What about the wildlife the cats murder, the cats perceived right to roam outweighs that? What about the neighbors rights not to have cats pooping in their flower beds (I realize you may not have close neighbors)
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I called the SPCA about that sad dog my friend rescued from its miserable existence. They said unless I saw the animal being actively abused, and it had food, water and shelter, they couldn’t do anything.
The woman who runs the rescue shelter here in my Mexican town, which runs on donations, will sometimes offer to buy a dog that is chained up 24/7 and not being fed sufficiently, if the owner won’t voluntarily give it up.
She’s done an amazing job here over the years. You used to see starving, mangy dogs everywhere in this town. Between the free spay and neuter program, trying to educate the locals about the importance of that, and getting the rescued dogs fostered and adopted out, that is now pretty rare.
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Sorry, but that just isn’t the reality or the mind set of anyone where I live. There aren’t any leash laws outside of first world countries. Everyone’s cats run free.
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And I bet they eat some creepy crawlies there too!
Maybe you should edit this post since you are now on the side of in home only felines
Maybe you should read/or quote the whole post.
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We have a barn cat that visits guests in the airbnb cabin. She is spayed, vaccinated and has a steady supply of cat food in the barn and gets a lot of attention from us during the day when we are working in the barn. She is very friendly and loves people. I explain this to guests when they are checking in - in fact the cat is mentioned in the first paragraph of the listing! Last summer our cabin guest was departing and I asked them to roll down the window so I could say goodbye and ask if they enjoyed their stay. Our cat jumped out of the car through the open window. WTF? “Are you stealing our cat?,” I asked. She explained that she thought it was underfed because it was begging for food. (The cat is fat.) and that I was lying about the spaying because there were no scars from the spay. And that the cat was a kitten not a four year old cat as I had explained at check in. Her daughter called a few hours later to apologize for her mother’s behavior. She has stolen hosts’ dogs and cats before and the daughter has had to return them.
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Wow! I’m glad her daughter returns them!
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Wow, that’s a pretty shocking story. What nerve. I hope hosts are mentioning this in their reviews of this woman.
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This FEELS like early stage dementia. It is a inappropriate behavior any reasonable person would recognize as wrong but in the person’s mind seems appropriate.
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Agree 100%. Seen similarish inappropriate behaviour with the late father in law, who treated every child like one of his grandkids, which was also potentially dangerous, to him.
JF
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Sounds like that to me, too. One host posted about a bunch of oddball missing things after a family of guests had left- nothing one could imagine anyone bothering to steal. A dishtowel, a bathmat, a colander, a napkin holder, that sort of thing. Turned out grandma had a bit of dementia and the adult daughter found the stuff tucked away in the car.
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My beloved mother in the early stages while mostly alert & oriented displayed quirky uncharacteristic behavior of wanting to steal the neighbor’s goats.
In all fairness those goats were beautiful—well for goats. My favorite had markings around her eyes like Egyptian Cleopatra style makeup
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Nothing wrong with goats, I think they’re wonderful, especially cooked long and slow North African style in a tagine with lots of dried fruits and veg.
Alternatively, a young’un (known as cabrito here) is great oven roasted.
I had the most fantastic paleta (shoulder) of cabrita once in Córdoba a couple of years ago. Was cooked with garlic, thyme and wild rosemary, basted with stock and butter, and just melted in the mouth. Heaven on a plate for around €20!
Sorry, what was the topic again…?
JF
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Yum. You had me at butter & garlic.
The last year Dad was a cattle farmer, he had a kind of culture shock. His usual Livestock processor of many years was too busy with GOATS! They were scheduling cattle processing 2-3 months in the future.
While goat meat isn’t common in most grocery stores in my area, there are many specialty grocers stocking goat.
It’s not common here either but it was when I lived in West Yorkshire in England. This was mainly because of the Asian population but as a non-meat eater I have to say that goat meat is pretty lean and therefore more edible than beef.
I’ve only had goat once that I know of. It was at some kind of party about 40 years ago. It was cabrito (now of course I’m appalled and wouldn’t eat any such thing) that had been roasting in a pit dug into the ground. As I recall we made burritos. It was excellent but I think that was owing to alcohol, not garlic, butter or other spices.
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There used to be an Caribbean resto on Divisadero that served goat. I’ve always liked goat. It’s better than lamb. Pit cooked meat is pretty good usually, such as Kalua pork.
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Yes population mix changes the meat offerings. Here the growing South of the border & South Asia populations are driving the change.
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Years ago a Muslim friend introduced me to halal meats and it definitely makes a difference. I like goat meat. It’s also big in Mexico.
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