Happy Earth Day!

[EternalMothra]

Yay! It is Earth Day everybody, I'm probably the only one who remembered, but what the heck. We should all do something that helps out Earth. ^_^ I'm supposed to plant like 100 trees today, so wish me luck!

[Cyndi]

I picked trash out of the flowers at church today :)

[EternalMothra]

YAY! *huggles* I planted a few trees today, but since I was sick I didn't get to plant that many.

[godofPH]

I carried out groceries for 6 hours.

Ummm, hooray?

[Morgoth]

I killed a cat.

[Morgoth]

Okay, okay, not really, but I'm always struck by how nobody appreciates the ecological havoc cats cause among native bird and small animal species. It galls me no end how people just let their cats roam 'wild' through their neighborhoods, slaughtering everything they can get their grimy paws on. Unless you need one for vermin control, your house cats should be just that, inside your house.

End of decidedly bloodthirsty eco-rant.

[Goji Son]

I killed a cat.

How is this different from any other day?

As for me, I bagged people fish, cleaned up an assortment of piss and fecal matter from many different animals and treated sick hamsters. Not all out of the kindness of my heart but because it's called my "job".

[EternalMothra]

LOL, dogs can be killers too Morgoth, I had one once, and remember vividly.

[Seer235]

My family owns a cat, but it's ok cause he's too slow to catch anything these days.

For Earth Day, I spent over 8 hours debugging a major program for my CSE class. So....I didn't steal sunlight from all the small plants?

[Burkion]

I'm plotting the end of the Human Race.

That'll help the Earth.

[godofPH]

For Earth Day, I spent over 8 hours debugging a major program for my CSE class. So....I didn't steal sunlight from all the small plants?

You noble soul...

[Goji Son]

My family owns a cat, but it's ok cause he's too slow to catch anything these days.

For Earth Day, I spent over 8 hours debugging a major program for my CSE class. So....I didn't steal sunlight from all the small plants?

Yes, but you have poisoned the Earth with your infinite lines of incomprehensible code. YOU are apart of the ever hungry technology that consumes the earth and soon will turn trees to silicon, water to gigabytes, mountains into skyscrapers and animals into machines!

I have no clue what I just typed but you are apart of it... and it's... like... bad. OPPRESSOR! *runs away*

[Cyndi]

I'm sure Dr. Strangelove was out there somewhere plotting a way to resurrect Hitler ;P His Earth day contribution was attempting to get Hitler OUT of the Earth. Haha *runs and hides behind Donny*

[Dr. Strangelove]

I'm sure Dr. Strangelove was out there somewhere plotting a way to resurrect Hitler ;P His Earth day contribution was attempting to get Hitler OUT of the Earth. Haha *runs and hides behind Donny*
*hooks up medical-bed to lightning rod*

IT'S ALIVE! IT'S ALIVE-IT'S ALIVE!


IT'S ALIVE!

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/upload/2006/07/HitlerZombie-756531.jpg

[Gorjirus]

Okay, okay, not really, but I'm always struck by how nobody appreciates the ecological havoc cats cause among native bird and small animal species. It galls me no end how people just let their cats roam 'wild' through their neighborhoods, slaughtering everything they can get their grimy paws on. Unless you need one for vermin control, your house cats should be just that, inside your house.

End of decidedly bloodthirsty eco-rant.

Depends on where you live.

Becuase I don't think our cats (which aren't house cats) eath any rare native birds or small animal species.

House cats are only house cats if they are inside your house. Ours, are just cats.

And they are probably an important part of our ecological system. Keeping vermin and rabbit populations down!





Plus, they are so cute and cuddly. And loyal. And I miss the cat that attacked dogs.

Cats > Dogs

[Dr. Strangelove]

Depends on where you live.

Becuase I don't think our cats (which aren't house cats) eath any rare native birds or small animal species.

House cats are only house cats if they are inside your house. Ours, are just cats.

And they are probably an important part of our ecological system. Keeping vermin and rabbit populations down!





Plus, they are so cute and cuddly. And loyal. And I miss the cat that attacked dogs.

Cats > Dogs
Unless they're keeping their own populations down, they aren't keeping down the vermin population..

[Seer235]

Unless they're keeping their own populations down, they aren't keeping down the vermin population..

Well, since many of them are being neutered...

[Gorjirus]

Unless they're keeping their own populations down, they aren't keeping down the vermin population..

Cats aren't vermin. Mice, rates, moles (and voles?) are vermin.

And cat populations are under control here in KY. They just live out around farm houses. But "wild" cat populations are kept down by: roads, dogs, coyotes, other cats (so :p ).

Unless you live in Lexington, then wild cats are everywhere.
















































(Woot! A sports joke!)

[Morgoth]

The problem lies in suburban areas where coyotes aren't around, then the cat population explodes and, well, critters that should be around start dwindling. I just use the comparison between where I am now and where I used to live in Phoenix. Same degree of development, same concentration of people, same degree of trafic, etc. But there are so many more birds, lizards, rabbits and, yeah, even snakes than there were at my other home. The difference: almost no cats, as in the kind irresponsible owners just allow to roam the neighborhood. Why? Easy answer, a mountain range that provides sanctuary for javelinas and coyotes. They range down into the developed areas at night and, well, cats must be alot easier to catch than rabbits.

[Gorjirus]

as in the kind irresponsible owners just allow to roam the neighborhood

Why are they irresponsible? Are the cats damaging propety? In urban areas, like you mentioned, what could they be eating that is vital to the ecology?

[Morgoth]

Suburban, a big difference there. You know, the areas where we stick houses and strip malls and office complexes while squeezing out all the natural life. Then the animals that are able to survive in the nooks and crannies get slaughtered by roaming cats that don't even eat what they kill - why should they, somebody tosses food at them any time they show their puss back at the lair. The big differnce between dogs and cats is that the killer instinct has never been subdued in cats. A dog, on its own, is a terrible predator, doesn't even know how to bring down large prey any more (the most sickening thing I've seen was footage of feral dogs in Italy taking down a horse, they don't know to go for vital spots to kill their prey resulting in just a loathsome spectacle of butchery), but a cat retains all of its natural instincts and tendencies, just without the connection between predation and food. Hence, they continue to hunt but don't associate the activity with eating. You can blame man for this dreadful foulling in feline thought, when cats were domesticated it was desirable to have old puss kill as many rats as possible, not just the ones it wanted to eat. Unfortunately, cats don't distinguish between vermin and birds, lizards, et al. When the numbers of cats roaming a neighborhood is high, the effect on what little ecology there is becomes enormous. It doesn't help that alot of cat owners are more like collectors than pet owners either, keeping entire mobs of cats rather than a manageble number.

I'm sorry, but I put the cat owner who lets their animal roam all over in the same category as a dog owner who does the same - irresponsible. Not just to the ecology, but also to the pet itself. How many animals get plowed over by cars, eaten by coyotes, etc?

[Gorjirus]

I'm sorry, but I put the cat owner who lets their animal roam all over in the same category as a dog owner who does the same - irresponsible. Not just to the ecology, but also to the pet itself. How many animals get plowed over by cars, eaten by coyotes, etc?


Um, there cats. There is no need to keep them inside. And if they get run over (for the most part), it is because they are too dumb to get out of the way. And as for coyotes, hey, thats nature. Just because cats aren't the top of the food chain doesn't mean you are irresponsible.