People who abandon their pets when they move

The BBQ Pit
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**SHOULD DIE A SLOW AND PAINFUL ASS DEATH IN THE MOST EXCRUSIATINGLY AWFUL WAY POSSIBLE. **

DAMNIT people who abandon their pets PISS ME OFF TO HELL.

Seriously, I may say that I want to beat the living shit out of and /or kill various other groups of people, but the ONE group of people on this earth who I really could bring myself to strangle are animal abusers.

While abandonment may be the ‘lowest’ form of animal abuse, it is the ‘lowest’ form of animal abuse in the same way that standing by and watching is the ‘lowest’ form of child abuse.

All of the above parties STILL deserve to die and go to hell (or some semblence there of).

FUCK.

Neighbors left, nice couple, liked them until about a few weeks ago when I realized the wife had left her cat (divorce, moved in with mother, maybe mother wouldn’t have both dog and cat? CALL THE POUND DAMNIT. SHIT. At least the animal will not fucking SLOWLY FREEZE AND STARVE TO DEATH. Ok admitidly this is spring in Seattle, so maybe not freeze, but hell, starving / disease alone is a SLOW AND PROLONGED DEATH. SHIT. What the HELL is in these people’s souls? WHAT SOULS? What f*cking kind of LACK OF moral conciness could even allow a person to THINK ABOUT abandoning a pet??), the husband never did like the cat, and didn’t make a secret about it (the Cat came with the marriage), so while he is left over at the house stripping it down needless to say he isn’t giving it any care.

FUCK.

Screendoor has bottom part of it cut out so the dogs can get in and out easy (yah yah I know it compleatly defeats the purpose of a screen door, but they are too scared to open it, got paw stuck in it once, refuse to open it afterwards), while letting dogs in from outside the Cat also got in.

The Cocker Spanial is an old cat killer (NO idea why, not orignaly raised by us, She would have had /that/ trait removed rather quickly from her if She had been. ), so went after the cat. The other Dog is not a cat killer (got Him at ~1.5years old, raised the rest of the time around a Cat) but since She was already fighting he joined in.

Luckily enough I heard the fight as I was going to bed (1 story downstairs and assloads of walls inbetween);

actualy I heard the Cocker Spanial growl and that fighting sound that comes from them, and then the Male dog growl (he is a Dobermutt. :slight_smile: ) and then the sound of a bell (they tied a Bell around the Cat’s neck, persumably for the sake of the ‘innocent’ little birdies. FUCK. Probably harder then hell for the poor thing to get any food, I should have taken it off when I had the chance, DAMNIT, now I feel even guiltier) and I realized WTF had gone on so I rushed upstairs to confirm my suspictions, had to yell and scream at the dogs and beat them off a few times (cat had jumped up on a window seal, but had to get dogs away, hard as heck to calm a cat down with two growling dogs hanging at your heels) and eventualy threw them downstairs and shut the door;

after being calm around the cat for awhile, somebody finaly was nice enough to mention to me that the cat was a Persian and that its hair was going to stay ruffled no matter how long I waited (well fuck there goes any certainy that I may have had, shit, now I don’t even know if the cat is pissed at me or not!).

The cat was breathing way to heavily, heartbeating and all, even after quite a few minutes of waiting. It did allow me to pet it at first, and then I one by one removed the items on the Window Seel that it was hiding behind. Let me pick It up and bring it down, went outside, poor thing did not want to go outside, cold out there. :frowning:

As I said, I /HATE/ people who abandon pets.

Unforunatly the cat killer dog prevents the taking in of any homeless cats, not that this household has not done that before but not this time. :frowning: :frowning: :frowning: :frowning: (well that and being dirt ass poor also prevents things from happening, no money for the neccisary medical expenses that always come with taking in a stray animal. :frowning: )

The Cat had not been declawed yet, luckily the old dumb shits (dogs) did not get themselves hurt it seems, shit. Old arthritic bastards, still trying to fight something.

