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I'm really glad the cats are OK and sorry for your mental anguish, but
really, again, get something positive out of the situation and collar and tag the cats. Stuff happens. When we lived in an apartment in Chicago, one of my neighbors had her indoor cat (young, about a year) slip out the door unnoticed when she went away for the weekend UNCOLLARED. The little cat was smart enough to cling screaming to the stairway, and we followed the noise and brought it into our apartment before someone else shooed it away into the night. It lived in our spare room for three days (where our kitten made goo-goo eyes at it through the glass door LOL) till she finally came home and saw our sign and came to get him in tears. If the cat had not been found or found by someone less patient than us, it wouldn't have gone well for the cat as there is no space in any Chicago no-kill shelters AT ALL. With a collar, we would have known the cat belonged to her and could have left a message on her machine. It's just the sensible thing to do. |
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Kristine Kochanski wrote in message . ..
I'd be more concerned someone went away for a whole weekend and left a cat alone. I wouldn't have given her the cat back! Poor lil thing. The point is that the cat was almost a dead little thing because he DIDN'T have a collar on. Single people do leave cats alone for two nights. It's not that unusual. Me, I would pay for a cat sitter. But this was on the South Side of Chicago years ago, and people are not particulary well off in that neighborhood. They were clearly attached to each other and the kitty was healthy and happy (by day 3 -she was making googly eyes back at my kitten through the glass)... |
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"Kalyahna" dumped this in
on 17 Mar 2004: Everybody's alright, though I'm still ****ed off about it, and wondering how far I take this. I'll talk to the complex manager on Monday (I don't have any choice, between office hours and my work schedule, that's the first day I have off that they're open). I don't know if I want the stupid ******* fired or reprimanded, or just to admit that he did, in fact, leave the window open. snip I'm glad everyone was ok and accounted for. I understand your anger over this; I used to rent, and maintenance people seemed to let themselves in, come and go as they pleased and it infuriated me, too. One time one of them even let himself in while I was home but back in the bedroom and if he knocked, I didn't hear him. He walked in on me changing my clothes. That was it. I insisted to the front office that they not let them in like that or I'd press charges. -- Cheryl I am a very happy person. It's just that I have no patients for stupidity. - IBen Getiner |
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I am SO thankful your kitties were OK. I can't imagine what I would have
done in your shoes, but it would NOT have been pretty! -- Peace, Pen -- Pawbreakers - The Candy for Cats! http://www.pawbreakers.com |
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"Kalyahna" wrote in message ...
"Tracy" wrote in message om... Probably a good ideal to collar and tag (and microchip) the cats. I can do that for MY cats, but I can't do that for the fosters that I have 90% of the time. Why not? Steve. |
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I can do that for MY cats, but I can't do that for the fosters that I
have 90% of the time. Why not? Because she has no ownership rights to the cats, they belong to the shelter she fosters for. Up to shelter if they want to microchip. If it's not a no-kill and they euthanize, it would be a waste of money for them to microchip an animal that doesn't get adopted (sad but true). Small shelters may not have money to microchip. I foster for a no-kill, they microchip the day they get fixed. |
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"Laura R." wrote in message .. . circa Wed, 17 Mar 2004 18:40:38 -0600, in rec.pets.cats.health+behav, Kalyahna ) said, The receptionist calls back to tell me that both the maintenance man and the maintenance manager insist THEY didn't open any windows. At which point, I'd ask her how the management company plans to address the apparent problem of my magically self-opening windows, then. Heh. Excellent point. The sleazeballs are trying to cover their *sses by making the tenant feel she is suspected of leaving the windows open. And why the hell would she? I rented for such a long time, but I hope never again. |
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"Cat Protector" wrote in message news:Mqj6c.29651$wg.28635@okepread01...
This sounds like burglery. Did you even call the police to have them come out an investigate? They could have taken fingerprints and thus caught whoever did this. -- The warped judges would just let them go and they'd come right back and do it again, most likely. And since when did you become Elliot Ness? You sound more than a little guilty to me. Had some experience with sheriff detectives, have you..? P.S. Been to SF to get married yet? IBen G. |
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"kilikini" wrote in message ...
"IBen Getiner" moronically said: (snip) If you continue to demonstrate this kind of negligence regarding your pets, there are people here who will see to it that the proper authorities come and take them away from you. I can't believe that you just said that! The OP didn't leave the window open, the repairmen did. She frantically found all of the kitties. Why was she negligent? What did *she* do wrong besides let those imbeciles into her apartment, but sometimes you don't have a choice. Why is Usenet all about arguing with other people? I've been on Usenet for about 7 years now and have met some wonderful people, have shared some excellent ideas and advice, but it's getting a little petty. (I'm sure there will be plenty of flaming going on telling me to just get out.) Lighten up! kilikini It's true and you know it, KK. IBen G. |
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