I have been praying so very hard that we would never reach this number, but we did. Antioch just toppled over the 300 mark for the total number of cats to have disappeared from their owners.
New evidence has also been discovered. The very next day after our two cats disappeared, which was Christmas Day, I designed the first of many "Missing Cat" posters and began the painful process of posting these flyers in and around my neighborhood. Each day I would branch out a little further until finally, after about three weeks, I had placed about 80 color posters in about a 2 mile radius around my house. I put most of them in plastic pages, turned upside down, so they would be protected from the rain. This process is the most gut wrenching and time comsuming thing that you have to do, because you are constantly looking right at the beautiful face of your kitty, each time you put up another poster.
As everyone knows, after you have put your posters up you are supposed to check on all of them about every three days, just to see if any of them have been taken down. They say that this could be an indication of someone feeling a little guilty. The following Saturday morning I got up to go and check my posters. I got in my truck and started out on my route to check my posters.
I could believe it . . . they were all gone!!!! Each and every one of them had been ripped down!!! Many of poles still had the plastic pages dangling from the top and bottom ends where I had placed the tape. All of my pain staking and heart wrenching efforts to find my kitties were abolished in one night. I cried for two days straight because I knew I didn't have the time to do this task all over again. You can't believe how helpless you feel when something like this happens, you feel like . . . well I don't know how to decribe it, you just feel as if you have let them down (your kitties, I mean)
I recently found out the exact same thing happened to several other people. One lady put all of her posters up right next to a poster of a missing dog. This way if it was city workers who were doing this they would take down both her posters and the posters about the missing dog.
Guess what folks! Only the posters of her missing cat were torn down! I only wish I that I had a small army of volunteers. We could catch these creeps, if we had enough people to pull a couple of nights of surveillance. We could place posters up in a neighborhood where a cat recently disappeared, and we would be sure to place the posters in prime spots. I will bet you anything we would catch our thief(s).
I wonder what our city council would say about this latest news. They would probably say something to the effect of, "The wind here in Antioch can get quite blustery, we see paper signs blowing around all the time, so this is not evidence of foul play". Well, I think we all know where the hot blustery air comes from in Antioch, don't we.
New evidence has also been discovered. The very next day after our two cats disappeared, which was Christmas Day, I designed the first of many "Missing Cat" posters and began the painful process of posting these flyers in and around my neighborhood. Each day I would branch out a little further until finally, after about three weeks, I had placed about 80 color posters in about a 2 mile radius around my house. I put most of them in plastic pages, turned upside down, so they would be protected from the rain. This process is the most gut wrenching and time comsuming thing that you have to do, because you are constantly looking right at the beautiful face of your kitty, each time you put up another poster.
As everyone knows, after you have put your posters up you are supposed to check on all of them about every three days, just to see if any of them have been taken down. They say that this could be an indication of someone feeling a little guilty. The following Saturday morning I got up to go and check my posters. I got in my truck and started out on my route to check my posters.
I could believe it . . . they were all gone!!!! Each and every one of them had been ripped down!!! Many of poles still had the plastic pages dangling from the top and bottom ends where I had placed the tape. All of my pain staking and heart wrenching efforts to find my kitties were abolished in one night. I cried for two days straight because I knew I didn't have the time to do this task all over again. You can't believe how helpless you feel when something like this happens, you feel like . . . well I don't know how to decribe it, you just feel as if you have let them down (your kitties, I mean)
I recently found out the exact same thing happened to several other people. One lady put all of her posters up right next to a poster of a missing dog. This way if it was city workers who were doing this they would take down both her posters and the posters about the missing dog.
Guess what folks! Only the posters of her missing cat were torn down! I only wish I that I had a small army of volunteers. We could catch these creeps, if we had enough people to pull a couple of nights of surveillance. We could place posters up in a neighborhood where a cat recently disappeared, and we would be sure to place the posters in prime spots. I will bet you anything we would catch our thief(s).
I wonder what our city council would say about this latest news. They would probably say something to the effect of, "The wind here in Antioch can get quite blustery, we see paper signs blowing around all the time, so this is not evidence of foul play". Well, I think we all know where the hot blustery air comes from in Antioch, don't we.