So his dog is older than he is? LOL.
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No, Habib looks like he’s in his late 30s,-the man with the oldest dogs he interviewed is an old man himself.
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I’ll just state that I’m a skeptic. He mixes obvious truth, like don’t put poison on your dog’s coat and feed them the best food you can, with other stuff. I don’t have anything else to say about him. Take the best and leave the rest.
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I have, at my property, a cat I call our “porch Cat”. Disclaimer: I did not read the article nor any comments. I leave food in the pantry for the cat and tell guests that if they want to feed kitty, to please feed kitty on the fence so she does not enter the house. Kitty is “owned” = “belongs” to neighbor. I have never seen neighbor feed kitty, give flea meds ( I do ) , nor give shelter. If a guest ever took Kitty-cat home to a quality home…well I would be thrilled and turn my eyes the other way. I am a cat lover and this has been going on now for 7+ years.
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For sure sometimes an animal needs to be stolen. There was a single guy who lived across the alley from me for awhile when I lived in Canada. His young daughter would come to stay with him on the weekends and I think he got the dog as something to amuse her, because he never paid a lick of attention to the poor thing beyond feeding it.
It was tied up to its doghouse 24/7 on a chain about 3 ft. long, in a dirt patch, full of the dog’s feces, which he never cleaned up. It was a nice dog, an awful situation. A friend took it one day while the guy was at work and found it a good home.
He cared so much about the dog he never even asked me if I had seen it run off or anything, nor did he put up even one lost dog poster in the neighborhood.
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In most cities in the US, the proper procedure is to call the Animal Services department. In my city we’ve just adding an ordinance which makes it illegal to chain a dog or to tie or chain anything to a dog (like a cinderblock). That used to be okay if the dog had shelter and water. Of course these kinds of things don’t enforce themselves and I imagine the city has more complaints than they can handle.
The concept that some individual should have the power to decide to take an animal that they deem to be improperly cared for is quite interesting to me. I guess it’s akin to the stand your ground laws where an individual has the right to decide if someone is enough of a threat to them to kill them. Absolutely fascinating whether I agree with it or not.
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Sadly where I live, it’s not safe to have your cats roam outdoors. They become Coyote food and I only live 7 miles north of Boston.
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Cats do not get a free pass from leash laws, either keep them on your own property or do not keep them.
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And murdering birds, shitting in peoples flower beds. What makes a cat owner so special they get to ignore leash laws?
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Let them roam at risk then I guess
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A neighbor below me has taken to feeding the crew of feral cats in my neighborhood. This guarantees they will be close to me year round.
Here are some of the consequences:
- crapping my my flowerbeds
- loudly fornicating or fighting periodically within earshot
- possibly taking refuge in the engine compartment of an Airbnb guest
- having more feral kittens, one of which has already been found in my yard dead, no doubt killed by one of my dogs
- killing birds or trying to get into my yard to do so because I have finch feeders
- traumatizing people who run over them with their cars on my street
or possibly causing an accident should they try to avoid hitting one
I get my water hose and shoot a high powered stream of water at them when they are hanging out behind the house but I don’t have the heart to do much else. The best option would be to participate in the trap neuter release program but they have farmed that out to a private local group that is so over burdened already it took them weeks to respond the only time I called them.
I also have installed wire fencing on my back wrought iron fence so it’s harder for them to get into my back yard. At least I don’t think there are any taking shelter under my back yard shed any longer.
I knew a person who’s next door neighbor fed strays. The person affected started trapping them. She said it took awhile but the problem eased off after awhile. I did not ask her what she did with the trapped cats but I do not think she brought them to the shelter.
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JF
I’m sure there are coyotes and foxes in some of our suburban neighborhoods. I’ve also spotted large raptors seasonally. In fact the raptors hang out in the trees that are in the park that backs up to the offending neighbor’s property.
The bowls they put out are on the left. No cats there right now but at feeding time there will be 4-6 of them.
Volunteers that trap cats take them to get fixed and get medical care, if needed. Some are released back to the streets while others are fostered and then adopted. If a cat is feral and can’t be domesticated, it’s not adoptable. Therefore, she/he will be realeased back to the neighborhood but volunteers will continue to monitor these cat colonies.
This is no solution and is unfair to the people who live in the area, let alone the birds they murder.
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I agree, but at least the cat is fixed and won’t have unwanted babies. If taken to an animal shelter, it would be put to sleep. So I guess the volunteers think it’s the best option.
I kept a feral cat. She lives in my bedroom. She was not adoptable and probably would have died if returned to the neighborhood. She can’t roam freely in my home because she would go after my cats.
So every night when I go to bed, I have to run and jump into bed so she doesn’t attack me. She hisses and attacks, that’s why she was not adoptable.
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I’d rather be free for 5 years than in prison for 17.
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She probably would have died the first winter. She was very small and weak.
There’s really no basis for thinking any individual cat would want the same thing you would. Perhaps a cat would rather be safe and warm. Open the the door and the cat comes in. Open the door and the cat goes out. While it’s impossible to know what any individual cat wants, the problems with cats roaming outdoors are documented.
The idea that a public nuisance should be tolerated in the name of feline “happiness” doesn’t make sense to me. What if my dogs barked and howled non stop? Would I be justified in allowing them to continue because it’s natural or makes them happy?
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