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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 12:13 AM
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You DO NOT OWN your cats and dogs!
They are free creatures of God. You take on a great responsibility by agreeing to care for them on this Earth. Freedom! FREEEEEEEEEDOM!

Part of the deal is that you let them live their life the way they want to. You have no property rights over them. Give them liberty!!!!!!!!!!!!
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 12:14 AM
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1. Mine own me. n/t
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Cobalt Violet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 12:16 AM
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5. Same here.
;) And I like it.
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Nite Owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 12:18 AM
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11. Do they ever
I think they consider me well trained.
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Cadence Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 01:11 AM
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22. So does mine. He also owns the bed... and the couch...
and he bosses me around a lot. I'm going to tell him, I told on him. :P
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msgadget Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 02:59 AM
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26. Yeah, mine too!
They demand food, destroy the yard, leave hair all over the place, get free medical without performing any work and refuse to leave.
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Phentex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 07:16 AM
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29. Mine have me at their beck and call.
They are so spoiled. :)
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 12:15 AM
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2. Oh geez
Is this some sort of PETA invasion? You and Bikewriter stirring it up tonight?
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LDS Jock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 12:17 AM
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8. lol.. did you enjoy that other thread?
I see it has finally died.
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 12:18 AM
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10. Died?
The only think dying is BigJawn's feral cats. lol
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LDS Jock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 12:19 AM
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12. warped sense of humor tonight
I like it!
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MikeG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 12:15 AM
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3. The law says they are property.
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 12:18 AM
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9. Law?
Whose law? Man's law? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

The Diest would disagree. Don't tie your dog or cat up. Don't put them in a pen. Please.

They'll probably hang around because you love them and care for them. But don't ever take their freedom and free will away.

Thanks.
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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 12:19 AM
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13. Well, there is a leash law here, as in most places,
and I'm not getting popped $100 for letting my dog run 'free."
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 07:20 AM
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30. EXACTLY! Let them bother other people who don't want pets!
I have a friend who's neighbor's cats climb under his boat cover and use his boat as a litterbox.

Having a pet requires some responsibility. Keeping them away from people who don't want to be bothered by them is one of those responsibilities.
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cags Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 12:15 AM
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4. Damn, I've been robbed. I paid for that dog.
;-) JK I know what you mean. I have too many pets not to.
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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 12:16 AM
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6. Part of the deal is taking care of them properly,
given the circumstances.

Do you not advocate spaying or neutering them?
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 12:28 AM
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15. I advocate nothing . . .
. . . save the freedom of all pets from ownership.
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 12:39 AM
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17. Well, that's a pretty big thing to advocate.
Is your position that all people set their pets free to fend for themselves? To make it illegal for anyone to have a pet? And what will all these freed animals and their offspring do with no one to care for them?
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 01:06 AM
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21. No, no, no.
I never said any of that. In fact, I said the opposite. Please, let your pets be who and what they are as you take on the responsibility to care for them.
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NickB79 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 06:34 AM
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27. Then they have the freedom to starve too?
When they breed themselves out of food and shelter? The freedom to become a snack for a coyote or hawk? Some freedom.
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 12:17 AM
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7. When they start paying their share of the mortgage, sure.
If I let them live "the way they want to" I have a hunch the place would be condemned before too long.
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 01:37 AM
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24. Then you'd better get your pets into dog shows or the movies
So they can start generating an income and contribute to their living expenses.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 12:20 AM
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14. I certainly do not own my f'ing cat
he lets me know that every damn day :o
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rawtribe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 12:35 AM
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16. My cat has
his own door, can catch his own food. More of a room mate then a pet and he lets me know it!
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 12:39 AM
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18. You've been elevated to roommate status!
Be proud, I'm still a servant. :P
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rawtribe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 12:43 AM
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19. It's the door.
Not every cat can or should have a door of his own. If you can it's very liberating.

:headbang:
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 12:44 AM
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20. I do not own my children, either.
At the same time, I can't just let them do whatever they please, and set them loose on the world. They can't take care of themselves. Taking care of a living thing that needs you doesn't necessarily mean ownership of that being. True, there are many who look at having a pet as a type of ownership. There are plenty of people who aren't deserving of their pets, and mistreat them as if they were merely property. But, I don't think that everyone with pets should turn them out on their own to fend for themselves any more than I would advocate parents doing so with their children.
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miss_kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 01:17 AM
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23. My new dog hasn't figured it out yet
but I am actually hers. She has figured out the sofa is hers, though
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The Night Owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 02:56 AM
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25. Right. Let me just free my house cat, who has never been outside, and...
Edited on Wed Jan-26-05 02:58 AM by The Night Owl
...watch him freak out and run into traffic only to get flattened by a vehicle.

:eyes:

Sorry, but...

Worst post ever.


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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 06:49 AM
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28. It's called guardianship.
Like any other living being that relies on you for survival. Part of that, is the responsibility to spay/neuter those animals.

Laws, as mandated by man, however, does, for better or for worse, see them as property.
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TyeDye75 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 07:26 AM
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31. My cat is ruler of all she sees.....
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Freebird12004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 07:29 AM
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32. I have always been owned by my pets.
I chose to be their earth care-giver. My pets have always had the best that I could offer them. We shared the good times and the bad, happy for what we had.

And now I eat healthy foods to share with my lifelong companion, my parrot ~ a Blue & Gold Macaw. What better symbiotic relationship could one wish for. I should mention that my parrot and I also share with our Golden Retriever too.
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mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 09:50 AM
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33. They'll be free when they can use a can opener
And so will I.
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Shrek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 09:55 AM
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34. I own my dog
I have a receipt to prove it.
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