And it looked pretty bad. I knew this was going to happen with all the cats walking across the street slowly in this town. I felt no emotion about it i need to get my heart back i think.

Yet the GAs live. Kinda makes you wonder about God's priorities.

Its totally f#cked. I always wondered how the GA's are always living large with their nice suits and then i am struggling everyday and suffering. God is a bastard.

If I were God, I'd rather have cats in heaven with me and leave the General Authorities where they are as long as possible. Out of sight, out of mind as it were.

Of course, that doesn't work if you believe in a literal hell. Because I can't imagine General Authorities not having a fast pass to there - if it existed.

That cat could have been a child's dearly loved pet.

I always feel bad when I see an animal which has been run over by a car. It doesn't matter whether it's a wild animal or a pet. I figure that the poor thing was simply trying to find food or just enjoying its life.

There's no way to know anything about the cat. So don't let it ruin your frame of mind.

It's silly to think it isn't noble to be dragged into depression. Whoever ran over the poor cat is responsible. None of us did that.

Try to find out the cat's name so you can get its saving ordinances done. It's more common than you might think. Ever try to baptize a living cat?

Even cats deserve to get into the celestial kingdom d@mn it. Might be hard for a cat to learn the secret handshakes though.

Herd 'em in, Adam. Wrangle in those cats. You go big guy.

The man that is deathly allergic to cats will be their savior haha. Not sure how to go about this.

Get a big, black trash bag and get it in the bag, without touching it of course. Turn the bag inside out with your hands, then after getting the bag over the cat, grab it, with the plastic btw u and the feline.Wrap it up. Put it in a dumpster somewhere. Respect the dead and helpless.

Egyptians thought cats were reincarnated gods. And they had a saying: "He who hates the cat, was in a previous life a rat."

I might have been a rat. Cats definitely act like gods i can see how the egyptians saw that.

I wonder what old dog and boners view of cats are.

I haven't seen neighbourhood cats running loose since I was a kid. Back then, they were all over, as well as loose dogs.
Well, when we lived in England, we'd seen them, but they just stayed around their own homes.
I see occasional feral ones on the highways once in a while, you could tell that they were homeless

30M feral cats living miserable lives in the United States. Virtually no one gives a rat's ass.

Jesus, well i am definitely noticing the feral cat problem it has overflowed into this town.

I was completely unaware of the feral cat situation until a friend (who works with a cat rescue group) told me about it. Apparently there are large, established feral colonies in my county -- one is not too far from my home. Rescue groups bring food to them and do trap and neuter. She told me that they have the vets put a notch in one ear to show which cats have been neutered.

She adopted one of her cats from a feral colony. A friend gave her a call and said, "This cat was domesticated and doesn't belong here."

Feral cats are good for the rodent population. Cats love to rustle up a hot breakfast.

There definitely is a rodent problem here as well so i am told but i haven't seen any mice maybe all the cats are doing their job really well.

That's the order of operations.....

It might be an epidemic in this small town i am just going to throw that out there based on what i have seen.

Do cats have 9 pre-existences?

I can't stand to see anything suffer, so I keep food nd water on my patio for strays. I have seen the same 2 adult cats eat and 3 kittens. Oh, and lest we forget, a huge possum eats the kibble also! LOL Well, somebody's gotta love em!

Aquarius123 Wrote:
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> I can't stand to see anything suffer, so I keep
> food nd water on my patio for strays. I have seen
> the same 2 adult cats eat and 3 kittens. Oh, and
> lest we forget, a huge possum eats the kibble
> also! LOL Well, somebody's gotta love em!

Another person here who has a cat bowl full of fresh water out at all times for anyone who wants or needs it...and sometimes it is amazing how fast that bowl goes dry.

Yay for Aquarius123!...and for the felines and possums who think she is the most wonderful human being on the planet!!

I have seen thousands of cats with their intestines strewn across the asphalt, along with tens of thousands of other stinking critters, degutted with blood running free. So what. Things die, people kill.

People do kill you got that right.

Where do you live? Sheesh.

I throw fruit (mainly apples) and some vegetables that are slightly past their prime out into my back woods. I've noticed that the apples can be *gone* in as little as ten minutes!

Well maybe you could leave some dollar bills outside for the stray badasses roaming around haha i am only half serious haha. Don't want to see us suffer either.

(((Tevai))))

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/070628-cat-ancestor.html

It's in their blood to be wild, and humans are lucky that some cats were or became less afraid of humans.

It amazes me that some humans believe that creatures would be lost without us. They would be much, much better off without us. Of those with which we interfere, they become too populous and dependent on a species (humans) that has become overwhelmed by the dependent species' fast reproduction. We "love" them to death.

I would offer that if we spay and release, we risk spaying the strongest survivors, further weakening the species, as if we "know" what we're doing, and can predict the outcome. If you really care about cats, think very long term, not just easing your own pain of seeing weaker cats suffer. If you can take a weak or sbandoned cat in and give it a decent life, meddle away. If you intend on "controlling" (helping???) the species by further weakening the wild population, re-think that.

Cats are a part of the ecosystem. Humans don't "own" them. Not "every" cat is or should be "domesticated." We've damn near killed off the big cats. We might want to leave some of the smaller ones alone. Did smaller cats come to N. America when humans did?

I've loved cats, and love my spayed, rescued dogs, whose origins are much more complicated, due to human interference.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/19/science/the-big-search-to-find-out-where-dogs-come-from.html

out into the fully enclosed, screened patio, which they especially enjoy in the summer, when we are out there with them.

They are spayed and live a life of luxury. They have never had ticks or fleas, so they never had to endure toxic collars. We cater to their picky little palates.

They come when called by name (or sometimes, just respond vocally, like a kid who doesn't want to stop playing.)

Our evenings are so complete when we are settled into our favorite spots. Sometimes, I have my feet up on a reclining sofa. In winter, I spread a light folded blanket over my lap, and within moments I find one tortie in my lap, and the other sprawled over my shins.

Or one cat will be on my lap and the other nestled between DH's feet, on the footstool.

Life with cats is good (unless, alas poor Adam, you are allergic to them.)

Good lord there is a book for everything it seems.

when I see dead cats or deer or something, is that they are in a better place. I know, I know. Everyone will pounce on me. I just find so much of this world to be shitty and I wonder who would come up with these ideas of what a good world would be. I'm not impressed. I have such a difficult time seeing the commercials asking me to donate money to them for abused pets, etc. I donate to the local one where I got my dogs. I was NEVER going to get another dog last time and I did and he lived only 3-1/2 more years, but I gave him a good life. He was dying when I found him. And then AGAIN, I said NEVER EVER AGAIN. It hurts too much to lose them. And when my boyfriend found these dogs that had been left at the side of the road and the sheriff picked them up--I knew I had to rescue them as nobody had for a year.

It is just more than I can take to see a dead animal on the road. And seeing posts on fb about lost dogs. I've started to pick up dogs who are wandering to make sure they don't get hit by a car. I've had some happy owners who were looking for their lost dogs.

I hit and killed a cat once as I was driving. I stopped and reversed on it to make sure it was dead. I actualy think they are quite delicate and like mice die easily.

I never hit a cat but i have hit a bird and a squirrel, i tried my hardest not to hit that squirrel too, i was like f#ck.