The Cat must be quite old too though, from when before the couple got together, and their son is now in the 4th grade. Must be at least 8 years old likely quite a few more, VERY beautiful and FUZZZZY persian cat. :frowning: :frowning: :frowning:

Oh I feel so sad without a kitty cat around. :frowning: :frowning: :frowning: :frowning: :frowning:

Cats are SOOOOOO addictive, how in the world could ANYBODY ever abandon one?? :frowning:

Going to call up the pound tomarrow to have them come and setup their traps to capture the cat. :frowning:

I wish I had the resources to take it in. This board needs a crying smilie. :frowning: :frowning: :frowning:

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Turn the bastards in. Don’t they have laws against abandoning pets in Seattle? And then visit thjem in jail so you can say, “This is what you deserve, you disgusting fucks!” :mad:

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I’m totally baffled that you’re presenting abandonning pets as the worst possible crime. At least a disclaimer stating that there are plenty of things which are much worse would have been welcome…
Such statements, at best depress me :frowning: at worst infuriate me. :mad:
I won’t even go on the “should die a slow and painful…” part

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Yep, that’s how I got my last cat. The upstairs neighbors moved and left their cat. I didn’t realize why he kept trying to run into my apartment until my landlord told me they’d left—actually totally skipped on rent and everything else too.

Bastards.

He’s been getting really wiggy lately (even spraying some, which is a pain) as I pack up my apartment to move, I wonder if he’s worried about being abandoned again…

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When Allan and I bought our house, all was well until I heard meowing coming from an outdoor storage area. I opened the door and out staggered (slowly) a female adult cat- starved nearly to death and so weak it could barely meow. Beyond where she stood was a blanket with 5 kittens on it, about 3 days old, all seemingly dead.

I picked up the little kittens, sat on the dirty floor and just cried. It was such a horrible pathetic sight- this guy who moved out LOCKED that cat in- for Gods sake we live out in the country! She could have gone off in a hundred different places and had those kittens and still had a fighting chance of living. It was absolutely sickening.

It was Labor day, so I had to call an emergency vet for the momma cat and in the meantime I put the kittens in a box in my basement. Lo and behold after about 10 minutes of not being in the fucking roasting heat, they started to move! Not dead, just close. After about an hour they were trying to climb out of the box and such, which was great. The momma cat did not fare as well, though. She refused to be picked up and wandered off (in a drunken stagger) to die after she saw that the kittens were alright.

I brought the kittens to the emergency vet and they were adopted out, but what a nice way to spend the first day in our new home.

We wanted to turn the scumbag in, but let me tell you- based on the TRUCKLOADS of garbage we hauled out of the house and the legal papers we found, animals were not the only thing this guy abused. There were papers about him being charged with abuse offenses against his wife and kids. Fucking loser scumbag- I hope he rots in a very hot place with no water or food.

Zette

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Yep. My next-door neighbors moved and left behind a chow mix. He was about one-year old and had never been socialized. They simply stopped feeding him, then left him. He was afraid of people, seeing as his only experience had been a bowl of food placed next to him or rocks thrown at him for the entire first year of his life.

He loved dogs, though, and soon started hanging out at my house to be near my dogs. Seeing his ribs poking through, I started to feed him. He was afraid of people, but not actually agressive in any way. In any case, there was no way to catch him to take him to a a shelter, and we don’t have animal control here anyhow.

I decided if he was going to be around my kids, he needed to have shots and be neutered. It took us several doses of a tranquilizer left in hot dogs to drop him to the point we could crate him and take him to the vet. He got his shots, got neutered, and I got a call telling me he had heartworm.

Well, I paid for the $300 treatment and he made it. The “rescue” organization around here kept telling me to hold on to him a little while and they would try to place him. After nearly a year, and several hundred dollars later, I decided to just keep him around.

Over the last 3 years, he has learned to trust people for the most part. He will come inside when it storms and wants belly rubs and to be played with. He still prefers dogs to people, but he doesn’t have a mean bone in his body (and I wouldn’t blame him if he did considering how he started out). He will never be a true “pet”, but he is a willing companion, and has made his home with us and our other 3 dogs.

