Well, it was a kinder plan than mine:
1. Place cat and bricks into burlap sack. Secure.
2. Insert sack into lake.
3. Write a self-congratulatory note to the owners which would allow them to know what happened and likely leave a clue as to who did it instead of just letting them think their poor pussy just ran away from being kept by antisocial fucks.
4. Enjoy shit-and-piss-free backyard.
Umm, just so we're clear, the "was" refers to the plan that was carried out by the guys in the article, and not to any plan that I may or may not have carried out in the past or be idly planning for the future.
My blood boils at this kind of shit. I mean, you literally have to be a psychopath to destroy an animal and cause grief to people because a fucking kitty cat wanders into your garden. I can only imagine the outrage this story creates in the UK, a nation of intense animal lovers. I'd be looking for the guy with evil in mind, quite frankly, he ranks lower than the cats on the scale of life, imho. Cruelty to animals is without any fucking shred of humanity. Humans can protect themselves, animals can't. I have to get some fresh air.
God people's cruelty and stupidity depresses me. This cat hater has no idea he/she/it has committed a criminal offence. Hopefully they'll be found and prosecuted.. What's wrong with communication, people??
There are humane ways of keeping cats out of your yard; various catfences are marketed to cat owners, but I see no reason why cat loathers can't put them to use.
and what Hank said.
I'm surprised the Daily Mail hasn't linked it to Gypsies and the death of Princess Di.
I'd be happy to relocate this person who kidnaps pets.
I wonder if this fuckwit tried anything before calling his buddy with the lorry.
*1. stuffs Cappy into a burlap sack
2. swings it thrice overhead
3. lets go*
Hello Wasneme, pleased to read your comment.
I'll see your cat fence, and raise you 1000 free roaming cats laughing at it.
Unfortunately, the cat-proof fence presupposes that you have a primary fence surrounding a completely enclosed cat-proof garden, lawn, or patio. This fence must be away from any other building, tree, or high spot that a cat could use to leap, fly, or levitate over the secondary cat-proofing fence on top of the first cat-proof fence. Adding a third cat-proof fence may slow down infirm or elderly cats, but they may be able to get assistance from other cats determined to get in and ravage your personal space.
This is the nature of the beast.
Get used to it.
(Automatic sprinkler sensor system--only thing that will work--unless you see a cat with allen wrenches)
Disgusting.
Notice that he doesn't mind bird poop.
"This behaviour is quite threatening and rather frightening. Is somebody wandering around watching our cats?"
[insert clever photoshop of creep peeping out of ceiling hole, with witty, LOL-syntax catchy phrase]
Even as someone who once suffered the invasion of a couple neighbourhood cats that loved to piss all over the place, can't help but think that keeping the cats and posting their pics so neighbours would come and pick up them would have been a better countermeasure. Or some chemical repellent? Oh, wait, they hate cats. Mmh.
Easy to stop cats pissing. Sprinkle pepper. They always sniff before spraying. They hate pepper. = solved.
Citrus juices also useful to prevent cat pee, especially indoors.
chy's right, cayenne to the rescue!
my father used to do something similar to the asshole in the article, but to wild raccoons that destroyed his garden, not kitties....
There's not much I don't know about cats.
Och I know cats can quantum tunnel their way through just about anything (except apparently my bathroom door).
The PurrfectFence link is a flexible variation of a deer-proof fence and can be used where no other barrier exists.. if you turn the fence around so the curve goes out - voila, the little bird murderers can't get in. Takes some investment, but since (in the eyes of the law, in the UK) pet cats are not required to be kept indoors, the cats have the right to roam.
Where I live right now, outdoor cats tend to get eaten, and gardeners are more concerned about keeping elk, deer, mice, rats, raccoons, coyotes, cougars, and bear out of their properties... (as well as unfenced rottie x presa x pitbulls)
I was about to get a Purrfect fence for the dynamic duo, then at work had to put together a cat which had survived an eagle attack.. so my girls are staying indoors..
1. Catnapper could buy a dog. Just as effective, much more legal.
2. "Ellie Catto". Come on. This has to be made up.
So Hank, what advice for convincing this wee bastard that jumping up on the shelf above my computer desk and batting any small objects he finds in my direction is not, in fact, endearing?
I have friends who drive lorries too, you know!
I second the cayenne reference. I've seen this work like a charm, and it doesn't harm the cat in any way.
:(
Abiezer, my friend, get a water squirter, one of those plastic spray bottle things with the little lever. Fill with water. Set nozzle to jet. Squirt at cat when it jumps up, or better yet when it is preparing to. Repeat each time it does it. For especially recalcitrant felines, add a small amount of lemon juice, which they hate (not much is needed, cats' sense of smell is 6X more acute than humans, so go easy). The behaviour will stop quickly, I assure you. It will get to the point where you can merely show the bottle to them and they scarper. Some cats take longer than others, but rarely will you find one with the determination to ignore such a watery onslaught. Soon enough they will simply stop doing it.
