70 dead cats found north of SA

[Supergirl]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jpRBDNyy5YPBsQOTBr6BZNRUQt8wD95O52T00

Why? Anyone want to speculate?

[The Reckoning]

tamale pickup

[spurster]

Experiments by aliens.

[SnakeBoy]

P.e.t.a.

[I Love Me Some Me]

A good start.

[FreeMason]

Dog-Bird Alliance.

It has begun.

[lefty]

Michael Vick and Matt Bonner are broke

[DarrinS]

Maybe they got too curious?

[Bender]

Maybe they got too curious?

:lol

[Oh, Gee!!]

probably a vet's office dumped them

[RandomGuy]

We'll get Ace Ventura on it right away.



Seriously though, here are my best guesses:

The article said that all of the cats were all adults and of the same breed, i.e. Siamese.

This would suggest some kind of breeding operation for a specific breed of cat. With the ecoonomy in the tank, orders for the kittens might have dropped off and it might not have been feasible to keep feeding all of the animals. That there were no juveniles or kittens would indicate this.

Other possibilities:
Crazy person who has too many cats and dies, leaving relatives to clean up.
Medical experiments of some sort that lost funding.

Since neither of the above possibilities would really explain why only adult Siamese cats were found, other than a particular sort of crazy person who only liked Siamese cats, I think the first scenario is more likely.

Given that, it is very possible to actually track down the culprit.

One simply has to start with a google search "siamese cats for sale"

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=siamese+cats+for+sale&btnG=Search

and troll around for any operation in the north SA vacinity that is found. I doubt the person(s) responsible drove very far to get rid of the cats.

Since there were no kittens, one might assume that the kitten stock was probably retained for a "close out" sale. I shudder to think what might happen to those that don't get sold.

Regards,
RG

[RandomGuy]

probably a vet's office dumped them

I would guess that vets would probably have a better way to dispose of the cats. Further, vets tend to be a bit more ethical when it comes to the treatment of animals. and would be unlikely to be so unethical as to dump them in the manner described in the article.

This would also not explain why only one breed was found.

The rather callous way the animals were disposed of, suggests to me that whoever did it really saw them as something akin to chattel as opposed to living creatures.

This is just my analsysis though. I have little to base this on factually, and wouldn't say that my analysis is ironclad probability. I think it is more likely than any other explanation, though.

[cool hand]

I have 2 hellion little cousins that live out there, I bet it was them.

[balli]

That's fucked up. Why people always gotta be killing unwanted cats? Cats go feral; if you don't want or can't afford them, just let em loose, they'll be alright. There's vermin for them to eat everywhere. Why kill them?

[JudynTX]

:depressed WTF? A cat farm or what?

[FreeMason]

We'll get Ace Ventura on it right away.



Seriously though, here are my best guesses:

The article said that all of the cats were all adults and of the same breed, i.e. Siamese.

This would suggest some kind of breeding operation for a specific breed of cat. With the ecoonomy in the tank, orders for the kittens might have dropped off and it might not have been feasible to keep feeding all of the animals. That there were no juveniles or kittens would indicate this.

Other possibilities:
Crazy person who has too many cats and dies, leaving relatives to clean up.
Medical experiments of some sort that lost funding.

Since neither of the above possibilities would really explain why only adult Siamese cats were found, other than a particular sort of crazy person who only liked Siamese cats, I think the first scenario is more likely.

Given that, it is very possible to actually track down the culprit.

One simply has to start with a google search "siamese cats for sale"

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=siamese+cats+for+sale&btnG=Search

and troll around for any operation in the north SA vacinity that is found. I doubt the person(s) responsible drove very far to get rid of the cats.

Since there were no kittens, one might assume that the kitten stock was probably retained for a "close out" sale. I shudder to think what might happen to those that don't get sold.

Regards,
RG

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[SnakeBoy]

That's fucked up. Why people always gotta be killing unwanted cats? Cats go feral; if you don't want or can't afford them, just let em loose, they'll be alright. There's vermin for them to eat everywhere. Why kill them?

Fuck that. I didn't move to the hill country just to have a shitload of feral cats & dogs killing off the native wildlife and my livestock. Feral cat on my land gets a bullet. Feral dogs go to the shelter if they'll come to me otherwise they get a bullet too. I can't stand morons like you who think it's ok to just drive out to the country and dump your unwanted pets.

[cool hand]

hate crime(against cats) or genocide(siamese cats)?

[FreeMason]

I love the Hill Country.

If I were a Spur I'd live up there rather than that weak ass dominion.

[RandomGuy]

Spurstalk.com's very own: http://weblogs.amny.com/entertainment/urbanite/blog/columbo1.jpg

I will take that as a compliment. Thank you.

[RandomGuy]

Fuck that. I didn't move to the hill country just to have a shitload of feral cats & dogs killing off the native wildlife and my livestock. Feral cat on my land gets a bullet. Feral dogs go to the shelter if they'll come to me otherwise they get a bullet too. I can't stand morons like you who think it's ok to just drive out to the country and dump your unwanted pets.

Cats would simply be eating small insects and mice up to the limit of the ability of the land to support them.

Dogs on the other hand, are pack animals and capable of bringing down larger prey, like say a small human child, or if in enough numbers, a juvenile cow.

I would take the dogs a bit more seriously than the cats, if I lived in the country.

[SnakeBoy]

Cats would simply be eating small insects and mice up to the limit of the ability of the land to support them.


And thereby removing the food source for owls, foxes, ringtail cats etc.

