Potential Dead Cat?
Potential Dead Cat?
#1Potential Dead Cat?
Posted: 11/8/14 at 2:05pm
I've been helping out this friend of mine00finding him a place to live and getting him a job. While he has been staying with me, I've let him crash in my my basement apartment. He hasn't stayed there, but his cat has--and she was a beautiful, healthy cat.
Anyway we have found an apartment, and he has been there for three weeks and the cat has died. I want to think from how skinny he (the cat) was when I last saw him I can maake a claim about animal abuse. Thoughts?
#2Potential Dead Cat?
Posted: 11/8/14 at 2:38pmHasn't the cat been cremated by now? I really don't know how animal abuse claims work (especially not in Canada), but it sounds like it would be hard to prove at this point.
#2Potential Dead Cat?
Posted: 11/8/14 at 3:04pm
The cat doesn't seem potentially dead.
Honestly, there could just as well be something in the new apartment that caused it. For all we know, the cat was an indicator that your friend should be testing the place for radon or some other sort of thing that can be fatal in the apartment, since it would also prove fatal to him.
#3Potential Dead Cat?
Posted: 11/8/14 at 3:10pm
If it was my friend, I'd probably ask what happened with the cat before jumping to conclusions otherwise.
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wonkit
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Sutton Ross
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#5Potential Dead Cat?
Posted: 11/8/14 at 5:46pm
Your friend left your basement apartment but the cat stayed there alone? Your post is slightly confusing.
I volunteer for a cat colony, and a random cat was coming from somewhere eating their food. We knew he wasn't feral because he was friendly. Anyway, we found out that he was living in a super's basement apartment. He used him to catch rats and never fed him. He said "he can survive on rats". When we finally convinced him to let us in so we could care for him, he was nothing but skin and bones. He was starving him to death, and not even providing water. We removed him from the situation, and found him a loving forever home, but did file an animal abuse complaint with the ASPCA. They take animal abuse very seriously, and if you suspect he has starved him, he needs to be reported and charged.
Updated On: 11/9/14 at 05:46 PM
ghostlight2
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#6Potentially murdered Cat?
Posted: 11/9/14 at 3:32am
Seems like there's something missing here. Why would you suspect someone that you know well enough to call a friend - and loan out an apartment to - of deliberately starving his cat to death, to the point that you're looking to officially accuse him?
I mean, cats die of all kinds of things - is there something else "off" about your friend that would make your jump to (what seems to me) the bizarre conclusion that he killed the animal?
Updated On: 11/9/14 at 03:32 AM
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#7Potentially murdered Cat?
Posted: 11/9/14 at 10:14amPeople do all sorts of horrible things to cats, often without thinking they are doing anything horrible.
#8Potentially murdered Cat?
Posted: 11/9/14 at 2:30pm
"People do all sorts of horrible things to cats, often without thinking they are doing anything horrible."
To be fair, that goes both ways.
#9Potentially murdered Cat?
Posted: 11/11/14 at 9:47pm
I dont understand this post either. Poor kitty. :'(
As others have echoed, I'd ask the friend first. Maybe she had an illness, or was poisoned accidentally. How is your friend acting? Grieving?
Sutton Ross
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#11Potentially murdered Cat?
Posted: 11/22/14 at 6:25pm
Oh. Apologies Sutton.
My friend, for what it's worth has been grieving but still has no idea how the cat died. I know things happen, but to see her completely healthy one day, and then find out she died the next is still kinda shocking.
Sutton Ross
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#12Potentially murdered Cat?
Posted: 11/22/14 at 6:31pmIm sorry about mentioning this in the other thread, I just volunteer for a cat colony, and have a visceral reaction to a cat being potentially abused. I apologize for my overreaction. I truly hope it wasn't a case of abuse.
#13Potentially murdered Cat?
Posted: 11/22/14 at 6:35pmI don't think it was--and I understand your feelings (before I started grad school, I used to volunteer with the cats at the SPCA.) To be honest, I don't know the owner, my "friend" all that well--he's the brother of a friend of mine. He does seem like a nice, well meaning guy, and I know he did care about the cat. But he's also something of a space case, and I could see neglect being an issue. (That said, as I mentioned, whenever he would be away for long periods of time he always made sure that someone could look after his cat.)
Sutton Ross
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#14Potentially murdered Cat?
Posted: 11/22/14 at 6:36pmOk, thank you for following up. Have a pleasant evening.
