This is why I don't like people!

[Mishi]

Rugz and I went to the local animal shelter on Friday, to see if anyone had brought in his Nan's missing dog. While I was filling out the paperwork and Rugz was showing the staff pictures of our family's animals, specifically ones of the missing dog, a beat up car skidded to a stop and a rather cranky, young female stepped out, slightly swinging a cat carrier. Russ stepped out of the way, not quickly enough as both of us copped a glare for existing. She demanded that the staff take her cat and three kittens, that were somehow stuffed into the small carrier. The problem? They'd already locked up for the night and were doing us a favour by staying open and taking our details. The staff were firm but polite, and convinced her to bring them back in the morning, when they could process the animals more easily and get them settled in nicely. She stormed off, talking on her phone, then took off leaving a cloud of dust behind. We finished up, thanked the staff and left.

As we were driving down the road to leave, we saw the chick's car stopped in the middle of the road, which then took off at high speed, throwing up another large cloud of dust. If Rugz had been driving any faster, we'd have hit the cat carrier that she'd left directly in our path. We took the cat and kittens back to the shelter, pissed off that we'd missed the number plate thanks to the dust. The staff were understandably angry with the pet-dumper, and equally as annoyed that her number plate was obscured.

[ralerin]

At least the cats were taken into safe hands.

[Exaspera]

This makes me want to cry. I do not understand things like this.

[The Last to Know]

me too - how do people like that live with themselves? Those poor kitties

[Mel]

I seriously hate people that do things like that! If you're not ready to take on the responsibilities of taking care of pets, then DON'T GET THEM!

[Amina516]

How disgusting.

Thank you for stopping and having the cats taken care of.

[KorporateKitty]

What a horrible, horrible woman. Bless you both for taking the cat and kittens to the shelter. I hope they find good homes.

[Mytical]

Too many sad tales like this. Awhile ago I created this poem..

To what end the cruelty and vanity of man
To end life just because they can
Caring not for suffering they cause in the night
Discarding with disadane anything not pleasing to their sight

Greed, avrice, cruelty, and spite
breed in the darkness, hiden from the light
Brother against brother, man against man
grabbing everything that they can

Where gone is the nobility, the passion to aid
the pride in their work, of the things they have made?
Dignity sold for things that glisten and shine
seeking no more to become the divine

Hatred of all things that do not benefit them
hurrying through life with heads down and faces grim
To what end, to pass this life in briefest bliss?
Never wondering or caring on the things they may miss?

To what end the cruelty and vanity of man?
To end life just because they can?
The suffering gets worse, and the light dims more
As man becomes that which once we did abhor.



Too many tales of people putting kittens in sacks and drowning them, and such. I am glad that this one worked out ok, but does it make me bad to wish that the woman had been caught and punished?

[smileyeagle1021]

So apparently the douchebags who used to own the condo I now live in are now in Australia, good to know.

For those who aren't familiar with the story, the previous owners left rather quickly (their work visas were expiring) and didn't even bother to take care of their dogs. They just left them a thing of water and a thing of food and left figuring someone would hear the dogs howling or something and call animal control.
Well, the upstairs neighbor did here them, they did call, but when they got in they found that one dog was already dead from dehydration and the other one was so close to death that they had to put it down. Oh, and of course they were having to live in their own urine and feces since obviously no one was cleaning it up.
Seriously, if you aren't going to actually take them to the humane society yourself, at least just let them run free where they at least have a chance that someone will find them and take them into their homes or take them into the humane society. Anything other than just locking them into a condo during August heat with no air conditioning.

[Marmalady]

Oh. My. God.

I cannot for the life of me, and believe me I've tried, think of anything bad enough to do to people who do things like this to defenceless creatures. If you can't take care of an animal, if circumstances have changed so you can't afford to keep them any more, then take them to the sanctuary yourself.

