What do you do with the neighbors crazy/horny cats 
	at 3am  if you don't have a 12gauge shot gun around to 
	quiet them down with?

		Besides, hocome the neighbors pets always bring
	their problems to your yard rather than resolving their 
	petty differences on their OWN HOME TURF ??

		Does anyone have a 12gauge or a pellet gun with
	enough kick to sterilize cats ???
	If so, can I borrow it for a couple of nights ???? 

						Farrokh

	PS. All you animal rights activists, please refrain
	from responding to this message. 

	I have one for the animal activists.  I can relate to Farrokh's
problem...my solution is to throw a tennis ball at them (I'm not a very
good shot, but they don't seem to like the general idea, and move along
to Farrokh's neighborhood).  It's amazing how rutting cats sound like a
lost two-year old child bawling its head off.

	Anyways, I am a confirmed cat hater.  Kittens are fun, but then
they turn into cats.  My neighborhood is overrun by cats, which doesn't
help my attitude any.  Here is my question:  How come I have to keep my
dog penned up, and can only walk him on a leash, not only near my house
but also almost any publicly accessible area, when cats can go anywhere
they please, not excluding my front yard or roof or garbage cans, which
they seem to prefer empty?  When is the last time you saw a cat and its
owner in the same place?  Does anyone know what a cat leash looks like?

	Aren't you glad that cats and dogs aren't people?  Just what do
you figure would happen to the civil rights movement if some races were
forced to stay inside or be leashed, while others could wander about as
they wanted, doing whatever damage they pleased?  Just a little more of
that "food for thought"...

sas

Farrok,
    Shooting your neighbors pets is completely illegal and you can 
    go to prison for it.  There was a case recently about one of the
    Cosentino grocer's sons who was arrested for shooting cats.

    What you should do is trap the cats and take them to the humane
    society.  They rent traps.  The number is 727-3383.

                                        Bonnie

	 I'm amazed at the number of people who took
	my first message seriously. Ya I'm sure!!
	I used to have a cat myself at one time you
	know. I loved that thing dearly and then One 
	day it disappeared. I wonder of someone shot
	it.
	 Anyways, alot of people have warned me of
	the leagal consequenses of shooting cats and
	killing them.  I suppose it'ld be ok to shoot
	them as long as I don't kill'em.  Who wants
	to have to clean up after dead cats anyway. 
	So you don't have to worry I won't kill'em.

	 Someone suggested that I chase them away 
	with water hose, but that would upset the
	water coservationalists, and don't we have
	alot of them around here! But that's another
	can of worms I don't want to open.  Actually
	I find it rather inconvenient to have to 
	get up in the middle of the night and drag
	out the water hose to spray the annoying cats.
	That doesen't work that well anyway because
	I'm liable to get myself all wet in the process	
	and not be able to back to sleep afterwards.

	 I liked Steve's way of dealing with the 
	problem the best. At least he's the one guye
	who understands me on this one and can see it
	humorously.

	 I'm closing this one with a last request to
	all of you who have a cat and I don't want to
	see this thing develope into some junkmail show
	down (like the enviornmental thing). 

	 So as a final note; IF YOU OWN A LOVELY CAT,
	PLEASE KEEP IT CONFINED TO YOUR OWN HOME. GET IT
	SPAYED AND IF YOU'RE FINDING ITDIFFICULT TO COPE
	WITH DON'T JUST OPEN THE DOOR AND LET IT OUT TO
	TEAR OUT YOUR NEIGHBORS YARD. IT'S NOT THEIR
	FAULT THAT YOU CAN'T DESCIPLINE YOUR ANIMAL.
	
					Farrokh

	PS. You're not automatically assumed to be an
	irresponsible pet owner, so don't take any of 
	this personal unless if you're guilty of the 
	above.

	Does any one out there know of a way to silence a bunch of ruthless
Mocking birds that stay up all night chirpping away just to keep me up at night.
I thought of training my cats to chase them away, but they are too busy
running from the neighbors shot-guns in the evening, so their schedule is full.
Somebody mentioned trying to squirt them with a water hose, but my neighbors
probably wouldnt like me showering a full stream of water against their bedroom
window at 3 A.M. Of coarse they wont be there because they will be in the
garage loading up their shot guns. Maybe we could construct pellet-gun pellets
out of styrofoam thats recyclable. 
	Also, does anyone know how I can keep those word-of-the-day people
from knocking at my door at 8:30 on Sunday. I tried chasing them away with 
my shotgun but they just make sounds of horniness and keep coming back. Someone
mentioned that I could probably try the water hose on them, but if I do this,
I will get all wet and wont be able to get back to sleep at 8:30 Sunday morning
and end up having to watch re-runs of Vic Coburn, the faith healing wonder.
	But I must say that I am NOT a cat hater. Some cats are jerks just
like some people are jerks. But I would like to think that my kitties are safe 
in my neighborhood rather than have to worry about what the neighbors might 
do to them. Its bad enough you have to worry weather they are going to get 
run over by some doehead that insists on driving 65 in a 25. Or that they might
just run away and not leave a note. Or that they might accidentally climb into
somebodys car and accidentally get driven to Gilroy. Now I can better know all
my neighbors for I will have to keep tabs on who in the neighborhood has
insomnia this week.
	Or were you all just kidding?