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Buying a cat from humane shelter, please fill out

leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
edited August 2002 in General Discussion
Today I went gun shopping again, and had my girl with me. So we ended up at the pet store. She's been eyeing this cat that was previously abandon by its owners, and saved by a group called life-force (a secret peta organization...). Anyway, she really wanted the cat, so we went home and got our pet taxi, then went back up there to spend my $75 hard earned dollars to buy the cat. Ok, no problem, another mouth to feed, but hey, she wants it and I like animals, so why not.

Well we got there and told the lady, actually a group of five ladies. Next thing I new, there I was before a makeshift review commity, filling out a three page application that wants to know more personal info than my doctor and the apartment complex applications combined. And the sad thing is I'm not overegsaderating, or kidding about it at all. They started asking us all kinds of questions they had no business knowing. I knew all I had to do was tell them my dad was on the Ducks Unlimited commity, and they'd take me out back and beat me to a pulp. I was unarmed, and scared. Really. So they finally got thru with the interogation and we left, we have to wait till monday while they check our references, no bull.

Can you believe that...

If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

The sound of a 12 gauge pump clears a house fatser than Rosie O eats a Big Mac !


Edited by - nunn on 07/14/2002 16:55:29
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  • woodsrunnerwoodsrunner Member Posts: 5,378 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Want a cat, just send me your address. I live on a dead end street and people think the town garage down the street is an animal shelter. I have a new cat hanging around on almost daily basis. As a matter of fact one has kind of adopted me and I'm letting him hang out. Since he got here I don't see many others, maybe he's chasing them off. Sometime maybe I'll post the story, everyone I tell cracks up. He is a character. Orange tiger with eery yellow eyes.

    Woods
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks, I appreciate the offer, but my girlfriend has already picked the one out she wants, and she's not a very good compromiser if you know what I mean.

    Anyway, that is cool, giving a stray a home. You should kidnap him, and take him to the vet to get neutered, so he can't make any more little strays.

    If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

    The sound of a 12 gauge pump clears a house fatser than Rosie O eats a Big Mac !
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  • 101AIRBORNE101AIRBORNE Member Posts: 1,252 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    LEE,

    Cat people are very strange. Be afraid, be very afraid of them.
    I do happen to like some cats, if they are good ratters. I am not a bumper sticker person but have have placed a few on others vehicles,
    in particular, cat people. Reads something stupid:
    I love animals, I eat their flesh and wear their skins. 101
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    All I have to say is the next time I go to the pet store, I'm bringing extra ammo, cause those darn PETA, uh, I mean LifeForce people scare the crap out of me.

    If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

    The sound of a 12 gauge pump clears a house fatser than Rosie O eats a Big Mac !
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  • BullzeyeBullzeye Member Posts: 3,560
    edited November -1
    Liberals prefer cats. That's a fact. If a Liberal does have a dog, 9 times out of 10 it falls into the "Specifically Bred to be a 5 lb. Plaything for Royalty" category. Bows, ribbons, shaved posteriors, $100 an hour professional primping, etc.

    After some truly irritating experiences with both cat people and yappy toy-dog people, I've decided that if the dog couldnt seriously frighten a Jehova's Witness or an Avon saleswoman, I dont want it!
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    I like cats, too, but I have found them WAY too easy to come by to warrant ever going anywhere and paying money for them. When God wants me to have another cat, it just shows up.

    SIG pistol armorer/FFL Dealer/Full time Peace Officer, Moderator of General Discussion Board on Gunbroker. Visit www.gunbroker.com, the best gun auction site on the Net! Email davidnunn@texoma.net
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  • gars320gars320 Member Posts: 471 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    This may get me kicked off the board here, but I am really crazy about cats. I loved Morris, I think Garfield is the Cats Meow! I'm the kind of person who can't walk by a new cat without giving it a couple of pets. And I'm allergic to cats & dogs both! But I'm still in the same camp with Nunn. If god wants me to have a cat it will show up and rub against my leg.
    leeblackman is a better friend of cats than I am though I guess, I would never answer any personal type questions to anybody to adopt a cat. But I might throw a few bucks in the jar to support the shelter that saved them.
    Liberal? I AIN'T NO STINKIN.. LIBERAL!!!!
    But Hey, That's Just Me!

