What's going on around here? Every day another anti cat thread.

[TorchTheWitch]

90. foxes are all over suburbia

Most people just don't see them since they're night hunters and sleep in their dens during the day. THere's all kinds of critters roaming outside late at night in suburbia that most people haven't a clue exist in their neighborhood.

The foxes here take care of the rats and mice. Earlier in the season I had a mouse problem in the house because the foxes were hunting elsewhere for some reason. Once they came back, no mice, no rats, no snakes and unfortunately no chipmunks cause you rarely saw them and I think they're cute (they also had no interest in coming in the house or getting in peoples' trash).

I FAR prefer the foxes than the damn cat that used to live outside with the buttheads that used to live next door. No more cat piss or crap in my yard and no more dozens of dead shrews in my yard either (though why it wanted to put them in MY yard rather than her owners next door is beyond me). The buttheads moved and left the cat (they never cared about it anyway and never let it in the house no matter the weather... and keeping its food dish outside was just an invitation to all kinds of rodents to swarm). Now it lives with one of the neighbors up the street and is a happy indoor cat that's not causing a plague of problems in the neighborhood anymore. I don't miss it yowling its kitty brains loose all night outside my bedroom either. And the foxes actually EAT the critters they catch rather than leaving their vermin and parasite infested rotting corpses on peoples' door steps, porches and in their yards.

I seriously don't get why so many people that have cats think it's their right to allow their cat to roam freely causing a problem for their neighbors. I sure as hell wouldn't dream of letting my dog do that. And why in the world would they WANT their cat roaming freely to get hit by cars, eat wild critters infested with vermin and parasites or get killed by some bigger predator or stolen by some asshole? I'd NEVER subject my dog to that and don't let him eat critters that likely have some kind of vermin or parasites, seeing as I love him, am responsible for what he does and responsible for his health and wellbeing. Seems common sense to me that if you own a pet you're responsible for what it does, and you bloody well SHOULD care what your pet is subjecting your neighbors to.