Do gooder dumps cats on us

Re: Do gooder dumps cats on us

Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:43:25 GMT

[quote user="Martin Atkinson"]Pedant![/quote]

Why do you say that?

Re: Do gooder dumps cats on us

Martin Atkinson — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:24:04 GMT

[quote user="Evelyn Barbour-Hill"]

[quote user="Martin Atkinson"]Munchausens syndrome by proxy [/quote]

I wish I could get hold of the ignorant psychiatrist who invented that term. He had obviously never read Munchausen, knew nothing about the books or their author and knew nothing about the real original Munchausen.

[/quote]Pedant!

Re: Do gooder dumps cats on us

Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:55:44 GMT

[quote user="Martin Atkinson"]Munchausens syndrome by proxy [/quote]

Re: Do gooder dumps cats on us

Martin Atkinson — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:32:21 GMT

[quote user="Sarah Keir"]

Cat-napping - get it almost every week! Some of the culprits are even willing to spend lots of money on the poor cats that don't belong to them!

Sarah

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Absolutely, I have one nutjob client who presumably suffers from Munchausens syndrome by proxy who would bring her own cats in for imaginary dseases and wouldn't give up until I gave something. I started with injection of B12 then water then when I refused to treat them she started kidnapping her neighbours cats and pretending they were strays she'd adopted, when she ran out of those and was rumbled she then started going round and finding vulnerable people with cats and convincing them to bring, or let her bring, the cats in and she'd pay for them to be vaccinated, neutered and treated for real or imaginary diseases and sometimes coerced then to signing them over to her. But half (well probably most) of the time she doesn't comply with the treatment anyway and doesn't listen to advice given. The irresponsible do-gooders who dump perfectly healthy 'strays' are a dime a dozen - get used to it you'll have plenty more. The ones that really piss me off are the ones who find a dead animal that can't be identified and bring it to the surgery then I'm expected to pay for its disposal and they get arsey when we try to explain that we hardly have a duty to do this.

Re: Do gooder dumps cats on us

CatherineThomas — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:39:58 GMT

We had a cat who used to spend a lot of time around the block of flats next to the practice, the residents didn't like it becuse it would steal from their bins and sneak in through their open doors. They brought it in to us several times and it just annoyed the owner becuase we would have to call her at work. She just told us to let it go and it would get back home as she didn't live very far away. The residents knew this but did it anyway, they also kept pestering us to give them her phone number, but we refused to do this without her permission. One time they even called the CP and asked them to come and catch "a stray cat which didn't have an owner". Fortunately the CP ladies came in to ask us if we'd seen this stray before they tried to catch it. So we told them what was going on and they went home a little annoyed to have been played like that.

Re: Do gooder dumps cats on us

Dagmar Steele — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:03:58 GMT

since I've had my own tomcat napped by an elderly couple I really have zero tolerance for these people! The one downside of microchipping - it's not visible from the outside stating "this cat has a home" !

Re: Do gooder dumps cats on us

Sarah Keir — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:06:01 GMT

Cat-napping - get it almost every week! Some of the culprits are even willing to spend lots of money on the poor cats that don't belong to them!

Sarah

Re: Do gooder dumps cats on us

Rob Loxley — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 23:43:36 GMT

[quote user="Laurence Webb"]I can keep them at the surgery over the weekend in case anyone phones up about them but that may well not happen. May have to be a drive out there late at night to release them when the roads are quiet.[/quote]

If they're fit and healthy I'd probably do the same!

Re: Do gooder dumps cats on us

Martin Jones — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:28:19 GMT

[quote user="Utlendigur"]

So I drove several miles to her house, picked up the cat,

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You did what? Why, how much did you charge and did she pay?

Re: Do gooder dumps cats on us

Utlendigur — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:56:36 GMT

I had one client who worked at the Spar shop a few doors down from our surgery phone me 11pm one night to demand that I made a house visit to collect the "stray" cat that she had taken home. The cat had been sitting outside Spar - so obviously it was a stray and she couldn't possibly keep it overnight as she had dogs. So I drove several miles to her house, picked up the cat, drove it back to the surgery 50yards from where she had kidnapped it. I did keep it overnight because the weather was bad. Its owner called in the next day worried because his cat hadn't returned for breakfast and he feared it might have been an rta. By the next evening as I drove home, the cat was sitting outside Spar again...

Re: Do gooder dumps cats on us

Rachael Winder — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:42:32 GMT

My personal favourite was the man who kept feeding the "stray cat" in his road, then brought it in to be euthanased because it wouldn't go away!

Re: Do gooder dumps cats on us

emma o'connor — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:35:07 GMT

Poor cats, they were probably just out on the town minding their own business!! We seem to have this happen a fair bit, again we politely ask them to return the cat to where they found it, but a few stubborn people refuse, so we end up providing free bed and board for 7days to see if an owner turns up. If not we rehome or pass onto a local cat rescue shelter. We had one yesterday, who picked up the cat just because it was hanging around her back door without a collar on so it must be a stray. we scanned it and found a microchip, registered to an address next door to the old lady who brought it in! She then exclaimed in surprise that she had thought it looked familiar

We made her take it back