I like it. Spoken like a true dog-person.

Except I have a better solution.

This will solve all your cat problems in a jiffy.

Thanks Kate....that gave me a laugh!

Impostor!

I wish people would realize that even if CO2 is the cause of global warming all "Carbon Trading" does is provide a way for a select few to make Millions ...

Much like oil marketing, if you're one of the select few who have Millions of dollars and know the right people you could get into the carbon trading racket and make a (larger) fortune ... Unfortunately most of us are not in that situation

We have 3 dogs and 3 cats, zero rodents; I guess we need a couple Goracles to balance out. Oh our hydro bill is only an average $55 month. Gore should give us some carbon credit cash.

Here's another long term sustainable eco-friendly carbon neutral solution to all your cat probelms.

I love it !!!!!

I too have a dog and I live in Alberta. Just stay in Sask because I plan on a province wide patent. Any encroachment from Sask would be barked at.

Now THERE is an offset I can dig..

I hate fleabags(cats), but I tolerate them (outside only) because they keep the vermin in check.

Tell you what Kate, I'll buy one of your offsets if you help bid up my carbon credit - deal?

Ace had a pretty good cat hunt today , ... so I'm told

How much do these cat off-sets cost?...I have 8 cats (large farm yard)....will the off-sets be tax deductable or will the Gov't then want to "claw" that money back by taxing my cats....these are all important questions one needs to know before I consider waking up from my afternoon "cat-nap" and supporting your dogs (and mine)

Yes, Yes, all you nasty cat-haters are sooo much better than us cat owners. You get to walk your dog at all hours so it can urinate and defecate on your lawn while I, a mere cat owner, must accept lazy sleep-ins while my cat uses the litter box without me. On the other hand, were my cats "outdoors" I'd happily buy some offsets just to display them next time someone complains about cat poop in their garden :-) And just so you know, "crazy" is always one more cat than you presently have.

I like the plan, Kate. It's a well thought out scam, and, it's time to start countering lefty scams with equally lucrative ones.

It would be nice if people got their pets neutered. The little old ladies found dead with a hundred cats wouldn't have such easy access to them.

I thought a little pussy was as ecological sustainable credit. Helping sustain the Canadian population and all.

Sorry, me bad but I've had both feline and canine life enhancement and both the crap on the lawn while the owner looks away and the Flintstone's "throw the cat out for the night" people should be shot! Dang, that word 'responsible' keeps on coming up.

Hey my scam is legit Penny! I really do care!

Besides, that crystal-meth-greenpeace kid scared the bejeezuz out of me...

Skal!

Now that is funny! :)
You could even replace every instance of cat with Liberal and dog with Conservative.

Not that cats are liberals, if anything they are libertarians. ;)
Very funny Kate. Thanks for the laugh.

Will there be an exception for developing countries such as China who have yet to develop a bourgeois "cat lady" class? From "People's Daily Online":

"The anti-pet brigade, angered over noise and mess from domestic cats and dogs, is lobbying the authorities for tougher restrictions on pet ownership, as the number of people keeping them without a license increases.
...
Pet ownership is very popular among urbanites. It is common among families to bestow their pet as much affection as their child.
...
The China Pets Carnival, an international pet pageant, is being held this week in Shanghai, and has attracted a record number of dog and cat owners, organizers said.
...
But the growing demand is likely to get on the nerves of the anti-pet movement, which was represented last week by some heavy-hitting delegates at the National People's Congress (NPC).

An NPC deputy called for dog owners to be taxed to discourage ownership. "

english.people.com.cn/200703/20/eng20070320_359266.html

Why pick on Cats?
Take a look at yours or anyone elses Dog(s). That chunk of fur is a left leaning socialist (liberal) all the way.
Cats on the other hand can fend for themselves and don't give a red rats a@@@s what you think of them.
Independant minded compared to "feed me, bathe me, brush me, pickup my Stool etc. and I will chew you furniture dig holes in your lawn dump the neighbours garbage and give you heart burn when you get to pay the Vet bills.
By the way don't expect me to bring you any tender moursels like that fur ball that I can't catch. LOL

Gore/Suzuki World

Virtual Utopia !!

