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Stand up for your cat

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    #32
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,978 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120330783#Comment_120330783

    Let them eat pussy.



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    #33
    fineso.mom
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120331535#Comment_120331535

    Yes, definitely has happened. I remember as a small child in the 70's my grandmother going ballistic when a cat came in the kitchen window and jumped into my baby brothers bassinet. Her neighbour's baby had been suffocated by the family cat sleeping on the baby"s face years before.



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    #34
    Flinty997
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120331621#Comment_120331621

    A cat will sit on any heat source.

    There are media reports of deaths from this and actual attacks but there must be like a billion cats and very few reports.



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    #35
    blackbox
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    Do you think that maybe cats got blamed in the wrong for cases of cot deaths?



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    #36
    SuperBowserWorld
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    The biggest danger to animals, plants, humans and the planet from cats and dogs is the meat production cost of pet food. Tiddles and Fido need loads of natural resources to produce, ship that food and get rid of the waste. Not to mention c02

    Sorry for putting in such a downer on here. 😁

    My cat said he doesn't give a ****. He didn't create the problem and won't have to deal with it. Also cats don't go to heaven as they don't have souls. So he's especially uncaring. 😁



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    #37
    tayto lover
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    An old lady who lived near me had 18 cats. I asked her what she did with all the kittens. She told me she drowned them in a bucket of water but that she wasn't cruel because she heated the water. When she died all the cats disappeared and probably went feral.



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    #38
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users Posts: 16,987 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120331535#Comment_120331535

    Another theory is they are attracted to the smell of milk and plonk down for a snooze. Cats will curl around an adult's neck too for warmth.

    https://forumofgames.com/index.php




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    #39
    [Deleted User]
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    Oh my mother hates those "cute" videos of cats getting close to babies... they make her very nervous. I wouldn't let a cat near a baby either. What if the baby annoys the cat and they scratch them. Those claws are fking stabby!

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    #40
    Princess Calla
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120331795#Comment_120331795

    I hate the dog ones too. No matter how placid a dog is, they are still an animal and can be unpredictable.

    Then you get the whole "oh they've never done that before"



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    #41
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120331225#Comment_120331225

    Yes, I saw a documentary about the topic @dxhound2005 mentioned too, and the cats were introduced to Australia by the British via India. The little dudes (referred to in the documentary as the domestic cat) did a lot of damage unfortunately. Hilarious the way people think this mere fact is offensive - offensive to whom? Cats? If they could understand, they wouldn't give a sh1t.



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    #42
    Flinty997
    Registered Users Posts: 12,039 ✭✭✭✭Flinty997


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120332819#Comment_120332819

    Sorry who said it was offensive?



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    #43
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120332878#Comment_120332878

    Someone at the start of this thread lost it.



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    #44
    endacl
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    Even cats think cat people are weird.



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    #45
    Flinty997
    Registered Users Posts: 12,039 ✭✭✭✭Flinty997


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120332906#Comment_120332906

    So no one said "offensive" then?



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    #46
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120332921#Comment_120332921

    Good lord. First you don't bother properly reading my first post that you quoted, then this shoite.

    It's OK - relax. Nobody's saying anything against you, you're just picking things up weirdly (or looking for an argument). Someone very early in the thread lost the plot over a member mentioning the destruction that can be caused by cats, and another mentioning the situation in that regard in Australia. They didn't say "I'm offended" but I think we can take it as red that they obviously were offended.



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    #47
    Flinty997
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    So thats still a no, no one got offended or lost the plot.

    Maybe we should introduce some natural predators to cats. Jurassic Park Raptors or something. Seemed to work out ok.



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    #48
    BagofWeed
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    I like cats. They are very smart and can be very affectionate to people they like. Cats are a free animal and it's in their nature to wander and explore and do cat things. I've always found that you can tell a lot by how a person feels about dogs/ cats or animals in general. Cats are independent by nature thus control orientated people may not take to them and I've noticed over the years that a lot of not very nice people have a dislike of cats, coincidence ? Cats are generally kept under control here anyway so we don't need any more moaning and preaching about their natural behaviour.



