Cats and Dogs,,,

[butterfly77]

are living and eating better than people. Have you seen some of these commericals. Anyone see the one about the dog who is reading the paper as it slides in the door and is worrying about if he is going to be okay.


See the commericals about the delectable cat food and dog products. Have at it pet lovers.

[lame54]

1. I can't think of a single dog or cat you can blame...

for screwing up this country

[adigal]

4. Amen!!! Cats and dogs are also killed by the millions

in this country. I do dog rescue, puppies, kittens, all killed. Go check out this page, one small Georgia shelter:

http://www.shelterrescueinc.org/id6.html

Scroll down, check out the pups and kittens killed. Some are killed because they sneeze, they say they are sick with parvo and kill them, but they generally don't kill pups here, but in many shelters they kill puppies because they are black. Gaston (Gastonia) North Carolina and Robeson, North Carolina are among the worst. Robeson kills by heartstick (long needle into the heart) and they were caught doing it without anesthesia. Gaston kills black puppies, calling them "unadoptable." Black dogs are not popular in the south, and please, don't any southerners get defensive here. I am talking about in general, the same people who don't believe in healthcare for humans are the ones I am talking about here.

[michaz]

5. I live in NYS and we have adopted 2 from high kill shelters in GA.

They are both great loving dogs and grateful to be here. And yes, they eat one of the best dog foods on the market. They came to us malnourished. We got them to our vets the same day they arrived. They are both now at a perfect weight. Thank God for good food so we don't have to buy that cheap stuff that is all corn and crap!

[michaz]

16. Forgot, and my 2 dogs from GA are black dogs. n/t

[HelenWheels]

24. BBD

which stands for "Beautiful Black Dog". I have a BBD, a standard poodle, I got her from a family that had no time to spend with her. She's a real sweetie. As for the poor eating animal food that has to be a myth. Pet food is pretty darn expensive.

[roody]

42. Our black shelter dogs go on sale once a year.

I am blessed to live in a county with a high consciousness. Only truly unadoptable dogs are euthanized. Some wait a year for their adoption.

[butterfly77]

48. I'll bet ..

I can find some owners who have and those owners will respond like most everyone on this post if you mess with there cat or dog but,they don't give a damn about homeless families.If anything they are doing their damndest to create more.

[Le Taz Hot]

2. I'm not seeing a problem here.

Would you feel better if cats and dogs all slowly starved to death? :wtf:

[Quantess]

3. Cheap attempt at flamebait.

[truth2power]

26. Yes, flamebait. And false dilemma...

Many dedicated people around the country are making a real difference, with no-kill shelters, adoption programs, including fostering dogs and cats until they can be adopted, and spay/neuter programs.

It's not a question of killing animals cruelly or letting them starve.


I swear... x(

[a la izquierda]

6. Some of us can and do donate to pet and human causes.

You know, the proverbial walk and chew gum at the same time. I donate lots of my meager pay to our local food pantry. And my dogs eat well because it's a hell of a lot cheaper than giant vet bills for cancer (which my dogs have never had).
So thanks for the nannying OP.


And, fyi, that commercial you wrote about is for Traveler's Insurance. It's a metaphor. For people to insure important assets like their life, house, and car.

[alphafemale]

7. wait...what?

Your point is?

[butterfly77]

8. Cats and dogs eat and live better than people...

[Le Taz Hot]

12. Uh, no, no they don't.

When's the last time you saw 4 dead baby humans, one after another, on the freeway? You seem to have no idea the horrible, horrible things that people do to animals. Humans have a chance of feeding themselves, dogs and cats mostly rely on us to feed them and care for them. You're attempt to pit animals vs. people as opposed to addressing the REAL cause of hunger/homelessness -- the greedy 1 percenters, -- is, shall we say, freakishly misguided. I hope to goddess you don't own animals. :mad:

[alphafemale]

13. ummm...where do you get that stupid idea?

Cats and dogs live at the whim of their people.

My cat needs a special diet of prescription food that costs maybe twice what high-grade store bought would...but that amount of money feeds her for a month that would feed a person meagerly for maybe three days.

Fuck off.

[JanMichael]

14. This has got to be the dumbest thread I have seen on DU

in a long time. I understand the outrage of seeing/ reading about hungry people, but I fail to see the connections with animals who mostly eat by products of human food manufacturing.

Beyond stupid. I suppose it's not too early for the op to have had some bloody mary's or some such breakfast drink.

