“I don’t even like cats,” our submitter in San Francisco admits, “but reading the note made me want to go inside to see what someone would be so inclined to steal.”
related: Do not kiss on someone else’s kiss
“I don’t even like cats,” our submitter in San Francisco admits, “but reading the note made me want to go inside to see what someone would be so inclined to steal.”
related: Do not kiss on someone else’s kiss
Tags: cats · exclamation-point happy! · irregular capitalization · san francisco · stealing
Hey, so do you remember hearing about how crazy cat ladies might be explained by the Toxoplasma parasite? (No? Then listen to this episode of Radiolab. It’s pretty awesome.) Well, Toxo may or may not explain these notes.
Exhibit a) Spotted by Shane at an office in Upland, California…
Exhibit b) From an apartment building in Austin, [...]
Tags: CAPS LOCK · austin · california · cats · exclamation-point happy! · neighbors · rebuttals · unnecessary "quotation marks"
Spotted by Ressa’s brother during his travels through America…
(This is one of those where the passive-aggressive part isn’t the note itself.)
related: passive-allergic
extra credit: stuffonmycat.com
Tags: actually totally reasonable · cats · neighbors · new york
one night last summer, sylvia in new york was just chillin’ out, watching tv, when she noticed a cat had wandered through the open window. sylvia, an animal-lover, assumed he was a stray (he didn’t have a collar), and because “he was super cute and affectionate,” she says, “we let him stay a little while. [...]
Tags: cats · neighbors · new york · thanks (but not really)
our anonymous submitter in new jersey found this note taped to every apartment door in his complex. “we do indeed have a problem with feral cats in our neighborhood, but my sense is that they’ve been around for many (cat) generations…not that people are buying new ones.”
adds our submitter: “now that i think about it, [...]
Tags: cats · exclamation-point happy! · guests · jersey · neighbors
“okay, so i’m not sure if i’m in the wrong on this one,” says melanie from sydney. “i have a long haired cat who sheds a lot, so i just used to pick up the bits of fur and throw them out the window.” (um, right, of course.) melanie continues: “i’m on the third [...]
Tags: actions speak louder · australia · cats · neighbors · questionable logic · sydney
joshua brings us this amazing pair of notes from his apartment building in philly.
the backstory: “a bulk package of cat food (probably 20 or so cans) was delivered and sat in the hallway for about 4 or 5 days. we could see what it was because the sides of the package were cardboard, but [...]
Tags: cats · neighbors · not-so-veiled threats · philadelphia · rebuttals · smiley · stealing · thanks (but not really) · that's illegal
Semarr prefaces this submission by saying: “I realize it’s not particularly *passive* aggressive, but in context it became so.” She explains:
“There were eight people living in the house. One of them collected shelter cats and kept them in the basement. I found this note when I had come home from work very late at night. [...]
Tags: cats · excessive underlining · jersey · more aggressive than passive · not-so-veiled threats · roommates · shit · that shit is disgusting · whiteboard
no lols from this feline — just some lovely passive voice!
(thanks to megan in michigan.)
Tags: cats · cleaning · michigan · passive voice · roommates · signed with love · whiteboard