Don't keep pets if you can't feed them...

Last Sunday, My mother bought half a dozen of quail. Live quail. We kept them in a cage, outside. That night, all six died. One was decapitated. Of the six, only 2 are still in the cage. Dead. I can't comprehend how does the 'thing' kill the quails. Beyond comprehension, those cage are made from 1 inch wire mesh. The chicks are more than 1 inch in any dimension. Probably, it chew off a limb, and then another until finish... just like the fox eating the gingerbread man.

Yesterday was a happy day. 2 chicks hatched. So this afternoon, we put them in the same cage. One died a few hours later. Suspecting that the culprit is a cat, I searched around the house, and I found a cat, long-eared one. Kinda exotic.

Apparently, the owner could afford an exotic cat but couldn't buy enough food or at least a cage to keep their cat. Our next door neighbour cats are oblivious to chickens or quails. They know our livestock are off-limit. They keep strays, but at least, the strays are more civilized than an exotic probably pedigree with license cat.

I could stand the quail as isolated case, but twice in less than a week, with 7 lives... that's not an accident. Hungry, expensive cats. How ironic!

My bestie keeps cats. As well as many of my friends. But I know she's a responsible owner.

Unlike many people who would keep cats on impulse. Yes they are furry, cute and tame. But if you can't feed them, just forget it! That's probably the worst kind of cruelty.

Starving your cat until it kills other people's animal, that's negligence.

I'm angry that, I would (if I could...) kill the cat... or the owner... maybe sue the owner. Sound irrational, but that's how I feel.

1st, why buy an expensive cat if you can adopt strays?

2nd, why don't you feed your cat? That's inhumane.

3rd, don't you entertain your cat with toys... even my fishes have toys, and hideouts...

If I see that cat, I would cull it, and hang the carcass from the coconut tree outside our house to tell the owner to be responsible and to scare off the urchins who steal our coconuts. Stupid slum-dwellers. I know you are of the lower income*, but at least ask. Some ask but after we refuse (well, you cannot please everybody, we want to reap what we sow too, ass#*&$)

*lower income your ass, you can afford to drink all weekend and own a car.... and motorbike which you revved every night. show-off

Yes, I'm angry, and I just want to vent out my anger before I go koo-koo.

But I'm serious about killing the cat though, 7 lives vs 1 lives... you do the maths... and more than $50 loss, animal cruelty you say, the owner is crueler, not feeding his/her pet. And consider it an assisted suicide. They would rather die 'in dignity' than starved to death. Which one is better, kill the cat or pour boiling water?

Am I bad? No, just mad... and I am mad. I have PTSD...

And the authority keeps us from ecstasy, which is a possible cure to our sleeplessness and irritability. Annoying!

Let's go buy antifreeze... or radiator coolant as we 'tropical' people call them.