[alphafemale]

36. It's dumb...but the dumbest ever???

Seems pretty ordinary for a weekend dumb to me.

:rofl:

[butterfly77]

44. What is dumb...

is how many response I got when talking about cats and dogs but hardly any when something is very detrimental to people.

[butterfly77]

45. mighty angry huh???

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[roody]

43. Some do. Some do not.

[Obamanaut]

9. Our five eat well, AND we have an access ramp rather than steps off the

front porch into the fenced yard so the two who cannot negotiate steps can go in/out at their leisure.

[demmiblue]

10. You know this because you saw a commercial?!

:crazy:

[butterfly77]

11. Real life...

what's wrong are you losing your mind?:crazy:

[michaz]

15. Have you ever seen the abuse inflicted on these animals by humans?

They certainly are eating and living better than the animals they are starving and abusing. Check out some sites on animal abuse and take a good look. You might change your mind about this ridiculous statement you just made.

[xchrom]

17. yeah -- it's good to be a pet

http://www.examiner.com/dogs-in-national/penny-eims

http://www.examiner.com/dogs-in-national/homie-a-dog-without-a-home
Homie, a dog without a home

Spring, TX - Not long ago, Homie was an adorable "must-have" puppy...the light of someone's eye.

But the light dimmed enough through the years that Homie's owner felt that it was okay to move away and leave him behind.

Just days ago, Homie was discovered by a Good Samaritan - a bit of sleuthing revealed the sad truth - he had been abandoned by a local resident who had moved.

Now Homie is homeless.

http://www.examiner.com/dogs-in-national/woman-arrested-for-killing-dog
Suffering dogs struggle for survival

College Station, TX - Esperanza is being shown compassion for perhaps the first time in her life.

Nobody knows exactly what Esperanza has been through - what is known is that her body is severely battered and she is fighting for her life.

Just days ago, Esperanza was discovered alone in the scorching heat - horribly injured and struggling to survive.

She has been taken in by the Aggieland Animal Health Center where veterinarians are desperately trying to undo the many wrongs that this abused dog has endured.


http://www.examiner.com/dogs-in-national/woman-convicted-of-animal-cruelty-after-abandoning-dog-apartment
Woman convicted of animal cruelty after abandoning dog in apartment

Bronx, NY - For six long weeks, a young Pit bull was abandoned in a vacant apartment. For six excruciating weeks, the dog suffered without food or water.

The abandoned dog attempted to survive with what was in the vacant apartment - garbage, including splintered plastic, wood and razor blades.

It goes without saying, these items were not sufficient to sustain a life.

By the time that this dog was found in January 2010, the body was so wasted that ASPCA officials had to scrape it from the floor.


:crazy:

[JanMichael]

19. The OP probably doesn't care about that; there

are many folks on DU who think that people who show compassion towards animals are somehow ignoring human suffering. It's bizarre, but there appear to be posters who can only care about one issue at a time, and project that one dimension thinking onto others.

Very odd.

[xchrom]

21. Indeed. Nt

[SoCalDem]

18. People choose to have pets, and have a responsibility to feed them

Most cats & dogs I have ever known do not have access to the car or the ATM card, so they rarely shop for themselves:evilgrin:

responsible pet parents do not let their pets roam the neighborhood in search of wild critters..

[muffin1]

20. Umm...those are COMMERCIALS...dogs don't read papers.

And just because you see a commercial about 'delectable' cat and dog food, it doesn't mean all cats and dogs are living the high life - it means that food is available for the rich people who want to buy it.

We feed up to 15 feral kitties and believe me, they don't get high-end food. They are out in the elements - either hot as hell in summer, or several inches of snow in winter - everyday of their lives. They are out there due to human ignorance and/or pure laziness. And this is just one shopping center, in one small town. Abandoned animals are everywhere, suffering.
My best friend is a Director at a shelter here in town - I can't even begin to tell you the horror stories. Not without crying, anyway.

Yes, humans are also homeless, hungry and suffering. It doesn't mean a lot of animals have it any better.

[truth2power]

27. Thank you so much for what you do...

My daughter feeds several feral cats (who have all been spayed/neutered at her expense BTW). She leaves her garage door open a crack so they can get out of the elements during the winter.

We all do our part.

[muffin1]

Thank you and your daughter, too!

:hug:

Has your daughter checked into possible TNR groups in your area? Thankfully, there was a group that did that with all the strays in this parking lot before we started feeding them. This is just one of three colonies at the shopping center. They are so sweet - sadly, the orange one (we adopted his sibling years ago - and he has now passed) isn't doing too great these days.

