Marlowe, I suggest (if you go the lawsuit route) suing these two personally. Not suing the shelter - for all you and we know, the shelter may be entirely unaware of what is going on. A personal suit won't hurt the shelter's funds, or it shouldn't. I'm sure your lawyer friends can advise you on that.
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Quoth Eireann View PostMarlowe, I suggest (if you go the lawsuit route) suing these two personally. Not suing the shelter - for all you and we know, the shelter may be entirely unaware of what is going on. A personal suit won't hurt the shelter's funds, or it shouldn't. I'm sure your lawyer friends can advise you on that.
They ARE the shelter. It's like a two-man-show they run out of their house because they don't think "typical" shelters have animals' best interests at heart - you know, what with all those vaccinations and neuterings and non-homeopathic meds...
I miss my cats so much"Asking an Irish girl to tone it down a notch is about the same as asking a wolf to leave the sheep alone. Good luck with that. " - Jester, about me
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Quoth Marlowe View PostWhen I tried to stop them, they threatened to call Environmental Health, tell them I lived in filth (lies) and get my other kitties taken away too. Since one of my kitties is, to put it bluntly, pretty seriously retarded and very clingy, I couldn't risk this - I think he would literally pine away and die without me.
Or at least, with a warrant. This does not sound right at all.
My response to these fuckers would have been, "Call them! But you are not taking my cats anywhere over 2 pizza boxes."
Quoth Fire_on_High View PostNormally I'm all for unholy vengeance, but no matter how furious and hurt you are, please don't sue them. Not for their sakes...they're sorry wastes of skin and they wronged you horribly...but for the sake of the animals under their care who might suffer or be put down if the funds go into paying a suit instead of caring for them.They say that God only gives us what we can handle. Apparently, God thinks I'm a bad ass.
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They don't believe in vaccinations and neutering?? They sound more like animal hoarders than a genuine shelter. I'm amazed they haven't had a massive epidemic of ... well, anything ... yet.
Good that you are trying negotiations before launching a lawsuit. I hope it works!
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Quoth patiokitty View PostFrankly, I would not have let them in the door in the first place to touch the cats in the first place.
You see, I didn't know that was what they were going to do, or, until I researched them, that they weren't a real shelter. If I'd had any idea, I would never have let them in.
We were just making conversation, telling cat stories, and the woman was like "hey that cat is adorable mind if I hold her?" and since she LOVES being held I said fine... and then as soon as they were in the couple's arms, they announced they were taking them
In retrospect there are so many things I wish I'd done but at the time I just froze up... I wound up chasing them outside and then collapsing on my driveway sobbing and hyperventilating and screaming for a good ten minutes until my neighbour helped me inside.
Until it happens... you just don't know how you'll react. And I let my poor fur babies down."Asking an Irish girl to tone it down a notch is about the same as asking a wolf to leave the sheep alone. Good luck with that. " - Jester, about me
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Quoth Fire_on_High View PostNormally I'm all for unholy vengeance, but no matter how furious and hurt you are, please don't sue them. Not for their sakes...they're sorry wastes of skin and they wronged you horribly...but for the sake of the animals under their care who might suffer or be put down if the funds go into paying a suit instead of caring for them.
OP knows who these people are and where they live. Call the cops now if you haven't already. Not only to get your cats back, but to bust up this scam of an operation.Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.
"I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily
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So in other words, they sweet talked their way in and stole them? And you're not calling the police why?
Call them now. No more waffling. They stole your pets. It can't be any clearer than that. Theft is theft is theft.Random conversation:
Me: Okay..so I think I get why Zoro wears a bandana
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We were just making conversation, telling cat stories, and the woman was like "hey that cat is adorable mind if I hold her?" and since she LOVES being held I said fine... and then as soon as they were in the couple's arms, they announced they were taking them.
Call your lawyer friends. Now. Faster. Also call the police and make the report.
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I see you having three options.
1. Let it go and move on with your life. From what you've said, this is not a real option.
2. Have a large burly friend go intimidate them into giving back your cats. Not technically legal, but what they did was pretty much the same, so fuck em.
3. Call the cops and your lawyer friends, and take immediate legal action against them.
I'm going go assume that by the time you've read this, you've already retrieved your cats via #2, or have already made the requisite calls to get the ball rolling on #3.
"The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is Still A Customer."
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That doesn't leave option 3 off the table or out of the question. True, she may end up not getting her cats back, but at least she'd be able to prevent these fucktrumpets from doing the same thing to someone else.
"The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is Still A Customer."
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Quoth Jester View PostThat doesn't leave option 3 off the table or out of the question. True, she may end up not getting her cats back, but at least she'd be able to prevent these fucktrumpets from doing the same thing to someone else.
To set up a shelter like that would take time and money to do so, so that they can get hold of their "marks" off the street. I'd also imagine that they would've set themselves up somehow to "look" official. (Not sure whether it's law or not that the cats need to be microchipped/desexed if they're in shelters? I know that cats down here are desexed/microchipped)
If they have several animals, it would take time for them to move everything away.The best professors are mad scientists! -Zoom
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