Cross with neighbours and sad.

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Our little cat was 'adopted' by someone on our road over a year ago, they fed him and kept him in their house, we had a few conversations about it and they knew we weren't happy. After about 6 months they were going on holiday and asked us to pop in and feed him, we said no you wanted him therefore he's your responsibility, they never let him out so we hadn't seen him since. Then on Saturday 2 very distressed people turned up with our old cat which they had run over and killed. Someone on the street directed them to the neighbours house and she sent them to us with the body! They apparently had builders who let the cat out and were too distraught to deal with it. I'm so cross with them, he used to go out when we had him for 3 years then they took him and kept him indoors so he didn't really have a chance of coming back and lost his road sense I think. it's also really sad. Also what do we do with him?

I am really sorry for you. If you don't want bury him your vet will be able to arrange a cremation.

Very sad.

That is absolutely horrific and I would want to punch them.
Sorry about your poor little cat x

That's disgraceful, they stole your cat?

I'm hoping you have laid this poor little one to rest now, I cant believe that they stole your cat then washed their hands of him now that he's gone.

To give him a burial Is the least they could have done.

On a side note, what did you do to try and get him back?

Because if someone tried to steal one of mine i'd be banging the door down and demanding them back and I have done in the past when an unknown neighbour at my old house tried to steal two of my cats (at separate times, she wouldn't have dared try it again!!)
Failing that I would have offered to feed him when they went on holiday and brought him home, got him micro chipped and kept him in.

Wouldn't give up without a fight, my cats are my babies.

Thanks for the replies, yes we were all a bit surprised at their reaction and really their behaviour throughout. The poor people who had hit him said they (the cat stealers) were too distraught to deal with it!!! As he had always been allowed to roam around we thought at first he had wandered off it wasn't until a neighbour told us he was with the other people that we knew, he was micro chipped to us, they knew he was ours as they called him the same name we did! We didn't know he had been made an indoors cat and locked in, they made out like he was just fed there every now and again which is what I'm most fed up about as they lied and he obviously wanted to be outside as he escaped at the first opportunity. It's all very sad.