Cats Have Basic Feline Rights: Guest Post by Taco Phillips Ph.D.
Like humans, us cats desire life, liberty and the pursuit of crunchies.
It’s no secret that we’ve been domesticated, trained to live in an indoor carpeted world. This unnatural state of affairs seems impossible to alter, and many of us are willing to accept that. But in order to flourish as felines, we need basic feline rights.
Threats Against Felines
It is unfortunate that humans, the beings who brought us into their “civilized” society, are the biggest threat to feline flourishing. Humans believe they can dispose of us at will, denying our right to exist out of mere convenience.
The human threat is evidenced on a large scale by the daily cat genocide. We are routinely rounded up and incinerated by your intrusive government body of “animal control.”
On a smaller, but equally disturbing, scale, there are the random acts of violence perpetrated against cats. A man in Galveston Texas made news when he shot and killed a cat that was hunting an endangered bird. To him I ask: who is the bigger threat to wild bird species? You or I?
Bill of Feline Rights
I propose the following bill of basic feline rights.
All cats deserve freedom:
- To use a cellphone
- To choose their own crunchies
- To use catnip (for medicinal purposes)
- From vehicular catslaughter
- From canine harassment
- From human government pursuers
These inalienable rights belong to all cats, in America and the World.