From: mariem@sco.COM (marie megna)
Subject: Re: My roommate broke my kitten's leg!!!!
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 19:10:46 GMT



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Here Here!!!  First of all, this act is in-excuseable.  Get a new roommate.
I'd never put up with that @#$#@ towards any of my animals, no matter what
culture the person is from!  i feel very bad for you and your kitty.  And i
also like the statement here about animals being 2nd class.  It's so true,
People don't understand how attached to an amimal you can become, they are a
part of the family, period!!
I think perhaps the roommmate has no understanding of how close to animals our
culture is.  I've known people from other cultureswho think that keeping a dog
for a pet is absurd, they have good meat on them.  To us, it's disgusting. (to
say the least!) she shouldn't be living with you since you obviously love your
animal(s) and intend to keep them around muchlonger than her ~~~

Let us know what happens in the end and take good care of that kitty!!!


In article <1992Nov11.180817.22574@unislc.uucp> erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes:
>Matthew Harrington (ph600fcy@sdcc14.ucsd.edu) wrote:
>
>: My 10 week old kitten named Simon climbed up onto the dinner table
>: the other day and jumped into my roommate's plate of spaghetti.  The
>: roommate angrily threw the kitten down.  It wasn't a toss, it really
>: had some force in it.  My girlfriend, who watched the whole thing,
>: then went to clean the kitten off and noticed that his rear leg was
>: hanging limp.  The kitten began crying.
>: 
>: I took the kitten into the animal emergency room to have some X-rays
>: done, and it turns out that the leg is broken.  It will be OK, but
>: just painful for a while.
>: 
>: The problem is dealing with the roommate.  She is from Ecuador, and
>: from what I've heard, Latins aren't generally kind to animals.  She
>: has told us stories of family members smuggling rare Amazon monkeys
>: into New York by tranquilizing the animal and putting it in a
>: suitcase.  This incident with the kitten isn't the woman's first
>: case of being abusive. 
>: 
>: It looks like a confrontation between me (or my girlfriend) and the
>: roommate is inevitable.  I hope that no one has had to deal with
>: this situation before, but it so I'd like some advice and comments.
>
>Simon didn't know any better.  Your roomie from Ecuador obviously has some
>learning to do before she is safe around animals.  I'd tell her that the next
>time she hurt an animal, I'd hurt her the same way she hurt the animal.
>Break Simon's leg, break hers.  Grrr.... :( :( :(
>
>I'd also make *her* pay for the emergency room visit, and *all* followups.
>
>Goddamnit, I really see red when people start treating animals like a stick
>of furniture.  Hurting an animal is like hurting a child, but you don't see
>any newsgroups like alt.animal.abuse.recovery.  Like animals are second-class
>citizens or something.
>
>I'd better stop now, before I get on my soapbox.  Not a word to Snowcat and
>friends...
>
>GRRRRRR.......
>-- 
>Ed Carp                        erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com       801/538-0177
>
>"There is nothing to seek and nothing to find.  You're already enlightened, and
>all the words in the world won't give you what you already have.  The wise


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