Tonkinese MUST go (and has)

A couple of months ago, I asked for assistance in finding a home for a six year old female Tonkinese cat that would periodically urinate in large quantities on the carpet, pillows, mattresses, etc., even with a clean cat box nearby and a clean bill of health. The damage was becoming intolerable as was behavior that included one incident where the cat walked across the bed with my wife and I in it, and left a two foot long swath of urine across my legs. We very nearly lost a brand new $1500 mattress.

The decision was made to find another home for the cat, and while some here sympathized with our plight, others could only direct their energy toward trying to assail me for not continuing to house the cat, not sinking limitless funds into finding out what was causing the problem, and one person who felt I ought to just tolerate and live with the damage. The former group was most helpful of course, and one of the recommendations those people gave me was to talk to the breeder. I did that, and the breeder has taken the cat. We were under the impression this was not possible, but because of what was said here, we talked to the breeder again, and found she would take the cat back. The cat is now back in the home it was born and raised in. However, the breeder said that unless the problem can be cured, she will have to make tough decisions regarding this cat's future. I can completely understand that, given the hell the cat put us through.

To those who truly tried to help me a couple of months ago, thank you. You made the difference. I could have taken easier ways to deal with the problem, but did not. Fact is, we had to hang on to the cat for weeks since the breeder was out of town, so waited until she got back. To those who tried to assail me on my actions with the cat, understand the rantings achieve absolutely nothing and may only serve to anger the cat owner enough to do the very kinds of thing you abhor. I could have become angered enough to stop looking at this newsgroup, possibly missing some good suggestions, and taking other actions with the cat that no one would want. I continued to look at the newsgroup only because I recognized that most people were trying to help and was able to ignore the extremist responses, mostly because they were so silly and clearly the rantings of a lunatic fringe.

Again, to those that offered reasonable suggestions, thank you. The cat is certainly in a better place thanks to you.

- Phil

You did the right thing. I congratulate you on being responsible and making sure the cat was taken care of by someone better equipped to handle the situation.

I've been lurking on this group for some time and I am sorry that reasonable people like you have to bear the excoriation of irrational individuals who do not realize the responsibilities of pet ownership (while great) do not and should not extend to prioritizing the animal's care over the owner's happiness and well being.

Shame on them for insisting on a situation that could have negative effects on other people's lives as well as the lives of the cats they supposedly care so much about.

Go here: http://users4.ev1.net/~n_lyles/

Done, Is it costing him or just inconveniencing him?

Hope it's costing him, I'm taking about 14GIG a day! Have been for the past month. I hope everyone else joins in the fun.

Oh, and Jerry, I look forward to your usual idiotic reply to this message, but I won't see it. Good old killfiles eh!

If his site goes down, I'm planning on re-opening it on a new server, logging all IP addresses used for the attack and providing them to respective ISPs.

I'm not interested in your dispute with 'The Puppy Wizard', but I don't approve of you lot attacking his site.

I don't remember asking your opinion, although opinions are like assholes...... Everybody has one. Sorry charlie, the ONLY IP you could log is my sites address and I have plenty to spare, so knock yourself out!!

LOL. OK then. I hope that N Lyles isn't your actual name, and that you didn't provide your real name when you signed up.

Did you know that everytime you (or anyone else who clicks the link) requests info from the puppy wizard's site, that (in general) you provide the IP address of the machine where the web page is displayed (not your site)? Did you also know that it is trivial to record these IP addresses in a database to detect for repeatedly accessing the same image?

Please just stop encouraging juvenile behaviour and take the page down. (By all means replace it with one that says how much you dislike the PW).

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Hey John, After I saw this; 'PW,

Could you please post a list of the 'Mild APCs' (Mentally Ill Lying Dog Abusing Punk Cowards) and a sample of the weekly warnings?

Would you consider allowing them to post if they made sure that they inserted [Mild APC] in the subject line of their posts?

John'

I have NOT stopped laughing. Go away and pretend you know something in another usenet group.

I'm glad it brightened up someone's day after all these months.

I thought you appreciated comedy.

As I have thought about this allot,I was going to and I went to the site but I don't approve so I can't / won't do it even though I hate piss whizzed more then all most any other mutherfukentroll on Usenet. Sorry, hate for someone to do it to me!