My own cat was a stray - she was hanging about at the back of the store where I work. We managed to catch her, I brought her home and she is the most adorable and loving pet you could imagine. I hope that cat and her kittens all find happy homes too.

[MaggieTheCat]

Too bad the shelter folks didn't get the woman's name before she left...they could've asked her for it under the pretense of wanting to write it down so the morning staff knew she'd be coming in.

Our newest baby was dumped before we found him, we're sure of it. A friend and co-worker of my husband's, F, was on his way to work one morning on a very rural stretch of county road when he saw a small black thing wandering around the middle of the highway. He stopped, and found out it was a tiny black kitten, not more than 6 weeks old. There were no houses nearby that it might've gotten away from, no mama cat, no form of ID, and there were large birds circling overhead, so F grabbed the little thing and brought it into work with him for the day. He couldn't keep it, so my husband and I brought him home. We took him to our vet that night before we actually brought him into the house, and the vet said he didn't have any fleas, parasites, or worms, and wasn't underfed or malnourished. The spot he was found in is also a notorious animal dumping ground. So we're about 99% sure he was dumped. It makes me absolutely sick to my stomach to think what would've happened to the little thing if F hadn't just happened to be in the right place at the right time, because the kitten (now named Pluto) is one of the sweetest, cuddliest, friendliest, most playful kittens I've ever known.

[Squeaksmyalias]

It's people like that women and the one Smiley talked about who do stupid things when they don't want their pets anymore that there are animals who die, or get killed or are so screwed up they can't even be adopted out.

My cousin has a dog he had intended to foster but the dog is so screwed up it's staying at his house for the rest of it's life. The dog is afraid to go outside, you need to herd it out the door then it doesn't move more then 2 feet from you, he might go outside if all the other dogs run outside but then he realizes what just happened and runs back in. This poor dog was thrown out of a moving car, really someone in another car saw the door open and the dog get shoved out. Five years later he still lives in fear, not of people but of the outside. If some stranger came into the room he would go and sit with them and lean into them. It breaks my heart when I'm taking care of him because he is just so afraid of what might happen if he goes outside, I've sat outside for a minute with him and I've ended up with a full grown shivering in terror lab in my arms. It all could have been prevented if his original owner had been man enough to admit he couldn't take care of him anymore and give him up to the right people instead of trying to kill him.

[Yurimaru]

This is how I got my Westie, tho it took months to catch her. She was dirty, matted, terrified, and would run into the underbrush whenever anyone approached. Her favorite spots to run were the high-traffic areas, where people go 40-50mph. Someone had dumped her, with a too-tight collar that had a rabies tag from a different state.

After I caught her, I did call, and the tag matched a German Shepherd. Someone went to a lot of trouble to leave no trail. She had a microchip that no one had ever bothered to register.

She is now a happy, loved, clean and vetted fluff who sleeps on the bed, and gets lots of attention and treats. She is also the greatest dog ever; she acts as a "mommy dog" to my other two dogs and to the dogs that my parents and brother own. She's never been aggressive but she is very very bonded to me - she doesn't like being handed to strangers for petting. I make her comfy by holding her myself if anyone she doesn't know wants to pet her. She's fine when she gets to know a person.

Of all the people I know with cats - they are all rescued from the street. Some idiots tend to think cats are better able to "hunt". Altho, not crammed into a cat carrier like the poor kitties in this thread.

I hate people who just abandon animals - better the shelter than just dumping them to be run over, or starve, or get diseases...

[Whiskey]

Both my cats are strays (from a shelter). One was sick, half his tail is missing (stubby butt :3) and the way he walks, it seems like his hips were broken at one point. The other is terrified of any noise and emaciated.

[blas]

Some of my uncles are farmers, and you wouldn't believe (ok, yes you would) the amount of people who dump unwanted cats and especially kittens out in the country nearby farms.

People who do that need to be taken way out in the sticks and left in a gunnysack in a ditch or a culvert. See how they like it.