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A good friend of mine has an elderly cat with a skin condition, he's spent years getting her on the right medication nursing her back to health (much to his own detriment). She's a lovely, friendly cat but very slight, still has some bald patches and discolouration of her fur where she's over-groomed.
She went missing a couple days ago and he's been freaking out... turns out THE ADMIN of a local lost pets group on facebook 'rescued' her from the front garden. The street he lives on is in the city has a lot of association housing and is right beside a gentrified block of cafes and yoga studios who use it for parking, so there's some element of snobbery... It seems she didn't ask any of the neighbours (who all know the score) just stuck the cat in her car and drove home (10 miles away in the suburbs)
In the comments of the post she made multiple other loopers talking about trying to take the same cat from [describing my mates front garden] saying it has been mauled by dogs, has mange/mites etc. Folks saying they have fed it (the cat has a strict diet so have undoubtedly made it worse). He needs to make a sign to inform these people, who are obviously well-meaning. Just so much undue stress for the owner and wee cat - posting here so I don't tear through them all on Facebook.
- That's shitty. :-(PhanLo
- it would seem that the folks in these groups think theres more people stealing and feeding cats to dogs than cat ladies taking in cats they assume are strays...kingsteven
- i am of the opinion most cats go missing because of the latter. this woman put the photo on facebook for 24h rather than taking the cat to get its chip scanned.kingsteven
- she's home now, but aye just very frustratingkingsteven