I think we found the gunman. Lib, you own a .22?
Yep ,carp over cats.
Yeah, this isn’t really a neighborhood where people have coy and pregnant women come out to garden in the pleasant autumn afternoon. This is where shithead college students throw glass bottles into the street, get drunk and play go-karts in their Land Rovers. I have a hard time believing anyone had anything more valuable than their landlord’s weeds to protect.
Odds are pretty good they’re just idiot kids who think it’s funny to get drunk and shoot cats. A friend of mine has a neighbor who did exactly that, until she threatened him with a baseball bat and a ride to the police station. The cat was rescued from a few miles away where we found him being beaten by about five or six men.
He howls and whines and pees in the house if he doesn’t get outside. The neighbors all tell me how he comes in their apartments and keeps them company and they’ll be sad when we move because they’ll lose the cat. It’s not likely, although possible, that he’s a nuisance to anyone other than hateful torturous bastards.
You win the Funny of the Week gonzomax. 
They’re never straight with you. Always stretching the truth and leaving out the details so you won’t get mad at them.
Poor kitty! I hope he’ll be ok.
Has he been de-balled? That’s the first step in making him a house cat. My Domino was an outside cat when we found him and now he just wimpers softly when he remembers his footloose and fancy-free days.
ForumBot, I am sorry I came off as so harsh in my post; I just love cats and I literally cry when I see one dead in the road. I despise people who are cruel to animals and children; they are not human.
I am glad it appears your cat is going to be ok. One-eyed cats can do fine, if he does lose the vision in the eye.
I’m guessing he whimpers softly when he remembers his balls. :eek:
No, but there is a serious depopulation of birds in some areas. There’s a lot of evidence that it’s a result of roaming cats. And cars, Vespas, and kids can all be dangerous to cats too.
I’m pretty sure this is going to be the worst thing I hear all day.
I hope your kitty’s going to be okay.
I know. I should have asked for them to keep in a jar. As a keepsake.
Back in the days when we only had three cats and I didn’t work for a vet, I had my male neutered before I had the female spayed because 1) it was cheaper to have the male done and 2) the female didn’t spray. A few months after Peli was neutered, Gwen went into heat. Peli was so funny! Gwen would come slinking up to him with the “come get me big boy” action and wave her butt in his face, and he would get this look like “I know there is something I am supposed to do when she does that, but I just can’t think of what it is…”
. . . then it sounds like a perfectly sane and responsible thing for you to let him roam this neighborhood of brutes and predators :rolleyes: Seriously, this animal has been domesticated and now depends on you. Snip his nads and keep him inside. I am betting it’s the law where you live (to keep him inside - de-nutting is probabaly still just an option). Otherwise, you can tell yourself all you want that you are a good cat owner, bu it won’t be true. You’re being irresponsible and you’re endagering your pet’s life. I only write this in hopes that you change your ways and give your cat the life it deserves. If it deserves to be a farm cat, get it to a farm.
For your cat’s own good, I gently urge you to please keep him inside. If he hasn’t been fixed, now’s the time.
But I share the anger you feel for the numb-nuts who shot your cat. There is no excuse for that kind of cruel idiocy. I doubt the shooter was motivated by love for the cute little birdies.
FWIW, I really am sorry to learn about your cat. Whoever shot it is a prick and a lousy person. I hope it recovers fully. Please consider keeping it indoors.
I’m sorry someone shot your cat - that’s really horrible.
This is probably a stupid suggestion but would it be possible to let him out in the yard on a leash? My (newly inherited) cat is a total fraidy-cat and never leaves the house, but one of my girlfriends cats was more adventuresome. She put him in a harness (which was really funny because he was a super fat cat) and strung a line to her clothes line so Pennywise could roam around the yard and on the fence, but not go much farther than that. Perhaps that could be an option?
No, but I have a BB gun. And I’m not afraid to pump it up. 
He’s been neutered and given all his shots. I wouldn’t let an unaltered animal around in the wild. He has a dingly collar to show he’s been vaccinated not a danger to anyone.
Alice: Yeah, actually. We got him a kitty leash, and kept him at it consistently for two weeks, but nothin’ doin’.
Poor kitty. This sounds pretty hideous. I am not a bleeding heart when it comes to animals, but they still don’t deserve to suffer like this.
But it also sounds a little strange if someone shot him deliberately. If someone was close enough to aim and hit him in the head on purpose, a .22 should have killed him. It is certainly powerful enough to kill a cat hit in the head at any range up to 50 yards, which is about as far away as most people could hit a target so small. I wonder if he was hit by a spent bullet fired from a long ways away, and no one shot him deliberately? Either that or he’s got only eight lives left.
We’ll never know, and I suppose for the purposes of this thread it doesn’t matter.
I think anyone who wants to be known as a cat lady deserves the benefit of the doubt.
Anyway, obligatory pre-attack kitty pictures. Sorry they’re late. His name is General Patton, but we usually just call him Pat or The General. My girlfriend is making him a little bitty purple heart.
