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My cats have escaped several times, they always come back after a day or so. They like food.
 

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Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Hopefully you're not my neighbor because I can tell you right now- that can't ain't coming back.
You really are an f-in asshole. I wish they would institute an age limit on ATOT, it would at least keep jackholes like you out :disgust:

They just need to keep over-emotional cat owners (I think that's redundant) out of this place. Cat owners understand no logic and react on pure emotion alone. That's a recipe for a basketcase.

I have to deal with the results of people like you at my house, with their disgusting cats coming over and pissing on my cars. I get in my car in the morning and it smells like cat piss.

I already exterminated a few of these pests, but my town is infested with them. They're like roaches, sneaking around and crawling out of the woodwork.

I can guarantee you one thing- if you keep your cat locked in your house *like a responsible pet owner should*, you have nothing to fear. But if you think that you can let your cat outside to "rule the night" and mess with other people's property, don't be surprised when it doesn't come home.

You're an asshole.
 

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Originally posted by: mugs


You're an asshole.

For what? Not putting up with the constant smell of cat piss on my car?

It's your pet, not mine. It is neither my duty nor my desire to train your cat. If it comes on my property and pisses on my car, I'm going to kill it. End of story.

Be more responsible and don't let your pets damage other people's property. That is your responsibility.



 

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Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: mugs


You're an asshole.

For what? Not putting up with the constant smell of cat piss on my car?

It's your pet, not mine. It is neither my duty nor my desire to train your cat. If it comes on my property and pisses on my car, I'm going to kill it. End of story.

Be more responsible and don't let your pets damage other people's property. That is your responsibility.


No, for crapping on this guy's thread. He obviously doesn't let the cat outside, it broke out. Go ****** yourself.
 

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Originally posted by: mugs

No, for crapping on this guy's thread. He obviously doesn't let the cat outside, it broke out. Go ****** yourself.


^ Can someone ban this guy? I'm able to state my opinions without using profanity but apparently this guy isn't capable of abiding by ATOT's rules.

 

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Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: mugs

No, for crapping on this guy's thread. He obviously doesn't let the cat outside, it broke out. Go ****** yourself.


^ Can someone ban this guy? I'm able to state my opinions without using profanity but apparently this guy isn't capable of abiding by ATOT's rules.

They can ban me if they want. See my sig? It says Ban Me. Been there for 2 years at least. Hasn't worked yet. Profanity? Cry me a river. You brag about killing people's pets in a thread about a person's INDOOR CAT that escaped. You're a scumbag.
 

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I would check with any neighbors that have kids that might be feeding it. When I was little I'd feed cats and dogs that would wander to my house.
 

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Originally posted by: mugs

They can ban me if they want. See my sig? It says Ban Me. Been there for 2 years at least. Hasn't worked yet. Profanity? Cry me a river. You brag about killing people's pets in a thread about a person's INDOOR CAT that escaped. You're a scumbag.



You sound like an emotional cat owner, not capable of controlling yourself.

As a more logical person, if I lost a cat I'd think of the places that it would take shelter, how it's getting food, etc. I wouldn't whine about it on an internet forum. Stop crying.

His cat is probably right around his house, with neighborhood kids feeding it.
 

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Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: mugs

They can ban me if they want. See my sig? It says Ban Me. Been there for 2 years at least. Hasn't worked yet. Profanity? Cry me a river. You brag about killing people's pets in a thread about a person's INDOOR CAT that escaped. You're a scumbag.



You sound like an emotional cat owner, not capable of controlling yourself.

As a more logical person, if I lost a cat I'd think of the places that it would take shelter, how it's getting food, etc. I wouldn't whine about it on an internet forum. Stop crying.

Not capable of controlling myself? I don't kill animals because they perform natural bodily functions. :roll: You didn't post anything logical or relevant in this thread until you were called out for being an asshole.

You make judgements about people based solely on the fact that they own a cat. How logical is that?
 

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Originally posted by: mugs

Not capable of controlling myself? I don't kill animals because they perform natural bodily functions. :roll:

It's when they perform "natural bodily functions" on other people's property, damaging that property, that becomes the problem.

You don't seem to have any regret about your pets potentially damaging people's property, you only have outbursts of misguided emotion when someone gets fed up and bags your cat.
 

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Originally posted by: Number1
Do cats piss on cars? If so where? The driver seat?

On my car, it was the left front tire. And it wasn't only one time.

Believe me, that smell easily penetrates the car. It's disgusting.
 

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Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: mugs

Not capable of controlling myself? I don't kill animals because they perform natural bodily functions. :roll:

It's when they perform "natural bodily functions" on other people's property, damaging that property, that becomes the problem.

