Galveston Bird Nut Update
Posted by TFG on 16th November 2007
From Banjo, he strides the earth a free man:
[blah, blah, mistrial, blah-blah]
He gave the public a chance to have its say via the jury system (the greatest judicial system in the world! despite the continuing problems with the conviction and sentencing of innocent people who are released after DNA analysis shows various juries and prosecutors made rather shocking mistakes of judgment) and the public, as it were, could not decide if it was cruel or not to shoot and kill a stray cat.
Some people just don’t like cats.
More accurate to say that, in this case, people are apathetic about the stupid things.
And of course people are more sympathetic to dogs, their ineptness at catching birds notwithstanding. Dogs have helped mankind for centuries…millenia, even. No cat ever defended his human companion from depredations. Hell, it was usually a cat trying to eat us that Bowser had to get into it with. I won’t even bring up those fruity Teutons in Vegas with their cat show and how well that turned out. Give me the hound, you can keep the feline.
Now, on the other hand, I’d never shoot a stupid cat just because he was eating birds, endangered or not. Cats eat birds. I learned that watching Saturday morning cartoons. If the bird isn’t smart enough to stay out of the cat’s way, it most definitely is endangered, bird-lover clubs and P&W revenooers notwithstanding. Welcome to evolution.
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