Thank you for the comment and pointing out the excellent BBC article linked below. The post is not a manual for committing #Caticide but just as posts are made decrying religion to point out the evil. Most posts against religion however fail to identify the horrors and abominations occurring as a result of that belief just as most recipes for meat fail to highlight the way the meat on your plate was obtained. IMO there is no point in creating cognitive dissonance or avoiding reality simply because it is ugly or brutal. I believe that another expression for it is hypocrisy and censorship.

@FrayedBear Such is why I am a near vegetarian & not a scavenger carrion consumer as those who stalk the aisles of the cadaver section in the Mercado. & yes. Life is suffering as the Buddists say, but I choose not to add to it unnecessarily or with intent or malice.

Try gobsmacked?

Did you read the bbc.com reply below - it was ommitted from my original posting. The purpose to identify what fantastic animals we share our lives with and identify the cruelty of some cat owners.

Agreed

Mine is now so arthritic I have to gently place her outside of the backdoor instead of giving her a lobbed flying start from the top of the 6inch high step.

@SACatWalker the vet cleared her last December but like me we improve in summer. She is overall in superb health according to her blood analysis which presents results more akin to those in much younger cats. I prefer to supplement her tinned food with raw meat and fish. She has recently taken to a tinned food that contains sweet potato rather than cereals. I will look into the stuff that you suggest, thank you.

@SACatWalker once it was the best. Various right wing governments embarrassed by its news has constantly chiselled its funding.