Neko no Te datte Yaku ni Tatsu - Ch. 177 - On That Day
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'kay
In all seriousness, that's the right mindset to be when you're doing something for minimum wage.
In all seriousness, that's the right mindset to be when you're doing something for minimum wage.
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So what are the chances that "granny" was the bakeneko and they just murdered her daughter and grandchildren.
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That's better than I expected, honestly.That was gruesome, but respect to the author for keeping it real. And Tiggy hasn't even gotten his scar yet.
The rat poison is unambiguous, but it also means they weren't drowned or burned alive or starved to death.
Oh damn . . .
I've helped out in almost exactly that scenario - an old lady who was feeding a whole bunch of strays died, leaving a colony of various ages and conditions who all expected to find food regularly at her house, and were causing problems for the neighbours. There were about 25-30 of them, almost all kittens ranging from three to twelve months, with a few adults - probably a total of six or eight litters, most of them with a clear relationship with one of the adults. A few of them were moderately sociable with humans, most of them weren't - a good number of them were basically feral (meaning they'd had essentially zero interaction with humans - effectively wild animals).
We spent a couple of months feeding and socialising them as best we could, trying to find homes for the ones that were well enough socialised that they had a chance, and in the end trapping and collecting as many of them as we could to go to the RSPCA (the primary Australian animal welfare agency). That meant someone feeding them twice a day, spending as much time with them as possible trying to get them used to being around humans and interacting with humans - sitting near them while they ate, petting them while they were distracted by food, playing with the ones that would respond, and so forth. Out of about 20 that had some hope of finding a home, I think we managed to rehome six ourselves (one of whom I took), and the RSPCA was probably successful at placing a few more (though it's not clear how much luck they had); any that the RSPCA couldn't find homes for after doing their best to socialise and rehabilitate would have been put down (humanely!). There were still a few of them left that were too wary or too clever for us to trap at the time - it's possible the local animal control people trapped them later, or they just went totally feral.
That was several months of daily work (mostly be myself and one other person) to deal with a moderate sized colony that was reasonably well socialised, and we still probably didn't manage to save more than half of the kittens from being euthanised.
Here in Australia it's fairly important to try and stop that kind of colony ending up entirely feral - feral cats here have a major impact on the native wildlife. Depending on the circumstances they might even be trapped, desexed, and then returned to the colony rather than trying to rehome them - stopping them from breeding means the feral population won't keep increasing, and keeping the established population in an area can help stop new feral animals from moving into the area.
But most people who have to deal with colonies of stray cats won't be able to put months of work into them, and probably most people wouldn't want to - even most cat lovers probably aren't going to be that invested in it. Trapping the whole colony en-masse and then euthanising the lot of them isn't unreasonable, to be honest.
It's also worth noting that life for a feral cat is short, nasty and brutish - from a humane perspective, a quick and painless death is arguably better than a few years of desperate struggle that ends at best with a quick death from something like a snake bite, or more likely a slow and painful death from illness or injury . . .
All that said . . . . rat poison is not okay - that shit is nasty. And baiting isn't a great option for cats in general, unless you're in an area where there's zero chance of any other predators being affected - anything you use as bait for cats will be attractive to far too many other animals, and cats are big enough that bait which can reliably kill them will also kill most of those other animals. I mean, a bear probably wouldn't take too much damage from bait targeted at cats (probably?), but foxes, badgers, racoons, weasels, etc, would all be killed off. Let alone anyone's pets that happened to stray into the baited area. Ironically, where I live baiting (for foxes) is still a thing, but that's because the foxes and feral cats and dogs have driven pretty much all the native mammalian predators locally extinct . . . but it's still not a great idea, because of the impact it has on non-mammalian predators (of which we still have plenty).
So . . . yeah, Tiggy, I get you, and I really wish you didn't have to go through that . . . but out here in the real world a more humane version of that experience really isn't unreasonable.
