“This note magically appeared one day in our letter box late last year from an obviously unhappy neighbour,” says Anthony in Melbourne, Australia. “To this day we still don’t know the cat-hater, the cat owner, or the cat.”
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#1
Denny
COWARDS
Mar 15, 2010 at 7:59 am rating: 5
#2
QuarterRoy00
I would appreciate getting contacted on the number 69!!!
Can I get a hi-5?
Anyone?
Mar 15, 2010 at 8:07 am rating: 6
#3
farcical aquatic ceremony
yikes. i’m pretty sure discussing anything with the cat-tagger in a “civilised manner” is out of the question…
Mar 15, 2010 at 8:11 am rating: 35
#4
Gunderson
What a Pussy!
Mar 15, 2010 at 8:11 am rating: 8
#5
jaywalke
I’m Team Birds on this one. Keep your cat at home.
My hound thinks your cat was delicious.
Mar 15, 2010 at 8:16 am rating: 17
#6
park rose
Sheesh, kids these days and their spray paint. Living or dead, in motion or immotion [sic], nothing is free from the threat of the dreaded graphity. If the owners call the local council, they might clean the hapless moggy up for a small fee, or send someone around on work-release to do it.
Mar 15, 2010 at 8:19 am rating: 1
#7
claw71
Anthony lets his cat wander outside
he doesn’t like to clean up the cat shit
His neighbor is a psycho with a feline complex
who will kill a cat in a minute
If he sees it again he’ll break it’s back ack ack ack
You oughta know by now
He’ll make your cat into a hacky sack
And think it’s hysterically funny
The next time that cat gets outside
its guts will be all cut out
Good luck, with your neighbor–he’s
a freaking out.
Oh, He’s freaking Out!
You can never argue with a crazy mind mind mind
You can post a note but it’s a waste of time
Your neighbor might think that it’s funny.
Mar 15, 2010 at 8:31 am rating: 19
#8
laurie
Did this unhappy neighbor mistake the cat for a dog?
Cats don’t generally get lost, and often live partially outside unsupervised.
Mar 15, 2010 at 8:31 am rating: 11
#9
sunny
YOUR CAT WAS FUCKING DELICIOUS.
Mar 15, 2010 at 8:37 am rating: 11
#10
Peasant
If you don’t want the cat around, the appropriate response is to teach the *cat* – probably with your garden hose. Teaching the human slav^H^H^H^H owner will accomplish nothing.
Mar 15, 2010 at 8:37 am rating: 3
#11
Max Time
thats what happens when you have Garfield as your cat
Mar 15, 2010 at 8:38 am rating: 2
#12
Canthz_B
Just what what was pussy caught doing.
Come on guys, keep your pussies “well informed”, lest their curiosity get the better of them and they get tagged by a stranger.
Mar 15, 2010 at 8:39 am rating: 2
#13
Geek Kittie
I would never let one of my cats roam around outside unsupervised. There are too many hazards. Plus we’re in Wisconsin where torturing animals seems to be a past time for some people. Creeps.
Mar 15, 2010 at 8:44 am rating: 13
#14
farcical aquatic ceremony
i like that the Mr. or Ms. Crazy used the word “caught”…was the cat “caught” tryin’ on Crazy family undies? tossing cherry bombs into the trashcan? or, as I suspect, did Crazy McCrazyton, Master Hunter (delusions of Hemingway?), ‘catch’ the vile and wily beast as it attempted to sweetly snuggle against his leg?
Mar 15, 2010 at 8:45 am rating: 11
#15
Canthz_B
Domesticated cats don’t belong outside unattended.
Domesticated means they should be within the confines of your domicile, not running free in the neighborhood.
If I catch him, I’ll cook him and eat him with sweet potatoes!
Mar 15, 2010 at 8:53 am rating: 11
#16
splint chesthair
I moved to an area that had a bunch of feral outdoor cats, I trap them and get them fixed. I also put food out for the cats and a few of them occasionally come inside. There’s a neighbor that complains about my cats coming onto his property. I tell him to feel free to shoot them if he wants. It’s either don’t do anything and let the cats breed out of control, or get yelled at my neighbors who now consider them my cats. Damned if you do, or don’t.
Mar 15, 2010 at 9:02 am rating: 21
#17
Woman on the Verge
You know I have to say this… you know it’s coming… By a show of hands, how many of you believe that if the cat is CAUGHT again it will be found in the next batch of cat chow mein?
Mar 15, 2010 at 9:13 am rating: 2
#18
dixiechick
Cat-tagger had better keep his/her (his?) shades down–next time pussy gets loose, the owner may come looking for it in the shrubbery. Wearing a freaky sun-yellow hoodie.
Mar 15, 2010 at 9:40 am rating: 18
#19
claw71
Is it bad that I have employed a similar tagging method on children?
Please keep this kid at home! Twice it has been caught.
It’s hard enough being a registered sex offender without kids wandering around in my garden.
Mar 15, 2010 at 10:41 am rating: 36
#20
Spoons
I had a neighbour once who didn’t like my cart wandering through his garden. He got my number off the cat’s collar and phoned me up to threaten harm to the cat if it ever went into his garden again. Unfortunately for my neighbour the threats I made to him if he ever touched my cat were far more scary and real than anything he had to offer. Strangely enough I didn’t experience any further problems with this neighbour.
Mar 15, 2010 at 10:53 am rating: 15
#21
aaa
Dude, is that last note some sort of threat?
Mar 15, 2010 at 10:54 am rating: 1
#22
Spoons
No, just something that happened. Bit off more than he could chew, I guess he thought I was a little old lady not a 6ft skinhead.
