Cat Dillema....

Spoongod · Post by **Spoongod** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 1:23 pm 0

To the reaction about me using the words 'owner' and 'it's not the centre of the universe':

I agree that a cat sees itself as the be all and end all of everything.

But we've got to try to keep them beneath us (metaphorically of course). If we don't then they have already won!

Portland · Post by **Portland** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 1:33 pm 0

Dogs have owners, cats have staff.

At the last house our moggies spent any amount of time next door* and also a couple of doors down. Most "owners" won't mind, but you could check round to make you feel better.

*the crafty fuckers even knew what day she went shopping, and would disappear from our house in hope of tuna, salmon, ham, cream etc as a treat.

leekfiend · Post by **leekfiend** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 6:02 pm 0

zip accident wrote:
Jimmy T. @ wrote:

Manservant or of course in my case - Human Slave with opposable thumbs, in charge of the tinopener.
However, legally, cats have owners. It may be an utterly daft law (though I'm sure we can all think of worse ones), but there is that aspect to the situation.

I'm not so sure on that one.

Legally, cats are considered wild animals. This is why, if you run over a dog, you are legally compelled to report it to the police, whereas if you run over a cat you can legally (but certainly not morally

) just carry on driving...

zip accident · Post by **zip accident** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 7:44 pm 0

leekfiend wrote:

Legally, cats are considered wild animals.

That may seem reasonable for moggies, and some are feral. However, there are also the specialised breeds of cats, "Persian", "Siamese", "Burmese" etc, and these are always owned. By extension from that, it surely makes sense that whatever the cats may think, they are usually owned (feral cats being the obvious exception here).

Dogs were usually working beasts, hounds or sheepdogs, centuries ago, and thus valuable, where no breed of cats (that I can think of) can be made to work at anything other than mousing, which they enjoy.

carolen · Post by **carolen** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 11:52 am 0

If you want to see if it 'belongs' to someone local, if you can catch it you could take it to a local vet and see if it's been microchipped. At least then you could see if someone else is likely to be looking for it...