Still . . . . it was worth it for me, since I did end up giving one of the kittens a home. I'd post some pics of Freckles if I could figure out how, but for now I'll just leave anyone who's read this far with the image of a little kitty cat cuddling up with me under the blankets at night, purring like an idling diesel with a busted muffler . . . Jealous? You should be.
I've helped out in almost exactly that scenario - an old lady who was feeding a whole bunch of strays died, leaving a colony of various ages and conditions who all expected to find food regularly at her house, and were causing problems for the neighbours. There were about 25-30 of them, almost all kittens ranging from three to twelve months, with a few adults - probably a total of six or eight litters, most of them with a clear relationship with one of the adults. A few of them were moderately sociable with humans, most of them weren't - a good number of them were basically feral (meaning they'd had essentially zero interaction with humans - effectively wild animals).
We spent a couple of months feeding and socialising them as best we could, trying to find homes for the ones that were well enough socialised that they had a chance, and in the end trapping and collecting as many of them as we could to go to the RSPCA (the primary Australian animal welfare agency). That meant someone feeding them twice a day, spending as much time with them as possible trying to get them used to being around humans and interacting with humans - sitting near them while they ate, petting them while they were distracted by food, playing with the ones that would respond, and so forth. Out of about 20 that had some hope of finding a home, I think we managed to rehome six ourselves (one of whom I took), and the RSPCA was probably successful at placing a few more (though it's not clear how much luck they had); any that the RSPCA couldn't find homes for after doing their best to socialise and rehabilitate would have been put down (humanely!). There were still a few of them left that were too wary or too clever for us to trap at the time - it's possible the local animal control people trapped them later, or they just went totally feral.
That was several months of daily work (mostly be myself and one other person) to deal with a moderate sized colony that was reasonably well socialised, and we still probably didn't manage to save more than half of the kittens from being euthanised.
Here in Australia it's fairly important to try and stop that kind of colony ending up entirely feral - feral cats here have a major impact on the native wildlife. Depending on the circumstances they might even be trapped, desexed, and then returned to the colony rather than trying to rehome them - stopping them from breeding means the feral population won't keep increasing, and keeping the established population in an area can help stop new feral animals from moving into the area.
But most people who have to deal with colonies of stray cats won't be able to put months of work into them, and probably most people wouldn't want to - even most cat lovers probably aren't going to be that invested in it. Trapping the whole colony en-masse and then euthanising the lot of them isn't unreasonable, to be honest.
It's also worth noting that life for a feral cat is short, nasty and brutish - from a humane perspective, a quick and painless death is arguably better than a few years of desperate struggle that ends at best with a quick death from something like a snake bite, or more likely a slow and painful death from illness or injury . . .
All that said . . . . rat poison is not okay - that shit is nasty. And baiting isn't a great option for cats in general, unless you're in an area where there's zero chance of any other predators being affected - anything you use as bait for cats will be attractive to far too many other animals, and cats are big enough that bait which can reliably kill them will also kill most of those other animals. I mean, a bear probably wouldn't take too much damage from bait targeted at cats (probably?), but foxes, badgers, racoons, weasels, etc, would all be killed off. Let alone anyone's pets that happened to stray into the baited area. Ironically, where I live baiting (for foxes) is still a thing, but that's because the foxes and feral cats and dogs have driven pretty much all the native mammalian predators locally extinct . . . but it's still not a great idea, because of the impact it has on non-mammalian predators (of which we still have plenty).
So . . . yeah, Tiggy, I get you, and I really wish you didn't have to go through that . . . but out here in the real world a more humane version of that experience really isn't unreasonable.
Still . . . . it was worth it for me, since I did end up giving one of the kittens a home. I'd post some pics of Freckles if I could figure out how, but for now I'll just leave anyone who's read this far with the image of a little kitty cat cuddling up with me under the blankets at night, purring like an idling diesel with a busted muffler . . . Jealous? You should be.
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Putting aside the other (entirely reasonable) stuff you posted, this is what I came to post about.
Rat poison is designed to provide a slow, painful death. Because rats are smart, they won't eat food that is surrounded by dead rats, so a fast-acting poison doesn't work as well.
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Tiggy: The Origin
