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Was it a mistake to set my cat free?
My girlfriend and I have had a little white cat, snowflake, for almost 2 years. We got her when she was a kitten and she's been a wonderful cat. The problem is that we moved recently, and out landlord doesn't allow pets. We tried to just hide her and it worked for a few months but recently the landlady came over and saw snowflake and told her we have to get rid of her. I put up flyers and put an ad on craigslist but noone responded, and I didn't want to take her to an animal shelter because I read somewhere that they kill pets..... so I set her free. We live near a national forest so I put snowflake in her pet carrier and took her out on one of my favorite hiking trails and set her free. I figured it would be better for her to live out her life in a natural evvironment. I told my girlfriend and she is p1ssed, and I've talked to a few frinds at work and they all said with a cat that's been declawed. Are they right??? Because I'm starting to get worried about snowflake???
7 Answers
- Smokies HikerLv 79 years ago
Sorry Preston, but you did absolutely everything wrong you could have! The woods is not a natural environment for a cat that has been living in your house for 2 years! Hopefully you can go out and find Snowflake and get her to an animal shelter where she'll be treated right until she can be adopted. Imagine your parents turning you out on the streets to survive when you were just a teenager! Snowball had had a happy home where she was fed and given water daily, and probably any medical care she needed. Then all of a sudden, she was taken to a strange place and left there to fend for herself! She was not a wild animal and where you left her, that's where the wild animals are! You didn't set Snowball free...you likely sentenced her to death! In many places you would be arrested and fine for "abandonment of an animal!" Your friends are right about a cat that has been de-clawed! It is defenseless! I'd bet the landlord would have given you a couple of weeks or a month to find Snowball a home or take her to a shelter. I'll say a prayer for Snowball that she is okay and is able to find her way to someplace that will care for her and give her a good home!
Source(s): A cat lover's opinion! - Anonymous9 years ago
You are well intended but... that was a dumb move. They have no kill shelters. That's actually where most ex-pets end up. The strays end up at the kill shelters and they only get put down if they sit in the system for something like a year and no one wants them or if they are dangerous. Go try to find your de-clawed kitty. It won't fare well in the wild with no claws. If it can't hunt it won't eat out there.
- Anonymous9 years ago
no house is worth is losing an animal if you really loved snowflake
Source(s): snowflake - ?Lv 59 years ago
Is she declawed?!?!? If so, she is probably dead. If they don't have claws, they can't climb up trees to escape predators. But, I don't see what else you would have done, I would never give my cat to the pound.
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- peanutcake05Lv 49 years ago
If the cat has no claws, she will not survive. You putting her out there was a stupid idea!
- 9 years ago
you idiot, she is a housecat she don't know how to survive go find her if you can and then take her to a humane society
Source(s): common fucki*g sense
