You appear to be conflating Obsessives with.. the topic of this thread. Yes, there Are such -- regardless of income. So?

I was referring to the attitude of the local-rich, simply: re the efforts of a quite tactful, soft-spoken person in search of a venue for trapping, near where a stray was spotted/reported -- and the mien/attitude/non-communication she has encountered, repeatedly over past 1.8 years.

Nothing I mentioned has the slightest relationship to (whether or not the sullen-rich have or have-not their own pets and how they treat them) nor were Obsessives mentioned. I was addressing one variety of Meanness as was the topic. So your question about my report is … ?

As to how 'voluminous' are these filler-stories of excess: amidst the talking heads -- is that supposed to represent the validity of Anything? any more than the rest of the MSM's relationship to actual (thus often 'controversial') matters of importance. It will be rare when a local talking head actually addresses this new epidemic other than via some occasional anecdotal equivalent of a car-crash report -- too many peoples'/advertainment-subjects' feelings would be hurt, especially if numbers of events involving cruelty by neighbors or abandonment by ex-owners were mentioned and more than 23 seconds were expended.

What I do (now) know re the networks of animal rescuers, is that they appear to have mastered their [inter- and intra-] networking techniques -- measured by the efficiency of operations (ferrying animals sometimes to another state, informing locals of sightings and the myriad details which all have to be attended to, before an animal is indeed somewhere where it is wanted and will be cared for.)

(And in our county, there is now more cooperation twixt the groups and the official animal control folk: this is unprecedented progress within not much more than a year. That development alone merits some MSM attention; still … fat chance.)


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