GreedyTop
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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr I'm glad I'm kinda "off" cats, these days. Don't get me wrong. It's my fault. I don't believe in mutilating animals so, I will never have another female cat (they tend to spray more prolifically, especially if there are other cats in the house) or a female dog (unmutilated, they leave blood, every month or so). I never had a cat that I allowed out of the house (many didn't want to leave, once I took them off the streets) so, not mutilating them didn't seem like a huge risk of over-population. That said, the last time I had to worry about integrating a dog with a pre-habitating cat, I was (I think) twelve years old and it was really kind of simple. This street dog followed me home (that's not just a story I told my parents. That's how it happened. I was scared to death of dogs, at the time because of the wild pack problem we had in the city.) and the cats in the house just swatted his nose, a couple of times, when they found him offensive. He went after them and I yelled: "NO!" Problem solved. This dog just "connected" with and adopted me for some reason. I'm having a different issue with my current canine: He is very "dog aggressive". He was attacked by an older female when he was about three months old. It was unprovoked, instantaneous, and brutal. So, I guess that must factor in, but this dog is obviously part Jack Russel because he insists upon aggressively going after Pit Bulls and Bull Mastiffs. I know it's not a drug thing, because he doesn't get any. I am forced to conclude that this dog is more insane than others of his breed. Michael Spay and neuter go a LONG way to curbing these behaviours. If you consider spay/neutering as mutilating animals, then frankly (unless you're planning to breed them for championship show/breeding purposes) youhave no business keeping these animals. I DO agree that declawing is mutilation. Spay/neuter is simply responsible guardianship.
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