One day, though, the previous owners drove through the neighborhood and stopped to say hi to him. The son was calling his name and trying to get him to come let him pet him. I went out there screaming like a banshee and telling them they could pet him whent hey paid me back for $300 worth of heartworm treatment, a neuter, shots, and storage, oh and apologized to the dog for abandoning him. They drove off and haven’t been back. Idiots.

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I’m pretty baffled myself by what you are trying to say with this post in this thread. The OP has a major problem with people abandoning pets, and wrote his OP about his opinions and experiences with this. Could you clarify what you’re saying about his OP, please?

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A human can fight back, a person can call 911, or at least is aware enough to be able to run away in case of danger. While psychology may prevent many people in horrid situations from doing so, at least it IS a potential option.

By all accounts humans are the most advanced, though maybe not civilized, species on this planet. What we do to each other is our own damn faults, but we have NO excuse to do horrific things to OTHER animals in the proccess. And ESPECIALY NOT to the animals that we have breed to RELY ON US.

Fuck, it is like those parents who kill their own children, except that after a certian age even the children could theoreticaly call 911, but animals do NOT have that option, they are COMPLEATLY helpless in comparison to humans and the piss poor laws we have protecting them are pathedic.

Inititives to give some of our closer animal relatives some basic rights are a good first step (well, kind of, I support animal rights but I also am a very strong supporter of scientific research. . . .), but until Dogs and Cats are classified as Sentient beings, well hell, even then they will still just have the protection of the law and NOT any sort of physical protection.

A child who is raped can grow up come back and shoot their rapist, an animal who is abused has to keep on being abused for all of its life. THAT is why it is such an awful thing to abuse animals (not that abusing children doesn’t get you a special place in hell as well, but as I said, children can grow up and SHOOT your ass, animals do not have that option), they rely on us compleatly, for ever, they are infinitly infants, forever stuck in our care, and abusing that care is no different then abusing an infant*.
::notes he just pissed a bunch of people off:: Life is life, depending on which Holy Book you follow odds are you are still not supposed to be a dck head towards animals. Atheists, as always, are responsable for finding their own moral reason. Respect life, or rot in hell. Seriously, anybody who has grown up around Animals all of their life knows what I am talking about, Animals are part of the family too, and you would beat the shit out of anybody who hurt your Pet the same as you would somebody who hurt any other member of your family.

People who do not like Cats may have a problem understanding why I get so PO’d over the topic. :slight_smile:

Yes, but that would involve sending a single mother in the middle of a divorce to jail.

Well actualy it wouldn’t, the police do not exactly traditionaly Give A Fuck about these sorts of things. :frowning:

Kind of strange, I mean the ex-husband just helped me with some soldering a few days ago, they ARE nice people in every other respect, but SHIT, damnit, this just pisses me off.

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Oh yes, anybody in the area want a 8-12 year old persian(I think)?

Very lovely cat, very docile, used to being an indoor cat (not by option) health problems unknown, but verrrry fluffy! (ooh I LOVE fluffy kitty cats!!! ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ )

No?

Damnit.

:frowning:

<— has to call humanes society.

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I’m trying to say that it’s unacceptable in my book to state there’s no worst crime than abandonning a pet, hence stating that it’s worst than crimes commited against humans…
For all it’s worth, I’m extremely unhappy with people who value the life of a pet over the life of a fellow human being.

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I just hate the abuse and/or neglect of humans and animals. Throwing newborn babies into trash dumpsters is most despicable. Plus: leaving children or pets in motor vehicles with the windows up when temperatures are high. :mad:

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Fuck. And my parents put one of my cats to sleep last week, too.

I’ve never had a post depress me as much as this one. :frowning:

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So, you’re clearly stating that killing a pet is worst than killing a child, and abusing a pet is worst than raping a child…
Hmmmm…yeah…I assume we should begin to experiment veterinary drugs on children. As long as it can save the life of a cat, who cares whether some unimportant babies die in the process or not, after all… And firemen should rescue pets first and unworthy humans only later…
Not sure how to call you…a monster? I couldn’t call you an earth-worn, since apparently you would consider being compared to an animal as a compliment…
Were I more fluent in english, I would begin a big, hateful pit thread about this kind of statements. I still think your life has more value than a cat’s life, though…not sure why…

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If anyone tried to abandon or hurt my cats Monstro and Joanna, I’d turn into the incredible hulk and beat everyone in sight within an inch of their life.

