Has This Ever Happened To Anyone....?

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Wow! He's very handsome. I may be wrong, but is he named after the bear in Jungle Book?
 
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Wow! He's very handsome. I may be wrong, but is he named after the bear in Jungle Book?



Yes, you're correct. Baloo bear. His old owner named him that, I liked the jungle book so I kept it. His brother is Yogi (they kept him). Yogi bear.
 

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What a beautiful sweetie.  Thank God he's out of harm's way.  

Hugs to Baloo 
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Keep us updated! My mom and I are dog trainers and used to do rescue work before people would do this to us all the time. It makes my stomach churn knowing people do this.
Make sure to try and get them, remember, the FBI is tracking animal abuse now!
 

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Absolutely and without a doubt, he was abused and the criminals who abused him need to be prosecuted.  As for charging an adoption fee, anyone with any knowledge of the subject would agree that a fee, and not an insubstantial fee, needs to be charged, as it does deter unscrupulous (and worse) people in many cases.  His life is precious, his wellbeing is necessary, and anyone who endangers him needs to be punished to the full extent of the (totally inadequate, but better than nothing) law.  It is a felony in all 50 US States to abuse and/or neglect ANY cat.  As well it should be.  Please keep him safe, be patient with him as he has been severely traumatized, and cherish him. 
 

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I learned from a very young age that it is hard to trust someone when you're trying to rehome a pet.  When I was 4, I had a dog and a cat.  The dog was eating the cat's food and I told him to stop.  He didn't so I hit him with a stick and he bit me.  I still have the scar.  Now, for one, I disagree with letting children be unsupervised with any animal.  And, I deserved the bite.  Anyway, my mom rushed me, bleeding, to the hospital and she was going to have the dog put down.  But, after I told her what I did, she decided to just give him away.  The people we gave him to lived 5 miles away.  A couple weeks later, my dog showed up on our doorstep.  He acted like he'd been beaten.  He flinched when someone moved quickly and seemed to be in pain when he was touched for the next week.  When we stepped outside and saw him, he laid down and whimpered and we didn't let those people have him back.  He never bit again.  But, that is a lesson I will never forget.  You can't trust people.  No matter what they say.
 

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I pretty much agree, unfortunately, based on my own life experiences.  

And as a young kid, I once pulled my beloved cat's tail.  Fortunately, my mom saw me, and she taught me one of the most important life lessons I've ever learned.  She came over to me and pulled my hair, hard enough so it hurt.  When I protested, she said, "See?  That's how it feels when you pull his tail!*  Much better than saying "Don't do that!" because I actually experienced how it felt.  I don't believe I ever did that again.  I loved my cat very much, and he adored me.  He was extremely patient with me, considering he was 3 when I was born and he endured my small kid years with grace and endess unconditional loyalty and love.  My mom, of course, adored him as well, and would never let me harm him!  Likewise, she would never even think of rehoming a cat because of a kid.  Patience, love, and education win the day.  
 

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I've noticed that most animals understand that they have to be careful with small children.  I think my dog reacted out of surprise.  I had to get 6 stitches on my face.  And, I learned a lesson.  Never treat an animal unkindly.  They don't deserve it.  My step daughter is 3, and she's very good with my boys.  When they get tired of her carrying them around, they just go somewhere away from her.  Mostly, they enjoy her loving up on them.  She spends half her time with us and half her time with her mother and before she came over for the first time, I clipped their claws.  Her mother likes to cause trouble and we didn't want to take any chances, but I quickly found that it was unnecessary.  They're very careful with her.

I agree with you.  I wouldn't rehome an animal because it reacted to a child mistreating it, but my mother was just trying to protect me.  That is why I never let kids and animals be alone together.  Sometimes kids mess up.
 

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...and that's why their parents should always supervise them, educate them in kindness, gentleness, caring, and respect, and watch them until they have absolutely absorbed these lessons and can be trusted to follow them.  A cat is always much smaller than a human being and much more fragile and, as such, they need to be protected from kids. 
 

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Cats are pretty good at protecting themselves, but they trust family members and humans in general (unless they're feral).  I once saw a cat rip the heck out of rottweiler's back because he was heading toward her nest.  He took off whimpering, dripping blood down his back with her chasing him for a block and a half before she came back to the kittens.  She was also half Siamese.  You don't mess with a mama cat - especially a Siamese mama cat.
 

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Yikes, this was an awful thread!  I'm so glad to hear Baloo made it back away from those awful, awful people.  I've had to learn the hard way that you really can't trust people to take your pets, even people you know, unfortunately.  I live out where people dump out cats and dogs and after having given away a few of the dogs that showed up over the years, only to never be contacted by the people again and being ignored when I inquired how the dog was doing, I decided to just start keeping them.  I'd rather sleep better at night knowing these poor animals that had no telling what kind of life before they were dumped out, have a safe loving, forever home.  Who needs vacations or diamonds?  lol

As a side note, if anyone has any animal health issues and wants to try to treat the issue at home, or something comes up on a weekend or at night, there is a great website called earthclinic that has a lot of natural remedies for both people and pets.  I've used several of the remedies on myself and my cats and dogs with great success.  With 11 animals, it's too expensive and stressful to run to the vet every time something comes up and after a vet killed one of my dogs after prescribing her Previcox without warning me that death was a side effect, I prefer to do what I can at home first.   It's amazing just what apple cider vinegar alone is good for.  Hint:  Put that stuff in your D-day bag/box/bucket, cause it's good at curing almost ANYTHING!   lol
 

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 Some people are horrible, and you can tell they are by the way they treat things that are small and helpless. Don't let that turn you off rehoming your animals to people... my family usually adopts off Craigslist and we never would mistreat our animals. We've adopted countless animals- dogs, cats, rodents, fish and lizards. The only one we couldn't keep was a german/shepherd husky mix who came to us with no training and aggression issues... we trained her so she was no longer a danger to people or dogs, and adopted her out to a family with a large yard where she's doing great. 
 
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