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Should they implode the stadium and to hell with the cats?
Or should they make every effort regardless of cost to save them? :confused:

Here's one of 'em.

Section 207 cat IotD

You have to flush the cats out. Fire, smoke, whatever. How do make the cats want to leave? How do you make the cats want to leave a nuclear submarine? ...

Bleh... I say: Fire in the hole!
Hell, they already got 9 lives anyway s'whats one less?:p

If the way the Phillies have played over most of the Vet's history hasn't driven the cats out, NOTHING will.

I participate in a local special interest mailing list through yahoogroups that's all in a tizzy over these cats.

My comments that these are not cute furry kitties, but feral vermin who happen to look like cats was not appreciated.

I even held back on my kind offer to take care of some of the problem (that would have gone over like a lead balloon to be sure ... my solution involves lead, of course.)

Something like: Pull! RRAOWWW! Pop!

The problem is, of course, that the cats are unadoptable. They can't be "rescued" in the best sense of the word. What really needs to be done is the ASPCA needs to come in and trap the cats, and then they'll all be put down. It costs money, but it's humane.

My mind must be wired weird... I read the topic as "federal cats".

Anyway, I'd say make a reasonable effort to capture them, and then let it go. As everybody else has said, we're not talking about Morris from the cat food commercials here.

Before they implode it there will be a lot of pre-demolition activity and the food will be gone. They'll probably leave on their own. If not, when the explosions start they better run quick.:eek:

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My section 207 cat during daytime hours. S/he had scattered into this drainage hole, almost perfectly cat-sized, avoiding me and 50,000 other humans. If she left this hidey-hole and turned left instead of right, she would be on the field.

Well, tomorrow morning at 7am (EST), Veterans Stadium in Philly will come down, in an estimated 62 seconds. From the IotD pictures it looks like they've done enough pre-demolition, that the cats should have vacated. Hope so, anyway. :worried:

i was a staff member at an animal shelter for 2 1/2 years. what they did, was to trap the cats, have them spayed and neutered and set them free. it's not fair to kill them because they're not pets. if they are positive for feline leukemia or FIV then they will be euthanized, but other than that, they are just sterilized. if all of them were fixed, they would just die out eventually. it's the humane thing to do.
there are caring groups of people who would help with the cause and lots of people who would donate money, also. it CAN be done humanely!

or should i say "it could have been done" humanely? i just read through the entire thread and realized that they're domolishing the stadium tomorrow!? why the hell didn't they strt trapping the cats months ago when they made these plans???idiots!
i don't know what to say, then. it's sickening.

It's OK, officials say the cats (and rats) are long gone.

I've noted a disturbing and unfortunate tendency among posters to message boards (alas, even this one, where one would expect better) and callers to talk radio shows, to go out of their way to let people know how much they dislike cats.

It's almost always a male thing, and the tendency seems to 'pool' a bit over toward the Right side of the political spectrum, though even some progressive 'men' apparently feel the need to show off on the subject.

Is it a childish reaction to the (what they consider) excessive devotion they see some people display toward cats? (That's probably my favorite theory at the moment.)

Plenty of people don't like dogs, birds, ferrets, fish, but I seldom hear anybody going out of their way to put down those animals and the people who like/own/care about them.

Callousness toward animals in general, and cats in particular, seems to be one of those 'male' things (especially among those who view themselves as 'conservative') in our culture. Anybody who doesn't share that tendency is labeled (as I was recently in a Hunting thread that I started) a too-frequent watcher of 'Disney films'.

I hate dogs. Even more, I hate dog owners who don't get it that not everyone wants to be humped and slobbered on by their stupid pet. Keep that shit away from me.

*MY* dog does not hump legs nor does he slobber. He doesn't even like to jump on people (much). He shows affection (and begs to go out) by hugging you and sitting on your lap and staring at you with a pleading expression on his furry little face.

I leave it to my houseguests whether they prefer to have the dogs free or crated, but the amazing humping techniques they display for company are always good reason to leave them out and more than make up for any other inappropriateness.

But UT, everyone knows that cats suck the breath out of sleeping babies.:p

Doesn't Junior weigh close to 100 pounds?

(I have a friend whose Rottweiler doesn't know he isn't a dachshund like his canine sibling, and loves to sit in laps. It's a little off-putting when you aren't expecting it. And he's a very aggressive facelicker. The dog, not the friend.)

Wow, I'm surprised by some of the comments here.

Anyone that would get bent out of shape by our dogs or cats being around them wouldn't be welcome in the first place...I sure as hell wouldn't put them in a crate for anyone. Sure they can be smelly and annoying but their my buddies.

No. He's forty if he's an ounce. and that's all he'll get.

Damn, I think that would apply to my human friends as well.:)

Yeah they're my pals, and the only reason I'm repeating myself is cuz I wanted everyone to know I learned how to use "they're".

I hope this isn't true....irrationally this has been bugging me all day.

A little background.....I grew up in a family of hunters, and in fact killed a few squirrels, deer, bear, fish, bobcat, racoons & birds myself.

But my love of animals is so much so that I get ill when I smuck one with my car, I worry about my pets when I am at work. I cried like a little girl when my last pal (a rangy cat who adopted us) I had to have put to sleep.

Dogs to me really are mans best friend, the unconditional love, the sheer joy when you get home, total adoration when you do something simple like giving them a treat or taking them for a walk.

So I really hope you don't truly hate dogs? Don't your kids have any pets? Kids need pets like pets need kids.

well, aren't you just the all american kid? I bet you love apple pie and baseball, too? If you do decide to change your name, how about "red white and blue 58"?
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Ahh shut up LJ , hell you arn't even allowed to wear shoes in the house !!!!!

I have an allergy to dogs and cats...especially cats. If I don't take my allegra, oh fuck...

Speaking of the Vet, I was watching the news tonight, and one of the residents in the shadow of the Vet was actually concerned about a possible rat infestation. Apparently, he had to call the city to remove some found in the neighborhood last week.

Blecch! :p

:beer:

I'm having to make a difficult decision here ... do I try to stay awake until 7am, or do I try to get up for it?

Or go for the tape replay on the 6 pm news?

DOn;t do anything different. You'll be sick of seeing it by the end of monday.

Yeah, it's true. Dogs smell, slobber and shed too much to belong in a house. They can be great useful animals, I'll give you that - they just suck as pets.

So just get quiet, small, non-slobbering shorthair dogs noted for their cleanliness. They'll clean each other.

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Aka cats? Got 'em.

She shoots...she scores! :D

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