{"id":693,"date":"2008-08-27T01:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=693"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:18:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:18:56","slug":"little-killers-free-to-a-good-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"Little killers free to a good home"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Cat lovers cover your ears.<\/em><\/p>\n

I used to like cats. Then I decided that I liked birds and other wildlife better.<\/p>\n

What really happened is that I had a beautiful fat black cat that got sick and broke my heart when I was a kid.<\/em><\/p>\n

So I swore off cats for good. I like other people’s cats well enough, but I really don’t like my neighbor’s cats that are allowed free run of the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

Some of my favorite people have *mostly* indoor cats that are *let out* each day to do whatever it is that their dear owners think is so necessary to a domestic cat’s nature.<\/p>\n

Kill birds and torture small furry innocent woodland creatures and HAVE KITTENS UNDER MY SHED!<\/em><\/p>\n

Why are these kittens my problem? I don’t own a cat.<\/p>\n

Have I mentioned the free catch and release (to the SPCA) program we run here?<\/p>\n

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This was tonight’s catch. 4 adorable and hissy-scared little killers. We’re trying to catch their mother, but she ran the DH out of the backyard one too many times and he finally said uncle. What a protective mother!<\/p>\n

I don’t know the answer. I don’t understand why this behavior is tolerated from cat owners. Jeez… I can’t even walk my dog on a leash<\/em> in the local park except for under the cover of darkness<\/em> for fear that I’ll be ticketed by the local police. My town is very serious about protecting our parks from dogs. I once had the police follow me home after walking my dog in the cul-de-sac that leads to the park.<\/p>\n

Cats get a free pass. Why is that?<\/p>\n

NJ Audubon has collaborated with the American Bird Conservancy in an effort to educate cat lovers to be more responsible cat owners. <\/span>Cats Indoors<\/span><\/a> has lots of great info, but I’m not so sure that anyone will be so easily convinced as me.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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