Keep a happy thought
for my old friend and confidant Mlle Jenny, whose gentle feline companion of several years, Fabian, was last night killed by a neighbor’s pit bull.
I’m not a cat person, honestly I am not- but I am also unwilling that any animal die needlessly in suffering and fear, especially because someone else can’t keep their dog in check.
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Sad. News article last night says family’s two pit bulls mauled and killed their 4-month old daughter while grandma was trying to save her. The dogs overpowered the grandma and the dogs had their way with the child. Grandma is recovering in hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Poor child. God rest her soul.
Oh yeah, cops came to the house and killed both dogs, who were still acting aggressively. Good riddance.
Damned shame that they can’t shoot the owner of the pit bulls when this happens.
I’ve never understood people letting their cats run free, though; there’s one dead on the side of the road about a hundred yards down the road from our house, and you have to wonder if the owner just doesn’t give a shit (presuming the owner lives here, and didn’t dump the cat).
Why do people have to raise pits like that!?? They’re such beautiful dogs.
My thoughts to Jenny; you know how *I* am about cats.
YOU try to reason with a cat that wants to go outside, outside, outside.
I’m not normally in favor of it but do have multiple cats — multiple boy cats — and they will kick and fight and claw and scream to go outside. And eventually when they shred everything in your house, you let them.
We do understand that things happen to outside cats but let me explain something to you — the dog CAME INTO OUR FRONT YARD AND SNATCHED UP MY CAT. Why can’t a cat be safe in its own front yard?
I’ve been told the owners of the dog stood around and laughed while this happened.
Then they chased the dog into the back yard of my neighbor’s house, retrieved their dog, and threw my poor boy into the woods to die. Which is where we found him.
This is the second of my cats this dog has killed. The dog has killed two kittens belonging to the guy next to me. The dog has killed numerous cats belonging to the people across from me.
I have had DeKalb County (Georgia) Animal Control out twice already in the past three years. They have done NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING.
Did I mention there’s a school bus stop right next door to the house where the pit bull lives? Maybe they’ll do something when the dog kills or maims a child. Maybe.
The owner of the dog has a lengthy criminal record. He gets more protection than I do! Or any of my animals.
I’m STILL waiting on Animal Control again, which I have been doing since 9:00 a.m.
Jenny
who is furious and heartbroken and sick.
PS I don’t blame the dog, though it is my prayer to see it euthanized soon. The rest — a waste of carbon.
get a good 22 with some su sonic round and shoot the dog. You will be doing everyone a favor.
su should be some, but the thought should be self evident.
I’m with PaulB.
Someone once told me that taping a large platic soda bottle to the muzzle of a .22 makes an effective silencer. Never tried it, but it sounds like it might work. (no pun intended)
It would be a good idea to KILL the dog, don’t let it get away wounded.
I’ll slice that dog’s throat if she asks me to do so.
Dick, she lives in Atlanta (or the area). You get by there, you give me a call and I’ll get you directions.
That almost sounds worth a drive from Fort Worth, Tx.
Jenny, it’s not hard to kill a dog without you getting blamed. I don’t like pit bulls in general; but won’t go out of my way to kill them unless it’s a dog like this one.
You’re right, it’s a danger to the kids at the bus stop and should be put down.
Hamburger. M-80 or Cherry Bomb. Match.
Here Fido–or if in Louisiana Phydeaux–Nice doggy. KABOOM.
You got it. What about the owner?
The post-it-note is only half full.
Smashed glass and hamburger, give it a toss enuff said.
My grateful thanks to those of you who have been so supportive during this wretched time.
And Dick, you most of all, true gentleman and beau sabreur that you are. I admire you deeply and thank you much.
And I ask everyone to stand down for the time being. We are working within the legal system to try to get this matter resolved peacefully. It will not happen with any speed — govt grinds exceedingly slow and fine — but the process is in motion. I pray for a better outcome. It won’t be the outcome that I want in my heart but it will have to do.
In the meantime I remember my dear cat boy. He started out life being abandoned — he was tossed out when he was no more than three weeks old, a scrap of black fur and meow. I remember how I picked him up the very first time and how he snuggled into my arm and purred. How he grew not much bigger into this long-haired little bundle of sweetness and occasional attitude — he was a boy cat after all — and how much joy he brought into my life. How much my family loved him and how much he loved us and how he showed that with sheer happiness every time he saw any of us. He would literally flip over and over in exuberance.
Most of all I remember Saturday afternoon when I held him for a long time and brushed him out and petted him all over. How he purred and stretched out on my lap and went to sleep. That moment of peace and beauty and love and happiness is what I want to remember forever.
Help me forget the horror of finding him thrown in the woods like trash, of my brother and myself weeping hysterically as we buried him in the back yard by the rose bushes. I would call for him and he came to meet me there by the roses a thousand times. He would run to me and rub against my ankles and he would give out little chirps to be picked up and snuggle against me as he did the first time, every time. I held his broken body, cold and still, held him like that for the last time as my brother dug his grave.
Later I’ll plant more roses there.
Thank you, bless you all.
Jenny