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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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SchrodingersImmigrant · 09/05/2021 09:17

@OhRene

People who don't have cats: "I think it's cruel!"

People who actually have cats: "Cats are arseholes! It's just dramatics!"

Yup.
MuddySocks · 09/05/2021 09:21

Cruelest case I know was my ex neighbour.

V outing but I don't care.

She fucked off and moved House.

Took her little new kitten but left her older Tom cat behind to fend for himself.

Absolutely beyond cruel.

SchrodingersImmigrant · 09/05/2021 09:22

@MuddySocks

Cruelest case I know was my ex neighbour.

V outing but I don't care.

She fucked off and moved House.

Took her little new kitten but left her older Tom cat behind to fend for himself.

Absolutely beyond cruel.

That's just nothing like this thread.

Dickhead tho, massive dickhead.
Now that's cruelty

FastFood · 09/05/2021 09:31

Its not cruel (it's rain, not acid) but I'm really tired at people filming absolutely everything.

If I see that my cat wants to get in, I open the door, I don't think about my clout and grab my phone first.

90% of my friends who have had a pet in the last 5 years all have an instagram account for said pet.
I'm just tired of that really.

DdraigGoch · 09/05/2021 09:38

Blimey, you can really tell which posters (and Twitterers) have never owned been ruled by a cat.

MaxNormal · 09/05/2021 10:18

It was a very short clip of a clearly completely unafraid cat being dramatic. No cruely whatever.

OhRene · 09/05/2021 10:23

I often film mine throwing herself at our living room window to get our attention. Then I send the video to DH saying, "Your baby girl wants back in!" The reply is almost always, "I just let the little arsehole/dickhead/shit out a minute ago!"
It's a family joke now after we once made a note of the times we let her out and in and found that it was every couple of minutes sometimes, with all 5 members of the household getting up and opening doors almost constantly.

Tlollj · 09/05/2021 10:27

We used to have a cat flap. But the cat would only use it if someone held it open for her. 🙄

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 09/05/2021 10:31

Our cat is an indoor cat, for various reasons. However, we used to have a cat that, quite literally, used the house as a corridor, though - would noisily demand to be let in at the front door, then trot through the house and yowl to be let out of the back door. Frequently.

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BarbaraofSeville · 09/05/2021 10:42

Does anyone else have a cat who likes to be shown the view out of all the doors and windows in the house to see if there's one where it's not raining?

It's a family joke now after we once made a note of the times we let her out and in and found that it was every couple of minutes sometimes, with all 5 members of the household getting up and opening doors almost constantly

We have the Sureflap connect catflaps, which know which cat has used them and displays this on an app that tells you whether your cat is in or out of the house and there is also a FB style newsfeed that lists 10.02 'Fred entered the front door', 10.07 'Ginger looked through the back door' 10.08 Ginger looked through the back door' 10.10 'Ginger finally made her fucking mind up and left through the back door' 10.12 'Ginger thinks it's too cold and wet today and entered through the back door'.

And yet they'll still jump up on the living room windowsills and glare at us until they're let in through the windows.

Buzzinwithbez · 09/05/2021 11:01

Or cat used to do the same. I'm guessing it took her 13 seconds to let her in.

We don't have a cat flap. The human servants open and close the doors when commanded. Sometimes it takes up to 12 seconds. I wouldn't wait 13. That's just cruel Hmm

LagneyandCasey · 09/05/2021 11:46

How ridiculous. It's a few seconds and it's barely raining. The RSPCA have actual proper animal cruelty to deal with.

We don't have a cat flap so if we go out and Princess happens to be out she has to stay out. Cats are very capable of finding a bush or whatever to keep dry under.

SimonJT · 09/05/2021 11:52

I’m fairly certain my cat would call the RSPCA if she could, she almost starved to death this morning as the food in her dish wasn’t quite in the centre. She also wanted to come in from the balcony, she didn’t however want to step back so I couldn’t open the door, how very unreasonable of me.

OwlBeThere · 09/05/2021 12:01

@SimonJT I’m calling the rspca on her behalf. Poor poor girl.

My cat cried this morning because I very unreasonably wanted to get out of bed before I pissed myself and that meant he had to move.

SoupDragon · 09/05/2021 12:05

@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.
Mine have a cat flap but the lazy fuckers still meow piteously at the back door or kitchen window.
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littlepattilou · 09/05/2021 15:51

@SimonJT

I’m fairly certain my cat would call the RSPCA if she could, she almost starved to death this morning as the food in her dish wasn’t quite in the centre. She also wanted to come in from the balcony, she didn’t however want to step back so I couldn’t open the door, how very unreasonable of me.
YOU ARE A MONSTER! Shock Smile

#justkidding

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Original poster
littlepattilou · 09/05/2021 15:52

@OhRene

People who don't have cats: "I think it's cruel!"

People who actually have cats: "Cats are arseholes! It's just dramatics!"

Grin
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IncomingBBQSeason · 09/05/2021 15:58

My car does this at the patio doors even though there is a door with a car flap right next to it. Why should his majesty use the car flap when one of his servants can open the door for him?

canyon2000 · 09/05/2021 16:26

@hellocatshome You are right. You shouldn't wake a sleeping dog as it could behave aggressively towards you. 'Let sleeping dogs lie' is good advice!

CSIblonde · 09/05/2021 16:57

I think it's a bit mean. I always let my cat in via the window as I've no cat flap. Also I know she's scared of the ginger cat that bullies her & it could be loitering, which is her usual reason for coming back in .

Oldsu · 09/05/2021 17:01

When we first got married we lived on the first floor of a maisonette my cat had 2 cat flaps one from the garden and the other at the top of the stairs he could get in and out without any problems, he would sit on the windowsill of the flat below yowling to be let in it was so pathetic the neighbours complained, what would happen was that I would have to go all the way downstairs to let him in, by the time I got downstairs he would have buggered off over the wall, as soon as I got back upstairs he would be back yowling to be let in again - drove me nuts

SamMil · 09/05/2021 17:36

This is not cruel. It's only a few seconds, I'm sure the cat won't melt Hmm

RestUp · 09/05/2021 17:47

Haha @ cruel.

One of mine does this in the rain. Should bloody use the cat flap only a few steps away.

hparkins · 09/05/2021 17:53

if you read some of the comments underneath, she said her cat does this on the door when they want to come in no matter the weather.

if you look at her Twitter page, she obviously dotes on that cat and the people who are tagging the RSPCA are nuts.