</violent fantasies>

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I wouldn’t say abuse of animals is worse than abuse of humans; I also wouldn’t say that abuse of humans is worse than the abuse of animals. All forms of abuse are bad; abuse of pets is bad because pets are almost completely helpless and we have made them that way. I see abuse of pets being as bad as abuse of children because the dynamics are similar; someone with power, control and responsibility to look after a small, helpless, powerless being is either ignoring that responsibility or actively harming the small being in its care. I personally don’t differentiate between harming ANY small, helpless being that you’re supposed to be caring for.

If you were to ask me whether I would save a baby or a kitten from a burning building if I could only save one, I would save the baby (and feel horrible about sacrificing the kitten). But that’s not really what this thread is about, in my opinion.

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Just for clarification… do you value ALL human lives over ANY animal, just by virtue of the human DNA?

Cuz I sure as hell don’t… I’ve known far too many humans that weren’t half as worthwhile as my dog.

stoid

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Amen. :slight_smile:

To clarify;

Both Human and Animal abusers should burn in hell (yada yada yada standard PC disclaimer);

both are despicable, but how do you measure level of despicability?

Hard to do.

Of course abusing both is horrible, but my argument is that, hmm

ok take it this way.

Abusing Children is the infinite set of every real number between 1 and 10, abusing animals is the infinite set of every real number between 1 and 10.1

Hopefully that should explain it, at least as best as I can.

(if this was elementary school I would say one is infinity and the other is infinity plus 1. :slight_smile: )

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I have two cats I have rescued from being strays.

The first was in 1997. Minx(former name “Muffet”(gag)) is a georgous dark calico whos former owners somehow broke her tail so badly that it had to be amputated to her spine. she is the most loving cat I have ever had, and is also the most well behaved.

Zephyr came to us last August. He was emaciated and desperate for attention from someone who wouldn’t hurt him. Grey and white striped short hair with ribs and verterbra that could easily be counted by touch. It took a few months to get him socialized to get along with other cats, but now he’s healthy and fairly well adjusted.

Our other cat was picked up from a woman who rescued it, but didn’t want to deal with all the care that she required.

Rowan, a pure bred Himalayan, was the product of a breeder who I think had the family tree so carefully controlled that it looked like a dart.

The breeder died and his wife did not adequately care for the cats.
It took months of medication and feeding for this little cat to put on some weight and to trust us. Even at four years old, this cat still looks like she is nine months old.

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Well, it depends on who’s the animal and who’s the human being.

If it’s a choice between rescuing my cat and rescuing a serial rapist who’s killed everyone in my family, the cat wins. At least theoretically it would.

Now if I had to rescue my cat or my sister, I would rescue my sister because 1) she would appreciate it more, 2) my sister can have kids while my cat cannot, and 3) I know my cat would go on to heaven whereas I can’t say the same for my sister. :stuck_out_tongue:
I have a hierarchy of pets based on the following set of criteria:

  1. Has a face/doesn’t have a face
  2. Forward facing eyes/ side facing eyes
  3. Affectionate/non-affectionate
  4. Furry/non-furry
  5. Has emotions/no emotions
  6. Reasonably smart/no signs of smarts as we define them

The more a pet leans towards the right side of the slash mark, the more likely this pet will be left behind in an emergency. I don’t think this is evil. But nor do I think my way of ranking “life” is the best and only way.

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You might be pleased to know that I’ll be taking Bunny in again, in spite of my misgivings. My friend’s alternatives were few. Have her put down? Let a farm have her?

Absolutely not. It’ll take some adjustment, but I love animals, and I’ll once again provide the best life possible for Bunny. I gave both of my guinea pigs all of the very best. It hurt so much when they died. They were the closest things I had to children. :frowning:

This thread only re-affirms that I want to take Bunny in once more. For that, I am grateful. :slight_smile: She’ll be in good hands.

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