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Should selling 'Gothic Kittens' be a crime?

Should piercing the ears of kittens and selling them as 'Gothic Kittens' be a crime?


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You can't test on humans. A drug company that has jumped through the proper loop holes can. That's on the federal level.

You can't torture an animal. A drug company that has jumped through the proper loop holes can (in a manner of speaking). That's on the federal level.

You keep talking about drug company's and completely ignoring...

The fir industry, Beauty Aids, cropping of ears and tails. Inbreeding of animals. The amount of allowed abuse at dog and horse tracks is sickening.

It is there and it is excepted. I see no one being arrested for any of that and thousands of other types of accepted animal cruelty going on.

It is pretty clear.
 
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There are theories that during the dark ages that the lack of cats, as a result of being killed by Church superstitions, was the cause of the bubonic plaque in Europe.

The reason: Cats kill rats.

Who is talking about killing cats? What does this have to do with now? We use exterminators. :doh
 
A woman got 6 months house arrest for piercing the ears of kittens and selling them as Gothic Kittens. Do you think this should be a crime?

"Gothic Kittens" Cruelty Case: 6 Months House Arrest for Piercing Cats' Ears - Crimesider - CBS News

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Ever notice that the majority of animals on the endangered species list are mammals?

A local pet store sells 'painted fish'...which I'm told are fish injected with various fluorescent dies.

If these were 'Gothic Alligators' no one would give a ****, but oh noes you better not deface the poster children of lolcats!!
 
Ever notice that the majority of animals on the endangered species list are mammals?

A local pet store sells 'painted fish'...which I'm told are fish injected with various fluorescent dies.

If these were 'Gothic Alligators' no one would give a ****, but oh noes you better not deface the poster children of lolcats!!

An alligator wouldn't feel the piercing because it's hide is too thick.
 
There is quite the large difference between a community bylaw and a Federal mandate. If you don't like the community bylaw, you can just move to another community; if you don't like a Federal mandate, well, you have to leave the United States. Quite the difference...

Or you vote for someone different the next election. If your opinion is such a minority that you don't win, sucks for you.

In much the same way, if you don't like the community bylaw that you can't torture animals, you can move. I doubt you'd find a different community that allows it though.
 
You keep talking about drug company's and completely ignoring...

The fir industry, Beauty Aids, cropping of ears and tails. Inbreeding of animals. The amount of allowed abuse at dog and horse tracks is sickening.

It is there and it is excepted. I see no one being arrested for any of that and thousands of other types of accepted animal cruelty going on.

It is pretty clear.

All of those are specific industries that have a pass. Much like the medical industry is a specific industry that has a pass on testing on humans.

Your argument that since we allow some, we should allow all is not logical. Exceptions have been written into law. If you think a law should be created to allow people to pierce their cats a million time, put it on the next ballot.
 
Killing cats is related to animal cruelty, is what.

Completely irrelevant. No one in the article or this thread is talking about killing any cat or anything even close. We are talking about cosmetic changes that may hurt or torture that animal. Now this could lead to the death of the animal, but in the context of this discussion.

Your comment was completely and utterly irrelevant in every way. Adds nothing to the discussion and derails the thread.

Thanks for playing. :roll:
 
The cat had serious issues.

Obviously. :doh His sense of balance was so intensely fine tuned, the slightest thing shorted it out. You're aware that not every housecat is an exact physical/physiological clone of every other housecat, right? :roll:

Either your story is not true, or that was a lame cat, as in issues.

Which is it?

The story is 100% true, and the cat was anything but "lame." Foots was a huge, gray hairball with six toes on three feet and seven toes on one foot. I lived on the edge of a canyon in southern California, where Foots hunted birds, snakes, rats and gophers, rabbits, possums, etc. He was a master tree climber. Even brought home an owl, once, and never came home bleeding or badly injured. He was quite a bruiser. Lived to be 19 years old. Most awesome cat ever.

With the most astounding sense of balance.

