Poll: I think someone is trying to steal my cat.

[Mechsoap]

who would steal i cat? a catophile?

 

[Medgeth]

Neighbours "stole" our cat
Basically they kept feeding her really, really, really expensive treats and eventually she just moved there..

I was accused of stealing a cat once, she literally just moved in. I'd seen the kids swing her around by the tail and drag her about the garden so there was no surprise when I found her in the spare bedroom one morning. She wouldnt leave, not even go outside, didnt get on with the other pets (3 dogs and 2 other cats)and she died last week after 2 years in this house.

OT : I'd say that if she was a stray shes not used to the collar, so is taking it off by herself one way or another, and again, because she was a stray is very tentative around people.

 

[CrazyMedic]

she is a stray my mom picked up from the rain but we think she might be like 1 or 2 ...

So your Mum just randomly picked up a "stray" cat that was in the rain? What does that even mean? Do you mean it was raining and she saw a cat, so she picked it up and took it home?

Have you considered that you may have stolen some else's cat, and it's been going back to it's original owners, who have been removing this strange collar that has somehow attached itself to their cat?

How did you know it was a stray cat, apart from the weather?

well the cat was starving and it was in the middle of an industrial area the closest house is something like a 10 miles away and we put up signs anyway and no one called our theory is since she is a killer someone abandoned her because they couldn't deal with headless rats being left on the carpet.

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

I can't imagine someone "trying" to steal a cat. I mean, how does it take more than one try?

Clearly you have never tried to make a cat go somewhere it doesn't want to be.

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[Soxafloppin]

Shave her to ruff her up a little, no one would want a cat like that.

 

[Enemy Of The State]

My friend's cat got lost for a few days and it somehow turned out it was stuck inside the walls of his house. We coaxed it out by bashing against the walls.

So it's not a Ceiling or Basement Cat... its a Wall Lurker Cat!

 

[Penguinness]

My cat doesn't have a collar. We've given it a couple in it's time but it takes them off easily.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I don't think someone is actively trying to capture your cat but I would go with the location chip as others have suggested.

Just in case.

 

[capin Rob]

mabey.

 

[Dyme]

I like your poll results.
48 : 48.
Cats often remove their collars because they don't like it (at low fences or plants or sth like that) and cats fight when they go out, so I think everything is okay.

 

[Trebort]

So your Mum just randomly picked up a "stray" cat that was in the rain? What does that even mean? Do you mean it was raining and she saw a cat, so she picked it up and took it home?

Have you considered that you may have stolen some else's cat, and it's been going back to it's original owners, who have been removing this strange collar that has somehow attached itself to their cat?

How did you know it was a stray cat, apart from the weather?

I've been having exactly this argument with a guy I know, he seems to think that cats need constant care and that if one's out and about it's somehow suffering.

Cats can have a range of up to eight square miles, otherwise known as a fuck of a long way. They're self sufficient animals and they don't need some big dumb minder clomping around after them all the time. Cats don't get sad when they're alone in the rain since I don't hear a violin and this isn't a Disney film! Mostly a cat's looking to fight intruders, eat a bird and fuck something.

Well thanks alot dude... big and dumb!? Is that how you see me!? :'(

 

[Nouw]

Spoiler: Just arm that cat!

Yes, I do think it is. Just give it a shock collar! Oh wait, that harms the cat...

 

[Snarky Username]

Looks like you got yourself *puts glasses on* a cat-burglar


In all seriousness, I would agree that your cat has major drug problems. You need to give that cat an intervention. That's how we got our cat off catnip.

 

[cerebus23]

Keep your cats at home period, outdoors: cars, ticks, worms, people that do not like cats, are all bad for cats and can make the sick or kill them. Nothing like having to give a cat deworming pills on a regular basis once is plenty enough for that wonderful battle.

Having fleas and ticks all over your house to can be annoying to say the lest.

And the fact that cats will hunt and kill no matter what since it is a form of play for them, they do not need to be hungry to stalk and kill birds and the like, which gives them worms, they will do it just because.

Keep your cats at home and indoors, yea they might want to go out for a bit they they will get over it and settle into house life, unless you got one of them psycho cats, but most will settle in with the proper amount of toys to play with and adequate play time with you the owner, they will be overall more happy more healthy and you wont have to take them to the vet regularly to get them dewormed, flea and tick stuff that actually works, or in the worse cases have your cat hit by a car or poisoned by someone that has no love for cats.

 

[Funkysandwich]

Our next door neighbours cat disappeared for six months and was found living in a town 35 kilometres away. Someone took it in to see a vet one day and because the cat had been microchipped, they found out who owned it.

 

[Vuljatar]

Solution: Don't let your cat wander the neighborhood at night, pissing and shitting in your neighbors bushes. It could... get hurt. /shiftyeyes

If you can't tell, I speak from years and years of experience.

 

[geldonyetich]

Surprisingly even vote so far.

Cat collars are supposed to be built to have a breakaway clasp on them specifically because cats have a tendency to get their collars stuck on things. Probably trying to squeeze through stuff, like so:


So you should expect some collars to vanish from time to time. It's preferable to the cat strangling itself getting it snagged on something.

Personally, I keep my cats strictly indoors.

 

[TheSeventhLoneWolf]

Cats do tend to wander off. Some cases some cats have travelled the country by themselves.

My dad's one is usually under the bed I sleep in.

 

[ayuri]

cats necks are about the same width as their head and can easily pull it off. i know from expereince.