People don't keep cats. Cats stay because it's advantageous for them to do so.
We're not talking about a stray cat that's hung around your house. We are talking about a cat that someone purposely acquired either as a kitten or rescued from an animal shelter for the sole purpose of it being a pet. In which case it is your responsibility to make sure it is secure on your property and always inside at night. Besides, if a cat is cared for from a kitten and loved, it won't run away. I had a cat from 10 weeks old, let him outside every day in the yard, sometimes he would jump the back fence and play in the bushes behind our house, mostly he laid in the back yard, but come dinner time, he was always home and then never let out at night.
Why do people get so emotional about cats being killed. They are animals. Those same people would quite happily kill a mouse and not be bothered if "their" cat kills one.
Once again. We are talking about animal that is a pet and is raised as part of your household, not a wild animal. Only a heartless wanker would even ask why people would get emotional when a beloved pet is killed. Your argument makes no sense whatsoever.
Why do people get so emotional when another human is killed? Afterall unless it's someone they're close to, why should they give a shit? Humans are just another species of animal. That seems to be your logic. Why feel something for one kind of animal and not another?
I love all animals, you can't have one rule for "pets" and another for all the others.
You do not love all animals or you wouldn't even question of whether it is right spay them or not or even question why people get emotional when one dies. Yes, you can have one rule for pets and another for all others. Of course there are rules for animals people decide to have as pets. And there are good reasons for those laws. There are even different laws regarding pets depending on what kind of property you live on, whether you live in suburbia, city or rural.
