Re: Humanitarian cat cure

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Bart Chambers wrote:

> I would normally apologize for the lack of audi content, but you'll find none
> here.  There are some folks who have never seen an animal die a slow, agonizing
> and lingering death, and who might not know what would happen if they tried
> leaving anti-freeze out.  If they did so, and were so unfortunate as to
> encounter the animal before it was tidily dead, they might have trouble sleeping
> for a long time to come.
> 
> Anti-freeze has a sweet taste that most animals find as *irresistible* as it
> will be fatal.  And it takes 12 or more horrible hours to finish the job.
> 
> If one finds the idea of any animal *slowly* dying an agonizing death, over a
> period of about 12 hours or more, *funny;* that person should seek help ASAP...

Someone has finally said it! Somehow I am not surprised to find our wise
Ol' Unka Bart to be this voice of reason.

While I am no animal lover in general or a cat lover in particular, I
did have a kitten (didn't we all?) when 
I was a kid. At the time we lived on the 6th floor of an appartment
complex. One summer night night, it got very playfull and mistook an
open balcony door for a doorway to another room and zipped into it
before we could catch it.  That cute and charming little fluffy creature
had flown 6 stories down and landed on the asphalt. They say that cats
are invoulnerable to the falls, always landing on their feet. Perhaps
that's true, but invoulnerable they are not. The kitten had shattered
every bone in it's body below the waistline, but was, unfortunately,
still alive. For two days the poor thing dragged it's whole lower body
on the floor and this picture still gives me the goosebumps. Two days
later I was sent to a summer camp and shortly after that dad said that
the kitten has 'died'. Of course I understood that that was a holy lie
and he just took it to a vet to put it to sleep. We never talked about
it again.

Igor Kessel
'89 200TQ