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I'm really glad the cats are OK and sorry for your mental anguish, but
really, again, get something positive out of the situation and collar and tag the cats. Stuff happens. When we lived in an apartment in Chicago, one of my neighbors had her indoor cat (young, about a year) slip out the door unnoticed when she went away for the weekend UNCOLLARED. The little cat was smart enough to cling screaming to the stairway, and we followed the noise and brought it into our apartment before someone else shooed it away into the night. It lived in our spare room for three days (where our kitten made goo-goo eyes at it through the glass door LOL) till she finally came home and saw our sign and came to get him in tears. If the cat had not been found or found by someone less patient than us, it wouldn't have gone well for the cat as there is no space in any Chicago no-kill shelters AT ALL. With a collar, we would have known the cat belonged to her and could have left a message on her machine. It's just the sensible thing to do. |
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On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:17:41 +0000, Kristine Kochanski
wrote: On 18 Mar 2004 10:12:42 -0800, (Tracy) wrote: I'm really glad the cats are OK and sorry for your mental anguish, but really, again, get something positive out of the situation and collar and tag the cats. Stuff happens. When we lived in an apartment in Chicago, one of my neighbors had her indoor cat (young, about a year) slip out the door unnoticed when she went away for the weekend UNCOLLARED. I'd be more concerned someone went away for a whole weekend and left a cat alone. I wouldn't have given her the cat back! Poor lil thing. I'm with you on that one. Theyshould have arranged for a caretaker to come in and feed the cat and scoop the litter. What were they thinking of (assuming they are able to think at all?) |
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On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:17:41 +0000, Kristine Kochanski
wrote: On 18 Mar 2004 10:12:42 -0800, (Tracy) wrote: I'm really glad the cats are OK and sorry for your mental anguish, but really, again, get something positive out of the situation and collar and tag the cats. Stuff happens. When we lived in an apartment in Chicago, one of my neighbors had her indoor cat (young, about a year) slip out the door unnoticed when she went away for the weekend UNCOLLARED. I'd be more concerned someone went away for a whole weekend and left a cat alone. I wouldn't have given her the cat back! Poor lil thing. I'm with you on that one. Theyshould have arranged for a caretaker to come in and feed the cat and scoop the litter. What were they thinking of (assuming they are able to think at all?) |
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On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 12:49:05 -0700, m. L. Briggs
wrote: On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:17:41 +0000, Kristine Kochanski wrote: On 18 Mar 2004 10:12:42 -0800, (Tracy) wrote: I'm really glad the cats are OK and sorry for your mental anguish, but really, again, get something positive out of the situation and collar and tag the cats. Stuff happens. When we lived in an apartment in Chicago, one of my neighbors had her indoor cat (young, about a year) slip out the door unnoticed when she went away for the weekend UNCOLLARED. I'd be more concerned someone went away for a whole weekend and left a cat alone. I wouldn't have given her the cat back! Poor lil thing. I'm with you on that one. Theyshould have arranged for a caretaker to come in and feed the cat and scoop the litter. What were they thinking of (assuming they are able to think at all?) Not just its basic needs, but its emotional needs too. Cats need company and stimulation. I've got three cats but if I'm upstairs and they think I'm out I can usually hear one crying and it'll come to greet me when I appear. Cats and dogs have no concept that you're coming back, when they can't see you you've gone out of their world. Two days or more is way, way too long for a cat to be alone. |
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On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 12:49:05 -0700, m. L. Briggs
wrote: On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:17:41 +0000, Kristine Kochanski wrote: On 18 Mar 2004 10:12:42 -0800, (Tracy) wrote: I'm really glad the cats are OK and sorry for your mental anguish, but really, again, get something positive out of the situation and collar and tag the cats. Stuff happens. When we lived in an apartment in Chicago, one of my neighbors had her indoor cat (young, about a year) slip out the door unnoticed when she went away for the weekend UNCOLLARED. I'd be more concerned someone went away for a whole weekend and left a cat alone. I wouldn't have given her the cat back! Poor lil thing. I'm with you on that one. Theyshould have arranged for a caretaker to come in and feed the cat and scoop the litter. What were they thinking of (assuming they are able to think at all?) Not just its basic needs, but its emotional needs too. Cats need company and stimulation. I've got three cats but if I'm upstairs and they think I'm out I can usually hear one crying and it'll come to greet me when I appear. Cats and dogs have no concept that you're coming back, when they can't see you you've gone out of their world. Two days or more is way, way too long for a cat to be alone. |
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Kristine Kochanski wrote in message . ..
I'd be more concerned someone went away for a whole weekend and left a cat alone. I wouldn't have given her the cat back! Poor lil thing. The point is that the cat was almost a dead little thing because he DIDN'T have a collar on. Single people do leave cats alone for two nights. It's not that unusual. Me, I would pay for a cat sitter. But this was on the South Side of Chicago years ago, and people are not particulary well off in that neighborhood. They were clearly attached to each other and the kitty was healthy and happy (by day 3 -she was making googly eyes back at my kitten through the glass)... |
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Kristine Kochanski wrote in message . ..
I'd be more concerned someone went away for a whole weekend and left a cat alone. I wouldn't have given her the cat back! Poor lil thing. The point is that the cat was almost a dead little thing because he DIDN'T have a collar on. Single people do leave cats alone for two nights. It's not that unusual. Me, I would pay for a cat sitter. But this was on the South Side of Chicago years ago, and people are not particulary well off in that neighborhood. They were clearly attached to each other and the kitty was healthy and happy (by day 3 -she was making googly eyes back at my kitten through the glass)... |
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"Kalyahna" dumped this in
on 17 Mar 2004: Everybody's alright, though I'm still ****ed off about it, and wondering how far I take this. I'll talk to the complex manager on Monday (I don't have any choice, between office hours and my work schedule, that's the first day I have off that they're open). I don't know if I want the stupid ******* fired or reprimanded, or just to admit that he did, in fact, leave the window open. snip I'm glad everyone was ok and accounted for. I understand your anger over this; I used to rent, and maintenance people seemed to let themselves in, come and go as they pleased and it infuriated me, too. One time one of them even let himself in while I was home but back in the bedroom and if he knocked, I didn't hear him. He walked in on me changing my clothes. That was it. I insisted to the front office that they not let them in like that or I'd press charges. -- Cheryl I am a very happy person. It's just that I have no patients for stupidity. - IBen Getiner |
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