I apologize if this doesn't belong here, I just need to vent.

[king2005]

I hear what you are saying .My stepdad was the same way i grew up on a farm,and there used to be cats tons of them and there was always kittens,well as a child i thought they should be in the house.But dad never agreed on that i find most Farmers have a bad attitude against animals in there eyes they only babied the cows (They made them money right)Not all are like that but a good majority are Now that he is older he has a total different attitude towards them as me and my sister have animals and they love them to death.Sometimes people need eye openers too see how precious these animals really are and how they bring so much love into our homes and THEY MAKE OUR HOMES HOLE!!!

Stray cats always went to my friends farm. They would put a little kibble out for the cats & hope for the best. They wanted the cats to remain wild & live in the barn with the cows. But from time to time a friendly one would appear on the farm & it would be welcomed into the farm house for a little loving & then put back outside. None of the cats were fixed or had any shots. I wasn't angry at them, as they didn't have the money to deal with all the cats that people would dump at their farm (they lived in the middle of nowhere). So it was survival of the fittest cat & they did a great job at keeping the mice & rats away.

They had farm dogs too, but they didn't breed them thoughtlessly, they were wild dogs, that got daily loving from the farmer before he went into the barn. The dogs needed to be fairly wild as they had to keep wolves & theves away. Their top dog was an outdoor simi pet. She was breed as they needed more dogs (their very old dogs had passed on) & the wolves were back. She had 10 pups & all but a couple remained on the farm (friends wanted a pet, so they gave them a free puppy). Those pups were far less wild as they were born on the farm, but they kept the wolves away.

Its one thing to view the animal as a tool with respect, but as a replacable object is wrong. My farm friends would never have harmed one of their animals, but they did live by the rule, if the farmer couldn't bring the animal back to health (the sick animal would be brought into the house for care) & it was suffering, it would have been shot, cried over & then burried.

[smokey the elder]

What a grade A, five star, galactic class, platinum-plated *$#@@!!!

[Scooby4]

My cat recently got hurt. It's got one broken hip and a dislocated one. Don't know what happened. I panicked and drove to the nearest Emergency Vet clinic. The ONLY vet open for 150 miles! I called my father to ask him to help me cover the bill since I was unemployed. The vet clinic demands payment upfront or you don't get the cat back I knew the bill would be atleast $200. (It was $280 in the end). My father tells me that I should let the cat die AND that he would NOT lend me the money for a cat bill!!!!
It hurt my feelings. I then called another friend to help me. She then told me to let my cat die too!!! That the cat was just going to be "in pain" and that was cruel to the cat!!!
My cat broke it's hip years ago and I was told it would never jump again. She survived and jumps up on the bed which is over 3 feet off the ground! There was NO reason for me to put the cat to sleep. Even the vet did NOT mention it was that serious of an injury. It was marked down as "Fair" as it's condition!
I get soo mad when people tell you to put an animal to sleep at even the minorist of offenses or injuries. Who's to judge when to put an animal to sleep until that animal let's you know?

[Daisy and Delilah]

People like your FIL make my blood boil!! Living around this jerk must be almost impossible for you. Unfortunately, as much as we would like not to believe it, the world is full of ignorant morons like this. They're everywhere. All I can ever think of in cases like this is, "What goes around comes around". One day, hopefully, something will happen to him that makes him have to suffer just like the animals he so strongly dislikes and punishes. I hope and pray that you and hubby can get away from him asap. No animal lover deserves to have to tolerate such torture. Best of luck to you in getting out soon

[barncat]

Although I am a teacher, I grew up among farms (right next to the family farm and in the barn half the time). Cats were respected working members of the operation. The animals were usually tended by my mom, gram or me. (We didn't go to the doctor either unless it was life threatening.) So please be careful not to lump farmers and country people into one catagory...

Your father-in-law is a jerk. It is possible he says this stuff to get a reaction...something emotionally sadistic people often do... and would not actually do it. I had an uncle who used to say stuff like that. I used to remind him I knew way more about herbs than he did and if any of my animal friends went missing I might just make him something special... (I probably wouldn't have used anything lethal, but he wasn't sure and it did stop the comments.) Now my other uncles used to bring me orphaned bunnies (cutting hay is inevitably a problem) to raise and set free in the swamp where no one hunted.

I hope you get to move soon. Living in stress is awful.

[carole]

Sadly there are many people in this world exactly like your FIL, he is not alone, to me these people are missing out on so much in their life, I think it would only take them to have an animal that showed so much love back to them to turn their minds around, but it does not always happen.

I don't think Lori Jordan meant any harm by what she said, i think what she may have been trying to say is that part of farming indeed can be cruel, i was raised on a farm so i know,but yes we should not tar everyone with the same brush, young or old, farmer or not,there are people in every race,creed,profession etc who share your FIL attitude,as sad as it is, we as animal lovers can only hope we can influence them and make sure that there are laws to protect animals and that they are abided by.

Good luck with adopting the other kitty, and i hope you can move out soon, as gosh it must be unbearable living under the same roof as him especially with his arrogance.,you both have my empathy.

