BS: Is this cruel ?

Subject: Obit: My wife says this is cruel
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Mar 07 - 06:03 PM

people who paint ON thier cats

http://pets.webshots.com/album/557601719oAcdkj

Subject: BS: Is this cruel ?
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Mar 07 - 06:05 PM

My wife says it is. I kinda like it 8
http://pets.webshots.com/album/557601719oAcdkj

Subject: RE: Obit: My wife says this is cruel
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 16 Mar 07 - 06:06 PM

Yes, it is cruel.

Subject: RE: BS: Is this cruel ?
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 16 Mar 07 - 06:08 PM

Yes, it is cruel.

Subject: RE: Obit: My wife says this is cruel
From: Bee
Date: 16 Mar 07 - 06:10 PM

I assume you realise these are photos of UN-painted cats manipulated in a graphics program.

Subject: RE: BS: Is this cruel ?
From: Bee
Date: 16 Mar 07 - 06:12 PM

The cats are NOT painted. The images are manipulated in a graphics program such as Photoshop. See Snopes. Or just look closely at the pictures.

Subject: RE: BS: Is this cruel ?
From: Peace
Date: 16 Mar 07 - 06:21 PM

This is cruel. True, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Is this cruel ?
From: Bee
Date: 16 Mar 07 - 06:24 PM

Bad painting: he's nowhere near that good looking, with his tiny short face and cloes set eyes. Or, that illustration musta been Repub. propaganda for the Vampire cultists.

Subject: RE: Obit: My wife says this is cruel
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 16 Mar 07 - 06:26 PM

It should also be below the line.

Subject: RE: BS: Is this cruel ?
From: Jeri
Date: 16 Mar 07 - 06:27 PM

The Snopes page on painted cats. Some of these Photoshopped kitties are lovely. If they HAD been painted (with non-toxic paint, I'd hope), it would probably be more humiliating than cruel, but the cats had undoubtedly done something worse to an even smaller creature.

Subject: RE: BS: Is this cruel ?
From: number 6
Date: 16 Mar 07 - 06:28 PM

The SOB Bush has sucked the life out of Liberty !!

Damn right it's cruel.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Is this cruel ?
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Mar 07 - 06:29 PM

The book

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1580082718/urbanlegendsrefeA/

Subject: RE: Obit: My wife says this is cruel
From: Don Firth
Date: 16 Mar 07 - 06:31 PM

If it were actually being done on the cats themselves, I'm not sure it's necessarily cruel. I think it would depend on the reaction of the individual cat. But in a vaguely amusing sort of way, it really is kinda tasteless. . . .

Don Firth

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Subject: RE: BS: Is this cruel ?
From: Bobert
Date: 16 Mar 07 - 06:33 PM

Yes, its cool...

Subject: RE: BS: Is this cruel ?
From: Bee
Date: 16 Mar 07 - 06:41 PM

I think some of them are very nicely executed. My own cat came with a pretty nice paint job. The vet calls him a 'marble tabby', which in his case is black with lovely warm grey-buff markings in stripes, spots, arcs, and patches, and a classic tabby face. Couldn't possibly be improved on, IMO. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Is this cruel ?
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Mar 07 - 06:41 PM

The fish cat is my favorite

Subject: RE: BS: Is this cruel ?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 17 Mar 07 - 02:15 AM

There was a calendar of these pictures available in the UK. When you see them close up, it's obvious that they are not painted cats but a photoshop creation. They are pretty, but I'm sure they will give someone with more money than sense, the sick idea to paint their cat with whatever is to hand.

As for 'repainted every few months as their fur grows out'... given how fastidious cats are, I'm surprised it takes that long. The kitty would be cleaning continuously to get rid of the paint or dye, possibly pulling their own fur out to get rid of it as I've seen cats do when they've been accidentally coated in a foreign substance.

I like the peacock kitty though!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Is this cruel ?
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 17 Mar 07 - 02:31 AM

Not cruel. Just stupid.

Subject: RE: BS: Is this cruel ?
From: Mooh
Date: 17 Mar 07 - 09:10 AM

If there were hunters about, damn straight the cat and dogs would be painted orange or kept inside. Otherwise, cruel it is.

Does it cease to be cruel if there are advertising dollars involved...like if I rented out the cat as a roaming billboard?

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Is this cruel ?
From: Dead Horse
Date: 17 Mar 07 - 01:39 PM

I painted my dog with whitewash once.
Poor thing, it died of distemper :-)

I also decided to give an old budgie a new coat of paint.
That too died.
It wasn't the paint that killed it, it was using the blow lamp to remove the old paint.

Subject: RE: BS: Is this cruel ?
From: Becca72
Date: 17 Mar 07 - 01:49 PM

as Stephen Wright said, "once I spilled spot remover on my dog...now he's gone".

Subject: RE: BS: Is this cruel ?
From: RangerSteve
Date: 17 Mar 07 - 06:52 PM

I saw a woman on 5th Ave. in New York City who had two French Poodles, both with those ridiculous haircuts that make them resemble a sculpture made of barbells. One dog was dyed baby blue, the other was pink. I hope they turned on their owner.

Subject: RE: BS: Is this cruel ?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Mar 07 - 07:38 PM

Wow! Fantastic! I'm really surprised that it hasn't occurred to Veronica Rutledge to do this with her cat(s)...if she has any. Mind you, her aunt Penelope would put a stop to it at once. She would consider it cruel and unnatural.