Feline Obesity

[pk500]

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You must live around some pretty badass dogs.

I live in the country. They get a little wild and wooly around here, and so do their owners, at times.

I had it out a few weeks ago with a guy whose Siberian huskies terrorize small kids in the area who are waiting for the bus in the morning, including my kids. The dogs' owner was so nonchalant about it, giving me the standard, "Uh, they don't bite," BS line, and I told him that if those dogs got near my kids or property, I'd take him to town court to have the dogs restrained. One call later to the town dog control officer, and I haven't seen the dogs since. Problem solved, with no harm to the dogs. See, I can play nice!

Seriously, if I offended dog owners, I'm truly sorry. I just don't like the things due to past experience.

I don't go out to hurt dogs, EVER. But if attacked, I'm not going to give a dog the benefit of the doubt before defending myself with force, either.

Take care,
PK

[Herbsinator]

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I live in the country. They get a little wild and wooly around here, and so do their owners, at times.

I had it out a few weeks ago with a guy whose Siberian huskies terrorize small kids in the area who are waiting for the bus in the morning, including my kids. The dogs' owner was so nonchalant about it, giving me the standard, "Uh, they don't bite," BS line, and I told him that if those dogs got near my kids or property, I'd take him to town court to have the dogs restrained. One call later to the town dog control officer, and I haven't seen the dogs since. Problem solved, with no harm to the dogs. See, I can play nice!

Seriously, if I offended dog owners, I'm truly sorry. I just don't like the things due to past experience.

I don't go out to hurt dogs, EVER. But if attacked, I'm not going to give a dog the benefit of the doubt before defending myself with force, either.

Take care,
PK

well I have a dog and I absolutely love him, but if someone came to me and asked me to take care of my dog because he is bothering someone I would definitely take care of it. I would never want my dog to get taken away. But I've had my run in with dogs, too. I am a cyclist and my daily route takes me right by a dog park. I can't even count how many times i've almost been closed lined because of dog leashes or almost run over one of those guys. And for some reason whenever something like that happens the dog owners always give me dirty looks like it was my fault....im sorry but I was on the bike path people!!! But I can sure all runners or cyclists can relate with me on this one.

[pk500]

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well I have a dog and I absolutely love him, but if someone came to me and asked me to take care of my dog because he is bothering someone I would definitely take care of it. I would never want my dog to get taken away. But I've had my run in with dogs, too. I am a cyclist and my daily route takes me right by a dog park. I can't even count how many times i've almost been closed lined because of dog leashes or almost run over one of those guys. And for some reason whenever something like that happens the dog owners always give me dirty looks like it was my fault....im sorry but I was on the bike path people!!! But I can sure all runners or cyclists can relate with me on this one.

Herbs:

Absolutely. And my life experience has been almost a perfect storm of factors that have fomented my hatred of dogs:

1. I was bit in the hand by a dachshund at age 8. The dog bit my hand so hard that when my reflexes recoiled my hand away from the dog, I lifted it off the ground as its teeth and jaws stayed clamped to my hand. I was in third grade. I still have a scar on my hand, 32 years later.

2. I was bit in the calf in high school.

3. I was a competitive distance runner from 1979-86, chased damn near every other day because many of my training runs were in the country.

4. I've been an avid recreational cyclist since 1987. Again, damn near all of my rides are in the country, so I've been chased numerous times by enraged dogs.

5. A dog attacked my wife and our son when he was an infant and she was taking him for a walk in a stroller in the neighborhood. She was bit in the calf, and we took the owners to court because the dog had a history with attacking many people in the neighborhood. The dog's owners were slapped with a restraining order on the dog. If it gets loose again, it will be euthanized. The owners, typically, were idiots. Polite idiots, apologizing, but idiots because they said they had no idea the dog was this violent. My wife was probably the fourth or fifth person in the neighborhood attacked by this dog, and we got some of our neighbors who were attacked before my wife to testify.

6. My son was mauled in the face by a dog in 2004. He was 3. Luckily the plastic surgeon who stitched him did a great job, and the elasticity of his young skin made the scarring very minimal. But two of the five stitches had to be given without anesthetic because of their location, so to watch my 3-year-old scream in agony as a needle and thread laced through his skin, me holding him down on the gurney with a nurse, all because of some f*cking dog, well ... let's just say I would have killed that dog that night if I got my hands on it.