[sirrahved]

So sorry! People don't always realize what things are meaningful to others. I've admittedly made remarks that I thought were funny, only to think later "why in the world did I say that?" I pray your kitties are safe, and that you get to move very soon!

[Sevaede]

Your FIL sounds like a real jerk. I'd tell him in no uncertain terms that if ANYTHING happens to ANY of your animals, you're going to the police and tell them what he threatened to do. You've got a witness so it's your word against his.

I also think Catty1 is right. He sounds like he's not a very happy person.

He is a humongous jerk. Oh, you can bet your booty that I've been itching to see if I could contact somebody about the conditions that he has his animals in, even. I mean, just WRETCHED conditions.

[Sevaede]

What a Jerk.
You should tell him what the Penalty is for Animal Cruelty where you are.
Or tell him that that will end any relationship and we will never ever see any Grand Children.
As Bugs Bunny said What a MAROOOOOOOON!!!!

I wouldn't want him around any of my children (if we happen to have any) in any case. He's a creepy drunkard.

[Sevaede]

Oh dear, I can understand why you would be so upset. I would be at boiling point There is NO WAY he could shoot your cat, that's like you going and shooting one of your neighbour's kids, it's just NOT done.



GRRRRRAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHH! Let me at him!!!!! I think I would have been close to hitting him if he said that to me! I hope everything turns out OK and your FIL doesn't attempt anything drastic.

I just can't even stand talking to him. I, generally, avoid being in the same room because of everything he does, says, etc. They don't call him Dick because his name is Richard. (Somebody told me that they have never known anybody able to walk into a room and everyone hates them automatically. He is THAT dislikable of a person.)

[Sevaede]

I moved this into the Dog House, where upsetting things belong.

What a sad, sad, ignorant man. Thank goodness your husband didn't inherit that attitude!

Ah, okay.

He is terribly ignorant and arrogant. You'd wonder how my quiet, darling, AWESOME husband ever sprung from such a neanderthal.

[Sevaede]

I hear what you are saying .My stepdad was the same way i grew up on a farm,and there used to be cats tons of them and there was always kittens,well as a child i thought they should be in the house.But dad never agreed on that i find most Farmers have a bad attitude against animals in there eyes they only babied the cows (They made them money right)Not all are like that but a good majority are Now that he is older he has a total different attitude towards them as me and my sister have animals and they love them to death.Sometimes people need eye openers too see how precious these animals really are and how they bring so much love into our homes and THEY MAKE OUR HOMES HOLE!!!

Yeah, my dad was never really keen on animals up until he married my stepmother (awesome gal who brought in, originally, two doogs and two ferrety little monster faces). We had TONS of fish, crabs, and frogs. My brother had a lizard. My aunt moved in for a while and we even had a cat and a Rottie. You would never imagine how heartbroken he was when "his" German Sheppie girl or the sweet little Mimi ferret passed away.

[Sevaede]

What a grade A, five star, galactic class, platinum-plated *$#@@!!!

My sentiments exactly. I couldn't have put it better myself.

[Sevaede]

My cat recently got hurt. It's got one broken hip and a dislocated one. Don't know what happened. I panicked and drove to the nearest Emergency Vet clinic. The ONLY vet open for 150 miles! I called my father to ask him to help me cover the bill since I was unemployed. The vet clinic demands payment upfront or you don't get the cat back I knew the bill would be atleast $200. (It was $280 in the end). My father tells me that I should let the cat die AND that he would NOT lend me the money for a cat bill!!!!
It hurt my feelings. I then called another friend to help me. She then told me to let my cat die too!!! That the cat was just going to be "in pain" and that was cruel to the cat!!!
My cat broke it's hip years ago and I was told it would never jump again. She survived and jumps up on the bed which is over 3 feet off the ground! There was NO reason for me to put the cat to sleep. Even the vet did NOT mention it was that serious of an injury. It was marked down as "Fair" as it's condition!
I get soo mad when people tell you to put an animal to sleep at even the minorist of offenses or injuries. Who's to judge when to put an animal to sleep until that animal let's you know?

I am sorry. It infuriates me when people think that something that can be managed pretty well is still cause for death.

Who's to judge when to put an animal to sleep until that animal let's you know?

I agree. Well, there are certain circumstances (like those who hide debilitating diseases/conditions pretty well) but those are individual.

[Sevaede]

People like your FIL make my blood boil!! Living around this jerk must be almost impossible for you. Unfortunately, as much as we would like not to believe it, the world is full of ignorant morons like this. They're everywhere. All I can ever think of in cases like this is, "What goes around comes around". One day, hopefully, something will happen to him that makes him have to suffer just like the animals he so strongly dislikes and punishes. I hope and pray that you and hubby can get away from him asap. No animal lover deserves to have to tolerate such torture. Best of luck to you in getting out soon

Hopefully, one day he will get what's coming to him. For having such disregard for living creatures is heinous.

He fails to realize that he is just a mammal, an ANIMAL, as well. Just because he walks on two legs doesn't mean he's better than anything else. Besides, it's not like he's primo example of peoples anyways.