    Nil Illegitimus Carborundum

    Edited by - gars320 on 07/14/2002 17:22:41
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  • E.WilliamsE.Williams Member Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    To hell with that.You can find a cat elsewhere for less money and probably no questions let alone having to give an autobiography take your money and your business elsewhere.

    Eric S. Williams
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    These people are putting on a show for each other. Whether you choose to play along to get the cat is about the same as if you were to play along with the guy at the stoplight who wants to wash your windows for a quarter during the red light. Be wary of the mild insanity that may be involved, get the business done, and forget about it. If they want to "track" your ownership in any way, shape or form, tell them to go sc*** themselves and leave without the cat. Once the deal's done, you should never have to cross paths again. If you elect to leave and they ask why you changed your mind, tell them "the price of the cat was fine, but the price of your insanity is too high."

    - Life NRA Member
    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878

    Edited by - offeror on 07/14/2002 17:37:12
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  • almagunsalmaguns Member Posts: 88 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Why do people hunt pheasants? Cats can't fly!
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  • GreenLanternGreenLantern Member Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Some replies seem to indicate that $75 or any thing short of free is too much to pay for a cat. A cat from the shelter will come with all it's vaccinations and shots for a year. Take a free cat to the vet and you'll spend your $75 there. It's just your choice WHERE you want to spend the $75.
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think you have just as much right to do a background check on the "Life Force" members....I'd find out where they live and if the cat has ever been abused or sought psychiatric help. Find out their religious beliefs, those Wicken Cults have been known for cat mutilations. Ask if they have ever been convicted of animal abuse or if they are of an "Oriental" cultural following....we had a Vietnamise family move in a couple of blocks away some years ago, suddenly pets began disappearing....after all, you wouldn't adopt a child without checking up on the agency and people involved.

    Edited by - Rembrandt on 07/14/2002 18:31:23
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  • jocko007jocko007 Member Posts: 81 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was at the Vets the other day with my dog for a check up and this lady came in with a cat. She told the Vet that the cat don't eat, and hasn't * in months. I said, lady, I've been looking for a cat like that all my life, do you want to sell him?

    Cliff
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  • jocko007jocko007 Member Posts: 81 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was at the Vets the other day with my dog for a check up and this lady came in with a cat. She told the Vet that the cat don't eat, and hasn't s**t in months. I said, lady, I've been looking for a cat like that all my life, do you want to sell him?

    Cliff
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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm what you might call a passive cat hater. I have a cat, and its cool IF it lets me pet it, if it wont let me pet it, I hate it. If a cat lets me pet it, and love it up, thats cool. If it wont, I hate it too. If a cat is free, its a good deal, if it cost money, its worthless. If a cat is outside and I know who's cat it is, its lucky, if I dont know who's cat it is, its a target. Shots for a cat? You are kidding right? That would make the cat live longer, and it costs money. The 75.00 for the cat from the pound being a deal, nah I dont think so, I wouldnt get a stinking cat a shot, mine only does cause we live on post. Ask idsman about my cat, its cool to look at, but thats it, it wont have anything to do with you, damn traitor cat, no loyalty what soever. Think I'll have the dog '* the kitty' just for fun. My dogs worthless too, I just told her to do it, she went over to it and decided since it was laying on top of the speaker behind a box it wasnt worth the effort of her trying to get at it, so she just laid down next to her, damn dog, no loyalty what soever!!

    SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
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  • UNIVERSITY50UNIVERSITY50 Member Posts: 1,705 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    we had two ladies that were arrested for strong armed robbery, breaking and entering, theft, and assualt, for going to the house of the adopted cat(kitten). they then waited for the new owner to come out of her house, watching with field glasses, and followed her to her 80 yr old grandmother's house. they watched again with the field glasses as she drop off the cat at her grandma's, and went off to work. after following her to work they return the the 80 yr old's house, and rang the door bell. when the old lady answered the door they pushed her out of the way and down to the floor, one holding her down while the other seached the house for the kitten. upon finding the kitten and bagging it, they torn up the application the lady filled out and left $75.00 dollars on the table. when they were arrested they told the above story, and that they had every right to do what they did. all because the adoptive party lied on the application as to where the kitten was going to live. they stated they do not let older people adopt cats because the cat will out live the old people, and become strays again. the lady that adopted the cat only took the cat to grandma's so it could be watched while she was at work. the cat had been sick the first night she took it home and did not want it to be by it's self all day while she was at work. the old lady had a house that was ransacked, along with some injuries.
    can we all say, WHACKOS!!
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well if one of them ladies ever shows up at my house to check up on the cat, I'll sure let her in. Its whether or not she makes it out, thats the real question...

