I briefly cited both that pattern and my reluctance to write about it in a postthis fall called The Poisoner's Calendar, which I mostly focused on the simpler subject of carbon monoxide.īut this year, the first dog poisoning story came on January 2, from a small town in western Canada. Last year, I tallied up more than almost 300 stories (171 concerning dogs, 123 about cats).
And over the last year, I started to develop an uneasy awareness that hardly a week passed without a pet poisoning story. But I sift through the alerts for interesting stories and for patterns, repeated poisonous events. I usually laugh when I tell people about it yeah, I say, maybe it makes me sound a little twisted. The problem, my problem in this case, is that I run daily Google alerts for poisoning events, a habit I developed while working my recent book, The Poisoner's Handbook. And I might have let it go at that if I hadn't read another news article on the subject on the very next day, and the next, and the next again. To tell you the truth, these both seemed like pretty charitable answers to me. I was looking for an answer to something that had been bothering, okay, haunting me for months: why do so many people poison their neighbor's pets? Why? Why? "They're very unhappy people," my husband replied when I first raised the issue at home. Then, I will feed them to the cat & maybe it will choke *and back to - *sugar and bleach, stirred into milk *- the practical again. I can come to your house, and cut your fucking nuts off. Mix it with meat - to the rather, um, hostile - *The very best way is to give me your address. And why I continued perusing it through responses that ranged from the practical - Antifreeze.
I copied the question above (typos and all) from a 2002 message threadon the revenge-obsessed website Bombshock titled "How to Kill a Cat." You may wonder what brought me to this decade old discussion of killing small animals. Is there any way to poision it or dart it? It kills bird and it comes in my back yard.
Its her closest pet and I need it to be gone. "I want to know the best way to kill next door neighbors  cat, with out them suspecting anything.