To be bemused by the constant 'I found a cat' posts on fb

[MummySharkDoDo]

At least once a day someone posts a picture of a healthy looking cat on our local Facebook groups. Yesterday there was a picture of a ‘lost kitten’ and lots of discussion about taking him in/ to the vets. If it was a kitten it was huge! Then about 9:30 there were pictures of a cat ‘still out in the street’, loads of crying faces and discussion of keeping it in. The only possible risk I could see in the photo was maybe obesity. Now this morning there’s big post about a cat in someone’s garden they haven’t seen before. It must be a ‘house cat, it keeps trying to get in. I fed it chicken and it was so hungry’. Surely it just wants more chicken. About 10 pictures of a healthy cat rubbing against legs and being petted.

It seems weird! Cats roam. I feel like shouting ‘leave it alone!’. Fair enough if a cat looked ill or injured I’d take it to the vet, but otherwise cats aren’t always house pets. Theres always posts about cats not coming home too, missing for days- yet people are still picking them up.

Drop feed avoidance: a few years ago someone decided my small cat was a poor lost kitten. They took it to the vet who newly opened handed it to our local self-proclaimed cat lady/ rescue. She’s actually unregistered and very dodgy. After two weeks of swearing at me down the phone and stories about where my cat was she returned it sick, too sick to save. I’ve heard since she’s often abusive, has mental health needs that impact on the care of the animals, has been in the paper for misusing donations and stuffs animals into more conditions in her house (I went to look at the house when she had mine, I wouldn’t leave a pet there). A number of local vets won’t deal with her due to unpaid bills and the condition she’s brought animals in. Yet she still has a crazy local fb following of people reporting cats to her that she tries to round up and find (I reported her harassment to the police, she wasn’t threatened to go to my work and tell them I left a 4 week old kitten outside and all sorts, also the RSPCA would acknowledged it all and more they knew but wouldn’t get involved)

It’s the same around here

I have a cat. She’s a very unique colouring so can’t be mistaken for anyone else’s cat.

She lived 99.9% outdoors and though she is chipped she will not wear a collar. She will actually harm herself trying to get a collar off if I put one on her so we don’t risk it.

She won’t go near people so I’m pretty confident she won’t be taken in, but it makes me cross when I see others doing it.

It’s a healthy looking cat and you’ve seen it for 10 mins in your garden

LEAVE IT ALONE!!! It will go home eventually. Stop feeding it

Only feed the cat if it looks very skinny and only take it in if you think it looks ill, or injured or you know an owner has abandoned it

The local cats groups on facebook are insane, and their members seem to have appointed themselves some sort of official cat police. They're hilarious at times- I really can't help but snigger when one of them has got wind of a post mentioning a cat and the klaxon goes, all the tagging and breathless updating and "call Carole NOW Stephanie, we need her, this is an EMERGENCY SITUATION" type comments. And woe betide anyone makes the mistake of, oooh, posting to say they'd like to get a cat and does anyone have any ideas of where to go- within seconds they will get a flurry of posts from people screechingly berating them for considering using a breeder/ answering a gumtree ad/ something else they have not mentioned that they are doing but which the catladies want to shout about.

My youngest cat shits on the floor next to the litterbox and will not be taught to do otherwise. She's been confirmed perfectly healthy by the vet, we have the required number of litterboxes (one for each cat plus a spare), she pees in the box, but she shits on the floor. I once posted about how annoyed this made me and how my landlady was very unhappy so I would need to consider trying to get the cat rehomed if the landlady threatened eviction and my god, you would think I'd posted admitted to being my area's version of the Croydon Cat Killer. I'm still surprised the cat ninja posse didn't mount a nighttime raid on my home.

@icannotremember I read that as using a blender rather than a breeder, I think I need a nap 😂

Theory

@AbsoluteBeginners7 we have a shared group!!! I remember that one