Currently, I have a domestic lynx. This cat has incredibly fine tuned hearing, FAR more advanced and sophisticated than the other two cats in the house. She also has amazing fast-twitch muscular responses to the tiniest of audio or visual stimuli, the likes of which I've never seen in any other cat I've owned.

Moral of the story: No two cats are the same. I suppose a few wouldn't be negatively affected by being permanently decorated like a Christmas tree... This doesn't change the fact that many would.

Feel free to ignore my anecdotal evidence. :shrug: We've already got the word of a licensed veterinarian...
 
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There is quite the large difference between a community bylaw and a Federal mandate. If you don't like the community bylaw, you can just move to another community; if you don't like a Federal mandate, well, you have to leave the United States. Quite the difference...

You can just move any time you don't like a local law? That makes no sense either.
 
All of those are specific industries that have a pass. Much like the medical industry is a specific industry that has a pass on testing on humans.

So you are saying a privileged class is OK.

Your argument that since we allow some, we should allow all is not logical.

It is based on nothing but logic and completely objective. Your argument is subjective and based on an emotional reaction to what you deem as torture.

Exceptions have been written into law. If you think a law should be created to allow people to pierce their cats a million time, put it on the next ballot.

I don't have to as I am not piercing any cats or dogs. We should not have to pass a ballot to do what we will with our own property when others can.

"Property rights are entitled to the same protection as all other human rights. The owners of property have the full right to control, use, dispose of, or in any manner enjoy, their property without interference, until and unless the exercise of their control infringes the valid rights of others."
 
I don't have to as I am not piercing any cats or dogs. We should not have to pass a ballot to do what we will with our own property when others can.

"Property rights are entitled to the same protection as all other human rights. The owners of property have the full right to control, use, dispose of, or in any manner enjoy, their property without interference, until and unless the exercise of their control infringes the valid rights of others."

You do not have absolute property rights to animals. Nor to any property.
 
When I saw the thread title I thought people were shaving strategic places of their cats, giving them tattoos, anti-depressants, Twilight stickers on the cat box, forcing them to wear Type-O Negative shirts, painting claws, dying the fur bazaar colors and making really bad anti-lolcat poems.
 
Don't know if this has been mentioned yet...

in a pre-sentence investigation done by the Adult Probation Department, Crawford had been arrested 17 times and convicted of shoplifting, driving under the influence, delivery of a controlled substance, theft by unlawful taking, criminal conspiracy, and possession with intent to deliver heroin. --Times Leader

Boy. This woman's a real pillar of the community. :roll:
 
Obviously. :doh His sense of balance was intensely so fine tuned, the slightest thing shorted it out. You're aware that not every housecat is an exact physical/physiological clone of every other housecat, right?

I just showed quite a few cats that had no problem. I know EVERY cat I have owned, and that was allot of them, never had a problem with a towel falling on them immobilizing them????

The story is 100% true, and the cat was anything but "lame." Foots was a huge, gray hairball with six toes on three feet and seven toes on one foot.

And this somehow qualifies as normal? :lol:

Not likely.

I lived on the edge of a canyon in southern California, where Foots hunted birds, snakes, rats and gophers, rabbits, possums, etc. He was a master tree climber. Even brought home an owl, once, and never came home bleeding or badly injured. He was quite a bruiser. Lived to be 19 years old. Most awesome cat ever.

With the most astounding sense of balance.

And yet he could be immobilized by a towel??? :lol:

Currently, I have a domestic lynx. This cat has incredibly fine tuned hearing, FAR more advanced and sophisticated than the other two cats in the house. She also has amazing fast-twitch muscular responses to the tiniest of audio or visual stimuli, the likes of which I've never seen in any other cat I've owned.

A Lynx is not your every day house cat. That is like comparing a wolf to a dog.

Moral of the story: No two cats are the same. I suppose a few wouldn't be negatively affected by being permanently decorated like a Christmas tree... This doesn't change the fact that many would.

Feel free to ignore my anecdotal evidence. :shrug: We've already got the word of a licensed veterinarian...