Get your money for nothing
Get your chicks for free

Wasn't Harper going to kill all the kittens? When he starts doing this the cat problem should be taken care of within 10-15 years.

17th Century Tulip Bulb Bubble
1920s Stock Market Bubble
Pet Rock Bubble
.com Bubble
Carbon Credit Bub .. Nope, never got off the ground, Europe's are already worthless. Man is learning.

"Take a look at yours or anyone elses Dog(s). That chunk of fur is a left leaning socialist (liberal) all the way."

Yeah. Whatever.

Just remember: There are no cat lovers at the bottoms of old wells.

Thanks Kate. That was funny.

Sir Winston Churchill said: "I don't like cats because they look down on us, and I don't like dogs because they look up to us, but I like pigs because they treat us as equals". (Obligatory disclaimer: I have a Keeshond.)

""""""I like pigs because they treat us as equals""""""

my pet pig will eat dead dogs, dead chickens, dead cats

my pet ferret provides the pig with food

I have a GSP ,runs a hundred miles an hour to the back fence.The neighbours have Manx cats now.Shortly there will be the day I invite one of them over for some fine Chinese quisine.

Why stop with cat offsets ...

You can offset anything your want to ...

OFFSET WORLD

Why stop with cat offsets? ...

You can offset anything your want to ...

OFFSET WORLD

Great idea, Kate, but have you got any suggestions for an Al Gore offset? I think Doug's onto something, but I like to avoid needing lawyers myself.

Vitruvius: love the Churchill quote, but I have to add: "We eat pigs."

drudge report.

ya, the blog equivalent of national enquirer.

cater to the lowest common denominator !!!

Got three cats here. My neighbour has two dogs. My cats are leash trained. Neighbours dogs are cat trained. By that I mean "if my cats are in my yard on their leashes, the neighbours dogs refuse to go outside". Because they are afraid my cats might get off their leashes and go after them...
The only dog my cats have never attacked was a little one that looked like a walking mop. They didn't know what the heck it was. I don't blame them, cause even I couldn't figure out which end of the dog was which...
The one good part of the myth about dogs and cats is... when the dog owners call the police to complain about my cats, the police laughed at them!

I've got one of each so I guess that makes me carbon neutral... WOOHOO!!!!

"They eat songbirds."

Probably more environmentally friendly than me having to shoot the damn things. How much energy is used producing each bullet?

my dog for the first time last year took on the mantle of a tax deduction.

she barks at the sound of people entering the building as dogs are wont to do. thus I know there is a visitor and the visitor knows that they are known to have come to the door etc etc.

difference is I am a landlord and it is beneficial for me to know of the comings and goings, ergo I believe her costs are a legitimate expense.

rev canada wants to nickel and dime me Im going to nickel and dime them right back 5-fold.

heh heh heh.

No fair to post Aprils fool Kate;
Anyone catch a glimpse of gore today at the senate. 3 million signatures in 3 days, and over 100 names coming in/minute. Anyway to check that out. He looks like he need a great weight reduction plan. Why do losers always try to get even with people for not electing him. By november 2008 he should be totally discredited.
And way OT, I think PMSH remarks about liberals caring more for the enemy than cdn troops was right on. Wasn't it a liberal who marched with the hezzies last summer.

Now come on Kate, the only cats that are environmentally unsustainable are the ones at the link below:

http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/cgi-bin/seigbest.pl

Find your favorite fascist "Kat"; who would sooner leave environmentally unsustainable territory "Lebensraum" markings all over your yard!

The only reason you've become a dog breeder is you can't stand the thought of hanging a shingle over your door that says Kate's Kool Kats or KKK for short.

The cat that hangs around our neighbourhood is named Buster and is a long haired Himalayan chocolate point. About the only thing that is unsustainable about him is the fur balls. But he is a mighty fine mouser and kills the odd rat as well. Therefore Buster is preventing the spread of bubonic plague. Not all cats are alike, you just need to be a discriminating owner!

Very funny Kate, and I think you're on to something here. And maybe this means that I can apply for a government grant for my Golden Retriever...

Oh wait...the Liberals aren't in power, are they...

GORE REFUSES TO TAKE PERSONAL ENERGY ETHICS PLEDGE

WASHINGTON, DC – Former Vice President Al Gore refused to take a “Personal Energy Ethics Pledge” today to consume no more energy than the average American household. The pledge was presented to Gore by Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, during today’s global warming hearing.

