It'd be more painful to you if your cat has all its claws. The bag would likely be ripped to shreds if the cat really, really didn't want in. I don't see how it's painful unless you violently wrestle the cat in. I suppose some may consider placing a cat into a paper outfit tormenting, or even infliction of unnecessary pain or suffering. Poisoning a DOG, CAT, FERRET, PET PIG, or other pet ANIMAL.Intentionally committing an act to any ANIMAL which results in the cruel death, or excessive or repeated infliction of unnecessary pain or suffering, or causes the same to be done.Unnecessarily overloading, overdriving, tormenting, depriving of necessary sustenance, shelter, or medical care, or unnecessarily mutilating, or killing any ANIMAL or causing the same to be done, or carrying in or upon any VEHICLE, or otherwise, any ANIMAL in a cruel or inhumane manner.The Hillborough County Animal Services Animal Ordinance describes animal cruelty as: Is it cruel to force men to wear constricting neck ties to work? How about women forced to wear hot pantyhose or feet twisting heels? What about our put-upon children whom we dress in school uniforms and march them off into the halls of conformity? (Note: I like school uniforms, keeps my budget down. How about those ridiculous costumes for animals? Are those cruel? (Well, actually, yeah they are cruel to the people who have to look at the poor animal in its stupid outfit). Not any worse than the pet apparel you can find in most pet stores.
I mean, okay, it's probably not the nicest thing you could do to your cat, but I don't think it is cruelty. A First Offense comes with a stiff $300 fine and arrest. The department also stated in a news release that if someone does force a cat into a bag, they could be charged with animal cruelty. Their fear is that a cat or cat owner will be hurt stuffing a cat into one of the bags. They issued an advisory on Monday asking people not to put their cats into the bags. Īt least according to Hillsborough County Animal Services. Instructions on the bag tell fans how they can dress their own cat like RapCat:ģ) Submit the best pics/vids of your cat keepin' it real.
Now, RapCat has his own official website at where you can get RapCat merchandise (coming soon), download RapCat themed goodies, read RapCat's bio, and watch RapCat's Music Video World Premiere on March 5th!Ĭheckers even has carry-out bags emblazoned with RapCat's jersey design. The commercial spawned dozens of letters and emails to Checkers requesting RapCap merchandise. Either way, I bet you get the meow rap song stuck in your head. Watch the commercial for yourself and decide if RapCat is stupid or genius. People, and my own cats, give me odd looks when I do. I still love it, and walk around singing the RapCat song after I see the commercial again. I loved the commercial when I first saw it, both for the Right-side vs. When it was first released last Fall, it was an "overnight success", according to a Checker's spokesman. Tampa-based Checkers Drive-In Restaurants recently re-released a commercial starring a rapping feline named, of course, RapCat. Okay, my awful alliteration abuse aside, these are the kinds of headlines surrounding a animal rights flap taking place in my area. It is interesting to note that, with the exception of the aforementioned relatively isolated cases, no individuals with intact spleens located elsewhere have been infected.Checkers cat costumes create contrary catfight. However, the prevalence of infection in mice is very high on this island, greatly exceeding that reported from other locations, and this may be causally related to infection in humans. Thus, the parasite seems to be widespread, and this renders problematic the peculiar frequency of human infection found on Nantucket Island. Rodents of this species were infected with similar parasites around Ithaca, New York, and various small rodents and rabbits carried the infection in California and in England. Populations of white-footed mice on Martha’s Vineyard, 24 kilometers west of Nantucket, were found to be infected in 1937. As reported by Healy, Spielman, and Gleason (Science 192 479–480, 1976), Babesia microti infection in wild mammals has been recognized in several locations in the United States and Europe. Transmission is by tick bite (family Ixodidae). The main reservoirs of human infection include rodents and, possibly, house pets. This is an uncommon malaria-like disease caused by an intraerythrocytic protozoan parasite, Babesia.