I'm not sure this is the correct forum, but I have to share my expirience. Most people think I am mean/nuts for making my cat stay inside even though he wants nothing more than to go outside. It's horrible, I know. But I'm so paranoid he won't come home, someone will take him, or much worse.
Stop reading here if you don't want to hear about a dead/tortured animal.
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So, at my former High School they have a small nature trail that leads to a creek. I took the dogs down to go for a swim and afterwards we headed back toward the school. I had noticed newspaper that looked partially shredded [shredded like when you make a fire.] I know that kids come down there to smoke pot and do various other drugs and god knows what, so it wouldn't surprise me if someone had a camp fire down there somewhere. Anyway, coming back up the trail I noticed something on the ground, I thought it might be a mole or something, I flipped it over with my shoe, and it was the skull of a cat. The image is completely burned into my mind. I'm really not even a cat person, but this makes me completely sick. Half of the fur and whiskers was on it's face [the cat was black and white] it's jaw was closed and it had all of its teeth the way the nose looked, and how clean the skull was leads me to believe the cat was burned. I didn't look around for the rest of the body or anything, I was really creeped out about it [and it smelt horrible]. Seeing the paper, and late finding bits of paper along the trail, someone killed this cat. The little nature trail isn't home to any coyotes or dogs or anything that would kill a cat. We're right in the middle of a city, right in a neighborhood, right behind a school. Someone totally killed this cat. It makes me sick trying to think up how it died, and to think of the cat's owner. It was SO disgusting
and so sad.
I really don't know what to make of this considering that some guy has been stalking our neighborhood and 4 cats have disappeared, and one dog has been poisoned. One of the missing cats is a black and white cat.
I seriously cannot grasp how someone could do that to an animal
. This is WHY Napolean lives inside. One time on a forum some sicko posted a play by play of pictures of them burning a cat alive
. It just makes me sick to think about that happening. Everyone thinks their cat is safe roaming, and they aren't, everyone says "It won't happen to my cat" well this cat probably belonged to someone just the same. I know Napolean would love to be outside, and I do take him out [and am designing an outdoor enclosure] but I'm too afraid of what someone would do to him.
I know we all have different oppinions on cats being indoors and outdoors, but this is a really good reason for me to keep my cat inside.
Stop reading here if you don't want to hear about a dead/tortured animal.
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So, at my former High School they have a small nature trail that leads to a creek. I took the dogs down to go for a swim and afterwards we headed back toward the school. I had noticed newspaper that looked partially shredded [shredded like when you make a fire.] I know that kids come down there to smoke pot and do various other drugs and god knows what, so it wouldn't surprise me if someone had a camp fire down there somewhere. Anyway, coming back up the trail I noticed something on the ground, I thought it might be a mole or something, I flipped it over with my shoe, and it was the skull of a cat. The image is completely burned into my mind. I'm really not even a cat person, but this makes me completely sick. Half of the fur and whiskers was on it's face [the cat was black and white] it's jaw was closed and it had all of its teeth the way the nose looked, and how clean the skull was leads me to believe the cat was burned. I didn't look around for the rest of the body or anything, I was really creeped out about it [and it smelt horrible]. Seeing the paper, and late finding bits of paper along the trail, someone killed this cat. The little nature trail isn't home to any coyotes or dogs or anything that would kill a cat. We're right in the middle of a city, right in a neighborhood, right behind a school. Someone totally killed this cat. It makes me sick trying to think up how it died, and to think of the cat's owner. It was SO disgusting
I really don't know what to make of this considering that some guy has been stalking our neighborhood and 4 cats have disappeared, and one dog has been poisoned. One of the missing cats is a black and white cat.
I seriously cannot grasp how someone could do that to an animal
I know we all have different oppinions on cats being indoors and outdoors, but this is a really good reason for me to keep my cat inside.