I read with disappointment when Today ran a contribution by some bugger in the Forum section on on 29 Jan 2007 . The title read "Do cats belong in our HDB estates?"
Of many things, he raised so MANY misconceptions. In fact, I was reading in disgust when he mentioned that cats spread diseases! Oh c'mon, it may be true that some people are allergic to cat fur, but a higher percentage of mankind is allergic to PEANUTS. So are we going to ban peanut butter from the supermarkets, remove the popular chinese dessert "a-balling" from all hawker centers, and god forbid, ban our pasar malam (the malay term for Singapore's night market) from selling "muah-chee" ( glutinous rice balls coated with peanut powder)!!
So if bird flu is becoming a panademic in Asia, are we going to kill all the singing birds in HDB? It just seems that a number of Singaporeans had grown insensitive, and increasingly unreasonable in achieving their self-fufilment. [Yep, for information, there are many cats killed by evil cat-haters in Singapore last year. Yet, our courts had been very kind to these people by throwing them into jail for a less than 2 months. Is choking and strangling a cat till its eyes pop out and they spit blood any any different from murder?] I beg to differ, and was saddened by the message that it is delivering to the public.
Currently, stray cats may pose a certain issue in Singapore due to HDB's really stupid regulation that ban cats from our flats for outdated reason that cats are "nomadic in nature and are difficult to confine in flats". If they allow us to keep cats at home LEGALLY, I am sure the problem can be ameliorated.
Let's all remember God created cats for a good reason, and we should embrace them as much we love dogs, luo han yu, or our Ah Meng at the Singapore Zoo. Kudos to Dawn and her effort at Cat Welfare Society in educating the authorities/ general public, and their efforts in nabbing cat killers all around in Singapore.
And who would hate cats when they look like this!
Of many things, he raised so MANY misconceptions. In fact, I was reading in disgust when he mentioned that cats spread diseases! Oh c'mon, it may be true that some people are allergic to cat fur, but a higher percentage of mankind is allergic to PEANUTS. So are we going to ban peanut butter from the supermarkets, remove the popular chinese dessert "a-balling" from all hawker centers, and god forbid, ban our pasar malam (the malay term for Singapore's night market) from selling "muah-chee" ( glutinous rice balls coated with peanut powder)!!
So if bird flu is becoming a panademic in Asia, are we going to kill all the singing birds in HDB? It just seems that a number of Singaporeans had grown insensitive, and increasingly unreasonable in achieving their self-fufilment. [Yep, for information, there are many cats killed by evil cat-haters in Singapore last year. Yet, our courts had been very kind to these people by throwing them into jail for a less than 2 months. Is choking and strangling a cat till its eyes pop out and they spit blood any any different from murder?] I beg to differ, and was saddened by the message that it is delivering to the public.
Currently, stray cats may pose a certain issue in Singapore due to HDB's really stupid regulation that ban cats from our flats for outdated reason that cats are "nomadic in nature and are difficult to confine in flats". If they allow us to keep cats at home LEGALLY, I am sure the problem can be ameliorated.
Let's all remember God created cats for a good reason, and we should embrace them as much we love dogs, luo han yu, or our Ah Meng at the Singapore Zoo. Kudos to Dawn and her effort at Cat Welfare Society in educating the authorities/ general public, and their efforts in nabbing cat killers all around in Singapore.
And who would hate cats when they look like this!
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