them up at around 9:30 at night. I though cats had curfews, or is that just another feelgood for the northern suburbs which nobody polices?
They caterwaul outside your bedroom window when on heat, they make all the neighborhood dogs bark at all hours of the night and day. They pee in your children’s sandpit. Honestly, I can say I hate cats with good reason. They aren’t loyal, they scratch you, they don’t taste good unless served in a black bean sauce.
Leave the next one to die, there’s plenty more where that came from.

poetix said :

No, those that died due to dehydration or hunger would fall out of the trees, onto the ground, and be consumed by scavengers.

So by rescuing cats from trees we are denying scavengers the chance of a hearty meal?

That doesn’t seem very fair. Scavengers need to eat too!

poetix said :

bigfeet said :

Seriously…how many dead cats have you seen in trees?

None.

They all get themselves down eventually, one way or another. They don’t need our help.

No, those that died due to dehydration or hunger would fall out of the trees, onto the ground, and be consumed by scavengers.

They wouldn’t remain balanced up there as skeletons.

They would if they had raptor like claws.

bigfeet said :

Seriously…how many dead cats have you seen in trees?

None.

They all get themselves down eventually, one way or another. They don’t need our help.

No, those that died due to dehydration or hunger would fall out of the trees, onto the ground, and be consumed by scavengers. They wouldn’t remain balanced up there as skeletons.

Seriously…how many dead cats have you seen in trees?

None.

They all get themselves down eventually, one way or another. They don’t need our help.

wildturkeycanoe said :

So, the government can spend money on this, but at the same time [in another story running simultaneously] we see vandalism going pretty much uncontrolled because they can’t afford to send police. What gives, when a feral animal comes before people’s property?

I don’t think it was a feral cat.

What can fireys do against grafitti artists?

wildturkeycanoe said :

So, the government can spend money on this, but at the same time [in another story running simultaneously] we see vandalism going pretty much uncontrolled because they can’t afford to send police. What gives, when a feral animal comes before people’s property?

I take it you are being sarcastic.

So, the government can spend money on this, but at the same time [in another story running simultaneously] we see vandalism going pretty much uncontrolled because they can’t afford to send police. What gives, when a feral animal comes before people’s property?