I will as I have shown beyond a reasonable doubt, you AND the vet are pretty much over reacting for your own agenda. ;)
 
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You do not have absolute property rights to animals. Nor to any property.

Exactly my point. Thank you.

It's not like our rights are being eroded. :mrgreen:

PS thank you for your input comrade!
 
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Ever notice that the majority of animals on the endangered species list are mammals?

A local pet store sells 'painted fish'...which I'm told are fish injected with various fluorescent dies.

If these were 'Gothic Alligators' no one would give a ****, but oh noes you better not deface the poster children of lolcats!!


It won't be long before humans will be on the endangered species list, the way we treat mother earth (Now, isn't that sucky?).:roll:
 
Exactly my point. Thank you.

It's not like our rights are being eroded. :mrgreen:

PS thank you for your input comrade!

Were you under the impression that you had absolute property rights based on capitalism, or the U.S. Constitution, or English common law, or natural rights, or something nice and conservative like that?

I'm a capitalist, and proud of it. But even I don't operate under that illusion.
 
Were you under the impression that you had absolute property rights based on capitalism, or the U.S. Constitution, or English common law, or natural rights, or something nice and conservative like that?

I'm a capitalist, and proud of it. But even I don't operate under that illusion.

Maybe that is the problem?

You don't understand the US Constitution, or property rights. It is the most basic of principals this country was founded on. In fact all other rights come from the idea of property and ownership.

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t26ENNxHiPg"]YouTube- Michael Badnarik Rights, Privileges, and Property[/nomedia]
 
I know EVERY cat I have owned, and that was allot of them, never had a problem with a towel falling on them immobilizing them????

And I know how it affected Foots. :shrug:

And this somehow qualifies as normal? Not likely.

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydactyl_cat"]Polydactylism [/ame]is actually fairly common in housecats. It's considered a congenital physical anomaly (as opposed to an anatomical abnormality).

true polydactyly... is not life-threatening and usually not even debilitating to a cat. Some polydactyl kittens initially have more difficulty in learning to walk than normal animals. However in some cases polydactyly appears to improve the dexterity of the animal. For example, a common variation with six toes on the front paws, with two opposing digits on each (comparable in use to human thumbs), enables the cat to learn and perform feats of manual dexterity generally not observed in non-polydactyl cats, such as opening latches or catching objects with a single paw.

Although there is some controversy over whether the most common variant of the trait originated as a mutation in New England or was brought there from England, there seems to be agreement that it spread widely as a result of cats carried on ships originating in Boston, and the prevalence of polydactylism among the cat population of various ports correlates with the dates when they first established trade with Boston. Contributing to the spread of polydactyl cats by this means, sailors were long-known to especially value polydactyl cats for their extraordinary climbing and hunting abilities as an aid in controlling shipboard rodents.

A Lynx is not your every day house cat. That is like comparing a wolf to a dog.

She's not a wild lynx. She's a domestic lynx.

This new breed was created in the 1980s in the United States by crossing the small bobcat and Canadian lynx with domestic cats. “The ideal in breeding is a cat as similar as possible either to the bobcat or to the Canadian lynx or jungle cat (Felis chaus), with the gentle, trusting nature of a domestic cat”.

There are plenty of cat breeds that have wild felid genes. They're still considered domestic housecats. Again, every cat is different, just as every breed is different - each has individual traits often not found in other breeds.

Confirmed domestic Cat/ Felid Hybrids

Some pairings have given rise to more than one breed developed under different registries and bred to different standards for appearance and different percentages of wild felid genes. They are therefore different breeds, not synonyms.

