Re: Bringing things to a close - suggestions?

On Jul 18, 11:22 pm, Jacey Bedford <lookin...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In message <1i1g4oo.11fgede1ujhxsgN%mbotto...@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Michelle
Bottorff <mbotto...@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes

Jacey Bedford <lookin...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Train all baby kittys to poop in their own back yard from now on and the
world will be a nicer place.

I suspect this isn't nearly as possible as you think it is.

If people could train their dog to go in their yard only, would they do
the poop scoop thingy?

Having had a dog who only ever went in the back yard, I don't know how
easy it is to train them. He kind of trained himself. He'd come back
from a walk, rush into the back yard and turn it all out. Oh Joy!



I tried to teach my dog to only go in my own yard, and got exactly
nowhere. Of course, he's a very dumb dog, and I'm a non-expert trainer.
But from the abundance of scooping going on, and the complete lack of
experts stepping forward offering advice on how to achieve this rather
obvious way to avoid the necessity, I'd guess that it's not at all an
easy task to achieve.

If you can train a dog where not to go, you can train it where to go...
but it needs a bit of effort/persistence and a designated dog-loo area.
And, yeah, it's not foolproof, but you walk with your dog anyway. (I
know some irresponsible dog owners just turn them out of doors in the
morning, but that's less usual these days.) And I guess there's always
the untrainable exception.

A kitty is a different animal than a puppy. So it's within the realms
of possibility that they would take to such training more ably than dogs
would.
But they might take to it worse.

<sigh> I know... but you do hear of kittys so well trained they poop in
the toilet!! And if you can't train a kitty not to poop anti-socially
should you really let it roam?

What's the responsible thing to do here?

I know there's a strong group of cat lovers on this list so the subject
is emotive, but let's pretend we're talking about people's pet
armadillos... Theoretically, should people keep armadillos if they can't
control the poop problem? Would you let your pet armadillo loose to poop
in the playground sandpit or would you decide it was better to keep it
indoors or maybe even in a cage because of its antisocial habits? (Or
would you say 'It may not be _my_ armadillo that's doing that, it might
be the armadillo up the road, so I'll just ignore the problem until _my_
armadillo is proven guilty?) Or would you decide that armadillos are
impossible to train and domesticate so even though they're cute as bugs'
ears they don't belong in polite society at all?

The trouble is that kittys are cute and lovable, and kitty lovers will
forgive the poop - mostly because they don't deal with it all
themselves. A kitty whose regular toilet is 'outside and anywhere it
likes' is a terrific pet. The owner gets all of the advantages and none
of the disadvantages.

I'm just saying...
I wouldn't actually hurt a cat, but I wouldn't keep one either. Like
most humans on the planet I respond on some deep hormonal level to a
cute furball, but I tell myself to... Just. Walk. Away.
:-)

For some reason I had you down as one of the Cat Camp. Hoorah! I'm
not alone. (Actually, I do quite like cats, I'm just hideously
allergic to them - Mum' bought a little kitten last year which was
disgustingly adorable and I've quite bonded with her, just requires
lots of drugs when I go home). It's dogs I find irresistable...

If I wasn't so selfish, I'd even get one. A Staff Bull Terrier... but
I'd look like such a chav. Dey so cute!

.

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