Dear Reader,
I realize that it’s only a cartoon, and P.S. Mueller usually has some esoteric and/or funny items in your newspaper, but the strip on the front page of Section 4 of the July 8 issue is really uncalled-for.
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There is nothing funny, thought provoking, or of any redeeming value to seeing someone bludgeoning a cat, even a stylized cartoon cat, after that cat only was seeking attention. If the cartoonist was attempting to get people’s ire up about inhumane treatment of pets, that goal was met, although there are, unfortunately, many real-life examples of such behavior. We don’t need any more of that.
I have two cats. I love cats. For me, there’s not much point to a world without cats. My little cartoon helped to feed my cats. So you can see that you have misunderstood me entirely and that my message is truly meant to benefit the fuzzy little house-trained varmints. Have you ever seen what they do to mice? It’s really cool.
