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Was this woman being cruel to her cat? Or was this just a bit of a light-hearted laugh?
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. 
Am I being unreasonable?
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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 
So I’d be less inclined to take the ‘desperation’ seriously.
Trinacham · 08/05/2021 20:18
@Suitcasecoveredincathair
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
littlepattilou · 08/05/2021 20:23
@OwlBeThere
I know right. Bonkers
Here's just two examples! I think there were several more!
twitter.com/craig_connelly/status/1390943296298668033
twitter.com/deathlord09/status/1390947890277883905
littlepattilou · 08/05/2021 20:30
@StreetLightsHoney
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.
So if you have already clicked YABU, you can change it. Just click YANBU instead...
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!)
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
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.
SchrodingersImmigrant · 08/05/2021 21:04
@IReallyNeedMoreGin
😂😂😂
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.
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