On Thursday, August 1, 2019 at 9:44:50 PM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
> "dsi1" wrote in message
> ...
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> On Thursday, August 1, 2019 at 6:54:01 AM UTC-10, Bruce wrote:
> > On Thu, 01 Aug 2019 08:24:31 -0300, wrote:
> >
> > >On Thu, 01 Aug 2019 07:07:53 -0400, Gary > wrote:
> > >
> > wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> > >>> >While nice to think that, unless you are truly starving you never
> > >>> >will
> > >>> >know for sure. Look at people that resorted to cannibalism to
> > >>> >survive.
> > >>> >I bet they would have been happy to have a cat.
> > >>
> > >>Eating a dead pet or even human would probably be considered in
> > >>extreme starvation events but not killing one to eat it.
> > >>
> > >>> I could probably eat somebody else's cat, but not mine. Besides which
> > >>> she is a skinny little 6lber, not worth killing
> > >>
> > >>A 6lb cat? Midget kitty? That's very small if full grown.
> > >
> > >She's a little silver tabby
> > >https://i.postimg.cc/J0YXbf5x/20190612-112900.jpg
> >
> > Cute cat.
>
> Here's a cat that lives in our parking lot. It's a wee pitiful creature. My
> guess is that the lack of food has messed up his brain. He no longer moves
> when cars approach him. Yesterday, he laid down in the middle of a parking
> space that he knew a car wanted to park. The guy backed up slowly but he
> didn't move. The passenger in the car got out and tried to move him. That
> didn't work. I was watching and helped them by pushing the cat out of the
> way. That was a weird scene. Come to think of it, the chickens will take
> their time getting out of the way of cars too. Possibly there's some kind of
> brain amoeba infection that makes the critters here consider suicide as a
> viable option.
>
> https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared...nrjhktjShulEWY
>
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>
> Hellish I can't imagine such a scenario Such a shame

He's like those old derelict street people that nobody can help. My wife and daughter will give that cat some food but he has the stomach for only a small amount and then the chickens move in. Mostly, the cat will lay in the parking lot during the afternoon and evenings and watch life go by.