Just Venting

[magicpiper]

I had an old witch that lived next to me that was starving her own cat to death. One day I came home and the cat was laying in my driveway and it was so thin I could see all of its ribs. I thought it was already dead because it didn't move when I pulled in. So I backed out of the driveway, drove to the store, and bought some milk and cat food. I left bowls of each in the strip of lawn between our houses.

The next morning I woke up and the bowls were right outside my front door, turned upside down. The cat food was scattered from my door to the lawn. Clearly, I had overstepped my bounds in her mind and she dumped it all out so her cat couldn't eat or drink it.

So I took to leaving the food out on my property only in places where she wouldn't find it. The cat lived for a few more days but I think the damage was done and the cat just disappeared. Thankfully, the old hag died a few months later in her house all by herself. I know they say not to speak ill of the dead, but this lady was a hateful, angry, harpy and I wasn't sorry when her story ended.

Dang...sounds like she was a nasty old broad.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Sorry buddy. That shit ain't right. Call the E.P.A in my experience they make a huge deal over things like this.

 

[kg.legat0]

I have never met a cat that was "just a cat" ...this is so sad. What kind of disturbed person does stuff like this? May they reincarnate as a litter box.

 

[bullet08]

Know few human only booby traps, but that would be politically incorrect. Not to mention that would be species profiling. Mean people suck.

 

[mso489]

Like voorhees and others, I bond with cats. (Grew up with a magnificent powerful little spaniel, but never felt he had the room to roam and hunt.) Cats seem to gravitate to me. I am truly sorry and send condolences to the people who are affected by loss, and of course sorrow for the cats and their awful departure. I lost a cat to FIV, which at least wasn't intentionally planted, but was the result of people not caring for their pets. Now we keep our three inside and hope for the best. My wife ordered some moth spray and I saw before we used it that it is a neurotoxin for cats, so I am trying to dispose of it safely, which is not easy. The landfill equals stray and indoor-outdoor cats. The evil poisoner could live-trap the strays, if that is what he/she is after. They could be returned home, carried to a shelter, put down humanely if necessary, but not this. Sadly, too many people are morally unformed or deformed, so this is how they are. I try to keep myself in line, for starters.

 

[anotherbob]

my first cat we found starving in the woods like a skeleton with orange fur. Awesome cat too. Got nice and fat and lived an nice long life. Personally I think the stupid and cruel things people do to animals should be done to them. I am fine with eating animals and such but senseless cruelty isn't the same thing. For example the people that dumped that cat should be dropped off in a woods they don't know and only allowed to survive if they can do it all by themselves or someone is completely willing to take them in as a full dependent.

 

[Kozeman]

Like voorhees and others, I bond with cats. (Grew up with a magnificent powerful little spaniel, but never felt he had the room to roam and hunt.) Cats seem to gravitate to me. I am truly sorry and send condolences to the people who are affected by loss, and of course sorrow for the cats and their awful departure. I lost a cat to FIV, which at least wasn't intentionally planted, but was the result of people not caring for their pets. Now we keep our three inside and hope for the best. My wife ordered some moth spray and I saw before we used it that it is a neurotoxin for cats, so I am trying to dispose of it safely, which is not easy. The landfill equals stray and indoor-outdoor cats. The evil poisoner could live-trap the strays, if that is what he/she is after. They could be returned home, carried to a shelter, put down humanely if necessary, but not this. Sadly, too many people are morally unformed or deformed, so this is how they are. I try to keep myself in line, for starters.

That's us too. Three rescue cats living in separate parts of our house because they don't get along. Another three living in the garage, because they don't get along either. Them, two horses, two dogs and two rabbits. All rescues. I'm pretty sure I'm a rescue too.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I've never understood choosing sides, dogs or cats. All dogs and cats seem to be drawn to me, and I to them. When girls have told me in the past that they were cat people, I always imagined her ripping up the side of her couch. Or, if a guy says he's a dog guy, them setting in the floor licking... well... you get the picture.

Of course I have problems imagining someone choosing to be Republican or Democrat. Alabama or Auburn... It's like choosing a side, knowing it's all a stupid lie, and sticking with your team... because you've invested so much in tshirts and bumper stickers. It just doesn't seem intelligent to me.