Cats will go after chickens, ducks, and other fowl that alot of people keep. I keep some chickens because they are really good at finding/eating scorpions. One of my first lessons when I moved out was being woken up in the middle of the night by a scorpion stinging the hell out of you really sucks.

[tonylongoriafan]

texas state students playing with guns again...

...sorry, that's in poor taste

[balli]

Fuck that. I didn't move to the hill country just to have a shitload of feral cats & dogs killing off the native wildlife and my livestock. Feral cat on my land gets a bullet. Feral dogs go to the shelter if they'll come to me otherwise they get a bullet too.
Well. I don't have livestock, but I would never shoot a dog or cat. And apparently, I've touched a nerve? Big problem with feral cats in this so-called hill country, is there?


I can't stand morons like you who think it's ok to just drive out to the country and dump your unwanted pets.
I didn't say I thought it was okay. I don't think it's okay to have unwanted pets in the first place. But if people did have unwanted pets, I'd just assume they fuck you over, rather than kill them.

[Heath Ledger]

Chinese Buffet was restocking.

[SnakeBoy]

Big problem with feral cats in this so-called hill country, is there?



Kendall County and Boerne officials are weighing whether to create a trap-neuter-release program to curb a feral cat problem that City Councilman Rob Ziegler called “out of control,” despite 1,100 stray cats being put to death last year at the municipal pound.

Another 1,400 cats are expected to be exterminated at the pound this year.

The proposal to return trapped cats to their colonies after steps are taken to preclude procreation was pitched by the Hill Country Animal Coalition.

The group initially sought reimbursement of $15 per cat to neuter them, but Boerne Police Chief Gary Miller, who oversees the city pound, said the funding request has been dropped.

The issue was tabled by city council Tuesday for more study. Miller said 70 percent of the cats euthanized were caught outside city limits.

The cats don't really touch a nerve with me since I'm not a cat person. Plus I haven't seen feral cats around my property for a couple of years but I have a pretty big bobcat living nearby, I think he's killing them since I did find a dead cat on my property right around the time he showed up. It's the dogs, puppies, even entire litters being dumped that really pisses me off.

[SnakeBoy]

But if people did have unwanted pets, I'd just assume they fuck you over, rather than kill them.

When they dump them in the country they are in fact killing them. It's just gives them an excuse not to take responsibility for it.

[balli]

When they dump them in the country they are in fact killing them. It's just gives them an excuse not to take responsibility for it.
Hey man. I don't think it's right and I agree, it's an excuse for irresponsibility. Fuck those people. But just for argumentative purposes, I'm sure some cats do alright. With most domestic dogs it's probably a death sentence, but cats are hunters and survivors.

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[byrontx]

That's fucked up. Why people always gotta be killing unwanted cats? Cats go feral; if you don't want or can't afford them, just let em loose, they'll be alright. There's vermin for them to eat everywhere. Why kill them?

I like cats but they are seriously rough on songbirds and our other native birds (too bad they cannot be trained to just grackles). I have to watch our cat, he could feed the family. My wife was freaking on a pile of dove feathers in front of the tv the other day. I hear the pet door swing open there is the cat with another dove in his mouth. It was "Cool it, cat. Disappear!" She was ready to have him drawn and quartered.

Just letting cats go is not the solution. There's needs to be more regulation in regards to breeding and people should be busted for not spaying their pets.

[Jekka]

That's fucked up. Why people always gotta be killing unwanted cats? Cats go feral; if you don't want or can't afford them, just let em loose, they'll be alright. There's vermin for them to eat everywhere. Why kill them?

This is straight up bullshit. It depresses me that people even think that this is an option - it's an epidemic in SA, people pull this shit all the time, and it's just cruel. I've heard kids in SA talk about dumping their cats just because they "don't like them anymore". It teaches irresponsibility and an overall disrespect for life in general.

My cat was most likely one that someone at my apartment complex didn't feel like taking with them when they left - she loves human attention and affection, so I know she wasn't feral, but she showed up on my porch with four kittens and I found a way to take care of things, because otherwise that's five "feral" cats for the one that someone originally dumped.

Also, when you throw out a housecat, they are NOT feral. They may have hunting instincts, and they might be able to feed themselves, but they are not feral. There is a difference.

[BlackSwordsMan]

lol idiots only found 70 of my dead cats

[balli]

This is straight up bullshit. It depresses me that people even think that this is an option - it's an epidemic in SA, people pull this shit all the time, and it's just cruel. I've heard kids in SA talk about dumping their cats just because they "don't like them anymore". It teaches irresponsibility and an overall disrespect for life in general.
Settle down PETA. First, if it depresses you that I would think that's an option, you should be elated by the fact that I'm not the type of person, who in a million years, would ever, ever own a pet that I didn't want or wasn't equipped for.

Secondly, I had no idea this is an epidemic in SA, but whether it is or not, I'm not advocating that people go out and dump their pets. All things being equal I'd love to see laws that enforced spaying/neutering. I'd love to see people act responsible. And if they can't do that, I'd love to see people properly euthanize pets they can't take care of.

But if the proposition becomes, "Oh, I've got these seventy cats. And I don't want them. And I'm going to butcher them in an open field." Yeah, I'd just assume that not happen- even if that means letting them go. If it's a choice between chucking a bag of kittens into a river and just leaving them on the side of the road somewhere, sorry, I'm letting them live. And if you think that's disgustingly naive or cruel or depressing or unethical... tough shit.

[Last Comic Standing]

That lady was very strict on who could visit her, you had to have a cat scan first.