You don't seem to have any regret about your pets potentially damaging people's property, you only have outbursts of misguided emotion when someone gets fed up and bags your cat.

I keep my pets indoors, like the OP does. Maybe once every couple of years they sneak outside. I think it's pretty safe to say my pets probably haven't damaged someone else's property.
 

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Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: Number1
Do cats piss on cars? If so where? The driver seat?

On my car, it was the left front tire. And it wasn't only one time.

Believe me, that smell easily penetrates the car. It's disgusting.

It urinated on your TIRE one time and you thought that it deserved to die for that? You have issues. What damage would that do? :confused:

How many cats have you killed? Or are you just bragging about stuff you haven't even done?
 

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Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: 91TTZ

On my car, it was the left front tire. And it wasn't only one time.

Believe me, that smell easily penetrates the car. It's disgusting.

It urinated on your TIRE one time and you thought that it deserved to die for that? You have issues. What damage would that do? :confused:

Do you have trouble reading? It WASN'T only one time. The smell was nauseating. It lingered for days each time it happened.
 

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Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: 91TTZ

On my car, it was the left front tire. And it wasn't only one time.

Believe me, that smell easily penetrates the car. It's disgusting.

It urinated on your TIRE one time and you thought that it deserved to die for that? You have issues. What damage would that do? :confused:

Do you have trouble reading? It WASN'T only one time. The smell was nauseating. It lingered for days each time it happened.

Give me a break, I've had a few beers. Did you bother to talk to the owner of the cat(s) before you killed them?
 

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Originally posted by: KarenMarie
I would not worry until the cat has been gone for more than 24 hours. An indoor cat will find a whole new world to explore before they get hungry enough to come home.

Call the local shelters and town animal control this evening to see if anyone found and turned him in.


Yeah, or else listen outside. My one cat, Beverly, got out a few years ago, and didn't come right back. She either got lost or scared in the woods behind the house, and just started howling, which is how we found her and brought her back.

Do you have some kind of bowl or dish that you usually feed the cats with/from that makes a distinctive noise? For instance we have a big plastic cup we use to scoop the cat food up and pour it into their ceramic bowls. If you go outside and shake the food container and/or pour some into a bowl that makes a noise, he might hear it and come a runnnin'!
Definitely a good idea, at least if your cat is one who absolutely loves eating. They know all the sounds associated with food. My cats know that food comes from the refrigerator, and they know that the handle is the key to gaining access. But they just don't have the leverage or strength to get it open - luckily. :)

cats are good at breaking through screen doors. especially if they have claws.
Scotty (other cat) decided to have an outing like that. Must have been a squirrel or something outside the sliding screen door - he just ran right at it and busted through. Don't know if he planned to do that, or, more likely, he just forgot that the screen was there in the first place.

I know 10 isn't that old for cats, but when pets know they are going to die, they usually try to get away from everyone and die by themselves
It's different for every cat I guess. We adopted/rescued one cat, Blackie, that was kept confined to a small bathroom, and its litterbox was almost never cleaned. Well, we gave her two baths when we got her home, and she didn't complain. She seemed glad if anything to be clean for once. She had a thyroid problem though, which we just couldn't afford to cure. Treatment would have been in the thousands of dollars.
We had her for several months, and she just loved it there. Freedom, cleanliness, attention, and two other cats she could harass.:) She wound up dying though of the illness eventually. She just went to her favorite rug in the cellar, where she normally liked to sleep, and that was where she died then. :( But at least she was able to die somewhere that she liked, instead of her little prison that she'd lived in for so long.



They just need to keep over-emotional cat owners (I think that's redundant) out of this place. Cat owners understand no logic and react on pure emotion alone. That's a recipe for a basketcase.

I have to deal with the results of people like you at my house, with their disgusting cats coming over and pissing on my cars. I get in my car in the morning and it smells like cat piss.

I already exterminated a few of these pests, but my town is infested with them. They're like roaches, sneaking around and crawling out of the woodwork.

I can guarantee you one thing- if you keep your cat locked in your house *like a responsible pet owner should*, you have nothing to fear. But if you think that you can let your cat outside to "rule the night" and mess with other people's property, don't be surprised when it doesn't come home.
Open Letter to an Asshole:
There's a difference between feral cats, irresponsible pet owners' cats, and responsible pet owners' cats.
Feral cats of course are homeless, and breed freely, and are an unfortunate result of irresponsible pet owners, who get cats, then decide they don't want them, so they dump them somewhere. Or they don't get their pets spayed or neutered, so they go out and get jiggy with anything they can find.
Responsible pet owners, like Lothar1974, might have their cats slip out sometimes. And how he's quite worried about trying to find his pet. That's a responsible pet owner. You can't keep your cat locked in the house 100% of the time, unless you keep the pet confined to a cage, which is just cruel.
Cats see the people going out of the big doors to some bigger place, and they want to see what's going on out there, so they'll try to bolt out the door if they can.

