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Was this woman being cruel to her cat? Or was this just a bit of a light-hearted laugh?

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littlepattilou · 08/05/2021 20:10

twitter.com/jo_and_bailey/status/1390933306930311177

So, this woman (on Twitter today,) posted a little video of her cat wanting to come in out of the rain. Kittie was scratching at the window. 'Let me in!' you could hear her cry! (Well I imagined she was saying that.)

The poster received some positive comments and LOLs, but also a load of abusive messages of how utterly cruel she was, and how badly she was treating this lovely creature. Several people even tagged in the RSPCA, saying 'investigate this person!'

Sooooo, in your opinion, was she being cruel to her cat? Or was it just a bit of a laugh?

'YABU' for she was being cruel to her cat.

'YANBU' for it was just a bit of a laugh.

Thanks for participating. Smile

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Suitcasecoveredincathair · 08/05/2021 20:14

I personally would have let it in but my cats carry on like that any time there’s a door shut somewhere and they want to be on the other side. One of them does it when I go to the loo Hmm So I’d be less inclined to take the ‘desperation’ seriously.

Trinacham · 08/05/2021 20:15

It's a 14 second video. Unless it continued for a lot longer, there's nothing wrong with that. This is coming someone who has strictly indoor housecats!

Trinacham · 08/05/2021 20:18

@Suitcasecoveredincathair

I personally would have let it in but my cats carry on like that any time there’s a door shut somewhere and they want to be on the other side. One of them does it when I go to the loo Hmm So I’d be less inclined to take the ‘desperation’ seriously.
Same here. One of our cats does this on the cupboard door (where we once hid cat treats) cats are great at looking overly dramatic Smile
OwlBeThere · 08/05/2021 20:20

Tagging the rspca 😂

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littlepattilou · 08/05/2021 20:23

@OwlBeThere

Tagging the rspca 😂
I know right. Bonkers Confused

Here's just two examples! I think there were several more!

twitter.com/craig_connelly/status/1390943296298668033

twitter.com/deathlord09/status/1390947890277883905

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Retrievemysanity · 08/05/2021 20:24

Just a laugh. I don’t think I know anyone (myself included) who has a cat where their only method of getting in and out the house is for someone to open the door, they all have cat flaps.

Original poster
littlepattilou · 08/05/2021 20:25

Sorry those links didn't work. They just take you to the main tweet I put in the OP. The comments are there though, if you scroll down all of the comments.

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Original poster
littlepattilou · 08/05/2021 20:26

Oh yeah they did work!!! The comments are beneath the woman's main (first) tweet. Sorry, I just expected to see their tweets!

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StreetLightsHoney · 08/05/2021 20:26

YABU. It wasn’t cruel, it was funny.

If cats have the right to roam and shit in everyone’s gardens (and make regular friends with super soakers) they can deal with the rain.

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littlepattilou · 08/05/2021 20:30

@StreetLightsHoney

YABU. It wasn’t cruel, it was funny.

If cats have the right to roam and shit in everyone’s gardens (and make regular friends with super soakers) they can deal with the rain.

So you would click 'YANBU' then, if you think it's not cruel, not YABU. Smile

So if you have already clicked YABU, you can change it. Just click YANBU instead... Smile

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DarcyLewis · 08/05/2021 20:32

@Retrievemysanity

Just a laugh. I don’t think I know anyone (myself included) who has a cat where their only method of getting in and out the house is for someone to open the door, they all have cat flaps.
I don’t have a cat flap.
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littlepattilou · 08/05/2021 20:41

Yeah, I know a few cat owners who don't have cat flaps too. We have always had one. My cousin currently lives in a private let house, (has done for a year,) and she isn't allowed a cat flap there. She says it's such a pain in the arse not having a cat flap (after having houses with them in for 20 years!)

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TheCanyon · 08/05/2021 20:42

We dont have a cat flap either. I hate seeing our cat sitting waiting to be let in, poor wee bigger will be freezing and miserable.

SchrodingersImmigrant · 08/05/2021 20:46

Our cats used to do that. We never had cat flap.

SchrodingersImmigrant · 08/05/2021 20:47

I cannot believe people are tagging rspca there...

AnUnoriginalUsername · 08/05/2021 20:52

It is cruel but I don't think it's report to rspca level cruel. People too often find it funny to see animals scared.

There's a video I hate of someone's dog having a nightmare, it's clearly being attacked by something and gets more and more frantic to the point it actually gets up and runs into a wall. It's awful, it must have been so scared and the people responsible for looking after it just found it funny. We always wake our girl up gently when she's having a nightmare. Just like we wake eachother up. I'd never let her be afraid when I could take that away.

OhRene · 08/05/2021 20:57

How ridiculous. My cat does this.

Just yesterday she was doing it at the window to come in. I got up, walked to the front door, let her majesty inside, and before I had picked up my cup of tea again, she had walked from the front door, into the living room and was asking to go back out again by climbing the pane, banging her bell and scratching at the glass of the very window she had been asking to come inside from.

They're cats. They'll survive a bit of water!

My idiot kitty won't go outside in the rain for a wee bit when she fancies it, she'll go and sit in the middle of the lawn in the pouring rain for an hour or two getting thoroughly soaked.

OhRene · 08/05/2021 20:58

@Retrievemysanity

Just a laugh. I don’t think I know anyone (myself included) who has a cat where their only method of getting in and out the house is for someone to open the door, they all have cat flaps.
We don't have a cat flap. Don't want one either. There are five human slaves in this house to act as door openers for her majesty.
IReallyNeedMoreGin · 08/05/2021 21:00

My cat screams at my kitchen window to be let in. I let her in. She goes straight out the doggie door, back to the kitchen window and sits and screams at me. She will do this all day if I let her. My cat is an asshole.

Aprilx · 08/05/2021 21:02

I think calling the RSPCA is massively over the top, but it was mean. I would never leave me cat begging to come in at the door like that, this cat seemed to give up in the end.

SunsetBeetch · 08/05/2021 21:02

I think she was a bit of a dick, and I think it was unkind and not funny. But calling her cruel and tagging in the RSPCA is a bit much.

SchrodingersImmigrant · 08/05/2021 21:04

@IReallyNeedMoreGin

My cat screams at my kitchen window to be let in. I let her in. She goes straight out the doggie door, back to the kitchen window and sits and screams at me. She will do this all day if I let her. My cat is an asshole.
😂😂😂

One of ours used to do this at a cupboard door. Never saw any other cat do it. He wanted bread. Not cat bread or whatever.
Normal. Bread.

LizzieW1969 · 08/05/2021 21:07

Not cruel, it was just funny. I have three cats, they choose to go out in the rain and then come inside to complain about being wet. 🤣🤣

Honeyroar · 08/05/2021 21:08

My cats do this, then winge to go out again and do it again to come back in. Sometimes, when they’re asking to come in for the tenth time in half an hour, they get ignored for a few minutes!

SheldonesqueTheBstard · 08/05/2021 21:09

It was mean. I wouldn’t do it.

But I’d only be tagging the RSPCA if the letters stood for Royal Society of Pricks, Cahnts and Arseholes.

They’d have a new member for the taking.

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