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Ted Davis - 08 Aug 2006 14:01 GMT

Yesterday, Reuters had a story about a 29 pound cat taken in by an
animal home in Cologne:
<http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2006
-08-07T122924Z_01_L041609_RTRUKOC_0_US-GERMANY-CAT.xml&archived=False>
(http://tinyurl.com/koq7g)

The page the article refers to is
<http://www.tierheim-dellbrueck.de/Sonderseite_2/sonderseite_2.html>
(http://tinyurl.com/rh8w9) (In German - Bablefish helps a
little:<http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=de_en&trurl=http:/
/www.tierheim-dellbrueck.de/Sonderseite_2/sonderseite_2.html>
(<http://tinyurl.com/fbhku>))

The long URLs are the original ones; the short ones are the TinyURL
pointers to them.

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Monique Y. Mudama - 08 Aug 2006 18:04 GMT

> Yesterday, Reuters had a story about a 29 pound cat taken in by an
> animal home in Cologne:
><http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2006
-08-07T122924Z_01_L041609_RTRUKOC_0_US-GERMANY-CAT.xml&archived=False>
>(http://tinyurl.com/koq7g)

Finally, an article that doesn't glorify or make light of owners who
let their pets get pathologically fat!

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mlabofski@yahoo.co.uk - 09 Aug 2006 17:21 GMT

I'm not even going to look at the photo of the poor thing, some people
aren't fit to live with animals, why can't they just see, they're
killing with "kindness", grrr - makes me so angry!

Marcia
(who will always feel that it was my fault Otis has health problems,
because I thought cats regulated their feeding!)

> > Yesterday, Reuters had a story about a 29 pound cat taken in by an
> > animal home in Cologne:
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>
> pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca

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Enfilade - 09 Aug 2006 18:37 GMT

> I'm not even going to look at the photo of the poor thing, some people
> aren't fit to live with animals, why can't they just see, they're
> killing with "kindness", grrr - makes me so angry!

While I understand how some people can overfeed their animal due to too
much care (Ie, the forgetful elderly who'd rather feed the cat 3 x than
risk not feeding at all) --and it's better than the idiots who starve
their animals--you're right/ Those who are mentally capable should
educate themselves about what their animals need, and those not
entirely aware all the time should hire someone to help them out.

--Fil

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Monique Y. Mudama - 09 Aug 2006 19:14 GMT

>> I'm not even going to look at the photo of the poor thing, some
>> people aren't fit to live with animals, why can't they just see,
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> those not entirely aware all the time should hire someone to help
> them out.

I suppose that even the forgetful can, if they notice their cat
resembles a sumo wrestler, put a calendar on the wall above the cat
food and mark it when they've fed the cat.

I've thought about doing this at our house, simply because there are
two of us, and if DH comes home early he sometimes feeds Oscar, but
not always.

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