So, there's a difference between a feral cat and someone's beloved pet. Unfortunately, it's not easy to distinguish just by looking.

Concerning the problem of cat pee on your car tires....no easy solution there I think. You've heard of animals marking their territory - well, your tire now smells like cat urine, and may always have a slight odor to it, perceivable only by cats. I don't know, maybe spray it with some kind of hot pepper stuff?

To sum up, ok, maybe you have a serious and genuine feral cat problem where you're at. We tend to think of killing cats as horribly cruel, but that's because cats are common pets. Groundhogs are generally shot indiscriminately - that'd surely change if they were kept as pets. What I'm getting at is, your attitude is appalling. Some people dearly love their animals. True, some cat owners are assholes and let their animals do whatever they want. Try to save the majority of your anger for the humans that are responsible for this. But for those people who have a lot of emotion invested in their pets, their cat might slip out once, and find your urine-scented tire, and do what comes naturally. The owner has no malicious intent, nor does the cat. Only you do, killing out of irrational, all-consuming contempt. No better than an untrained, wild animal.
 
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I lost two cats to the neighborhood cats (there's like a dozen of them). They are always attacking the house-cats...prob jealous that the housecats get to eat meat and laze around in air-conditioned bliss while the big kitties have to live it up in the 45 degree celsius heat with the half-dozen stray dogs.

Anyway, I got a kitten 3 weeks ago. It hasn't seen the world beyond my front door yet - everytime it hangs near the windows, the big cats outside growl and try to intimidate it (even through the glass!) - and this dumb animal always tries to sneak out whenever I'm going out and I have to toss him back in and shut the door real quick.

It's hard out here for a pussy...
 

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I already exterminated a few of these pests, but my town is infested with them. They're like roaches, sneaking around and crawling out of the woodwork.

I do hope someone catches you at what you *claim* you're doing and takes the proper actions against you.

 

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Originally posted by: spikespiegal
I've have this 20lb orange tom named Garfield I got from the humane society for about a year now. Great cat, and I've been letting him out on my back deck because the 4foot railing seemed more than enough to keep the big guy in bounds. He's never tried to jump the rail in the past, and isn't a keen jumper in general because of his size. He's not fat, just huge.

For the past several months we've had a black and white alley cat wander the neighborhood causing all kinds of raucus. He yowls constantly, sits in windows and drives indoor cats (and dogs) nuts, walks in mud muddles and the finds freshly washed cars to sit on, poops in the next door lady's garden, etc. Owner refuses to keep him inside, and if it wasn't for the fact I like animals I'd end the problem with my 9mil.

I let Garfield out on the deck the other night, and went to work on my computer. Heard a loud cat scream about 10 minutes later, and went out on the deck to find Garfield not there. I quickely ran around looking for him, only to find him sitting in the neighboors back yard licking his paws and seeing the alley cat from hell beating a hasty retreat. Seems Garfield jumped the fence just to kick some ***, and calmly and proudly walked back to my house with me saying 'good kitty' behind him.
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What a baller, your cat is f*ckin awesome!
 

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No cat yet. I did see him Saturday night and got within 3 feet before he ran, guessing he was freaked. At least we know he's alive. He is an indoor cat that never goes out side. As far as post from 91TTZ, yes some people let their cats out, we do not. YOu should have actually read my post before making comments! Sounds funny that cats piss on you car? I can say that if there are cats pissing on your car there are other ways to deal with them than killing them. Live traps, local control agency? Most domestic cats are neutered so I doubt that these "cats" are any ones pets and are most likely feral cats. I know its not right that they pee on your car but again killing them is not your job. As for everyone else I appreciate the nice comments and support. I am getting a live trap and putting it out tonight, I really don't think he's going to let us get close enought to grab him. Thanks all!!

Lothar1974
 

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I hope you find your beloved cat...we lost our pet cat yestaday morning at 9:30am when he died after ingesting poisoned food.

whats pisses me off is that I'm a grown man and yet I feel like absolute sh!t over a little cat, even though it's been 12 hours since we buried him. i still feel like crap, its the same feeling that i had when a few of my friends were killed a few years back in a car crash.
very very depressing :(