Posted on 06/30/2016 1:40:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Well, King Solomon would have the solution: cut the cat in half.
I wonder what Solomon would do?
When I was a kid, about 8 to 11, we went on vacation and when we came back our family cat had abandoned us. This traitorous feline had found an older couple that fed him but did not expect anything from him. Cats are just like welfare recipients, they want everything but given nothing!
Sometimes, a cat or a dog makes their own choice about who is going to best care for their needs. Sometimes an animal just wants to change their lifestyle, greater or lesser attention.
Greater or different foods. If you get a second pet, that first one make not like it at all, but may not be the type to fight about it- at first.
Cats sometimes claim more than one family, and just go back and forth. That’s cats for you.
Dogs have owners. Cats have staff.
One cat.
Two families.
Zero paragraphs. ;-)
Guilty of intentional theft. The police are idiots if they buy that they heard the name from a neighbor, yet didn't try to find the owner in the neighborhood. If they can prove a case of neglect, then the authorities can get involved. But the neglect doesn't transfer ownership.
I swear that our cat does this sometimes. He was gone for HOURS one day in December, when it was very, very cold out. Showed up on the porch, and I brought him in, all warm and toasty, he was. Keeps me on my toes to treat him like the special and magnificent animal that he (thinks he) is, right?
I have observed that this is true of indoor cats. Outdoor cats are a different matter entirely.
I think you need to reread the Bible.
Same thing happened with my sister in law’s cat. She was off working all day, and although well fed, wasn’t getting what he figured was his strokes, so he just up and left. Anita was heart broken about her missing cat. Years later she found out it has just moved two blocks over and was living the “good life” with an older couple who catered to his every whim. I like that about cats...they are survivors.
BS. Everyone knows that's NOT how you get a cat to go home.
It’s not rare that a few families share a community cat.
I dunno. We feed several outdoor, presumably homeless cats in the neighborhood. They have the same staff mentality about my wife and I. Lol
I never understand why people let their cats wander around outdoors in a city environment.
Clearly, the people who had originally owned it were not too concerned about it.
They thought a coyote had gotten it!
Why didn't they put out flyers for it?
The cat kept coming back to their home, because they kept feeding it.
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It used to be sort of common knowlege that if one feeds a ‘stray’ cat, it will take up residence.
Found a very small, very cold, black cat in my yard one December night. Took him in. Starting about a year later, he would disappear for a night or two, sometimes even a month or two. Then, he would be back. I finally put a collar on him. About a month later, he disappeared again. A woman showed up a couple of days later wanting to know why I had put a collar on her cat.
At that point, I knew what was happening. I asked her if her cat had been disappearing every so often for a variable period of time? She said she had. At that point she knew too. We had one cat who commuted between our two homes. He wasn’t any one’s cat but we were his.
This went on for a couple of years more and, then, he left and I never saw him again. Was he hit by a car? Did the other family move and take him with them? Never found out.
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