[Riley18]

22. You can generally tell a great deal about a person based

on how they treat helpless animals. I am not sure of your point in posting on what pets eat, but personally have never thought of pet food as delectable.

[Motown_Johnny]

23. I think that is an insurance ad you are referring to

not a pet food ad




and my dog does just fine on dry Purina products, as all my other dogs have done for the last 30+ years

[GoCubsGo]

25. So...

We should start feeding people animal entrails, ground bones, cartilage, and other scraps people don't normally eat--all mixed up with some corn meal and wheat gluten? Because that's what the vast majority of pet food is. It's not the "delectable" stuff they show in commercials. That image is only there for the pet owners. Do you really think they're grinding up steak and putting it dog food? And, where do you think all that meat that's recalled for E. coli contamination goes? You want to feed THAT to poor people?

[hlthe2b]

28. this thread is ridculous...

For every one dog or cat that is pampered, there are millions that are not, that languish in shelters-- and many of those will not even survive.

That there might be one dog pampered by wealthy owners makes you lash out and deride the millions that are suffering?
Get some perspective (and some humanity), will you?

[Bryn]

29. Unrec'd

I have two dogs and nine cats. They're my joy! Nearly all of them are a rescue. One dog was adopted from a rescue group.

[oldlib]

30. We have a dog

and, last Monday I found a 3 week old kitten in the gutter fronting our home. I brought it to my wife, who dried it and, essentially saved it's life. We took it to a VET yesterday and, I agree that most pets are living better then our poor homeless people. This is a concern for all of us and most notably our politicians.

[kiva]

31. [or] Kids and Parents,,,

are living and eating better than other people. Have you seen some of these commericals. Anyone see the one about the kid riding in the new SUV and ignoring his parents.

See the commericals about the delectable cereal and beauty products. Have at it family lovers.

(shaking head at the stupidity of anyone who believes commercials)

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[hlthe2b]

33. Plump, spoiled little children...

of the wealthy are living and eating better than most people. Discuss, parents of spoiled, plump, wealthy little children...





:sarcasm:
(if I really need this)

[TwilightGardener]

34. I can honestly say I am not tempted by any of my pets' food. Yechh.

[mentalsolstice]

35. Dumbest DU thread evah!

I think I'll go beat my two spoiled brat dogs and cat right now (all were strays that knew how to find a good home). How dare they live the good life! :sarcasm:

eta: Chopper, the dog reading the paper in the Traveler's ad, is a rescue from a shelter.

[dana_b]

37. my dogs are well taken care of but there are millions

of animals that are abused, hungry, homeless, etc. - but I think that you know that.

Do you think that we should throw our pets out on the street and donate the money that we spend on them to other people? Would that make you happy? Sorry - I'm not going to feel guilty for having two dogs.

[mentalsolstice]

38. Bump for the stupid!

And bumping for the poor, who find solace in their pets, yet they struggle to feed and take care of them.

[LeftyMom]

39. Ye gods, are you fucking serious?

Get back to me when homeless shelters and orphanages start killing their charges when they get overcrowded, would you? :grr:

[Gormy Cuss]

40. Thank you for this thread.

The ads prompted by your subject line are for some really neato expensive pet foods and toys!
I never would have found these luxuries for my pampered pets.

[butterfly77]

46. Your welcome!

:rofl:

[AsahinaKimi]

41. My cat eats better than I do...

And when I order Shrimp, forget it.. He demands it first. (I'm such a softy..and wuv my kitty)

[Raine]

47. WTF is YOUR problem ... WHY are you trying to start something with this kind of IDIOTIC CRAP!!!

JESUS CHRIST THIS KIND OF SHIT PISSES ME OFF!!!!!! :grr: :nuke:

[butterfly77]

51. Go take a...

blood pressure pill.:rofl:

[FloridaJudy]

52. Go take a smart pill. eom

[FloridaJudy]

49. They're scum!

Of course we all remember vividly when our family pets invaded Iraq, crashed the economy, cut taxes on billionaires, outsourced jobs and foreclosed on millions of homes!

Oops. That was Republicans.



never mind

[ehrnst]

50. Yes, and according to commercials, women's lives are fullfilled by a Swiffer Wet Jet. (nt)

[joeybee12]

53. Lots of cats and dogs are homeless and hungry because their owners are

homeless and hungry. This is a strawman argument you got here.

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54. A bear sheriff would put a stop to this, but alas, there's no such thing as a bear sheriff...