Oh dear ...

[blamebrampton]

It is possible that we are about to inherit more cats. Either the people on the back street who used to own two nice cats have decided to leave only the same two lights on for a few nights and put their cats on diets, or they have left the cats behind and pissed off into the realm of complete fuckers who leave their pets behind.

Biscuit, the schmoopy calico, has been up mooching food at the local Thai for a few nights in a row, while Scooter, her co cat, has just been looking thinner every time we see her. J did an emergency food run this evening, I will be doorknocking tomorrow to see whether they have fallen over and can't get up, or if I need to be taking the cats across to have their tags scanned and register their ex-owners as irresponsible shitheads with the local council and RSPCA.

These two can be the outdoor cats if they come to us. Maybe our friends on the back street would like them ...

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[ant-queen.livejournal.com]

Abandoning pets is so wrong. If you can't keep them, at least have the decency to try and find them home or take them to the RSPCA. I especially hate abandonned cats as they will naturally start killing the local wildlife to feed themselves. We used to get a lot of abandonned cats on campus during session breaks when the students are away. Campus groundskeepers try to round them up and take them to the RSPCA.

We have a policy of always picking up any dogs we find wandering the streets without an owner in site and take them to the RSPCA or vet rather than leave them to get skittled. As it turns out, our neighbours have the same policy, as I discovered the other morning when I woke up to a commotion and found I had three dogs in our secure back yard instead of two. Neighbours had taken in a lost little staffie (about 6 mths old I reckon) and it had managed to jump the 5' high side fence to say hello to our two. Took about 15 minutes of me boggling how I'd acquired an extra dog before the neighbour's kids enlightened me. Pup had no collar or tag so she was going to take him to the vet to see if he was chipped. Looked well cared for, so we suspect he'd done a houdini and probably had a worried family somewhere. I like our neighbours more now.