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uriah wrote

If you want to keep an animal in an urban area
keep it on a leash or fence in your yard.
Stan


Free roaming animals in an urban setting usually have a very very
short lifespan.

Steve




It's amazing how many people are needlessly cruel to animals.

--
Jim Yanik


Are you saying it is needlessly cruel to deal with a free roaming
animal in the country that is eating your stock? Killing something
quickly is not cruelty, as any farmer or rancher knows.

Steve




There's a big difference between killing an animal eating farm stock
and killing a pet because it's a nuisance.(urban settings,too,not
farms) We have people here advocating putting out rat poison,and
other cruel methods with the intent to kill or seriously injure a
neighborhood pet.

"Pet" is just a word, Jim. It only has meaning to the owners, and the
moment they let their pet out the door unsupervised, the word loses
all its meaning. Now, it's just another animal.




"Pet" does have meaning;a feral cat or dog is no one's pet.
These kill-crazy people know that the animal in their sights is somebody's
pet.They aren't "losing crops",either.

Unsupervised has nothing to do with it.
Many areas,cats are not required to be under "supervision" or on a leash.

Let's add a definition, then. If someone will cry or otherwise have a bad
day when a particular animal is killed, maybe you can call it a "pet". But,
that is of no significance to anyone but the person who will be upset.
Again, it's just a word. And, if they let it roam the neighborhood, they
probably wanted it dead anyway.