To be pissed off that someone has accused me of being cruel to my cat on a local FB page?

[CatthiefKeith]

Village group, it says 'does anyone know who this cat belongs to as the owners never seem to let it in and I am tempted to take it home and show it some love'

Followed by a picture of the cat laying outside my front door soaking up the sun!

Bloody cat doesn't want to come in, it wants to lay on the step in the sunshine you nosy baggage.

Someone who lives near me put up "Not Missing!" posters for their cat, as well-meaning busy-bodies kept catching him and taking him to the local vet.

Someone in my neighbourhood it posters up with a photo of a cat

'Found cat. We found this cat walking down the street. Please call us if it is your escaped cat as we were concerned to find it out alone'

Hoot!

^ ugh...

Another post on our local cats missing group on FB had someone saying 'there's a ragdoll walking around our street. Since they have to be kept as house cats it must have escaped'. Cue me (and plenty of others with Ragdolls) saying they were perfectly happy being outdoor cats if that's what they wanted and to leave the wee bugger alone.

Sorry peace the was for the people on snowman's poster.

I had to dust the scruffier of my 2 earlier. Also he's not at all symmetrical and there's some grime on one of his ears which won't fully wash off, not that he gives a hoot.

God knows what she'd think of my cat ownership skills, if indeed cats can be owned.

My cat was reported to the RSPCA, they investigated and found cat was looked after!
The same person reported him to the local 'crazy cat lady' otherwise known and XXX town cat protection.
She took him and when I found out where he was, she still wanted me to pay for the checks she had done! Even though she admitted that 'he looked well looked after for a homeless cat'. I told her to stick her charges where the sun don't shine and give me my stolen cat back! She did!

Rip the person who is slagging you off on FB a new one!

Slight derailment but I found a website selling high vis jackets for chickens recently. To allow them to cross the road safely. Honest guvner, no joke!
If they can makevthem for chickens, why can't they make them for cats?

Because my psychotic pair would take them straight off I suspect

There are "not missing" posters near me too.
They politely ask that you shovel said moggy out of the middle of the road where he likes to sunbathe should you come across him in your car. (He's deaf. And gives zero fucks.)

Op, I'm sure you're local to me. Inbox me the group so I can have a nosy. One of my local groups is hilarious. And has mad people running it. I stay on them for the amusement value!

TwoOddSocks..I am wondering if we live near eachother...that sounds VERY familiar...! :-O

The cat will be cat napped in the next few days.

I have a school and a village hall in my little road

I once lived on a school run, my then cat, Charlie, would go out to be adored by passing YR-Y6 year olds (to be fair I did go out to tell mums of little ones he was OK being stroked because they were draging them past saying no too touch strange animals).

My current cat, who obviously rules the house and has earned both her names and titles convinced the next door neighbour she was stray.

I was sent an anonymous letter once by someone concerned because my cat was sitting on my windowsill at 11.30 at night. It started off fairly reasonable the quickly degenerated into a rant about how they felt sorry for my children. Maybe they thought I was one step away from putting the DDs into the garden at night.
Cat would only come in for five mins at a time at that point anyway, he liked to survey the garden and the house from his vantage point. Miss him.

a takeaway driver was most miffed when he saw "his" cat at our house ... they'd been feeding her for 6 months, thinking she was stray!

same cat woke up whole household of neighbours when she was discovered at 2am eating a defrosting whole chicken by their 3 terriers ... she escaped unharmed and I got a knock on the door the next morning. How exactly they expected me to stop her using their dog flap I'm not quite sure ...

My cat keeps appearing wearing a paper collar from the Cats Protection League, and is a regular feature on our local lost pets Facebook page. I might resort to 'not missing' posters soon

He's a total Six Dinner Sid, he'll eat a bowl food here for breakfast before going on his rounds and pulling his "I'm staaaarrrrrvvving, my owner doesn't feeeeeeedd meeeeeeee!" act on the neighbours.

He's enormous, how anyone falls for it I don't know

He's taken to huddling himself up looking miserable on random window sills in the pissing rain.

He also hassles people in the co-op car park.

He has a cat flap, and has a ready supply of food, but the little horror is always getting me a flaming.

I refuse to put a collar on him, our previous cat ended up with terrible neck injuries after he got caught up in a tree and the collar failed to break so I see them as an unnecessary risk. I'm not putting one on him just to keep the local busy bodies happy.

My elderly neighbour (other end of street) had asked me a few times, in a 'pointed' way, whether my cats ate regularly. I explained that they always had dried food available and that one of them was just little (nor underweight). One day she appeared on my doorstep and informed me she'd phoned the SSPCA and I was a 'disgrace'! She then stopped ranting, and asked me "Is that your cat"? (Small cat contentedly sunbathing on lawn). Turned out she'd been feeding a stray in the (mistaken) belief it was mine. She apologised to me almost every time I saw her for about a year. ??

You should put on facebook that you have booked the cat on a road safety awareness course

Do cats not get micro chipped like dogs then?

If they have a chip surely a collar wouldn't be necessary as any agency the cat is given to could scan? And would ort out all those people nabbing cats thinking tey are someone else's lost cat?

Many years ago I had huge huge problems with some interfering twats at the back of me. Our beloved cat had several problems and had been (very expensively) operated on three times in one year. Because he ate the food they offered him, apparentely were neglecting him

I cant help but scowl at the twat everytime I see him

Mines chipped, although tbf he is pretty distinctive, and the local vets would know him instantly.