Tami
12-03-2003, 03:57 AM
Hey i have an idea... and not worry about a damn cat and start printing all the lies they speak of... Or maybe about all our white men and women gettign killed
Subject: Black Cat Banned From Tel Aviv Stairwell
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-israel-feline-phobia,0,1219255.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines
Black Cat Banned From Tel Aviv
Stairwell
By PETER ENAV
Associated Press Writer
December 2, 2003, 3:43 PM EST
JERUSALEM -- An Israeli cat has been banned from
circulating freely in the stairwell of a suburban Tel
Aviv apartment building, apparently because its jet
black color was frightening the residents.
[Comment: In the early twentieth century many physicians
protested the massive influx of Jewish immigrants to the
US as a health problem due to the extremely high incidence
of mental illness and hysteria found in Jews. (And don't
forget that article on Jews infecting gentiles with schizophrenia
--some say that excessive study of the Talmud will drive
anyone insane.)]
Kooshi, a 7-year-old mixed breed shorthair, has a
midnight black coat and green sparkling eyes.
Its owners were told by municipal veterinarian Jonathan
Even-Zor of Rishon Letzion they had to cradle the cat
when descending the building's staircase -- or risk having
it impounded.
"This is a black cat that on its way downstairs occasionally
passes through the legs of building residents, some of
whom are afraid of the cat, quite possibly because of its
black color," Even-Zor wrote to Dan and Ariel Morganstern.
"Even if this reaction is based on superstition, people who
are afraid of the cat should not be forced to encounter it on
the stairwell, particularly when the area is not illuminated,"
the letter said. It ordered the couple to carry the cat when
walking down the stairs.
["Oooh! I thawt I thaw a puddy-tat."]
The Morgansterns, owners of four cats, objected to the order
and engaged the services of Asaf Marx, a lawyer with Israel's
Cat Welfare Society.
Marx, an expert in Israeli animal-rights law, wrote to Even-
Zor, threatening to go to court if the order against Kooshi
is not rescinded.
"The city of Rishon Letzion doesn't have a leg to stand on,"
he said. "A veterinarian can issue an order like this only if
an animal constitutes a threat to public health or to public
order. Kooshi is clean, he's been vaccinated and neutered,
and is extremely well mannered. He's being singled out
only because of his color."
Sara Novestern, a spokeswoman for the city government,
said the order had nothing to do with Kooshi's color.
"We issue orders like this all the time," she said. "If an
animal is a public nuisance, then we have to act to control
it."
Riva Mayer of the Cat Welfare Society said fear of black
cats is pervasive in Israel.
"What's unusual about this case is that the Morgansterns are
fighting," she said. "Usually they (owners) just roll over and
play dead, and the animal pays the price."
Subject: Black Cat Banned From Tel Aviv Stairwell
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-israel-feline-phobia,0,1219255.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines
Black Cat Banned From Tel Aviv
Stairwell
By PETER ENAV
Associated Press Writer
December 2, 2003, 3:43 PM EST
JERUSALEM -- An Israeli cat has been banned from
circulating freely in the stairwell of a suburban Tel
Aviv apartment building, apparently because its jet
black color was frightening the residents.
[Comment: In the early twentieth century many physicians
protested the massive influx of Jewish immigrants to the
US as a health problem due to the extremely high incidence
of mental illness and hysteria found in Jews. (And don't
forget that article on Jews infecting gentiles with schizophrenia
--some say that excessive study of the Talmud will drive
anyone insane.)]
Kooshi, a 7-year-old mixed breed shorthair, has a
midnight black coat and green sparkling eyes.
Its owners were told by municipal veterinarian Jonathan
Even-Zor of Rishon Letzion they had to cradle the cat
when descending the building's staircase -- or risk having
it impounded.
"This is a black cat that on its way downstairs occasionally
passes through the legs of building residents, some of
whom are afraid of the cat, quite possibly because of its
black color," Even-Zor wrote to Dan and Ariel Morganstern.
"Even if this reaction is based on superstition, people who
are afraid of the cat should not be forced to encounter it on
the stairwell, particularly when the area is not illuminated,"
the letter said. It ordered the couple to carry the cat when
walking down the stairs.
["Oooh! I thawt I thaw a puddy-tat."]
The Morgansterns, owners of four cats, objected to the order
and engaged the services of Asaf Marx, a lawyer with Israel's
Cat Welfare Society.
Marx, an expert in Israeli animal-rights law, wrote to Even-
Zor, threatening to go to court if the order against Kooshi
is not rescinded.
"The city of Rishon Letzion doesn't have a leg to stand on,"
he said. "A veterinarian can issue an order like this only if
an animal constitutes a threat to public health or to public
order. Kooshi is clean, he's been vaccinated and neutered,
and is extremely well mannered. He's being singled out
only because of his color."
Sara Novestern, a spokeswoman for the city government,
said the order had nothing to do with Kooshi's color.
"We issue orders like this all the time," she said. "If an
animal is a public nuisance, then we have to act to control
it."
Riva Mayer of the Cat Welfare Society said fear of black
cats is pervasive in Israel.
"What's unusual about this case is that the Morgansterns are
fighting," she said. "Usually they (owners) just roll over and
play dead, and the animal pays the price."