He's already gone on a much longer and prickish tyrade with me because I was introducing my son to hunting. He wanted to shoot my boy, rape my daughter and use his huge "weapon" on my wife. He assumed I would be the "hunter" that some shmithead neighbot of his is.

I have never shot an animal that I didn't pick up and eat. Nor has my son.

What is interesting is that some folks are so psychotic and deranged they don't realize that they are the sicko and the rest of the world is actually somewhat sane. The definition of "psychosis", really.

Either way, it's always sad whan someone loses a pet. I love my dog and miss my old girl (14 yoa mutt, Abbey) I had to put down last May.

Thanks for taking in a stray anyway. You probably made its life.

Farm cats live outside, and my neighbor's two barn cats are 12 and 14 yoa respectively. Not the filthy critters you might expect, either. Clean and friendly. It's people who live in a house with 4 or more cats that I think are abusing the animals. Disgusting!!

I wouldn't let my dog inhabit such a place.

I can't kill Brooklyn, though. His stupidity in the guise of intelligence is the funniest thing this forum has delivered to me.

Thanks, Shel, for the good times.

So long as you do what's in the best interest of your animal to your best judgement, I'm okay with that.

Someone with a house full of animals critiqueing an owner who lets a cat out is obviously out of touch with reality. I guess that's humorous, on some level. I don't find losing a pet humorous in any way, though.

I've never owned a house cat, but I have noticed the outdoor ones (two farm cats) around me live long and well, despite coyotes. They know to get into the barn at night; tricky. Better than being cooped up in an infested dump.