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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:

http://cellar.org/2003/a1.jpg

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'.