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Better to keep Boulder officials inside

Jack Rudd, Boulder

Published March 27, 2008 at 12:05 a.m.

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As you know, the city of Boulder now taxes free cups of coffee and citizens are speculating about what the city will tax next. Some fear that they will tax citizens for breathing government air, but I doubt that. Since city officials believe that their Boulder government emits sweet and intoxicating fragrances, it is more likely they will tax the surrounding communities for the privilege of smelling them.

Now we also see a suggestion to confine Boulder cats to their owners' homes, so as not to disturb mice and birds ("Boulder may take look at law aimed at keeping cats inside," March 10). To solve this dire problem, officials could follow the lead of Randolph, Iowa, which recently briefly offered a bounty for stray cats. However, this would require an outflow of funds; better to tax wandering cats as often as possible, officials will reason, so as to satisfy the city's greed.

What Boulder city officials should really consider is to prohibit themselves, rather than their cats, from straying outside their homes.

This is the city that repeatedly helped elect Mark Udall to Congress. He is Boulder and Boulder is he. Voters, please take note.

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  • March 27, 2008

    6:55 a.m.

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    VVVV writes:

    Or maybe someone just wanted to do something about the inconsiderateness of the losers who let their cats out to crap in other people's vegetable gardens risking toxoplasmosis in their children. I think it should just be legal to trap animals on your own land, domesticated or not, and turn them over to the authorities. Maybe if people had to pay fines to get their neglected pets back they wouldn't be so quick to crap on their neighbors.

  • March 27, 2008

    8:58 a.m.

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    JimmyB writes:

    Since Butthole (boulder) doesn't have any socialy redeaming, or intrinsic value, why not let the military use it for urban combat training? That way, the army wouldn't have to take land from the ranchers around Ft. Carson.

    That's a win-win situation.

  • March 27, 2008

    9:16 a.m.

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    LuckyMe writes:

    I agree, Boulder should be cut away like the cancerous tumor it is. From the city government to CU to the Birkenstock granola smelling hippies that inhabit the city. It all reeks in Boulder.

  • March 27, 2008

    10:33 a.m.

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    vudumom writes:

    We have a neighbor who built a nice sandbox for his children.Their neighbor next door had 3 cats that were let outdoors. The cats used the new sandbox for a litterbox thus rendering it useless.The kids couldn't play in it and the cat owner said ,so what,when told by the sandbox owner about her cats using it as a litterbox and refused to keep her cats indoors.This neighbor spent hundreds of dollars to build this nice sandbox and most of the neighbors in the court helped him move the sand from the court to the new sandbox my husband and I included.
    This is the problem with cat owners,they have no respct for anyone else's property and think their cats should be allowed to roam free and spoil other people's property.Their so what attitude is what makes the majority of "cat people" weird.Usually I can tell if a person is normal by the pets they have. If they have just cats they are usually weird. If they have a cat and a dog they are okay. Most dog people are normal.My sandbox was not used because I have 2 dogs and that kept the cats away.
    The great news is we had a fox in our neighborhood eating all the cats running around so their are quite a few cats missing.You gotta love the circle of life.The neighbor with the cats died. We had new neighbors move in closer to us who let their cats out,already 2 are missing and presumed eaten, ( I hope) and one is left. I haven't seen the fox lately though. He might have moved on to greener pastures,but I wish he would come back to finish the job. There is still one more cat in our court that needs to become a part of the circle of life.

  • March 27, 2008

    10:44 a.m.

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    JimmyB writes:

    vudumom,

    whah, whah, whah.........

  • March 27, 2008

    12:29 p.m.

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    Eli writes:

    Maybe the dingo ate your baby...

  • March 27, 2008

    3:47 p.m.

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    glowrock writes:

    bropous, are you capable of doing anything other than recite idiotic insults aimed at everyone who doesn't agree 100% with you? My god, that comment was extremely over-the-top, don't you think?

    Sheesh!

  • March 27, 2008

    4:35 p.m.

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    SufferingFromFools writes:

    Wow, vudumom,

    So you're happy that the cats disappear and your neighbor died? "This is the problem with cat owners" and "If they have just cats they are usually weird" - what a crock.

    I'm pretty glad you don't live in my neighborhood.