Senator Inhofe showed Gore a film frame from “An Inconvenient Truth” where it asks viewers: “Are you ready to change the way you live?”

//epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=7616011f-802a-23ad-435e-887baa7069ca

It is so hard to understand how all this BS started in Oak Lake Manitoba. One would think the media may be liable, big time.

Maurice Strong; "To save the world we may have to collapse the world's economy" Kyoto would do it.

Jacques Chirac; " The first step to One World Governance" Kyoto that is.

My dogs are German.

And they have mustaches.

Connect the dots.

Kate:

I bet you just loved the movie "Cats & Dogs"?

Let me guess the bitch is named "Blondi".

See another blonde joke!

you realize o righties, if global warming really takes off for *whatever* reason, theres going to be a lot of egg, er, 'cat litter' on your faces.

I hope its the used kind.

Richard Evans says "I've got one of each so I guess that makes me carbon neutral."

I've got NONE of each (all my cats and my one dog are dead, all very much loved while they were alive), so does that mean that I'm carbon neutral, too?

John: 'Love the PICOs... ;-)

Good one Kate. I used to have Russian Wolf Hounds (Borzoi) and at 43 mph they could jump 8 feet to grab the cats out of the tree branches. Sadly , I no longer have any wolfhounds and a few cats have moved in. For that reason I will buy from you 4 cat-offset credits to help me out. I will send a check but will have to date it for April 1 st because I am waiting for some Nigerian funds to arrive first.....ha!!

BTW, Kate. LOL!!

Yeah so it must've been your place, Kate, in Delisle we used to walk by from school to the rink we saw these terrier puppies with clipped ears. We always thought that was a little weird.

"My dogs are German.

And they have mustaches.

Connect the dots."

You have a mustache too?

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

[running for cover]

Yeah- and the owner of this property, she sells the part fronting on the main drag, and that part has the house she was born in. So, she has a new basement built, and she has that house moved onto it, and then she rents it to a 'cat lady'
The 'cat lady' brings in 40 or fifty strays, and the cats are breeding and crapping and dying in there.
The authorities move in- they place the
cat lady into some kind of ......'facility', and they condemn the house.
The owner brings in a contractor, who sez they can fix this- they charge her 30 odd thousand bucks to fix it.
The authorities refuse to certify it. She spends another 30 grand on it.....
Still no dice...........
Aren't catlady whackjobs wonderfull?
Haw!

Kate ~ are your dogs pogonotrophic too? ( tinyurl.com/2c8wfv ;-)

Cats and dogs are the answer to world hunger.

Recipes for sale on request.

The Corgis wish to apply for the Ontario franchise of Feline Neutral.

Hey, I've got 15 cats, 3 dogs, 6 horses and 3 lamas. Surely I should be able to get in on the offset scam somehow.

Oh heck, I'll just buy credits from myself.

Horny Toad

there was a tv news journal story a ways back about the 'cat lady' who would sojourn to the outskirts of town to feed the feral felines.

thus perpetuating the problem by among other things convincing the cat 'owners' theirs would be 'cared for' in the wild by the town's roaming cat lady.

where tf was that? ehn, too long ago and not important enough for that kind of detail.

Whoa, Whoa, Whoa,

Slow down. Before you can force cat owners to buy offsets, you need to know how many cats are out there.

Might I suggest a rigorous licensing and registration scheme. It should only cost a few million to start.

Remember when cats are outlawed, only outlaws will have cats.

the dogs are German with moustaches in our streets
I'm not making this up.
but my cats equal at least a double back carbon credit for your dogs. I've already bought mine. have you bought your carbon credits today?

robertbollocks, your dogs expenses should be deductable under Security on your rental stmt. That would include vet fees, food, license, leash, and probably the plastic bags used when out walking with him/her for picking up litter. You might get away with expensing the shoes you wear for walking the dog on the grounds going barefoot could be dangerous.

A few years ago I asked my tax accountant about declaring the dog - tinyurl.com/2cm3an - a security expense per the commercial office I operate in the house (there are multiple machines in the server-farm/my-office). While he appreciated my cleverness, he reluctantly informed me that in his opinion the state would likely not look kindly upon my claim.

