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kirinm · 2024-10-04T21:19:12+00:00

My cat has just come in with a collar on. She doesn't have a collar. I feel like someone is trying to claim her. What are we meant to do to signal that she has a home?

IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 05/10/2024 10:30

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 05/10/2024 10:02

I’m not claiming I did not do any damage myself.

What I'm saying is that cat owners need to own up that the damage done by their cats is done by them by proxy.

Those cute little baby mice and birds? It’s not just your cat that killed them.

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Mice are not endangered. Complaining about mice being eaten by a cat is as daft as complaining about any higher carnivore eating meat

As for birds , bird loss is down to human activities

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 05/10/2024 10:32

KnittedCardi · 05/10/2024 10:17

As in, needing to keep them in for safety. Australia for the safety of native species, America for the safety of the cat. Europe, cats are native species, and don't have many predators left.

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There are bears and wolves in Europe.

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 05/10/2024 10:34

IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 05/10/2024 10:30

Mice are not endangered. Complaining about mice being eaten by a cat is as daft as complaining about any higher carnivore eating meat

As for birds , bird loss is down to human activities

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Yes, some human activities such as keeping cats.

The little blackbirds your cat killed? Those are on your conscience as well.

IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 05/10/2024 10:49

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 05/10/2024 10:34

Yes, some human activities such as keeping cats.

The little blackbirds your cat killed? Those are on your conscience as well.

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You might try doing some basic googling before posting

Cats And The Decline Of Garden Birds | Bird Spot

https://www.birdspot.co.uk/garden-birds-and-cats/cats-and-the-decline-of-garden-birds#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20Mammal%20Society,which%2055%20million%20are%20birds.

Grabyourpassportandmyhand · 05/10/2024 11:21

DopeyS · 05/10/2024 08:22

@Grabyourpassportandmyhand funny you say if they'd cared enough about the cat they'd have kept them in. But you decided to take someone else's cat, think it was your own but also didn't keep it in. So clearly you didn't care much about the cat either.

I was about ten so no didn’t care that much about a stray cat that came and went. Presumably died or got killed one day. Don’t know if anyone ever really missed it.

FlickyFlo · 05/10/2024 11:22

Hello OP, it seems your post has been derailed rather. Of more interest to me is, she's a rescue,despite that is she overly friendly with humans? As in how did somebody catch her and put a collar on her?! Being a sleuth, that also suggests somebody who already owns or did own a cat in order to have a collar to hand.

MouseofCommons · 05/10/2024 11:26

Some people are nuts. Our spotted FB page is full of idiots who think every cat is a stray and try to re-home them.

Grabyourpassportandmyhand · 05/10/2024 11:27

Diomi · 05/10/2024 05:24

That is a very high effort response. They can be quite tricky to catch. Then you would have to actually get the cat into some kind of cat container and then transport it to the nearest shelter. They would then check the microchip and probably ask you to return it to your neighbour seeing as you would be going that way anyway.

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Our local shop allow you to borrow cat carriers if you tell them you are catching a stray.

The cats we’ve put into rescue are not difficult at all to catch. Food in the carrier and in they went.

Don’t think either were chipped.

The main problem is the shelters are so full. Many people just leave the cats in boxes outside the shelters at night. It is a big problem for the shelters. But these cats are better off being PTS.

caringcarer · 05/10/2024 12:42

AbraAbraCadabra · 05/10/2024 02:49

Just to add unless it has special needs, or is a dopey Ragdoll which is a danger to itself as it has no sense of fear!!!

🤣

outforawalkbiatch · 05/10/2024 12:50

MouseofCommons · 05/10/2024 11:26

Some people are nuts. Our spotted FB page is full of idiots who think every cat is a stray and try to re-home them.

I got a message from the local cat woman (there's one in every town!) who is lovely saying
"A woman just rang me and said she saw a scruffy black cat sauntering across the street and was worried it was stray...I knew the second she said sauntering it was your old boy"
Me "OLIVER GET INSIDE NOW"

TeenLifeMum · 05/10/2024 13:00

batt3nb3rg · 05/10/2024 01:09

Cats having the right to roam doesn't preclude people from taking cats without collars to a shelter, and if those cats are not microchipped, they will be rehomed. If you believe a cat is a stray, you can hand it in to a rescue organisation. Personally, if I see cats entering my garden, I just go outside and push them off the fence or throw a bucket of water over them.

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I’ve tried many collars but my cats (all dead now) never kept them on. Everyone I know has the same issue. All chipped though.

flashspeed · 05/10/2024 13:40

Diomi · 05/10/2024 05:24

That is a very high effort response. They can be quite tricky to catch. Then you would have to actually get the cat into some kind of cat container and then transport it to the nearest shelter. They would then check the microchip and probably ask you to return it to your neighbour seeing as you would be going that way anyway.