And that is obviously supposed to say cat in the first line, not cart.
Mar 15, 2010 at 10:57 am rating: 2
#23
veritybrown
Cat-haters scare me. The vitriol they spew (far more intense than the objections people make toward any other type of domestic animal) makes me wonder how they manage to relate in a civilized manner to other human beings. Maybe they don’t….
Mar 15, 2010 at 11:07 am rating: 18
#24
Q
It’s much easier to take the time to find some paper, a pen, and to think of exactly what to say to give you incentive to call the police for theft than it does to look at the collar and call the number listed on it.
Mar 15, 2010 at 11:25 am rating: 2
#25
Shady
Cats shouldn’t be outside unsupervised ever. Would you let your 2 year old child play in traffic? Or your dog go off leash for leisurely strolls around the neighborhood? If you answered no to both these questions, why would you say its ok for cats to wander? They get hit by cars, trapped in traps intended for wild animals, poisoned or killed by angry neighbors. Above and beyond that, cats are skilled hunters, even if they don’t have to kill for food they will and have domesticated cats have decimated song bird populations in some areas.
Mar 15, 2010 at 11:36 am rating: 10
#26
Rae
If your pet is out by itself it runs into people and things that you don’t know about. Like people who leave little notes, hungry coyotes, and other peoples’ pets that may be bigger and not so friendly. It’s a risk I’m not willing to take.
Everyone always thinks there is no way their pet annoys the neighbors. If your pet is out by itself it is probably aggravating someone or something.
Mar 15, 2010 at 12:52 pm rating: 12
#27
Julie
Perhaps it is the cat hater (or the cat?) who is tossing the tuna cans in the previous post.
Mar 15, 2010 at 1:02 pm rating: 6
#28
daquina
hrm. the laws in my state specifically exempt cats (as well as pigeons, incidentally) from having to be confined or under control by their owner.
Mar 15, 2010 at 1:55 pm rating: 6
#29
oi
I dunno. cats outside who cares. Where I grew up (I grew up in a small town) we had cats, dogs, cows, goats, pigs along with kids, of course, roaming the streets pretty much at their discretion. I grew up learning living in harmony and caring for you own safety. We had a particularly crazy cow that would run for ten minutes from one end to another every evening 7 o’ clock. At this time everybody and by everybody I mean other cows, dogs, pigs and kids would disappear to let her run around. Cows are believed particularly sacred so City did not dare to dispose her.
I guess it boils down to location. On that note we did not have large number four wheelers but we did have numerous bikes and motorcycles passing through out the day. I have not sen a single case of any animal or a kid been ran over in 17 years of my living there. nor the cases of kids being hurt by animals or vice versa.
Mar 15, 2010 at 2:55 pm rating: 8
#30
SAP-er for life
The only time I have an issue with my neighbor’s outdoor cat is when he poops in my garden. That’s when I break out the cayenne pepper. If he still doesn’t get it, I employ my husband’s slingshot. He usually gets the point after that.
Mar 15, 2010 at 3:20 pm rating: 2
#31
xyzzy
Statistically speaking, the *average* lifespan of a cat allowed outside is just four years. I learned in my quiet suburb that it was fairly accurate before I started keeping my cats inside. The fluke that died naturally at 21 was sadly balanced by the ones killed as kittens & between 4-5 years old. (Even staying on the porch didn’t help, thanks to other cats with fatal diseases like FIP that lack effective vaccines.)
Hopefully the person that left the original note just intends to bring the cat to a no-kill shelter. I don’t know the laws elsewhere, but in much of the US it’s legal to report/bring roaming pets to Animal Control.
Mar 15, 2010 at 5:00 pm rating: 4
#32
Jill Terwilliger
Angry German Ancient Lady killed or otherwise disposed of my cat for me whilst I was on vacation. It was so nice of her to do that for me and leave he kittens to die in the garage (they didn’t, actually, though they got mighty thin in the week we were gone.)
This sweet ole biddy also welcomed me to the neighborhood with a PAN about how she didn’t pay taxes so I could be off being a lousy parent while the busdriver waited in front of my house honking and making her fibromyalgia flair up. Because it was SO AWESOME for the school district to make my normie and my special ed kid go to different schools. That made things really easy, what with trying to walk back with the normie to be home in time for short bus to come back with the helmethead.
Mar 15, 2010 at 7:32 pm rating: 5
#33
Canthz_B
I can feel the authority of the note-writer. Talking sperm always add weight to comments about a stray pussy.
Mar 15, 2010 at 10:24 pm rating: 0
#34
Sarah Ashley
Okay, I had to comment on this one;
I have a cat named Jack that I adopted from the MSPCA last year. When he adjusted to his new home, I allowed him to be an outdoor cat since my neighborhood is relatively quiet.
He usually only stayed outside during the day, but as the summer wore on he started to disappear for days at a time. I became concerned, and, after getting him several of those break-away cat collars that he snapped out of in seconds, I purchased a dark green, personalized collar that had his full name embroidered on it in white, with an actual buckle that he couldn’t rip off (he also has a microchip).
WELL … one night, after coming home from work, he came racing up the driveway to greet me — wearing a plain, bright red collar!!!!!!! What crazy person does that?! The collar that I bought him could only come off if a human unbuckled it, so someone took it off and put their own collar on MY cat!
Needless to say, I’ve never let him out of the house since that night…
Mar 16, 2010 at 5:10 pm rating: 3
#35
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Mar 22, 2010 at 2:12 pm rating: 0
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