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    #49
    andy6
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    Our poor cat died recently, and I miss her. Am going to get another after the summer, just dont need the hassle of cat sitters etc when/if we're going on hols. I didnt realise there is a kitten 'season'? Am I the only one who didnt. I miss her around the place, and 'think' I hear mice scratches! When the cats away...!



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    #50
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120332970#Comment_120332970

    Yes she did get extremely offended - you can see it easily early in this thread.

    Why should we do that? I love cats - why would that be something of interest to me?



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    #51
    Graces7
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120331621#Comment_120331621

    They do that as the baby's face is warm, not from aggression or malice . Cats are heat-seeking missiles. Their body temperature is higher than ours. And surely easy enough to take precautions ...ANYTHING rather than that dreadful tragic and avoidable loss of a baby.



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    #52
    Flinty997
    Registered Users Posts: 12,039 ✭✭✭✭Flinty997


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120333020#Comment_120333020

    I've no idea what your ranting about.



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    #53
    Flinty997
    Registered Users Posts: 12,039 ✭✭✭✭Flinty997


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120333088#Comment_120333088

    Cats love heat. Though they are unpredictable like any animal or human for that matter.



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    #54
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,649 ✭✭✭Feisar


    I've no problem with cats, it's irresponsible owners I detest. Cats sh!tting in my garden used to be a nuisance but now I've a small child and baby. That (literal) sh!t is dangerous.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #55
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,439 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120330178#Comment_120330178

    Yes it did, but there was also a report on Irish radio suggesting that during the nesting season cats should be kept indoors.

    Hope that clears things up.



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    #56
    dxhound2005
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    See posts #13 and #15.



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    #57
    Hoboo
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120331535#Comment_120331535

    Cats love warm, soft, quiet places. A baby’s cot and face is ideal.

    There’s never been a reported case of a jealous cat spreading itself across a babies face because although it may have happened somewhere at some stage, it’s unlikely it was due to the relationship emotions of the cat.

    These old wives tales, which I heard from my mam and granny too, along with the constant evil cat in everything from cartoons to musicals, have vilified them for no reason. Even Top Cat was always in trouble with the police, Garfield was lazy and fat, and puss in boots is a roguish philandering feline.

    Sure they kill birds, but birds kill other animals. Millions of worms a day. But a worm isn’t cute so the bird gets a pass.



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    #58
    growleaves
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    Speaking of Britain's covid response Lord Bethell told Channel 4 News ‘there was an idea at one moment that we might have to ask the public to exterminate all the cats in Britain.’

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/01/uk-cat-cull-was-considered-early-in-covid-crisis-ex-minister-says

    Remember when fighting covid was the only thing that mattered?



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    #59
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,439 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Yes, mentioned on Liveline today



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    #60
    Braylon Ashy Bubble
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    The comparison with Australia is somewhat ridiculous.

    Cats were introduced to Australia and New Zealand by humans and only very recently.

    They're not native to the Australian ecosystem and they're quite well adapted to surviving in the climate and found plenty of prey, none of which had any defences against them or behaviours that would give them an ability to avoid fast predators like cats.

    As well as doing huge damage themselves, humans also brought European farm animals, cleared grazing lands, planted non-native crops and other plants, brought rodents, foxes and rabbits and lots of other species, all of which caused major disruption.

    Cats have been associated with human settlement in Ireland for pretty much as long as there have been humans in Ireland. The birds and wildlife have been interacting with domestic cats for thousands of years, and probably far more of them if you went back to cities in the days when they would have bred completely without any control at all.

    The single biggest impact on wildlife in Ireland by an absolutely ENORMOUS margin is humans - particularly farming, which uses almost all of the available land as a managed mostly grassland monoculture and then add in all the other human activities and artificial developments.

    However, let's just blame it on the cats...

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    #61
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,439 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120341182#Comment_120341182

    Good lad… good lad… bit conbobulated…. but defends the cats well

    Post edited by Boards.ie: Mike on


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