When newspaper columnists whimsically write about kitty killing, they don't fear letters to the editor from animal groups, or calls from Brian Shapiro, D-Woodstock.
Newspapers columnists fear being replaced by the very animals they are writing about.
Poetic justice via LOLCATS:
I’M IN UR NEWSPAPER WRITIN MAH COLUM -- The Houston Chronicle, June 6, 2007.