Originally Posted By: doitmyself
I think most of the intelligent posters here already read between the lines early on and realized that the heart of this situation is a neighbor problem and the cats are just a symptom.
You are asking for ways to manage the symptoms, knowing that the disease is incurable.
Some people like to think out loud, which over time I've noticed has ups and downs, especially when their thought process is a little scrambled (like mine). At any rate, it does make "reading between the lines" a bit easier I think. I agree that there seems to be an unusually high concentration of compassionate people on this board.
Originally Posted By: doitmyself
And, now, on a lighter note, my infamous question to animal rights advocates: When you get critter "pests" (open to definition) inside your home, do you allow them to remain there? Do you live trap them and release? Do you use poison bait or killer traps? No answers required....just pondering.
I won't usually crush the occasional Arcadian trespasser right away as a matter of habit, but I like to have myself think of them as "guests" rather than "pets", also as a matter of habit. A fly that finds its way inside is probably not going to automatically become my worst enemy, but there is still a time, I think, when it needs to scoot along. The ladybugs which periodically inhabit my cabin in the woods do a trick where they "cryonize" and then "reanimate" when the pot-bellied stove is lit. Most people including myself find it quite entertaining, and seeing as how they can't really harm anything when there isn't anyone around and don't really harm anything when there is, I figure they're not so bad. Now if a roach encroached or even approached my coach, he would procure reproach and get poached. Yours truly got stung by a bumblebee while going through an intersection once; it was an interesting experience.
Isn't all this just great? You can feel the love. My little heart has been warmed, if only for a moment. Hey Jimmy, come over here...
I've got cookies. You guys can have one too.
P.S. Just kidding. I eat babies.
P.P.S. The dried fruit is actually a dried baby that had a promising life.
Originally Posted By: moribundman
Keeping people from posting in this thread is more difficult than keeping a cat from hopping on a vehicle.
I love drama!
I think your idea might have some merit though too. Why not put the heating pad under a stuffed cat instead? Instant cat mother! I know it would go for that. No, wait... a cat mother stuffed with catnip! Meow! It can't fail.