Now send me money.
People should keep their pets in their houses.
Works like a charm.
I only has 5p and some Chinese money :(
I'm sure my sincere thanks will be enough! :D
That's just an old in-joke of mine. (although I do like free money).
I should note you can prevent a cat from stropping its claws on furniture with the same technique, although I have developed a special noise that I make with my cats which I use when they do something naughty, same noise my Granny used, I must have got it from her. You make a sort of high register, gutteral crow caw in your throat, they soon learn it's the 'no' noise.. you have to be there, I guess. I've never had problems with naughty cats using these techniques, although we did have one mad beggar pass thru who was particularly headstrong. There are always exceptions to the rule.
I am staying with relatives, they have a cat that is sometimes annoying during television watching; wanting to go out the patio door then coming round and 'knocking' on the front to come in almost immediately. It bangs the screen door with it's claws. It simply likes the attention and it is a little passtime for it. So they have a squirter bottle. Like all cats who have been treated thusly, you show it the bottle and it freezes, with a face of classic cat dismay, then you shake the bottle and it runs off so fast its back end slides out from underneath when it reaches the kitchen floor.
Harmless and fun, although I frown on tormenting a cat by running around all over the house squirting it until it hides, although this can be tempting when a cat has been especially naughty. The trick to this behaviour mod is to only do it when the cat does something undesirable. They will also, depending on intelligence, learn to recognise quite a few human words, & I even have a theory that they try to mimic the sounds of some of them. Cat mentioned above says "Hawwo!" in greeting in a way that makes me laugh.
Although, as a cat person, I have to say that cats are by nature somewhat mischievous, and if you get one, that's what you're in for, and you should accept it, otherwise get a roombah & call it tiddles. There is an old Arabic saying, "if you play with a cat, you must expect to get scratched." I despise the practice of de-clawing for the same reason. It is mutilation and prevents the animal from enjoying its normal behaviour.
Also, cats like cheese.
Cats are weird. When my ex moved out, she took a whole bunch of stuff that really didn't belong to her, but she left her cat behind. ( won't bore you with the sordid story)
Anywaze, this animal was the most paranoid pet I'd ever seen. He wouldn't let me anywhere near him for the entire six years that the three of us had lived together. After she was gone, he was still really spooked, but gradually allowed me to pet him occasionally. But he wouldn't let any visitors touch him , and would run and hide from strangers.
He was a bit of a shit-disturber though. After my neighbour got a dog, I caught him teasing the poor thing through the fence one day, rubbing up against it and then calmly watching the dog throwing himself against the fence.
I then moved to a new neighbourhood , and his entire personality immediately changed. Imagine my surprise when I came home from work one day after we'd lived there for a week or so to find a complete stranger petting him on the front walk in front of my house. When I expressed my wonderment, she assured me that he was the star of the neighbourhood, and that he regularly visited at least two houses that she knew of!
Sure enough, that weekend I was pedaling past a neighbour's in the next block house on my bike, and spotted the little bugger calmly chowing down on a bowl of cat food on the neighbour's deck.
Over the next couple of years I watched in amazement as he would go up and greet complete strangers passing by, and the neighbouhood kids would stop by for their ritual visit with Sugar Bear. I think have a picture of him in a poppy field next to the old house somewhere online; I think I'll ll see if I can't find it.
He passed away last spring, but I haven't had the heart to try to replace him.
cats...yep, post cats on the internet and everyone is interested..
and, opinions are like ,,,,,well, you know, everyone has one...
MY opinion----- keep your cats in your yard, or in your house! if they wander into my yard or house and poop, pee, or kill the birds I attempt to attract with my garden, i will deal with them in an appropriate manner..
that said... I have five cats, I love cats, there is a cat on my lap....... they have NEVER disturbed, peed, or pooped on a neighbor or his/her property!
I wanted to like this. I don't much care one way or another about cats (or dogs), but most cat-lovers (and dog-lovers) annoy the hell out of me. I generally like seeing things that piss off cat-lovers.
But this is messed up.
29 comments and not a single lolcat? Slackers.
HEY!
Listen, Flags, you don't just post an lolcat link, you have to wait till the time is right, gradually ease a reference or lol into the conversation, and then, when your audience is primed and ready...
Hank, I think I might actually know what you mean by the sound you make for "no". Is it a guttural, squawky "eh eh eh eh" with hard h's? (Sorry, it's hard to describe.)
PareidoliaticBoy, thanks for sharing. I'm sorry for your loss, but happy that the little guy got to spend the last years of his life in such happiness.
I am not reading that article!
If this happened in my street, I'd start fire-bombing every cat-free house until the culprit owned up.
Then I'd kill him.
