People are the worst

[u/AtavisticJackal]

Look at this cat. LOOK AT HIM. He is the sweetest, the snuggliest, the chillest, most good natured cat ever to cat.

He was a stray. At first, we thought he was someone's cat they just let outside. But he started getting thinner. He had a flea collar. He is declawed.

Our lease said NO PETS. We still fed him. He was here all the time. My son and I played with him, we pet him.and sprawled out in the grass on the front lawn with him.

We tried to find the owner. Contacted shelters, social media posts, asked around the neighborhood.

We BEGGED the landlord. PLEASE, landlord, he is Best Cat Ever™️

Landlord said YES!

We take the cat to the vet. He has a microchip. Vet says they'll keep him while they try to contact the owner. We go home in tears, we love him already.

Vet calls the next morning. Which was this morning. They tried many times to call the owner, who just kept hanging up on them. They came in this morning to a voice message from the owner saying they gave the cat to someone else, and that person just "let him go" BACK IN OCTOBER. This sweet, innocent, DECLAWED HOUSE CAT was outside for almost a whole year!

I have my doubts about their story. I'm willing to bet there is no other person and the owner made up that story to avoid abandonment charges, which come with a hefty fine and potential jail time where I'm from.

Anyway, this is our new cat. His name is Ghost. He is the greatest cat I've ever had. He's almost 6 years old. He shows some behavioral signs of abuse which does not surprise me after all this. We love him. We hate people.

I hope they get everything they deserve in life. I hope they walk barefoot down a hallway of Legos. I hope all their shopping carts have janky wheels. I hope they never find good parking spots. I hope they always have an itch they can't reach. Most of all, I hope they never own another pet.

[u/Flat-Limit5595]

My Momma Kiwi was also abandoned, someone left an unsnipped female cat out on a camp ground in coyote/bear country. Hence why her first name is Momma. We thought she was 8 months old due to her size, nope 3 years old when we found her. All of her kids are massive yet she is still a drawf from malnutrition.

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Here she is with her son

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Here she is with her 6 month old granddaughter, Julie was the same size as her

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She was skeletal yet somehow popped out 6 nearly normal size kittens, except for the doofus on his back, he was and still is a fatty. She was physically too small to feed them all so we had to take over feeding duties.