S/he looked clean and was probably owned by someone. The poor little thing looked like it may have been bitten by a dog, though it's not clear what happened. (With all the sadness on the block this week, I was not inclined to take a closer look.)
I called 311, but if it's someone's cat I want them to know what happened. I didn't take a picture, but I could definitely identify the cat. If the cat is yours, please private message me.
So sad :-( You might want to post on Craigslist, if someone lost their cat they probably search there first.
It was most likely a feral cat or a cat someone dumped. Assholes in the neighborhood like to use stray cats for their dogs to "practice" on, 95% of them shouldn't be allowed to own a goldfish never mind a dog.
Or maybe it was a casualty of war. Observe:
That video isn't funny or entertaining in the slightest and neither was this cat's unfortunate death.
Huh? Who said anything about it being funny? It's an alternative to your conjecture. Why would you think I think there is humor in any of that?
That was off topic and inappropriate.
It was not off topic. Caseopele argued that the dead cat was likely the cause of abuse by someone with a dog, and I happened to see the clip of two cats fighting -- as feral cats are prone to do -- and I included the clip. How is that off topic or inappropriate? Granted the birds in the photo had absolutely nothing to add to the whole scenario except a certain degree of bizarre, but other than that, I don't see how an alternate explanation is off topic -- or inappropriate. And other than just saying that, you have to express yourself in WORD why such is the case, or you are just making sounds. Too much of what occurs here -- in the Brooklynian -- becomes truth just because someone says so. So if you call me a racist, and someone else reads you say, 'MHA is a racist' then by default MHA is a racist. Nah, that is not how it works. If you THINK it was off topic and inappropriate, then you have to state that, (which you have done) and then state WHY you think it is. I then read what you have written, and then based on your argument, I either concede the point, or argue the point. You simply calling it inappropriate, or off topic does absolutely nothing except state your opinion, but not why...
Have you no sensitivity to the feelings of anyone other than yourself? Is there nothing other than race which matters to you? Do you not recognize, or simply not care, that others care as much about the welfare of animals as you care about the color of your skin, and mine, and hers, and his, and so on and so forth...
I am just seeing this. I obviously care about the feelings of others, so I will take that as a rhetorical question. Sure, there are many things other than the race that matter to me. I still have NO IDEA why my posting that link was inappropriate, or off topic. There was a dead cat found on a sidewalk. It is quite possible that the cat was killed by ANOTHER cat, and not by a dog. That cat could have been killed by a rat as well. I saw that link via a Yahoo site, and I immediately thought posting it would be more effective than saying that. Of all the things that people post here, I have REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, grown tired of being accused of EVERYTHING under the sun. Now, alas, I've offended a dead cat for chrissake....
A CAT .
AMAZING.....
Believe it or not, some people care deeply about animals.
I deeply care about animals too. Seriously. Had dogs, cats and fish growing up. Anyway, despite my lack of intent to offend, (sigh) I am sorry if I offended anyone out there....
It's been a while since I've visited, stuff like this is partly why I stay away so long. MA, you appear to know very little about feral cats lives in the city. Posting that video about 2 cats fighting, while birds dive bombed them, had nothing to do with the situation. You may have thought it appropriate but as someone who knows a bit more about feral cats in this area, I can tell you it wasn't. The person who recorded that video was an idiot, they thought it was funny to watch and posted it online so others could be amused by it.
It's not funny, it's not amusing. This poor dead cat was not a "casualty of war", it was a casualty of human cruelty and indifference. Feral cats live very tough lives, the lucky ones find people who feed and TNR (trap, neuter, return) them. The unlucky ones are trapped by assholes who bring them to our reprehensible excuse for an animal shelter, where they are euthanized. Usually after being held in a cage long enough to get a URI, just to add insult to injury. Or used as "practice" by some mouth breather who thinks a vicious dog is a symbol of his minuscule manhood. Or they get completely squashed by a car, like one of my ferals on Franklin Ave and one of our feral kittens up Bergen.
A lot of the cats on the street in this neighborhood were dumped by selfish, irresponsible wastes of life, who buy $200 sneakers but refuse to spend half that on their pet. The abandoned cats have it the hardest because they have no idea how to fend for themselves. Never mind that shitty cat food is not expensive, or that people on public assistance have access to free spay/neuter and vaccinations.
We all have our "things" that get us riled up, this is mine. It makes me furious how animals are treated in this neighborhood, how people see a cat on the street in the freezing cold and just walk by without a second thought (or first, usually). The idiot dog breeders are another issue entirely. This poor dead cat didn't deserve to die in the street, anthropoid was kind enough to post here hoping to bring closure to the cat's owner (if it had one).
booklaw said:
Have you no sensitivity to the feelings of anyone other than yourself? Is there nothing other than race which matters to you? Do you not recognize, or simply not care, that others care as much about the welfare of animals as you care about the color of your skin, and mine, and hers, and his, and so on and so forth...
I feel bad for MHA.
He never "gets" it. To answer your question, no, little matters other than race to him. He goes on endlessly and ties things together that have little relationship to each other and it all goes back to race and theoretical conjecture and on and on and on. If you go back over his posts, it is, at times, painful.
When you have been around for a bit, as I have, yo see that people fall into different "types." No one, myself included, likes to be categorized but it is true. I have seen others like him and dealing with them, especially online, can be unbearable as they are endlessly shocked and truly amazed that they offend others.
Truth be told, he is probably a good guy but now that I have stopped responding to him about a year ago, it is so smooth.
Buyer beware! Respond and engage him at your own risk.
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