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blm14

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  1. I have tons of experience with this kind of problem. First of all, the fact that the neighbor's cat is spraying means that it is male, and unneutered. That's also why it's fighting with your cats - cats are highly territorial, especially males. If the neighbors cat is coming into your house, then what you need to go is get it into a carrier (if it's friendly with you) or set up a tomahawk raccoon trap for it and trap it. Then you can just take it to your local ASPCA or Humane Society office and have them neuter him. They can do this without even much of an incision and without stitches. I am involved with a Trap Neuter Return group and we deal with feral cats. We trap about 200 a year and release them back where they came from after they are sterilized. If they are friendly we adopt them out to homes. A male cat can be released without a cone-of-shame within about 24 hours after surgery.

     

    Problem solved.

  2. It's way better than medical care in other parts of the world.

     

    So stop complaining.

     

    Not actually true, at least among industrialized nations. The US ranks very low on all kinds of epidemiological measures - infant mortality, average lifespan, incidence per 100,000 of many diseases, etc. And even assuming that we DID have the best system, what good does that do us if it's going to bankrupt the country?

     

    (full disclosure: work in healthcare IT, am intimately familiar with the specific problems with our healthcare system)

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