Nature does what nature does, sends moonbat into therapy

[Vagabond]

Ruby the Liberal  (1000+ posts)      Wed Jun-16-10 09:17 PM
Original message
Rural Life is not for me - tonight I realized why I love living in the city
 My Aunt works with feral cat colonies. She lives next to a state park.

As they can, they catch the adults animals and have them neutered. They seek to find homes for the (weened, neutered) kittens.

A few days ago, she was alerted by unearthly screams. She ran to the door in time to see an owl take off with a 4 week old kitten while it was screaming and its momma was pitching a eternal fit.

I can't seem to let go of this visual. I'm having nightmares about my own (adult) girl being attacked - even though we are in the city and she doesn't go outdoors without me and her harness/leash.

I can't even VISIT the humane society. Money is no problem, but I can't see these animals in need.

I know this is "nature" but I can't even imagine witnessing this.

How do I get this image out of my mind?

That was nature being nature.  Something liberals can't understand.  Every second of every day for an animal outside is an all out war for survival, and victory means they get the right to their next breath.  Showing this to a liberal can cause psychological therapy bills.

Bonobo  (1000+ posts)      Wed Jun-16-10 09:22 PM
Response to Original message
1. I'd rather see that than watch people step blithely over homeless people. nt

Yes, because we all know, that is all anyone on the city does all day is walk over homeless people....even as bad as DC is, they aren't that bad.

bobbolink  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jun-16-10 09:23 PM
Response to Reply #1
3. Thank you. I really appreciate that.

Yes, yes we all know you're a hobo, that schtick isn't even going to land you in the top ten this year.  Get a new act.

OffWithTheirHeads  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jun-16-10 09:43 PM
Response to Reply #1
17. + Life is a very brutal existence but, once you accept that
 you become more in touch with the reality rather than the myth.

Not to put too much of a fine point on it but, in the overall scheme of things, your existence is irrelevant. Sorry.

What we do echoes in eternity, no matter how seemingly insignificant.  Nelson was insignificant except that the men under him were well trained, and not just by him, and willing to do their jobs.  A Sunday school teacher in Philadelphia in the 1840s teaching a small class of students led directly to the ministry of Billy Graham.  An insignificant failure of a man named Karl Marx penned a wildly incorrect book on politics and economics in the 1840s that led to the deaths of over one hundred million people in the twentieth century as his acolytes tried to enact and perfect his hopelessly flawed ideas.  Every day matters, it is what you make of it.
 

Xipe Totec  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jun-16-10 09:23 PM
Response to Original message
2. There are far more dangerous predators in the city
 Seriously.

Arugula Latte  (1000+ posts)      Wed Jun-16-10 09:46 PM
Response to Reply #2
21. I don't know ...
 I'm more afraid of people in rural areas than I am afraid of people in the city. Maybe that's the influence of "Deliverance" or something ...

Yes, people that merely want to be left alone are truly frightening to a moonbat.

rug  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jun-16-10 09:25 PM
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4. Thanks a lot.
 "She ran to the door in time to see an owl take off with a 4 week old kitten while it was screaming and its momma was pitching a eternal fit."

Now how do I get rid of it?

Get rid of it?  The owl already got rid of it for you....oh, wait.  Another therapist cashes in.

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jun-16-10 09:28 PM
Response to Original message
5. What was a 4 week old kitten doing outside in the first place?
 Edited on Wed Jun-16-10 09:29 PM by EFerrari
I live in a rural area right now and my cats do not go outside. We have owls and coyotes and turkey vultures here. They didn't go out in San Francisco, either. It took losing two cats but now I'm an indoor cat Nazi.

Yep, poor critters got outside and ran for their life.

Ruby the Liberal  (1000+ posts)      Wed Jun-16-10 09:43 PM
Response to Reply #13
16. Its just so heartbreaking. The violence doesn't make it any easier.

You and me, ain't nothin' but mammals, let's do it like they do on the Discovery channel................Blech!  What am I thinking?

Speck Tater (1000+ posts)      Wed Jun-16-10 09:36 PM
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8. The antidote: Picture that poor owl starving to death if had failed to catch his dinner.
 Welcome to nature. I truly feel sorry for people who have so completely lost contact with nature the way it really is. It's about life. It's about death. It's real, unlike the artificial world of the city where reality is hidden from view wherever possible. I wouldn't go back to the city for all the tea in China. To live in a sealed building and not feel the breeze on my face. To not even know what phase the moon is in right now. What an empty, sterile existence! But yes, certain food animals are pampered and protected in the city, but surly you must realize how unnatural that is. Those cute fluffy little yellow baby chicks still end up in a box as chicken McNuggets, even if you hide your eyes from the act of slicing their throats and bleeding them out. City dwellers live in denial of reality, and the city enables that state of denial.

First sensical DUmmie in the thread.  Moley, Moley, Mole.

Ruby the Liberal  (1000+ posts)      Wed Jun-16-10 09:39 PM
Response to Reply #8
12. Thanks for that balance.
 Seriously - I wouldn't have posted if I didn't need the help.

