Halloween Fun (and a great use for cats!!)

[Celticgirl]

celticgirl, I would be interested in learning what you know about "hunting for sport"

My 77-year-old father has hunted for sport for well over 60 years (since moving to Canada from Boston at the age of 15) and still does. He used to take my brother and me hunting with him when we were kids. I've probably been on more than 50 hunting trips (sans gun, except in one case), which is more than many other "kids" can say. So while I was never an avid hunter myself, I did do a lot of observing. Our father also taught us how to shoot rifles at targets out in the country at a young age (I think I was 12 or 13 at the time). As this was a long time ago, I expect I will need to 'start over' at basic training.

As I said, my father still does it, but I don't condone it. To each his/her own.

 

[Bass ackwards]

Celticgirl,
To rephrase muskrat89's question: perhaps you could define hunting for sport.

For example: I go out and I shoot a moose. I go through all the work (and it is work) required to turn a big dead animal into those neatly wrapped parcels of steak that are somehow less objectionable when you buy them at Safeway. (we'll deal with hunting vs slaughterhouses another time)
I then spend half a year consuming aforementioned moose -plus I give a lot of the meat away to a large family that I know can really use it.

Is that hunting for sport ?

Not flaming you Cg. I'm not real big on trophy hunting and I cringe everytime I see a varmint hunter wearing one of those silly "red mist" T-shirts in public.
But I bet I could make a hell of a good case for meat hunters.

 

[Celticgirl]

Bass, you and a few others completely missed the point of my reply to Ex-Dragoon. It had nothing to do with hunting; that was merely an example to illustrate my point, which was subsequently lost and morphed into a whole other completely off-topic line of discussion.

I'll now bow out of this discussion as it is disintegrating into foolishness. Have a nice evening.

 

[Bass ackwards]

Bass, you and a few others completely missed the point of my reply to Ex-Dragoon. It had nothing to do with hunting; that was merely an example to illustrate my point, which was subsequently lost and morphed into a whole other completely off-topic line of discussion.

I'll now bow out of this discussion as it is disintegrating into foolishness. Have a nice evening.

My apologies then, Cg. Perhaps a lot of us hunters are oversensitive because a there is a considerable movement out there to ...well...declaw us (do they have "stick-on" things for armed, unshaven men in blaze orange? - don't answer that !) .
I certainly didn't intend, or want, to chase you off the thread.

(in spite of the fact that your bowling scores have got me beat all to hell)

 

[Shamrock]

My apologies then, Cg. Perhaps a lot of us hunters are oversensitive because a there is a considerable movement out there to ...well...declaw us (do they have "stick-on" things for armed, unshaven men in blaze orange? - don't answer that !) .

Cameras.

 

[muskrat89]

"Disintegrating into foolishness"?

Well, first off - this is Radio Chatter, after all. Second, you are the one that made the reference - I assume willingly. If I had said (typed) something like I don't condone domesticating cows simply to steal their milk - and you happen to enjoy a tall cool glass of moo juice now and then - you wouldn't feel like you should defend your decision to partake in dairy products?

I do apologize for de-railing such a serious discussion focused around an internet cat-bowling game...

Carry on...

 

[Bruce Monkhouse]

Holy crap.....maybe the next thing we should discuss is all those animals they had to throw off a cliff to make the Bugs Bunny and Roadrunner cartoons.

 

[Old Sweat]

Do you mean they used a stand in when that honkin' big rock squashed Wile E Coyote? I'm crushed, though not as bad as the stand in.

 

[Redeye]

It is not that difficult to apply them. My kitty doesn't like being held down while I stick them on, but there is nothing painful about it for them. I put them on all 10 claws of her front paws. I don't do the back ones...she needs to be able to scratch herself and they don't scratch furniture with the hind claws anyway. Leather and cats are not a good mix, though, so you might want to rethink that choice at some point in the future. lol   I've heard microfiber is fabulous when you have pets...no scratches and hairs don't stick to it.

Anyway, the nail caps do work very, very well. The key is to check kitty's paws regularly because the caps fall off eventually (after 4-6 weeks usually, but earlier if the cat picks at them), and you need to reapply them individually as they come off. One Soft Claws kit comes with 40 nail caps (4 complete applications).

Microfibre is excellent stuff - cleans up very easily, with a lint brush even.  Unfortunately the ends of my sectional are fake leather that they did enjoy for a while at first before I finally got them off it.  I have heard though that since it's vinyl you can fix it with a heat gun and the back of a spoon.  I just haven't tried it yet.  I should never have agreed to the blasted cats, but the things we do for love...

 

[HItorMiss]

I hear you Redeye.....