Omg I'm fed up of cat 'rescuing' weirdos on fb

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Not much more to say than title. Basically weirdo recuses healthy looking cat from being outside and posts on Facebook about the poor kitty they’ve ‘found’. Over and over on my local groups. Ok if it’s thin/ looks ill etc I’d intervene... but it’s a fucking cat. Most go outdoors. Today’s effort is ‘because he was outside a church’, accompanied by a picture of a healthy adult cat being stroked in a car.

YES! Thank you! I thought it was just me.
One woman quite posted a photo of a cat because it was sitting on her garden wall for a while looking at her funny. Random cats have been trapped because they're sat on a pavement. They're quite barking mad.

It’s the same on my local FB page.

There a cat in my garden, does anyone know who it belongs to? I think it’s lost!

Cats wander around, it’s what they do! 🙄

The worst horse rescuers are the ones who insist they've found an abandoned horse and then start feeding it all sorts of inappropriate things which will make it ill.

Oh god its mrsnugglesgate round here, there is a thin, slightly sad looking cat that people kept putting pictures of on Facebook, ‘seen in my garden’ ‘obviously stray and unloved’ except he isn’t he’s mr snuggles and is tatty looking because he’s 19 and on medication and a special diet, the owner keeps posting to leave him alone, and then two days later someone else posts his picture and it starts again

There are so many photos of ‘does anyone know this cat?’ It’s a cat! They’re free range!

I live in a small village. The local FB page has at least one "found" cat post a day. The owners are located, comment that it's not lost and just greedy/friendly. A week later... Picture of the same cat posted by someone else who has been feeding it for a few weeks because it's "starving" when obviously quite overweight

On the other extreme i saw a post from someone who’s cat had been missing three hours.

Long, ranty post about it being the most amazing cat ever, they needed it back or everyone would die of grief (my words ;) )

Followed by even rantier instructions on how to acknowledge the post. No “likes”, or comments, as every time they saw the notification their hearts broke a little bit more. Share’s only, and share to every group you’re in. “Share the hell out of this and get are baby home”. And definitely no comments asking if it had been found yet, as that was just brutal and you may as well just knife them in the heart.

I am normally very sympathetic with this but I gave this one a wide berth. If I’d have clicked the wrong button or said the wrong thing they’d be reporting me to the police fo emotional distress...

I don’t think they saw their list of specifics was actually stopping people interacting....

I once had to go out and help find a neighbour's cat. He'd been missing since the morning and she'd put a note through my door before I was even home from work because our cats were "friends". He turned up in time for dinner.

This was the same woman who took my cat to the vets at the end of the road because he'd managed to escape his collar. The vets called me and when I said he wasn't lost they let him back out again.

Nowt strange as cat folk 😸