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All you have to do is throw some dreamies down instead of using a water pistol on them for a week

StormingNorman · 05/10/2024 14:24

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 05/10/2024 08:45

Not in my garden they can’t.

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You may not want them in your garden but unless it’s a fortress I am convinced that cats have been in your garden.

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 05/10/2024 14:47

StormingNorman · 05/10/2024 14:24

You may not want them in your garden but unless it’s a fortress I am convinced that cats have been in your garden.

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They don’t tend to stay long, and they definitely don’t enjoy being chased away by the dogs.

SidekickSylvia · 05/10/2024 15:19

Cats are such opportunists, it reminds me about the guy who saw his neighbour's home was for sale on Rightmove, so he thought he'd have a nosy at the photos. His cat was curled up asleep on his neighbour's bed in the spare bedroom photo.

FormerlyPathologicallyHappy · 05/10/2024 16:01

I saw that! Our bengal sometimes came home smelling of what can only be described of old lady perfume. Little toad.

RunSlowTalkFast · 05/10/2024 16:01

Snugglemonkey · 05/10/2024 00:56

They do not. My cats have always been safely contained on my property. I consider unsupervised cats on my property to be uncared for. It is why I have fed/deflead/dewormed several over the years. Even had 4 kittens once. Spayed mummy after.

No idea where mama lived, but she would come through the cat flap and sleep in the dog bed, while they all harassed me upstairs. Then one morning the dog barking alerted us to wee kittens. We took care of them all until the mummy left and we removed the kittens.

I honestly thought she was a stray until I heard about a cat disappearing from the next street while pregnant and turning up weeks later spayed, with tne righ time lines.

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You seriously took someone's cat, took the kittens too and had it spayed? 😱

FormerlyPathologicallyHappy · 05/10/2024 16:05

Well it was probably a kindness, a pedigree queen wouldn’t be out and moggies have no need to breed the shelters are stuffed full.

In the 90’s our neighbour let his cat breed and then drowned the kittens. Onely one litter survived because mum had them in a narrow crevice and he couldn’t get them. We had one of them after she’d been abused by the people he sold her to.

Howmanyusernames123 · 05/10/2024 16:52

MouseofCommons · 05/10/2024 11:26

Some people are nuts. Our spotted FB page is full of idiots who think every cat is a stray and try to re-home them.

I particularly like the pictures where a sleek, definitely not skinny cat has it’s nose in 3 bowls of food.

with the statement that this “stray” cat keeps coming into my garden absolutely starving, I gave it a tin of tuna and it ate the lot!

it’s clearly not starving, and if you stop giving it tuna every time it appears it’ll go back to where it’s fed!

Snugglemonkey · 05/10/2024 16:57

RunSlowTalkFast · 05/10/2024 16:01

You seriously took someone's cat, took the kittens too and had it spayed? 😱

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Yep. She was sleeping in my house, I was feeding her, I sorted her fleas, she moved in with us. Noone knew where she came from other FB page, so we adopted her.

CatchingBabies · 06/10/2024 00:50

RunSlowTalkFast · 05/10/2024 16:01

You seriously took someone's cat, took the kittens too and had it spayed? 😱

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@RunSlowTalkFast At least someone took care of the poor cat as no decent owner would leave a heavily pregnant cat to give birth outdoors

sashh · 06/10/2024 06:57

Riverswims · 05/10/2024 07:57

Not this again 🙄 our spirits are lifted every time the neighbours cat visits us, purring away, he's like therapy and I've not discovered any poo. cats are meant to roam 🤷🏽‍♀️

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When I couldn't have a cat I loved the odd visitor.

I live on a small cul-de-sac, apparently mine visits all the neighbours. I knew she visited 3 but we had someone new move in and I went to explain that the small dishevelled looking madam is not a stray kitten she is 14 and friendly.

At this point another neighbour had come out and said she visits him as well!.

A neighbour who went in to a care home used to feed her, if he didn't have food in they would walk to the shop together.

Namechangetotalkaboutmysleepingpillsproblem · 08/10/2024 00:41

kirinm · 05/10/2024 08:04

Our neighbour's cat does this to ours. They're both very young (or were when it started) and it's very cute.

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Yeah it is cute isn't it, when they make little friends :)

VenusClapTrap · 08/10/2024 11:01

2Old2Tango · 05/10/2024 08:08

She could be catching mice in other people's gardens. Even though your cat does not kill the mice, it's possible they die anyway. Cats carry a toxin in their mouths and any bird or mouse caught but not killed should be given an antibiotic before being released again (if you love your wildlife and don't want to see it being killed).

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I think you’re getting mixed up with Komodo dragons there.

2Old2Tango · 08/10/2024 14:10

VenusClapTrap · 08/10/2024 11:01

I think you’re getting mixed up with Komodo dragons there.

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Nope. I follow a local wildlife rescue and they always comment about the bacteria in cat saliva being toxic to birds/mice etc. just Google it.