Milk is not a good food for a cat. House cats should not be let outside, given that they kill far more than they eat and are very destructive of birds in particular. What should you do? Take some responsibility here, talk to your neighbor and if that does not work, call the local animal control, given the cat is being neglected and the owner is likely in violation of the local law.Virgo wrote:Here is a question:
The neighbors cat is really a stray, however the neighbor feeds it usually. It comes by my home sometimes and we give it milk. Now, that cat goes out and kills mice and birds. Is feeding it milk enabling it to go kill other sentient beings and cause them misery? (birds and mice have feelings too and don't want to die. They only want to be happy. If that wasn't the case, they wouldn't run from danger. They also have children that they must feed.)
Maybe I should not feed the cat milk according to the faulty logic being put forth here.
The cat does not need to be outside. That is your neighbors responsibility and it is why there are laws in most communities concerning that.Maybe I should take that logic further and even though I don't feed it myself, I should convince my neighbor not to feed it too.
Nice try, Kevin. If the cat has an owner, it is the owner's responsibility to control it. You obviously have a face, take some responsibility, show some real compassion in action and open it: express your concern about about the cat's killing of song birds and other animals. The death of song birds by cats in the USA is in the hundreds of millions; an estimated 39 million are killed annually in Wisconsin.Maybe I should take this wretched logic one step further and just club the f*ing the thing, the g*damn killer cat. I do have a baseball bat in the house that would crack its little head and crush her skull, you know...
Also, a cat like that is likely to be full of parasites, which means its life is miserable and will be short. Feeding it an inappropriate food is not compassion, ignoring the results of having a cat run loose is not compassion for the cat or its prey and there is no compassion expressed in you little story towards your neighbor. So, Kevin, what are you going to do? I suppose, in the very least, you could cut bits and pieces of flesh from your body to feed it, but barring that try to show real compassion for the situation.
Yes, I see where your faulty logic goes and I see nothing here of you taking any compassionate responsibility for you actions or the situation. When you do, let us know.Do you see where this faulty logic leads?