You need more help than that.

elocs  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jun-16-10 09:38 PM
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11. There is no way around it--nature is cruel. Maybe the owl had babies of its own to feed.
 The owl was doing something totally natural. To be honest, and I've had cats for decades, they themselves are natural killing machines and will, without a thought, kill any birds or small animals they are able to kill, babies or not.

Starting to sound like a food chain or something.  And no, DUmmies I don't mean McDonald's

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jun-16-10 09:43 PM
Response to Reply #11
15. My cat used to bring me mouse butts like trophies after a good hunt.
 She was so proud of herself. Of course, it made this burb baby just about stroke out every time. lol

Actually, she was trying to tell you that you're an ass.

Ruby the Liberal  (1000+ posts)      Wed Jun-16-10 09:46 PM
Response to Reply #15
20. Dear God, I need therapy. Seriously.
 Why is it that I found this funny, but am having nightmares about the owl?

Ugh.

Because you don't feed the mice and give them cutesy names and pretend they aren't violent predators?

Seriously, how dumb do you have to be to let an owl give you a nightmare.

[Ballygrl]

OMG! I'm an animal lover and I have to say that sometimes nature sucks LOL. I totally get how horrified this girl is. Hubby and I were doing a job once and there were a bunch of turkeys outside, well the turkeys were ganging up on this smaller most likely sick turkey and they were pecking him, my client said that's what they do to the sick ones, well I don't want to hear that. Well anyway I start crying and asked hubby if he could take the turkey in the car and drive him a couple of miles away to get away from the other turkeys, hubby gave me this look and said you've got to be kidding me, that turkey will go wild in the car, it didn't matter to me, I was just worried about the turkey. Another time I was at another clients house and I guess a feral cat was trying to feed her kittens and the cat caught a squirrel, I'm looking out the window and see the cat carrying this squirrel, I scream and start crying my eyes out.

I'm an animal nut and hate seeing any animal suffer. OMG I'm starting to feel like a leftist LOL.

[Chris_]

Why do I have the theme from Green Acres running through my head after reading that?

They all want to be Zsa Zsa and nobody wants to be Eddie Albert.

[Ballygrl]

Why do I have the theme from Green Acres running through my head after reading that?

They all want to be Zsa Zsa and nobody wants to be Eddie Albert.

Don't read my post then LOL.

[Chris_]

I meant that DUmmy's post about the poor widdle owl.  You beat me to the 'Post' button.

It is an honor to have your cat eaten by a hawk.

[Vagabond]

I meant that DUmmy's post about the poor widdle owl.  You beat me to the 'Post' button.

It is an honor to have your cat eaten by a hawk.

Thanks! I had forgotten about that post.

[Mike220]

As level headed as my girlfriend is on just about everything else, this aspect of nature just gets to her. Especially when one of her cats gets a bird. I was in Richardson picking up a couple kippot a few weeks ago and she called me up freaked out that one of them had left her a bird as a present. Not that the bird was in the house, but that it was dead. But that's what cats do, I say. Didn't seem to appreciate it.

[Ballygrl]

As level headed as my girlfriend is on just about everything else, this aspect of nature just gets to her. Especially when one of her cats gets a bird. I was in Richardson picking up a couple kippot a few weeks ago and she called me up freaked out that one of them had left her a bird as a present. Not that the bird was in the house, but that it was dead. But that's what cats do, I say. Didn't seem to appreciate it.

I totally understand your girlfriend.

[PatriotGame]

I can't seem to let go of this visual. I'm having nightmares about my own (adult) girl being attacked - even though we are in the city and she doesn't go outdoors without me and her harness/leash.

You keep your ADULT child on a leash?!

Kinky

How do I get this image out of my mind?

Well...smoke more dope...

/DUmmy

Pee Ess:
 

[PatriotGame]

Arugula Latte  (1000+ posts)      Wed Jun-16-10 09:46 PM
Response to Reply #2
21. I don't know ...
 I'm more afraid of people in rural areas than I am afraid of people in the city. Maybe that's the influence of "Deliverance" or something

Well ya know...that WAS men forcibly sucking-off men so...run with that...ya know...

[Duke Nukum]

There is never a time when one part of Nature isn't at war with another part of nature.

"As Plato discerned, there is a streak of the irrational in the World Soul."

[Vagabond]

I totally understand your girlfriend.

I once had a girlfriend freak out when a coatimundi walk past with a lizard in it's mouth.  I hate to say I knew the relationship wasn't going any further right at the moment but kept it going for my own selfish reasons for a few more weeks anyway.

[PatriotGame]

Ruby the Liberal  (1000+ posts)      Wed Jun-16-10 09:46 PM
Response to Reply #15
20. Dear God, I need therapy. Seriously.

OMG!!!111

Hey ya'll...caption THAT pic!

`Scuse me...I'll be laughing for a week over that statement...

[Ballygrl]

I once had a girlfriend freak out when a coatimundi walk past with a lizard in it's mouth.  I hate to say I knew the relationship wasn't going any further right at the moment but kept it going for my own selfish reasons for a few more weeks anyway.

