What's wrong with cats?

I've noticed a prevalence of notices on the lift lobby 'e-noticeboards' that seemed to target cats as nuisances or pests or worse, carriers of diseases. The last I checked, we are now living in the 21st century, and in the pecking order of disease carriers, I'd say rodents, roaches, mosquitoes, birds rank far higher than cats.

I've seen an errant owner who let her dog pee on the side of a lift lobby entrance, and then walking away without bothering to clean up. Likewise, spotted from the upper floors is a dog doing the poopies on the garden below, and then happily walking away with the owner in tow. No cleaning up either. And last I checked, dogs do not distinguish between discrete pooping/peeing locations in the public, as opposed to cats that are far more concerned about hiding where they poop/pee.

I hope kids are not running around in the gardens before the cleaners get to the poop/pee. I'm sure anyone can google to turn up the number of diseases carried by dog poop. But most owners leave it to the grounds cleaning crew to do the cleaning up. After all, they paid for the service right?

And we have notices about both indoor and stray cats threatening the estate. I think a little bit of balance is in order here. The fact is that the number of potential disease that can be spread from cats to humans are about the same as those from dogs to humans, especially through fecal matter.

So stop with the cat bashing.

Here's a picture of a cat that is not likely to be causing any illnesses aside from panic attacks from his/her owner(s) whenever he/she does this:


Now BIRDS, particularly mynah birds that love to fly into our homes and do a liquid bombing run around the flat... they deserve to be ***CENSORED***!

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