Catskin coat anyone, catskin slippers ? Miserable cold fur it is.
A purpose for the skin and a message too.
Look for a fluffy person, shivering in winter.
Cold fur? I actually didn't know that... I suppose that's why the person is so keen to harvest it; you wouldn't want to wear warm fur up in the top end! Maybe the police should look for the most stylish and comfortable resident of Palmerston, especially if they run a Chinese take-away food joint
Then again, perhaps the furs are being used to make those cute little kitty ornaments you can buy at markets, which caused such a stir a few years ago, until people started pretending that the fur was actually from rabbits, then apparently actually converting to rabbit fur (rabbits are apparently lesser beings which may be murdered without guilt).Can someone please write me a list of the animals which are, and which are not okay to kill and eat? I take it that pigs, sheep, chickens, goats, most aquatic creatures are on the "killable, lesser beings which may be dealt with as you please" list, while cats, dogs, horses, parrots and monkeys are on the "don't kill or you'll go to Hell and be tortured for all eternity" list. If I come across an animal which is on neither list, how do I know to which list I must assign it? Must the first person to see that species flip a coin or do they get to decide? Is there some kind of skeletal characteristic to look for? Perhaps it's okay for any animal to be killed and eaten, as long as until the meat is processed and unrecognisable, it is being dealt with by someone you'll never meet... although that can't be the case, because everyone is upset about the enigmatic cat killer. People have pet bunny rabbits, so it seems unlikely that the dichotomy depends upon whether or not the animal is "loved" by some people. Are animals such as kangaroos controversial because of some sort of taxonomical disagreement? Perhaps we need to include "freely murderable" or "you deserve to be murdered if you even imagine harm coming to this species" on all new species descriptions, with all old ones being ammended ASAP. What is it which makes dogs and dolphins "unkillable", while pigs are so yummy that they need to have several new names to reflect how much people love to eat them? Pork, ham, bacon... I'm getting hungry, and as long as I don't think about cats or monkeys, I'm allowed to...
As with Magpie, if I was irresponsible enough to let one of my snakes escape, and some random passer by stumbled across it in the street at night and killed it, I'd blame myself. Unrestrained and unsupervised captive animals have no place in public areas. It's up to pet owners to take responsibility for their animals, not just leave them outside to fend for themselves and cause damage. If I left my wallet out on the street at night I wouldn't expect it to be there in the morning either.
Why are all the people who are so horrified at these cats being killed not screaming, shouting and crying about the horror being dealt out by cats every day? If I had a pig which I planned to eat, it got loose then someone caught and ate it, would everyone think that person was a psychopath?
Sorry for getting off topic, but I find people interesting in this way and have never been able to understand these rules. We don't need another cat-hater thread anyway, if you're worried about things getting off topic, seach for "cat" in the archives and you'll find no shortage of dead flogged horses (oh no! Horses are 'protected'! :shock: ).
