[Summit] Dead Cat - Other Pet Risks

[libertyliterary at cox.net]

I agree with Anne - and for additional reasons
beyond danger from speeding cars.

I spoke some time ago with the former
employee of a large lawn service company.
As customer service representative, he said
that over half his job was to retrieve dead
animals from people's yards, and negotiate
with homeowners for compensation.

The chemicals applied to lawns are deadly
to animals - and associated with many chronic
and serious health conditions for humans,
especially children.

For more information on the risks, the chemicals,
and on healthier alternatives, see:

www.toxicsinfo.org/Lawn/Lawn%20Pesticide%20Facts%20&%20Figures.htm
www.toxicsinfo.org/LTL/LawnPesticideRisks/LawnPsChart.htm
www.toxicsinfo.org/Lawn/One%20Family's%20Story.htm
www.toxicsinfo.org/lesstoxic.htm

For more on protecting pets from a variety of
household  risks:
www.toxicsinfo.org/protectpets.htm

Blessings,

Liberty G

---- Anne <hennypenny at cox.net> wrote: 

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This is so sad. I plead with any of you who let your pet cats  
outdoors: Please don't!  In the nine years that we lived close to  
Hope Street, I saw more dead kitties than I can now count. My son  
witnessed a neighbor's pet actually get killed by a car on Hope St.  
one evening.  It was very traumatic.  The cat's body was basically  
destroyed.  :-(

The city is not a safe playground for cats.

OK, I'll get off my soapbox now.

- Anne

On Oct 2, 2007, at 9:08 PM, Ari & Carolyn Birnbaum wrote:

> If anyone is missing a fluffy gray and white cat, we saw it dead on  
> the street (obviously hit by a car) on Rochambeau near North Main.   
> My husband moved it on to the sidewalk.  It had no collar or tags,  
> but was clearly someone's pet--a beautiful kitty.