    If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

    The sound of a 12 gauge pump clears a house fatser than Rosie O eats a Big Mac !
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  • E.WilliamsE.Williams Member Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just tell her to use the window the doors stuck..lol The pound fee down here is $10.00 and you get a certificate for free shots and spaying/nuetering.I could never have a pet nuetered anytme I have adopted a dog I just give away the certificate.I wouldny pay money for a cat either they serve o true working purpose that would require pay more than food and somewhere to stay when its raining.So I will only pay for dogs.I was just saying if you are willing to pay $75.00 is rediculous.Heres what you do take your camera get a picture of the cat your girl wants and begin the search.Look in the paper you will find one identical for free and the people more than likelynot care what you do with the cat just as long as you do something with it.The only questions I will ever answer at the pound is Whats your name? and Cash or check?

    Eric S. Williams
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  • TOOLS1TOOLS1 Member Posts: 6,133
    edited November -1
    I just came across this. And I have to say I agree totaly with Rob. Do you live at my house and I just dont know it? You have to be talking about my pets.
    What happened did you ever get the cat?
    TOOLS
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  • john wjohn w Member Posts: 4,104
    edited November -1
    They just want to make sure it will have a good home and not end up on the street again. The $75.00 fee will cover the shots, checkup and the spay or nuter also. Answer only the questions you feel comfortable with and the others tell them it is not need to know. These people do a good job placing both dogs and cats but i could imagine them getting snoopy also. Better they do this than kill ALL the strays both dogs and cats.
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    UNIVERSITY --
    It makes a good story, but I don't like liars any better than I like the breaking and entering PETA Bambi-ists. I wonder if the girl told them whatever they wanted to hear. If so, it wouldn't have been long before that cat would have been spending every work day at Grandma's so it didn't misbehave while home alone for 8 or 9 hours. I wonder what the woman told the adoption people the cat's days would be like at home. While the people who broke into grandma's (if true and unexaggerated) went way over the top (unless they were uniformed SPCA officers), the girl should have taken more care. She could have had grandma over to HER house to babysit. That would indicate a greater willingness to put up with the responsibility of a cat, sick or well. If she lied to them, though, with the attitude, "whatever," she deserved not to get the cat. I hold the truth in high regard, and responsibility very close in the running.

    - Life NRA Member
    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just thought I throw in a little update.

    Yup, we got the kitty, and he's adjusted very well to living with us. The ferrets like him, but he don't like them. He sleeps in the bed with us at night, and sometimes I wake up to the smell of poo, but its just the cats butt in my face, and I have to push him off my pillow. He's already a part of our little family. And the origianl lady who found him and gave him to Life Force is the only person who ever called to check up on him, and I told her he got a good home, and is well taken care of, and that was the end of that. Also should mention the cat probably ways a good 25 lbs. He's pretty healthy. Sometimes I reach down to pick him up with one hand, forgetting how big he is, and then have to use two. He is a whinny thing two, never gets out from under my feet, follows me into the restroom all the time, and on more than one occasion got his head urinated on (hehehe ) from trying to look down the toilet to see whats going on.

    If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

    The sound of a 12 gauge pump clears a house fatser than Rosie O eats a Big Mac !
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  • hillbillyhippiechichillbillyhippiechic Member Posts: 97 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Cat?! Yuck! Money for a cat? Are you high? Sleeping the bed with you?? I just can't believe it!
    I would have said, just say no. If the girl gives you too much bother, get rid of her. There are plenty who prefer dogs.
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  • dads-freeholddads-freehold Member Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    greetings, first let me ask what breed is this 25lbs kitten, siberian tiger? and as far as paying for it , i'm with most of the others , find a stray and use the money for ammo when it uses the $3000 couch to sharpen it's claws. as far as shots i'll give them myself before i'll pay some horse doc to do it. respt submitted dads-freehold

    rodney colson
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  • twinstwins Member Posts: 647 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Pissed on its head, I love it. That is funny except then you have to wash it. Now the butt in your face....cure that with the cat meets the wall at two AM. Remember, if you have little ones or the wife is or gets pregnant, get rid of the cat ASAP!

    hillbillyhippiechic, dogs, ya gotta love em, unless they are ankle biters.

    twins
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