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I'm not sure if this belongs here, so let me know if I should move this thread elsewhere. I just wanted to vent and see if people had any thoughts.
I found a cat a day or so ago. We thought it was potentially a missing cat on some flyers we saw earlier, but turns out it wasn't. Took it in to get scanned for a microchip, which led us to the rescue the cat is from. I gave the woman my number, but then I looked into her rescue and realized it was kind of sketchy.
Some red flags I noticed:
I found a cat a day or so ago. We thought it was potentially a missing cat on some flyers we saw earlier, but turns out it wasn't. Took it in to get scanned for a microchip, which led us to the rescue the cat is from. I gave the woman my number, but then I looked into her rescue and realized it was kind of sketchy.
Some red flags I noticed:
- Has 6 cats under the same name and wasn't sure which owner it was, so she had called all of them yesterday?
- We were able to find a potential owner on Next Door yesterday, and she kept asking me for their name and phone number.
- She'll start off with a justification or talking point that I agree with as an avid cat lover, but then it'll derail into a very extreme direction. For example, she kept talking about abusive owners even though we already told her that this cat was uninjured, street smart, and seemed extremely happy and calm.
- Calls the cat "my cat" or "our cat"
- Wants us to bring the cat back to her so that she can tell the owner that they've been irresponsible
- Spamming me with texts and calls
- Photos of her rescue online show that they don't have kennels, so the cats are just free-roaming, and some of the reviews mentioned that it smells..
- Lot of one star reviews online from people saying they were rejected for arbitrary reasons
- I'm getting some hoarder vibes, although I don't really want to diagnose a stranger. It's just a LOT of cats, and the rescue basically seems like her house? I don't want to be classist and say that rescues can only be a specific type of building with the fanciest cat trees, but I feel concerned with everything else going on.