Try these....
Sew what ping.
"I feel his pain." (Bill Clinton)
Just a hunch...
The cat was making a big racket, and a neighbor took matters into their own hands.
Like I said, just a hunch.
I searched for pics of the castrated cat, but the only one on metro.co.uk seems to be a generic cat of the same breed
Well if the un-neutered cat was spraying regularly on someone else’s porch, I can see someone going to the trouble.
This happens sometimes when there is another cat nearby, the tom will come to the other cat’s house and do a “demonstration” of virility that involves spraying stuff all over. The owner of the house (the human one) frequently does not appreciate the finer aspects of pheromones and feline communications.
You both have alibis, I trust?
It shouldn’t have been running around loose.
Same thing happened to a cousin of mine. Him, not his cat.
It’s a relatively new thing in the furry-loving do-gooder group to catch stray cats, have them neutered, and release them back in the neighborhood where they were caught. The idea, of course, being to reduce the number of strays by eliminating breeder males.
I suspect that is what happened in this case.
If so, I have very little sympathy for the cat owner. If, indeed this was a pedigree animal that he was renting out for stud, he should have kept it under much better control. If the animal was just roaming around on public property — or private property other than the owners... oh well.
That said, missing for only two days isn't really sufficient time for the adoption of a new human.
OK, the cat joke:
A schoolteacher was giving some young kids a lesson in biology. She had a tomcat that she showed the kids and let them pet it. Then she asked them what they thought held the cat’s tail on.
Johnny said “I think it’s the skin”.
Susie said “I can feel bones and I think that’s what holds it on”.
The teacher looked at Tommy and asked him. Tommy replied, “Judging by the size of those nuts, I’d say it was bolted on.”
How in the world can I respond to this???
I’ve never allowed my critters to wander without a leash; I’ve kept my indoor critters neutered and vaccinated, and was one of the first people in the country to have seen that my cat had rabies vaccines on a regular basis, even though the vet said, “For in INSIDE CAT??” (And what do I carry in on my shoes, pray, tell?) Even though the cat was belled, that was how we found him when he went ‘splorin’.)
[As an aside, he was one of the first cats in the country to have contracted feline leukemia and survived it.]
My last male cat was neutered before I knew he was one of only 200 in the US of A...what did I lose? Not much...he was an awesome cat!!! Money would never have given me what the cat did.
My family raised persians for a time. You do NOT let breeding stock out loose. At least the person who had it neutered was kind enough to let it live, instead of just shooting it or having it put down. Owner is an idiot!
I wasn’t anywhere near this location...I’m innocent.
There are enough cats.....spay and neuter....
Pedigreed? What Cat Registry registers this breed? I have been out of the CFA for a few years, but have never seen these registered there. I checked TICA and could not find them there either. Sounds like a mixed breed designer cat, expensive with no registration available because it is not a recognized breed.
I did find some ads for breeders selling this cross as a Bengalmese, no registry listed, $350.00 and up.
Also who lets an expensive pedigreed cat roam the neighborhood like a mog? Maybe it just got out and while roaming some do-gooder group scooped it up thinking it was feral. There are groups who spay/neuter feral cats then release them back into the wild.