* Bengal : domestic Cat / Asian Leopard Cat (Prionailurus bengalensis bengalensis)
* Bristol (cat) : domestic Cat / Margay (Leopardus wiedii)
* Chausie : domestic Cat / Jungle Cat aka Swamp Cat (Felis chaus)
* Stone Cougar : domestic Cat / Jungle Cat aka Swamp Cat (Felis chaus)
* Cheetoh : Bengal / Ocicat
* Jungle-Bob : Pixie-bob / Jungle Cat aka Swamp Cat (F. Chaus)
* Jungle-Curl : Hemingway Curl (polydactyl x American Curl) / Jungle Cat aka Swamp Cat (Felis chaus)
* Machbagral and/or Viverral : domestic Cat / Fishing Cat (Prionailurus viverrinus)
* Pantherette : Pixie-bob / Asian Leopard Cat (Prionailurus bengalensis)
* Punjabi (cat) : domestic Cat /Indian Desert-Cat (a variety of Asiatic Wildcat) (Felis s. ornata)
* Safari (cat) : domestic Cat / Geoffroy's Cat (Leopardus geoffroyii)
* Savannah : domestic Cat (including Bengal) / Serval (Leptailurus serval)
* Ashera : other name for Savannah, registered under law
* Serengeti : Bengal / Oriental (solid-coloured Siamese)
* Toyger : domestic Cat / Bengal
* Ussuri (cat): domestic Cat / Amur Asian Leopard Cat (Prionailurus b. euptailura)
* Domestic Cat / Caracal (accidental, Moscow Zoo, 1998)
* Domestic Cat / Oncilla (Little Spotted Cat/Tiger Cat)
* Domestic Cat / Black-footed Cat (F. nigripes)
* Domestic Cat / Rusty-spotted Cat (Prionailurus rubiginosus) (wild occurring Hybrids, India)

you AND the vet are pretty much over reacting for your own agenda.

This is a thread about abusing cats. Are you seriously pretending that your whining about "property rights" in a thread about animal abuse isn't you overreacting to support your agenda?

:doh
 
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And I know how it affected Foots. :shrug:

Polydactylism is actually fairly common in housecats. It's considered a congenital physical anomaly (as opposed to an anatomical abnormality).

She's not a wild lynx. She's a domestic lynx.

There are plenty of cat breeds that have wild felid genes. They're still considered domestic housecats. Again, every cat is different.

And all of this cut and past posing changes nothing.

It was not torture in my opinion. If you don't like it, too bad for you.

Your one cat that you say could be immobilized by a simple towel is so silly, I don't even know why you brought it in. Notice no one has mentioned such a feeble beast outside of you? I wonder why?

I had a 3 legged cat and you would never know he was missing a leg. Animals adapt to their situation just like every other animal.

Just because all cats are different has no bearing at all on this. None. I mean that pretty much is your argument. Because all cats are different, some how piercing makes them unstable. I have shown in the case of MOST cats, this is just not true.

This is a thread about abusing cats. Are you seriously pretending that your whining about "property rights" in a thread about animal abuse isn't you overreacting to support your agenda?

:doh

My argument is more relevant than anything you have posted. Your argument is nothing but "Oh cats were tortured so its wrong" that is your argument. No objectivity, no logic. I mean lets face it, torture in this case is subjective. End of story, like most moral issues.

This is indeed about property. As I mentioned before all other rights extend from property, period.
 
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And all of this cut and past posing changes nothing.

It was not torture in my opinion. If you don't like it, too bad for you.

Your one cat that you say could be immobilized by a simple towel is so silly, I don't even know why you brought it in. Notice no one has mentioned such a feeble beast outside of you? I wonder why?

I had a 3 legged cat and you would never know he was missing a leg. Animals adapt to their situation just like every other animal.

Just because all cats are different has no bearing at all on this. None. I mean that pretty much is your argument. Because all cats are different, some how piercing makes them unstable. I have shown in the case of MOST cats, this is just not true.



My argument is more relevant than anything you have posted. Your argument is nothing but "Oh cats were tortured so its wrong" that is your argument. No objectivity, no logic. I mean lets face it, torture in this case is subjective. End of story, like most moral issues.

This is indeed about property. As I mentioned before all other rights extend from property, period.

I can tell you know nothing about the Catstitution.:roll:
 
I can tell you know nothing about the Catstitution.:roll:

You and Glinda mite want to pick up a book on the US Constitution. It would help your understanding. Or just watch the video above.
 
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