I left my cat on my back porch last 4th of July for a couple of days and when I came home he was gone. No screens were torn loose and the back door was shut, but not locked. I called the police and they laughed at first and said I must be the victium of a cat burglar! :eek: This cat was scared to death to be outside, so there was no way he just ran away.
He looked like the one in the lower right in the link, standing on his hind legs. Once I explained to the police what he looked like and how much he was worth they told me that whoever did this had commited felony burglary and would be arressted and charged. To date, definite no leads, but I’m pretty sure who did it.
You bastard! How much lower can you get than stealing a family pet. I beleive that I know who you are and that you are the type of sick individual who, instead of confronting someone that you had a problem with would do sneaky back stabbing things like keying cars, flatting tires or harming pets. We used to be very close friends, but your refusal to grow out of your drug problem, take care of your family, and constant harrassment of girls I introduced you to are more than I care to put up with as I get older.
I know my cat, I was the only one who could pick up this huge (17 lb male) without it putting up a fight. You were the only person that knew I was leaving town because I know you talked to my brother the day before I left and he mentioned to you where we were going with our kids. I went looking for you the next week and you were not to be found. I suspect that you were scratched up. Good, I hope it hurt like hell. I hope my cat is pissing all over your house or whoevers house that you gave him to. :mad:
It’s been almost a year and you have finally stopped trying to contact me or my friends. We used to be close and you were a good friend for a long time, but it’s over and it will never be right between us again. That is the only good thing that has come out of this situation.
Screened in and the police said that since they entered onto the property to commit a burglary, the fact that the door wasn’t locked didn’t come into play.
I live in a very low crime area and you have to go out of your way to see the back porch if you don’t live next door. One of the comments the police made was, hell nobody steals cats, it’s hard enough to give them away. I had been leaving the cat on the back porch for years, no problems.
I’m 99.9 percent sure who did it, and know that he will never admit to doing so. It pains him more that I will not associate with him than going to jail would. He’s a mental case and I am better off not knowing him. ;j
It’s gotta be said: if the cat was worth that much, and worth that much to you, you should have boarded it somewhere instead of leaving it on the porch.
Well, I must quote the local police officers: “Who whould steal a cat? You can’t hardly give them away!”. My cat was happy on the back porch, not bothering anyone, it was it’s home. . It was just a cat.
I didn’t think of this cat as an asset, just as a pet.
As I have justification to continue my rant (by means of a post, thank you. ). I shall continue my rant.
You worthless piece of human feces. You stole a helpless animal for god’s sake. May he puke on your bedsheets and rip your furniture to apart! :mad: This animal was a part of my family, my kids were devastated over your cruel act! We pray for your eternal soul because obvioulsly you are lost and don’t know how to deal with fellow human beings. Why must we suffer for your short comings.
End of rant, you are not worth the effort to go any futher. For now.
Also, it’s just as likely that an animal lover came across your cat, obviously locked in an open-air porch, unattended for an extended period, and decided this was not the proper way to treat an animal, and removed him from the situation. Just like good Samaritans who break into a car to remove an animal who is locked in in the summer, with windows not open, etc.
I just think that was a really unwise choice to leave your cat on the porch. Why did you do that?
Because the cat enjoyed being in the fresh air? The cat enjoyed looking at nature, even though it didn’t like to go out in it. This is a huge porch, very cat friendly. Lot’s of water, food, cat toys, litter box and a place to go in case of bad weather. In fact, there was another cat there to keep it company (which I still have) that he didn’t bother to take (non-pure breed). Like I said, it was the cat’s home.
Confused as to why people would interrupt MY rant and attempt to place the blame on me. :dubious: To have left the cat in the house or in a shelter was not his wish. Believe me when I tell you, he asked to be left on his porch.
So anyway, I will continue my rant towards the person who committed felony burglary by entering my home and stealing my pet.
You freakin coward! Aren’t you man enough to get in my face and deal with me personally! Why would anybody with half of the brain that god gave a cockroach enter into another persons domicide and take his petty frustrations out on a poor helpless creature. The next time you check yourself into a mental hospital to get out of doing your job and paying child support to your children I hope that they commit you permantly. You have lost all of your friends and your family is tired of putting up with your BS. :mad:
Damn, that felt good. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to vent/rant somemore.
As much as you ‘read’ your cat, isn’t it still a distinct possibility your cat used it’s feet in some fashion, as to relocate its physical self?
Your OP:
And for the record, I fail to see how you connect a missing cat to a former friend. Sure suspicions are great and all, but . . . well, there’s that pesky thing called “evidence”.
Tripler
. . . and that’s not to be confused with the other thing, “motive”.
No, there is no way the cat used it feet. What haven’t you read from the above post? The police investagated and determined that a burglary took place. There was no outlet from the porch. What don’t you comprehend?
As for my accusing this friend. What do you not understand.? Are you of the belief that if someone isn’t caught in the act that it did’t happen? That I am not aware of the events that happen around me? That I don’t know that he was the only person that knew that I would be gone? That I didn’t notice a change in this persons behavior after the event? I did not advertise that my cat was taken in the paper because I didn’t want to tip my hand to him. I spoke with my neighbors, put out blind ads, and checked the local animal shelter. As well as the police checking the local vets and my kids and I checking the neighborhood. This guy changed after the event without me letting on to him that it happen.
Obvioulsy you have never had a cat that was frightend of the outdoors. When some cats has lived thier whole life indoors they just get plain terrified of the sky for some reason. It didn’t run away. After a year it would have returned or we would have found his body.
