You know, it's not nice to make fun of mentally-ill people, but one must make an exception in the case of the subway cat.
Some months ago, as an aside, the subway cat in a bonfire on Skins's island mentioned that when her pet cat misbehaves, she pents him up in "cage," probably a cat-carrier, one imagines.
Other than infanticide, I cannot imagine anything worse one can do to a living thing.
Dogs are of course trained, and hence usually amenable, to being put into cages, usually when someone is taking them on a trip in the back of a pick-up truck. But dogs are smarter than cats.
Cats on the other hand cannot possibly understand "training" and "discipline," and if pent up, they have absolutely no idea what is going on, and panic. Putting a poor cat in a "cage" teaches no lesson; it merely terrorizes the poor animal, doing absolutely no good at all.
This is why primitives should be forbidden by law to own dogs, cats, birds, and fish; primitives don't know anything about animals, and have them only for purposes of ego.
Sigmund Freud would find much that is interesting, in the way the subway cat treats her pet; some sort of anger-and-"control" mechanism that's way out of whack. If the innocent cat misbehaves, the subway cat, and not the innocent cat, needs be put into a "cage."
I think, really, the subway cat (and others who mistreat animals) deserves to be horse-whipped through the streets of Baltimore, the lash applied promiscuously; horse-whipped through the streets, all of the streets of Baltimore, until she learns something. Horse-whipped with a really big whip.
Decent and civilized people do not make fun of mentally-ill people, but as we all know, there are exceptions to every rule.....
