Was Ford right in nixing the commercial where a CAT gets killed?

[Deja Q]

http://www.sunbelt-software.com/stu/video/ford-cat.mpeg

The one Ford remade the commercial and it featured a bird flying over the car's hood. The car's hood springs up in fear the bird will doo-doo on it, and the bird gets whacked and dies. Apparently it's okay to kill a bird, but killing a cat was a big no no.

http://www.nutman.net/Ka%20Bird.mpeg to see the bird get killed.

[RebelOne]

1. In my opinion, both of the commercials were totally gross.

[Tom_Foolery]

3. I agree....

both are uncalled for.

[Wilber_Stool]

2. No, No, No,

the bird was merely stunned. Lovely plumage.

[jukes]

5. still not amusing

IMHO. cruelty is cruelty, & fit for only for weak minds.

*NOT* a personal attack, i don't include you in that crowd.

[Wilber_Stool]

7. Is there any evidence

that the bird was really killed.

[jukes]

8. simulated death/cruelty

still feeds the mentally unstable. doubt *anything* was killed; the ASPCA monitors this stuff rigorously.

wd it be humorous if a human child had died a sim death?

are you defending these types of ads? you're starting to worry me.

[jukes]

4. both deaths

were aimed @ a segment of our society that has a morbid fascination w/animal cruelty, the dogfight/cockfight mentality.

surprisingly, some so-called liberals in this forum have the same debilitating emotional weakness, & love to insert/disrupt threads by nurturing, caring, *true* liberals.

fuck those sick little weaklings, i'll bandy w/them no further. they're WAY too easy to defeat in debate.

[SheilaT]

6. Was that a real cat

that was really killed? A real bird?

But the cat one is much worse, in that lots of people own cats -- it could be my own kitty this happens to. Not as many people own birds, and the one shown is clearly a wild bird, so it's kind of like, who cares?

Either way, neither commercial is acceptable, in my opinion.

[jukes]

9. see post #8 above

and i concur; this type of add is uncalled for. sure wdnt convince me to buy a ford.

[LWolf]

10. other.

Ford was wrong to make either commercial. Both are tasteless. It's nice they nixed the kitty commercial, but they shouldn't have made it to begin with. I guess if you can't provide a product that somebody wants, you appeal to those ignorant enough to find violence amusing.