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Scrappy-doo
I want to clear this up. I did not dump the cat. I didn't think this was going to be necessary to explain all of this but I am getting sick of comments like that.
The way my cat situation went is this. I decided that I was going to let my cat be an outdoor cat when I still owned him. So I let him go out. I was home often and always checked the door many times in the evening for him. When he was ready he would be waiting and I would let him in.
My neighbor expressed interest in the Cheeba (my cat's name) and said that any time I would like she would take him because he was so friendly and she really liked him, and she has a cat that he was friends with. She wanted my cat.
So my cat would be over there often playing with her cat and she would let him in and feed him some gourmet cat food. Hand made stuff. I fed him well and gave lots of love to him, but was poor and could not compete with that kind of meal.
So, I started seeing my cat less and less. Some nights he would not come home and I would check many times hoping he was ok. Then after a while I would not see him for days at a time. He was always over there. When I hadn't seen him for about 2 weeks I was very worried that something happened and then I saw him in their yard one day eating from a dish. So that's where my cat has been!
At the same time I was ready to move into my first apartment in a city. Since my cat was already comfortable in this neighborhood, it's a safer neighborhood, and he was never home with me anyway, I decided to let him go.
So my point of view was always that she stole my cat, lured him into her home with her precious cat and her gourmet food, and got what she wanted. I was pissed for a while but I figured it worked out in the end.
Or perhaps he left me. Maybe I wasn't a good enough or cool enough parent. I don't know. But I did not dump my cat.
No hard feelings, but that comment urked the fuck out of me.
So I hope this clears things up.
The way my cat situation went is this. I decided that I was going to let my cat be an outdoor cat when I still owned him. So I let him go out. I was home often and always checked the door many times in the evening for him. When he was ready he would be waiting and I would let him in.
My neighbor expressed interest in the Cheeba (my cat's name) and said that any time I would like she would take him because he was so friendly and she really liked him, and she has a cat that he was friends with. She wanted my cat.
So my cat would be over there often playing with her cat and she would let him in and feed him some gourmet cat food. Hand made stuff. I fed him well and gave lots of love to him, but was poor and could not compete with that kind of meal.
So, I started seeing my cat less and less. Some nights he would not come home and I would check many times hoping he was ok. Then after a while I would not see him for days at a time. He was always over there. When I hadn't seen him for about 2 weeks I was very worried that something happened and then I saw him in their yard one day eating from a dish. So that's where my cat has been!
At the same time I was ready to move into my first apartment in a city. Since my cat was already comfortable in this neighborhood, it's a safer neighborhood, and he was never home with me anyway, I decided to let him go.
So my point of view was always that she stole my cat, lured him into her home with her precious cat and her gourmet food, and got what she wanted. I was pissed for a while but I figured it worked out in the end.
Or perhaps he left me. Maybe I wasn't a good enough or cool enough parent. I don't know. But I did not dump my cat.
No hard feelings, but that comment urked the fuck out of me.
So I hope this clears things up.