"a tasteful plaque to display in your home"

I'm pretty sure plaque is bad for you.

I’m German and have a mustache, so-so breeding, not too well trained- been married twice, no saint but honest.

Any Adscammer, HRDC, Y2kyoto, feline types whose conscience needs absolving, I’m your man.
.
Brown bags only please.

How about a fantasist offset. You can feel free to indulge in whatever out there religious, political, conspiratorial fantasies that strike your fancy. You pay a small fee and in exchange you get an offset. Someone in a third world country (probably China) gets taught evolution and signs a certificate declaring that he won't view anything foreign with relexive unreasoning hatred.

"you realize o righties, if global warming really takes off for *whatever* reason, theres going to be a lot of egg, er, 'cat litter' on your faces."

You mean like there is over civil rights and dinosaurs? Not going to happen. If the emperor never comes to the realisation that he isn't wearing any clothes he can't get embarassed can he?

might get away with expensing the shoes you wear for walking the dog on the grounds going barefoot could be dangerous.
Posted by: mary T. at March 21, 2007 10:51 PM"

LOL !!! thats the spirit !!!

any challenge by revcan folks will be immediately followed by a suggestion I should perhaps get a full tilt guard dog with MUCH higher expenses (training etc) and thus, ahem, a much bigger DEDUCTION.

they wanna nickel and dime me, Im gonna nickel and dime them RIGHT BACK.

I wrote off 100% of the depreciation on a spankin new lawn mower the first year.

based on the fact its value plummeted seein as it did NOT in fact 'start on the first pull' as assured by the salesman. if I get quizzed on that line item I will invite the revcan folks to 'come on down' and work their mealy little pencil necks into a gasping wheezing out of breath state trying to start the thing for me.

heh heh heh.

you shoulda seen me go supersonic on this when I found out you can also deduct rental expenses against earned income woohee!!!

p.s., this year (ie 2006) I set a record high for refund and a record low for taxable income, AND got the refund back on time despite the much publicized major glitch delay.

heh heh heh.

There I was thinking that Kate was just a good lookin, commercial artist, kennel owner, when to my surprise, she turned out to be a philosopher.

"Everyone knows that the antidote to cat is "dog".

Love it Kate, am still laughing out loud.

Pat

Well, I've got 2 cats, 2 dogs, and 2 teenagers. Obviously I am pet-neutral. Where can I get offsets for the teens?

This thread got away on you, Kate. You the boss.

Save a needle - eat a cat.

Save a cat - eat an old lady.

When it comes to making a choice between cats and dogs, I've always preferred cats and have absolutely no idea why anyone who lives in the city would want to own a dog. In the country dogs have their uses and having the experience of herding sheep both with and without the assistance of a dog, I far prefer the case with canine assistance.

Cats are independant, don't require constant attention and simply go to sleep when bored instead of barking for hours or endlessly chewing on any object that looks like it might once have had the slightest resemblance to something edible. Also, dogs can't catch mice and the concept of a litterpan is beyond the capacity of the canine brain.

I don't personally own a cat, but one seems to have moved in on me and I think the cat believes that it is the owner of the house as it used to live there. The cat sleeps most of the winter but actively hunts in the springtime and summer and accounts for an astounding number of mice during that time. The neighbors dog, on the other hand, simply brings an endless supply of sticks and tree branches into the yard hoping someone will throw one for it so it can run after it and bring it back. Cats can't be bothered with games like this and they find their own toys. I've used reward/punishment techniques on the cat to make it clear that mice are fine and birds are not and reinforce these concepts using high pressure water jets whenever I see the cat stalking a bird. It seems to have worked.

The problem of cats hunting songbirds has an easy technical fix and it simply involves the installation of large numbers of yard cameras which are connected to computers running dedicated bird/cat detection software. Conditions of a bird coming into increasing proximity to a cat could result in the triggering of local lawn sprinkler jets which will almost always terminate feline hunting behavior. Presumably the same system could come with software which would detect canines assuming the squatting position in ones yard although water jets don't seem to have nearly the deterrant effect on canines that they do on felines; this might require electronically aimed paintball guns.