I realize that you, like most people who hear this for the first time think “Just a cat missing, no big deal”. That’s OK, I’m not trying to rant agaist you. You weren’t there dude.
I personally know that he did this thing. He is mentally distrubed. He is seeking attention, even if it’s negative attention. He is upset because we were friends for almost 40 years and I have seen him mentally decline piece by piece over this time. It’s really sad. A good friend lost over a cat, but that’s where I am.
What I don’t comprehend is your complete hatred for this one guy, and how you can conclusively pin it on him. Yeah, the police investigated and all, but sometimes the most probable, logical explanation is the simplest one.
Bingo. Yet you continue to speculate, and that’s what confuses me.
The guy could have had a change in behavior for a lot of reasons. Maybe his grandma passed away. Maybe his favorite shoe was put on the wrong foot. Maybe his “blankie” got washed. You don’t know, and neither do I. Sure, you can have suspicions, but unless you hear a faint ‘meow’ from his backpack or pocket, you just don’t know.
As much as you want to deny it, that cat may have momentarily gotten loose somehow, and couldn’t get back in (if there’s no “exit” then there’s no “entry” either). Hopefully someone lovingly adopted it while you were gone. It may be with “Nancy” and if the cat is terrified of the outdoors, well, the cat won’t be able to lead himself home.
I’m sorry you lost a pet, sorry your kids miss him too, but hey, with what you’ve told us so far, ‘Bugsy Siegel’ comes to mind: “Mmmaaahhhh, ya got nuthin’ on me, see? Maaaahhhhh!!”
Tripler
I do hope you find your cat. Even a year after the fact.
I live in a very small town in a very small county. To say that most people here know each other over the years is an understatement. This guy is a lot of peoples problems and I have discussed how to handle this with people close to the situation. This guy wants attention, he wants to be the hero who found the cat or be nailed to a cross for being accused. Our family has decided that the best course of action would be to shun him and get on with our lives.
It’s been almost a year now and I’ve had a lot of rage built up in me over this incident. Thanks everybody for allowing me a place to vent.
Which explains the cops’ attitude about your cat to some degree. I come from Iowa originally, and in a lot of rural communities, cats are at best pest controllers and at worst out-and-out nuisances. I’ve run across country folks who just don’t get why a cat might merit as much love and human companionship as a dog.
No, but I think I might want to introduce them to each other. :wally No, I wouldn’t wish that on anybody. Tripler just feels that he needs to be convienced and wants more details.
Tripler, did I mention that he was “mental”? And not like “my friends crazy dude” but *“MY FRIENDS CRAZY DUDE!”. * He has been in and out of mental institutions for drug problems (I’ve signed him in and out), depression, and been on suicide watch several times over the past 25 years. Drugs have some to do with his problems, but not all. He has stalked woman that I introduced him to after thier breakups (like showing up at thier new homes and new jobs univited, calling them on thier changed and unlisted numbers). He has been on and off Prozac several times. He is constantly having these breakdowns over the holidays and often checks himself into the nut house over Christmas.
His brother was shot and killed in a murder/suicide over a drug deal gone bad several years ago and I helped him through that. People used to call us “the Three Amigos” because we have known each others families since we were little kids, we grew up together. Even as a little kid he showed signs of mental illness, but it didn’t get so bad that I couldn’t tolerate it until his brother died and then he also went thru a bad divorce.
Did I mention that is own mother and sister thinks that he probably did it? Now they could tell you some stories. They have to tolerate him, they are family. I stopped tolerating and letting him come around me two years ago after he stalked one of my best friends and went over and talked to her 65 year mother and he told her that her 40 year daughter was doing coke and screwing married men rather than being with a fine upstanding man such as himself. :eek: About gave the poor woman a stroke. :mad: He had been trying to get back into good graces with me ever since, but I’ve heard the “I’ve changed, I’m better now” speech many times before.
I’m not trying to convience you to convict him in court. The court I am convicting him in is the court of public opinion, my communities opinion and my life. I am not only convienced that he is capable of taking a family pet from someone he is upset with, but that he has done such stuff in the pass (ie, slashed tires, broken windows, stalking) and gotten away with it because no one could either prove it or wanted to risk upsetting the crazy man even more. I have passed sentence on him and have choose to banish him from my life. That is my choice, my right. I’m allowed to do that because my family means more to me than his friendship and your opinion in the matter of someone you don’t know is, respectivily, irrelavant. I have to live here.
**This is my rant. There are many like it, but this ones mine. **
“Mental” does not equal “criminal”. And thus, is the crux of the matter.
Am I defending him personally? No. Am I after you personally? No. I’m simply abhorrently against the fact of “mob mentality”. They had trials in a little town in Massachusetts several hundred years ago because people “felt” they were wronged. And unfortunately, people were convicted in a court of public opinion, and people died for it.
Am I saying your missing cat is of the precedence of witches among us? By no means. I’m saying your thinking is flawed–but you are absolutely right, you are entitled to it. Whether or not the guy is guilty of cat abduction is not my problem. It’s the matter of the police investigators. So I would ask, let them do their job.
And you’re absolutely right. I just hate to see you waste it on something as pithy as blind disdain for a guy you can’t even logically suspect of guilt.
Tripler
Hey, it’s your rant. Do what you want with it.
No screens were torn loose and the back door was shut, but not locked. I called the police and they laughed at first and said I must be the victium of a cat burglar! :eek: This cat was scared to death to be outside, so there was no way he just ran away.
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