One of the cats in that article is called Blackie, which is our less than imaginative nickname for one of our cats. Hint - it's not the brown one.
hehe, that's the name of the cat I mentioned above! This is why I never name my cats 'tiddles' or whatnot. I usually give them people names, like Charles or Mr Bentley Denton, or something. We had a white cat when I was a kid called Artaxerxes, which is a good name for a moggie.
minda25, yeah, that looks like the sort of sound it is. Most cats seem to respond to it - or recognise it as a warning. I don't know where my Granny got it, but she was always good with animals. Her dad was a horse person, but that's another story.
PareidoliaticBoy, that is a very funny and interesting story. It doesn't surprise me, cats are indeed weird.
I think they prefer to be called 'Centaurs', Hank.
Catnapping, still less felicide, cannot be condoned. But I can understand how someone could get quite annoyed with cats in their garden: if they were a bird watcher and neighboring moggies kept killing the birds, for instance; or if they had children and were worried about toxoplasmosis.
Cats are the only pets I can think of (except pigeons) which are allowed to roam around freely. If someone else's dog, or rabbit, is in your garden it seems a different matter altogether. I suppose cats can be trusted to bite neither your leg nor your cabbages.
My daughters have often asked to have a cat, but there are so many in our street, 'owning' one seems like a redundant commitment.
Hank, I'm curious if you are able to "speak" with cats - - as I have had an uncanny knack for communicating with cats since I was a small boy.
I've never met a cat that doesn't like me, even in cases where the owners insisted "that cat will not let anyone near it!"
De-clawing is cruel. And rightly said, if you get a cat then be prepared for the long haul... Having adopted a shelter cat four months ago, it was quite saddening to see how many cats are abandoned and given to shelters simply because the owners can't put up with their antics.
Kat Karma has a sneaky way of making its way around. Whoever did this will have their payback in the near future.
So, Hank, do you use some spcial kind of pepper solution, or just cayenne powder?
And did you ever end up getting that Maine Coon?
sugarmilktea, yeah I can talk to cats. My first friends were cats, when I was a toddler, so maybe I became cat boy or something. I can read their body language, and probably transmit the right signals to them, despite not having a tail. My great-grandad was a horse-whisperer, so maybe there's a genetic thing to being on the level with animals, or maybe I'm just crazy.
TUM, I haven't got the Maine Coon yet. It will probably be January. They're costly, and I have a few expenses.
Oh, the pepper. Well, the last time I did this I just used ordinary pepper. Worked just as well.
I can read their body language, and probably transmit the right signals to them, despite not having a tail.
Funny, I feel the same way about myself.
Well, Manx cats do all right, and they aint got no tails. or nearly not.
OK, maybe I can admit this, then. When I walk down the street, cats come out of houses to meet me. I can talk to them, too.
*heart breaks a teeny tiny bit*
My cat has developed a special three-syllable meow to let me know when her need to be picked up has reached critical levels. If you ignore the three-syllable meow, your ankles WILL be bitten.
Wow. You should post a picture of your cat here sometime, TUM.
Admittedly, 25 miles is a bit of a distance; but you it's surprising how resourceful cats and other animals can be in getting around.
I have met cats that didn't like me, but they were always feral ones. Domestic cats apparently mark me out the moment they see me as soft, and bully me relentlessly (^_^) There was one who wouldn't even let her owner pick her up, but settled comfortably on my belly five minutes after we first met.
*makes voodoo doll of catnapper, pokes it full of needles. Blunt, rusty needles*
I too seem to be possessed of some weird cat magnetism, which presents a bit of a problem. Although I'm fond of the little blighters and love to have them purring on my lap, I'm also allergic to 'em.
And that catnapper dickhead -
1. Place catnapper and several large, feral cats into burlap sack. Secure.
I'm getting a bit worried about catnapping as Halloween approaches. My cat is black and only about 7 months old, and I've always heard that black cats get snatched around Halloween. I'll probably just keep her indoors from the weekend before the holiday until the day after. She won't like it since she was a feral kitten and she's used to spending time outside, but I think it'll be for the best.
Wow. They bring him whole chickens and giant fish to destroy in the house?
I love the look on the regular cat's face when it's getting a bath from Big Brother!
Me likes the fishing cat, but would prefer not to have to feed whole chickens and large catfish in the house. Also, does anyone think that litter box by the terlet is a tad small?
Cat's cool, but the people are weird. The have a thing about not being dressed.
Great. Like that critter wasn't dangerous enough, without giving it a frikken grenade to play with.
Hmmm. I think it's an enema bulb... not that I know what that is or anything.. giggedy
Write a self-congratulatory note to the owners which would allow them to know what happened and likely leave a clue as to who did it instead of just letting them think their poor pussy just ran away from being kept by antisocial fucks.4. Enjoy shit-and-piss-free backyard.