Was it a mistake to set my cat free?

You didn't set her free you ABANDONED her and this is considered a FELONY. This is a pet not a wild animal.

I'm sure this post is complete BS so you've been reported for Flame Baiting and suggest others do the same. And considering this jerk is also Flame Baiting about 911 (classy!) I'm sure he's a troll. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=201209...

If you are not a troll (very likely you are) then you are the world's biggest jacka$$.

There is no such thing as a natural environment for a domesticated cat! That was 15,000 years ago. Cats have been domesticated to the whim of man since then and they have no natural ability to hunt. Lots of cats are scared to death of mice. White cats get cancer from sunburn, a white cat should NEVER be outdoors. If the cat was declawed then what the hell is it supposed to catch food with? You signed the death sentence on that cat.

All you had to do was turn it over to the SPCA or like organization and people would have jumped at the opportunity to adopt a declawed cat.

I suspect you are a troll however and about now are sitting there howling with laughter at all the people you made upset. That still makes you a jacka$$.

Are you insane? You should be arrested for animal abuse. You've just killed your cat. Good job. You should be reported and never allowed to own another animal, ever again.

With her being declawed, born and raised in a home, being taken care of by people her entire life, and then letting her go out in the forest, where there are big, mean, wild animals....that's the stupidest, most cruel thing I've ever heard in my entire life. You need to go back NOW and PRAY that you find her. If, IF you get lucky and do, bring her to the humane society, you worthless excuse for a person. I love how someone that's been in your family for two years means nothing to you. I hope your girlfriend leaves you. It is NOT a natural environment for a domestic animal, you stupid, STUPID person. Would you take a five year old boy and set him free in a jungle? I mean, jeez, we come from monkeys, so it's safe, right? God, people like you need to be euthanized.

I don't mean to be offensive but you are an IDIOT! You take an indoor pet and don't just set them free where they might scavenge neighbours garbages for something to eat. No, you have the insanely STUPID idea of letting her out in a FOREST. You set her free somewhere she's never been and has no clue how to get food and where her ancestors have not lived in millennia. PLUS she doesn't even have the claws to protect herself from wild enemies, with which the forest will be teaming!

Go back to where you let her go and try to find her. If it hasn't been too long you might be lucky. If she has been killed I hope you find her half eaten carcass with her poor little head and face intact and the sight remains in your mind's eye for the rest of your life.

If she is alive take her to your vet and get her checked out. Explain what happened to the vet, who may be able to help find a home for her. If that doesn't work find a cat rescue operation near you and ask that they take her in because you're incapable of taking care of an animal.

Never have another pet. You should probably have a vasectomy too. You're too stupid to raise children.

For anyone else who may come up against a landlord who wants you to get rid of a pet: Many cities have landlord-tenant laws that specify unless the pet is disturbing the neighbours or causing damage to the property (including the smell of a chronically unchanged litterbox), the landlord cannot make you get rid of the pet. So before you condemn your precious, defenseless pet to a horrible death in the wild, check your local landlord-tenant act.

You did NOT do the right thing. While some cats can revert and be able to make it in the wild, most cannot - they may for a few months, but if they have no experience in hunting and eating prey they are more likely to starve to death.

If she was a healthy cat, the shelters would have made an effort to rehome her as she was a younger cat. You didn't do the right thing. IMO I'd go searching for her NOW and try to find her and take her to a shelter if she is not dead or sick by now.

If the cat was declawed, you just sentenced her to a painful death where she could not defend herself or hunt for food.

Go back to the forest and find her. She could die out there. She would have been better off if you had kept her as an outside cat, given her to a friend, or even a shelter.

If she was declawed, you basically have signed her death warrant. She doesn't have claws to climb with so she's basically stuck on the ground all the time. She doesn't have claws to help her kill food. She doesn't have claws to defend herself. It would have been better to take her to the animals shelter because there's always the chance someone would have adopted her, and if no one did at least they euthanized in a more humane manner then your releasing her in the wilds without basic cat tools/weapons.

Well it might have been fine if she had claws, but if you declawed her then she defend her self from preditors. If she does not have any claws that was not a very smart idea! but its a little late now. but you can try and find her. hope this helped! ;)

When a cat gets declawed they get their claws completely removed, they do not grow back at al!

Declawed? won't their nails grow back? Snowflake will no doubt be a hunter, but I guess since the nails won't grow back, it might be tougher. But strays can always scavenge or someone might adopt her from the streets. :)

yes!! you should've just gave her to a friend.