too bad all cats aren’t neutered automatically

Very seldom are cats considered pets, at best they are appreciated for their mousing, and people aren’t sentimental with their animals. One of my neighbors auctioned his dog off with his cattle when he retired. When a cat goes missing, no one looks for it.

Then why was it outside? Sounds like it was no more her pet than the local raccoons are mine.

Removing them from the ecosystem is more effective.

Showing up for ten minutes a day to eat isn’t a companion. The neighborhood raccoons have as much of a relationship to me as most outdoor cats have to their “owners.”

We back onto a forest. Indigo Buntings, Cardinals, Yellow Finches, they all get dragged away and half chewed by some local cats that are let loose by owners that think its their right to just let their cats roam outside “for exercise”. We also have coyotes. Cats make up something like 70% of their diets if the local…

What bugs me is if you let it live outside to kill hundreds of birds and get all up in my yard, why is it exmpt from being killed?

Does anyone remember the Vet who shot the feral cat and how the entire Internet world destroyed her online?

Keep your cats fixed and indoors. I don’t think cats can help killing birds and rodents — they’re really good at it and they enjoy it. They have a physical competence few humans will ever be comparable to. But they don’t need to do it, just keep them indoors and problem solved.

Yep, they’re changing everything. Constantly. From movie to movie.

I loved Duane’s My Enemy, My Ally. Not just a great Trek novel, but a great book, period.

I just want to say that I love Star Trek week. I love it even more than the Senior Week. I love all the articles and all the comments.

Would this book even get published today? It seems like this was right before the editors really started clamping down on “canon,” around the time TNG launched.

The main trio of characters on Killjoys are all from outside the Quad. Dutch even mentions she is from the far end of the J - the J star cluster that’s all have been colonised by humans and includes multiple star systems.

To add to what you said about Killjoy, in the episode with the collector, he explicitly mentions coming from and visiting worlds outside the Quad. Also, all the clues they gave about “The Black Root” and who Klyen is supposed to work for makes me think were going to see aliens in the finale. Or at least, very weird…

I don’t think a crossover could work. For one thing, Killjoys is clearly much, much further in the future than Dark Matter. In DM, human space is the galactic vicinity around Earth, and they’re aware of pop culture like Charlotte’s Web and Star Wars. So it seems like a relatively near future in the Star Trek vein. But…

OK but next year Star Trek: Discovery will air exclusively on CBS All Access! Because it’s the future!

Hello Darkness my old friend.

Indeed

OG Pennyswise for lyfe!