Re: Fact or opinion?
So . . . what you're saying, to paraphrase, is: You
did look, but couldn't find much empirical support for your position.
I never misrepresented my opinions here as fact Rowan. The weight and scope of my opinion, as opinion is abundantly clear. Please, don't misrepresent my position, it's bad form.
Interesting you haven't called anyone else, closer to concurrance to your apparent position, on unsupported statements.
See, I'm sort of old fashioned. If it looks like a duck, goes quack, and lays what I know to be duck eggs, I don't need to see it's picture in a duck book.
Now if I was doing a paper or article on the duck in question, sure, I'd take the time to grab the trusty "Audubon Society Field Guide to Obvious Ducks" to support my position with something relatively empirical. But this is a casual messageboard. Not to mention my anecdotal life observation is in and of itself pretty solid in following a coherent, followable line of reason. Dr. Swifts unsupported, and 'somewhat questionable' declaration (my opinion, admittedly) that most Vets poison cats for the vaccination fees is a bit less 'well-mapped'. (Not a direct quote, admittedly) And I won't even touch on the Dr.s conclusions relative to a reliance on the socioparasitic benefit of perephrial protection of others animals until the Dr. chooses to rebutt.
All this being said Rowan, if you stop with the benign cattiness and unbalanced position misrepresentation, I'll stop with the mildly acerbic reparte' Feel free to spare me the "What, moi?" indignant retort. Nobody with any sense really buys it, even if they think I am a twit myself. At least I'm an up front twit. I must have been beaten too much as a child, eh? <---<<<<< (Referrence to nice "friendly" jest you concurred with! :^)