Comments on: LAPD Hires Cats http://survivingtheworkday.com/2007/12/28/lapd-hires-cats/ spirituality in the workplace Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:41:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: h sofia http://survivingtheworkday.com/2007/12/28/lapd-hires-cats/#comment-1134 h sofia Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:53:57 +0000 http://survivingtheworkday.com/2007/12/28/lapd-hires-cats/#comment-1134 Sounds like a great idea to me. Let's just be thankful the Exterminators didn't raise a fuss and block the deal. (I'm a little peeved after reading articles about plumbers unions in the Southwest who are using their power to get in the way of waterless urinals.) Sounds like a great idea to me. Let’s just be thankful the Exterminators didn’t raise a fuss and block the deal. (I’m a little peeved after reading articles about plumbers unions in the Southwest who are using their power to get in the way of waterless urinals.)

]]> By: Ms. Theologian http://survivingtheworkday.com/2007/12/28/lapd-hires-cats/#comment-1128 Ms. Theologian Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:53:45 +0000 http://survivingtheworkday.com/2007/12/28/lapd-hires-cats/#comment-1128 Goats are used for weed-abatement around here with great results (other than the goat poop). However, I would be cautious characterizing any population as drug dealers who presumably deserve to have their housing eaten. There are a lot of homeless people in this country, especially the Bay Area, because of <a href="http://www.nationalhomeless.org/publications/facts/Why.pdf" rel="nofollow">a lack of affordable rental housing and a great increase in poverty</a>. Not to mention a decrease in public assistance and the erosion of working-class jobs. I firmly believe that Jesus would have built housing for the homeless and offered mental health services and not employed goats to eat their housing. Yes, even with housing options and mental health services, a small amount of people will choose to be homeless and some people will choose to sell drugs, but we screw the poor over and over in this country and when they end up homeless we pretend that they are nothing like us. And that was said quietly. Weren't we talking about a great alternative to euthanizing cats? Goats are used for weed-abatement around here with great results (other than the goat poop).

However, I would be cautious characterizing any population as drug dealers who presumably deserve to have their housing eaten. There are a lot of homeless people in this country, especially the Bay Area, because of a lack of affordable rental housing and a great increase in poverty. Not to mention a decrease in public assistance and the erosion of working-class jobs.

I firmly believe that Jesus would have built housing for the homeless and offered mental health services and not employed goats to eat their housing. Yes, even with housing options and mental health services, a small amount of people will choose to be homeless and some people will choose to sell drugs, but we screw the poor over and over in this country and when they end up homeless we pretend that they are nothing like us.

And that was said quietly.

Weren’t we talking about a great alternative to euthanizing cats?

]]> By: GhostGirl http://survivingtheworkday.com/2007/12/28/lapd-hires-cats/#comment-1127 GhostGirl Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:27:06 +0000 http://survivingtheworkday.com/2007/12/28/lapd-hires-cats/#comment-1127 My favoritest one of all time is where the City of SF employed goats to eat down all the scrub that a bunch of homeless people were camping in right by a school. With their cover blown, they left. Please don't start screaming about heartless treatment of the homeless. They were mostly drug dealers. My favoritest one of all time is where the City of SF employed goats to eat down all the scrub that a bunch of homeless people were camping in right by a school. With their cover blown, they left.

Please don’t start screaming about heartless treatment of the homeless. They were mostly drug dealers.

]]> By: Ms. Theologian http://survivingtheworkday.com/2007/12/28/lapd-hires-cats/#comment-1126 Ms. Theologian Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:21:07 +0000 http://survivingtheworkday.com/2007/12/28/lapd-hires-cats/#comment-1126 I do too. We let the neighbor's tomcat have as much space around our house and yard as he wants because he keeps the mice away. I do too.

We let the neighbor’s tomcat have as much space around our house and yard as he wants because he keeps the mice away.

]]> By: jonathan milne http://survivingtheworkday.com/2007/12/28/lapd-hires-cats/#comment-1123 jonathan milne Sat, 29 Dec 2007 05:25:08 +0000 http://survivingtheworkday.com/2007/12/28/lapd-hires-cats/#comment-1123 i LOVE! humane and sensical solutions i LOVE! humane and sensical solutions

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