7. The Siberian huskies owned by the moron down the road menace my kids and other neighborhood kids every other month or so in the morning when they wait for the bus, because the douchebag who owns them lets them run completely free on their morning walk. These are huskies that rarely are let free, so they go crazy when they're liberated.

So, while I again will say I never have or will hurt a dog that isn't attacking me or my family, the history above illustrates why I don't either trust or like the c*cksuckers.

Take care,
PK

[The GIGGAS]

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My female black cat is completely insane. She's so paranoid.

I guess pets really do emulate their owners.

[Misfit]

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6. My son was mauled in the face by a dog in 2004. He was 3. Luckily the plastic surgeon who stitched him did a great job, and the elasticity of his young skin made the scarring very minimal. But two of the five stitches had to be given without anesthetic because of their location, so to watch my 3-year-old scream in agony as a needle and thread laced through his skin, me holding him down on the gurney with a nurse, all because of some f*cking dog, well ... let's just say I would have killed that dog that night if I got my hands on it.

Wow, I'm surprised they let you in the room. I split my chine open when I was a toddler and the wound required stitches. The doctor wouldn't allow my dad into the room for fear he'd lash out them when he saw what they had to do to me. I don't remember it, of course, but for my dad he says its one of the worst things he had to go through.

[pk500]

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Misfit:

It was in the emergency room, so I was with my son the whole time. Yeah, it was brutal as a father to see your kid suffer like that, but he was in agony for only a minute or two, and I wanted his wounds to be sewn correctly so there was minimal scarring. Certainly a case of "You gotta do what needs to be done, in whatever way it needs to be done."

The doc asked for my help because he knew my son would respond better if I was one of the people restraining and consoling him while the doc stitched him.

The doctor did a great job, and my son was fine within five minutes. He can be a tough lad when he wants, and I was more proud of his courage that day than any other time of his life.

Take care,
PK

[fishepa]

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I have found that most of the dogs that attack people are a result of their owners mistreating them. Those are usually the dogs that are chained up outside all day long and get no love at all. There are exceptions of course, but I find it to be true. I love dogs and cats by the way, I'm an animal lover.

[GAMEC0CK2002]

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Cats are cool, but I'll never own one. Pretty sure I'm allergic to them...my eyes tear up, nose runs like a faucet, and I sneeze like crazy.

Love dogs and not allergic to them.

[Gilateen]

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1-3 years for Cat abuse/death

A Cook County jury deliberated for nearly three hours Thursday before convicting a Des Plaines man of a felony for kicking a kitten to death.

The jurors found William Buske, 34, guilty of aggravated criminal cruelty to an animal, a felony punishable by a sentence of 1 to 3 years in prison. The jurors could have convicted him of misdemeanor animal cruelty.

Buske threw Orangie, a 9-week-old kitten, to the ground and kicked it about 15 feet in August after it began clawing at his front porch in the Oasis Mobile Home Park.

Leaving court, Buske said only that he was "a little surprised" by the outcome.

The jury of five men and seven women was visibly shaken when the verdict was read. Two women cried, dabbing their eyes while the jury was polled.

Assistant Public Defender Joseph Gump said he had never seen a jury so broken up.

"I'm pretty surprised. It's funny with animals," Gump said.

He said he believes that Buske didn't intend to kill the kitten.

Michael Andre, an assistant state's attorney, said, "We are very satisfied with the jury's verdict."

The lawyers had presented two wildly contrasting portraits of Buske during the two-day trial that Gump described as a "truly bizarre case."

Gump said Buske was a "law-abiding citizen" working to rehab his mobile home in a trailer park overrun with feral cats.

"It was like one big litter box," Gump said during closing arguments. "His property was being destroyed, and there was nothing he could do about it."

Buske testified that the kitten was clawing his deck and that he dropped it when it bit him.

"The cat bit me near my belly button. It felt like two tiny needles," he said. "I dropped the cat and I shooed it away with my foot. I had a reaction. It was half a second. Even I was surprised by what happened. ... I just wanted to get the thing away from me."

But Andre argued that Buske's actions were cruel and barbaric.

"This wasn't some, `Oh, gee, I dropped a kitty and nudged it away,'" Andre said. "His intentional actions were horrific and evil.

"He doesn't like cats. He went out and sought after little Orangie."

Testifying Thursday as a defense witness, Guy Johansen, a field supervisor for Cook County Animal Control, said he would typically remove 400 to 500 cats a year from the mobile home park.