In all honesty. is this is the sort of thing you can get with early-onset dementia? I.e. abnormally weird behaviour from an otherwise normal person
My mother has two Siamese cats and because both are declawed (by a previous owner, so don’t attack her) they are strictly indoor cats, although my brother has been training one to walk outside on a special leash. Neither one shows any sign of anything being wrong with them because they’ve remained inside 99% of their lives. They run around, laze around, and wrestle with each other. They’re neutered so even if they got out they couldn’t breed more feral cats, but in all honesty they wouldn’t survive long outdoors without their claws.
Our back yard is flat with a large fence around it - we filled in the bottom of the fence and any large gaps with a fine mesh screen, and the cats have stayed in. They are 14 and 11 years old, too - if they were young cats, we’d probably have had to put some backward-slanting mesh on the top of the fence to discourage climbing, too (we’ve seen the occasional stray in our yard, and they go over the fence like lightning), but we haven’t had to do that.
Does the notion of “cruel” really need further explication?
Knead
Incensed, despite being a dog person
Ah - my little monsters are 1 and 2 years old, so plenty of energy and curiosity to get into trouble. I would like to figure out a way to screen off a part of the deck for the. I may have to get to sketchin’…
The level of cruelty seem no different from putting a cat in an animal carrier.
If you abandon the animal carrier for 16 hours with no food or water, and cover it so there’s no light, yes I suppose the level of cruelty would be equivalent.
I’d charge someone who did that with cruelty, too.
With the possibility of the carrier getting picked up and dumped into a garbage truck.
People put cats in carriers all the time, they take them on airplanes all across the country for hours and hours in a box stacked up with tons of other animals. Do you really think the cat can realize your intentions. Does a cat know the difference between a carrier and a garbage can?
I wasn’t saying anything about the intent of the women. I was talking about the effect on the cat, which was marginal at best, the cat probably just took a nap.
But the carriers have breathing holes…
Those garbage cans don’t have airtight seals
Yeah, but they’re not really visible. A carrier has an entire side that’s somewhat open so the cat can see out. It’s not like being shut up in utter darkness.
Until you put it in the belly of a plane and turn off the lights. Yes, the women was mean and stupid but they probably can’t charge her with anything because they can’t find any proof she caused any harm.
Singular1: Here’s a link that has a lot of information on cat enclosures.
Silly Dopers. Always about the cats with you.
“If she does that to cats, how does she treat people?!” Q.E.D.
So silly.
I don’t understand what you’re saying.
People generally put cats in carriers because they have to, not for shits and giggles. Nobody sane takes their cat on vacation with them when said vacation requires the cat to fly by cargo. We had to fly our poor cat from Japan to Maine–this was traumatic for the cat, and expensive, and a pain in my ass. But the other option was to dump her, and add to the already-massive population of homeless pets on Okinawa. So she had to suffer in the carrier. It wasn’t something I did just for the hell of it.
And the vitriol spreads…
Eh, this isn’t the pit so I can’t elaborate to help you out, best to just forget it and move on, that’s just Chessic Sense.
So I’m going to be that guy.
Let’s wait until we hear the lady’s story.
I can just barely imagine the possibility that she thought she was helping the cat by putting it in a safe place until its owner came around.
Or something.