LOL, my husband is a fisherman and his friends are fishermen and hunters, but I think he's amused by my feelings toward animals. When he goes fishing and comes home I always ask if he threw all the fish back, he just gives me that look like are you kidding.

[BlueStateSaint]

As level headed as my girlfriend is on just about everything else, this aspect of nature just gets to her. Especially when one of her cats gets a bird. I was in Richardson picking up a couple kippot a few weeks ago and she called me up freaked out that one of them had left her a bird as a present. Not that the bird was in the house, but that it was dead. But that's what cats do, I say. Didn't seem to appreciate it.

The cat was trying to "prove" itself to your girlfriend.  The cat, by bringing a kill to her, was saying, "See?  Look what I can do for you!"

[Karin]

Actually, she was trying to tell you that you're an ass.

I had to go google "coatimundi."  Never heard of it. 

I have a woods, and will sometimes hear an owl successfully obtain dinner.  I can't freak about that, I just think, "well, the owl needs to eat, too."  Nevertheless, I can't watch it on TV, like on that series "Life."  I just have to change the channel till it's over. 

[BlueStateSaint]

I've had a couple of encounters with birds of prey while deer hunting.  One was sitting on a watch and having a great horned owl fly into a hemlock tree about 15 yards from me.  When it saw me move my head maybe 1/2", it got out of dodge.  The other found me in a tree stand, and I was nodding off . . . and this red-tail hawk decided that my gray hair sticking out from under my cap looked like a squirrel, and came at me.  It got maybe 20 yards away before it pulled up.  Scared the snot out of me.

[JohnnyReb]

If and when the SHTF, we know who is going to eat and who ain't.

[njpines]

She ran to the door in time to see an owl take off with a 4 week old kitten while it was screaming and its momma was pitching a eternal fit.

I can't seem to let go of this visual. I'm having nightmares about my own (adult) girl being attacked - even though we are in the city and she doesn't go outdoors without me and her harness/leash.

I can't even VISIT the humane society. Money is no problem, but I can't see these animals in need.

I know this is "nature" but I can't even imagine witnessing this.

How do I get this image out of my mind?

And yet, the result of a human abortion would not phase this DUmmie in the least -- hell, no doubt she'd be outside the clinic with a NARAL sign, cheering it on . . .

[Wineslob]

LOL, my husband is a fisherman and his friends are fishermen and hunters, but I think he's amused by my feelings toward animals. When he goes fishing and comes home I always ask if he threw all the fish back, he just gives me that look like are you kidding.

You so remind me of my wife. I have to take off the heads (and tails) of the trout I catch, so they don't "look" at her.  

[AllosaursRus]

I've had a couple of encounters with birds of prey while deer hunting.  One was sitting on a watch and having a great horned owl fly into a hemlock tree about 15 yards from me.  When it saw me move my head maybe 1/2", it got out of dodge.  The other found me in a tree stand, and I was nodding off . . . and this red-tail hawk decided that my gray hair sticking out from under my cap looked like a squirrel, and came at me.  It got maybe 20 yards away before it pulled up.  Scared the snot out of me.

Was out dove huntin' once and had a red tail take a dive at me! I didn't know he was there! I heard this real high pitched sound, almost like a siren above me. That puppy was really movin! Only when I looked up did the critter pull off and away!

He hung around screechin' until he scared all the doves off, bastard! Guess he didn't like me takin' his dinner!

I swear he was damn near breakin' the sound barrier when I looked up!

[Ballygrl]

And yet, the result of a human abortion would not phase this DUmmie in the least -- hell, no doubt she'd be outside the clinic with a NARAL sign, cheering it on . . .

Excellent response!

Where are the threads talking about the horror of partial birth abortions? oh yeah, let's get graphic here, baby partially born and a scalpel is shoved into the neck to sever the spine, or let's discuss watching an ultrasound of a baby being aborted and the baby struggling to survive, where are the nightmares of the left when it comes to this issue?

I dare DU people to watch these:

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[youtube=425,350]UX7goxsip6Y[/youtube]

[BlueStateSaint]

Was out dove huntin' once and had a red tail take a dive at me! I didn't know he was there! I heard this real high pitched sound, almost like a siren above me. That puppy was really movin! Only when I looked up did the critter pull off and away!

He hung around screechin' until he scared all the doves off, bastard! Guess he didn't like me takin' his dinner!

I swear he was damn near breakin' the sound barrier when I looked up!

What I didn't tell you was that I got the evil eye from that hawk when it finally landed in a dead tree, about 20 yards to my right.  I could tell that this was one pissed-off hawk.

[crockspot]

I had a moonbat girlfriend in college, you shoulda seen the fit she pitched after watching a documentary on tv where a adolescent chimp is grieving over the corpse of its mama. I seriously though I would have to take her to a looney bin for a few days.

[AprilRazz]

Arugula Latte  (1000+ posts)      Wed Jun-16-10 09:46 PM
Response to Reply #2
21. I don't know ...
 I'm more afraid of people in rural areas than I am afraid of people in the city. Maybe that's the influence of "Ignorance" or something

Edited for accuracy.