There is no easy technologic fix to the environmental problem of dog excrement which IMHO has a much greater impact than the actions of a few cats.

Only the vilest heretic would deny that cats are destructive to our environment, not just to birds, but to plumage in general, and to trilling, or that dogs, being compelled by nature to take action against this environmentally destructive force, are therefore environmentally friendly.

A solid concensus has emerged that cat owners must offset their cats by paying for the equivalent in dogs; the only question remaining is, should the admitted cat-owners pay the dogs' owners, or should they pay the dogs?

Hmmmm. I don't mean to campaign against a potentially highly-lucrative enterprise of yours, Kate, but after reading Clive's post in your "update" link, in which he refers to the Corgis' clever and do-able solution, I'm starting to think it inevitable that the eco-cash pipeline will go straight to the dogs.

Not only are dogs the ones who are actually offsetting cats, in a living sense, they are also far more committed to implementing solutions than their owners are.

Corgi Technology's forward-thinking, impeccably straightforward solution to the cat pollution problem -- sequestering cats for a few thousand years, during which cat-proof songbirds will have been genetically engineered by the Corgis before the cats' release -- owes itself proudly to Corgi thinking.

They are also developing a new species of cat -- bug-eating, smaller, slower, less annoying to our environment -- that will have a much lower environmental impact.

If that new species of cat happens to taste like cheddar cheese to a Corgi, well, that will be purely coincidental.

Cat Sequestration - what a great idea! Those evil beasts are a public health problem.

You realize, of course, that Harper is doomed? He's a cat person. And a Leafs fan...

Yeech.

What is it about modern society that makes even the simplest personal choises open to moral judgment by some self appointed regulator??...ferkissakes leve the kitty people to themselves if it makes 'em happy, what motivates you to go piss in their corn flakes?...I suppose the core value in all self-appointed regulators is that they simply can't stand to see other people happy or content.

Whoa whoa whoa.
Everyone knows dogs create more emissions than cats.
Everytime one gets let go in the room it's always "the dog".

I am not what you would call a pet person, but I do tolerate them. I like having a dog around, and do enjoy their company and devotion. The cats keep the mice in check and THATS the only reason they are allowed to live. I disliked cats before, but having an inside (siamese) cat for over a year when I met my wife turned dislike into raw hatred.

I have 2 simple rules though, one for each:

One bite away from a bullet (dogs)
One barf away from a bullet (fleabags)

So there..

You know, you just can't make this stuff up! If you are really concerned about your cat's desire to kill song birds just buy him a CAT BIB:

W3 - catgoods.com/product.html

Seriously!!

It is my sincere belief, and I have a growing amount of empirical evidence to support this belief, that pet dander causes brain damage in humans.

As someone who's having a less-than-admirable day - the link bringing me to your website and the subsequent enjoyable reading of your post has created a great smile on my face.

Now - we have 3 cats - 2 dogs - 2 goats - 2 horses - a rabbit - and a hamster.....

How do I offset all of them? :)

We're kindof like you, John. 3 cats and 3 dogs. Kinof balances out. However, I keep cats for rodent (spelled rat) control. My cats are working cats, the dogs just sit around adding greenhouse gases.

Now that I think about it.. it's the dogs that need an offset. Maybe I should get more cats and sell dog fart offsets!

Too Cool! Think I will!

...Kate, you're so cruel

;-)

"Cat sequestration"...would that be anything like the old Bonsai Kitten? :-)

Michelle Malkin shares your disdain for cats and "cat people" it seems.

Cats are communists. Dogs are capitalists.

Cats do not work. Dogs work. End of debate.

This is awesome! We have had so much fun with this at our office. It shows the absolute absurdity of this whole "carbon neutral" and "carbon credit" bologna. When I heard Al Gore say to the Congress he and his family were "carbon neutral", I could not believe he had the nerve to say that with a straight face in front of Congress members and on public broadcast. But then we all know how he and Bill Clinton get around real definitions, remember the "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" and the definition of "what is is".

This is awesome! We have had so much fun with this at our office. It shows the absolute absurdity of this whole "carbon neutral" and "carbon credit" bologna. When I heard Al Gore say to the Congress he and his family were "carbon neutral", I could not believe he had the nerve to say that with a straight face in front of Congress members and on public broadcast. But then we all know how he and Bill Clinton get around real definitions, remember the "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" and the definition of "what is is".

