Some &*$###basterd shot a cat with a crossbow

[coolcat]

If anybody else is reading this, has anybody heard how the cat is doing?

 

[GotGusto]

Not here. Welcome to Canada.
Next?

First time you've been right all day. Congrats.

Again, YOU brought it up! Don't blame me! ROTFL
But, since you asked, I've got all your ad hominems, petitio principii, and reduction ad Hitlerums to go on.
Those are pretty good on their own. LOL

You certainly have a jumble of words. You're going to have to sort them out to make sense.

Almost certainly more than you.

I'm in the almost part. So you're wrong.

Wow, and you think I'M younger than YOU?
"I know you are, but what am I?!"
ROTFL
Too much.

I'm they guy you said admired Nazi philosphy, remember? lol

But, no - I've tried to be clear to you.
It's just you, GotGodwin.
Just you.
Everyone else gets saved first, followed by their pets. Well, dogs and cats. I draw the line at fish, birds, and lizards. ... You MAY come before the amphibians, GotGodwin. You MAY.

lol middle-aged intellectual dud is all puffed up that he wants to save lizards over me. Too funny. This really should be a comedy sketch.

 

[GotGusto]

In no sense of the word. We use the animals we want to use, and protect the ones we want to protect. Although you might THINK we do the same to humans around us, we really don't. You couldn't up and decide that all Tamils were fair game for experimentation one day. Not in this country, at least. The laws of the land apply to all humans, and very few of them to any non-human animals, even higher primates whose DNA is incredibly similar to ours.

Again, if you think that people are granting "human status" to their pets, you're not thinking clearly. You may think they treat them well and pamper them and feed them and save them from fires ... but it's not the same.

We don't go around calling our pets humans and letting them drive cars and attend social gatherings for political discourse. But people like you who openly declare that they care more for animals than people, abound in society. Such rhetoric would barely be tolerated in a sane society.

Animals deserve to be treated without cruelty.
They do not have human status, and nobody thinks they should.

Animals don't deserve anything in particular. What we do with them is arbitrary. You enjoyed the flesh of an animal that suffered cruetly simply because your palette enjoys the taste. I believe many animals know pain so I would not wantonly abuse animals. But I'm not going to cry myself to sleep over it when others do it either. One can condemn such behavior, but I see no justification for anything more.

You're CLEARLY the type who has a hatred for household pets.

No I don't. But I dislike extreme glaring hypocrisy.

Yep. I did. And I LOVED it. BUT, I think that all animals (well, all vertebrates, at least) deserve to be treated humanely whether we eat them or keep them as pets.

Slaughtering animals for food (when there is no need to eat meat) seems to conflict with the idea of treating animals humanely.

Neither a cow nor a cat deserves to be shot with a crossbow.
And I have BIG problems with almost all mammal hunts - including your using a crossbow "if you were hunting and it was legal". Unless you're a subsistence hunter. Since you're here on TERB, I'm guessing .... no.

I would opt for what I believe is the least painful method of hunting if the option were available, but if it wasn't and I was asked to go on a hunting trip (I've never hunted), I'd go regardless. It's not anywhere near a deal breaker for me.

 

[staggerspool]

Yikes! I seem now to remember why I prefer the company of animals to most humans.
Got my new kitten! He makes more sense than you two guys! He knows when he needs a nap.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

Yikes! I seem now to remember why I prefer the company of animals to most humans.
Got my new kitten! He makes more sense than you two guys! He knows when he needs a nap.

What kind of kitty did you get? Post a pic and lets have a look. Lets let these two guys argue till cat box cigars tumble out of their mouths!

 

[staggerspool]

Sorry, camera currently out of order. He's fuzzy grey and white, tiny perfect brown eyes, about 5 months, and he already loves me! The other cats are sceptical, but respect my authority as food guy...(Yup, I seem to be at the top of that particular hierarchy, but all three beat me on the good-looking scale, and of course they DO have me where they want me, going off to work, bringing home the tuna. So I guess maybe that proves one of those guy's points (to the extent that a point can be extracted from all the ego spray), I seem to believe that the cats are smarter than me. I must be some sort of degenrate loser. Oh well. Gonna go have a nap now.)
But first, Phoenix apparently barked yesterday!! He's eating and crapping and aside from the cancer issue, it looks like he might just make a great friend for a family one day soon. He may never have a proper nose, but I am sure he will be beautiful because he already is.

 

[someone]

Since we are off Topic anyway, can someone answer a completely unrelated question? How old are cats when they stop growing? In May I got what was then a smallish cat from a Toronto city shelter. At the time, the time, the shelter estimated her age at 1 year (she had already been spayed). However, she is still growing. I didn’t think they grew much after a year so I am wondering if she was younger than they estimated. Anyone know when cats stop growing?

 

[Ironhead]

If they are like dogs they will grow the first year and fill out the second year.
Should be all done at two / two and a half years .

 

[jiiimmm]

If anybody else is reading this, has anybody heard how the cat is doing?

It was doing just fine, but after reading this post it died of self inflicted wounds. It kept hoping the next post would be better, and then the next one, maybe the next one, nope, maybe the next one......meeeowwww!

 

[HAMSTER INSPECTOR]

Cats growth depends on the type they are an if they are male or female. I had a female tiger striped tabby that did 80% of the growth the first year and 20% of the remaininbg growth the second year but stayed pretty much the smallish 8 lbs the rest of her life. If it was a male cat it would have grown to about 12 lbs. There are other types of cats like Siamese cats where the males grow to about 20 or 22 lbs and the females stay pretty small.

 

[sibannac]

Since we are off Topic anyway, can someone answer a completely unrelated question? How old are cats when they stop growing? In May I got what was then a smallish cat from a Toronto city shelter. At the time, the time, the shelter estimated her age at 1 year (she had already been spayed). However, she is still growing. I didn’t think they grew much after a year so I am wondering if she was younger than they estimated. Anyone know when cats stop growing?

Generally they stop growing by 3 years for larger breeds but it really depends on the breed. For instance a Maine Coon will continue to grow right through it's third year. In most cases Cats reach their true adult size by 6 months.

Getting a rescue cat from a shelter may have fooled you in the fact that animal may have been malnourished and like human children a lack of food will stunt growth. Once a proper and reliable diet is in place growth will resume in a young animal. To me it sounds like they estimated the cats age and an age of one year will be given to a cat that can be anywhere between 4 months to just over a year.