The only problem is Kate's going to have to euthanize her dogs because they are an affront to the dignity of their ancestors the wolves...

Well hey...

You could have ""WWMED"" on the outside edge...

""What Would Mother Earth Do""...

Dogs are stoopid.

Being feline neutral is fine, as far as it goes, but it's obviously just a temporary fix, a mere band-aid. Clearly, what we really need is a massive cat tax and eventual criminilization of the cat. (Except for the wealthy. Barbra and the Goreacle can have as many limos and jets - sorry - cats as they want.)

Being feline neutral is fine, as far as it goes, but it's obviously just a temporary fix, a mere band-aid. Clearly, what we really need is a massive cat tax and eventual criminilization of the cat. (Except for the wealthy. Barbra and the Goreacle can have as many limos and jets - sorry - cats as they want.)

Sadly, if I predecease my wife, she will qualify as a "cat lady." I have found, sadly, that the feline does not have a learning curve so much as a slope. And while Libertarian probably does identify them politically, the term 'charming sociopath' best identifies them psychologically.
Still, I've never met a cat and didn't think looked hungry and in need of a home. So . . . how much are the Feline offsets going for?

If the Egyptians had buried more cats we wouldn't have this hockey stick cat problem.

I truly hope that, at the very least, you do some bumper stickers and various other Cafe Press type goodies, because I would buy them in a heartbeat. Simply too funny not to love, and it combines my love for cats and my loathing for self-righteous enviromoonbats.

Now Kate, I've seen goose stepping ducks, but of course we all know they've gone "quackers".

So why let the world go to the dogs; when you can be a Kool Kat?

We have a few loose dogs in the neighborhood that try to keep the loose cats in line.

Monetizing pollution (with credits/offsets) only results in more of the same. Why Owl Gore supports these is beyond me. He must like the idea of the elites polluting more and getting others to pollute less.

http://www.gregpalast.com/fill-your-lungs-its-only-borrowed-grime/

When more yuppys move to the country and bring
their dogs with them its fine with me.They tend
to pack up and chase sheep and cattle then we bring out the 220 swift or 25-06 for a little target practice. No dogs no problem...

Tincan Sailor: " ... we bring out the 220 swift or 25-06 for a little target practice. No dogs no problem"

Have you ever been out of your apartment?

HUNDERDS OF CATS, THOUSANDS OF CATS,MILLIONS AND BILLIONS AND TRILLIONS ON CATS. AND IM OUTTA HERE SQUAWK SQUAWK

This will solve all the Doug and other cat hater problems

I like cats but I heard some parties have different ideas:

The NDP - Nazi Dog Party - wants to open cat worker camps.

The natives of Dog Island want to throw the cats in the volcano to please the dog gods.

Clearly cat criminalization (as DD put it) is the way to go. Progressively make the penalties and the media pressures worse - as done with drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes.

Have you ever been out of your apartment? sure
thing amigo but the fact is I would never live
in an apartment "NEVER" Also its a fact here in
cattle and sheep country dogs found on ranch
land are shot and if they kill live stock the
owner will pay the cost of any animal killed.
It ain't the city slick...

This is ridiculous. There is a clear correlation between the increased intensity of activity on the sun and the decline in songbird populations on earth (witness: doesn't it strike us as odd that there are NO songbirds on Mercury and Venus?). The major issue here is increased glare, which blinds the birds and seems to be provoking an inordinate number of high-speed collisions. Of course the dogs don't want us to know this, as a warm planet is a frisbee-friendly planet.

Exactly right Holy. The dog lobby is a powerful force for evil. As we unequivocally prove at my site the songbird population is _not_ tied to the cat population.

The dog lobby is just trying to garner tax credits and set out to make their natural enemies the bad guys of society. This will backfire on them though.

Their science isn't solid, their claims are filled with holes and their logic shallow.

Don't buy their silly arguments!

Cheers,
lance

Worship me, you unworthy scum.
Oh and please pass the Robin hotwings.

WATCH OUT KIRO OR I,LL RIP OUT YOUR EYES SQUAWK SQUAWK