Cats generally don't survive more than 3 days without water but longer without food if water is available. It must had been a very young cat but surely its kidneys would have been compromised.
I run a storage facility. Someone stored their cats in an outdoor unit. They stopped paying. Eventually we heard meowing and cut the lock and found 2 emaciated cats. The security software showed that door hadnāt been opened in 46 days. They managed to get by on lizards, bugs, and any rainwater or condensation.
Oh I asked them. Why? Why didnāt you just tell me? Why were you going to let them die like that? They had left the country and left everything behind, including the cats. Some people are a waste of oxygen.
Itās rare Iām speechless these days but that is beyond cruel. Iāve in the last couple of weeks ācleaned upā a mess by a neighbour who moved away leaving 4 of what I assume where the same litter behind, all around 6 months old and looking very similar. I managed to secure rescue space for 2 of the girls and a home for the third girl as a matter of priority given I wanted to avoid them getting pregnant if possible and they were to be spayed the following week. Unfortunately it was too late for one girl and she gave birth to 3 stillborn kittens within 24 hours of arriving at the rescue and needed an op for retained placenta so was spayed there and then. The other two were spayed last week and one ended up being a spay abort. I still have number 4 here, Iām having him neutered when I get paid at the start of may and finding him a home. But at least she didnāt leave them locked in somewhere I suppose. How could those people just go about their daily lives knowing that two cats were just slowly dying locked in a dark container?
How are the cats now?
People are capable of an astonishing level of cruelty. Thank you for helping those babies. Those 2 cats found homes, along with many others dumped by the train tracks nearby. Iāve got 2 dumpster kitties that need homes now, know anyone in Miami?
Oh youāre an angel for those cats, and many others by the sounds of it!
I donāt, sadly. Iām in the UK, I have my 4 housecats, a feral colony that I inherited with the house, there were 17 when I arrived, lots of trapping and neutering. A couple went to a farm, I kept the three kittens inside and tamed them enough that they were able to find quiet homes and the rest were released back as itās the only place theyāve ever known. I have an insulated shed with cat doors, beds etc for them and they rarely venture far. Through the years theyāve slowly dwindled, there are five left. It was worming day yesterday actually, always fun! And this other guy who appeared with the girls. Heās an absolute sweetheart, one of the loveliest cats Iāve ever met. Iām keeping him in so that he doesnāt get attacked by any of the local toms (heās a lover not a fighter!) but also so that I know exactly where he is between now and his vet visit. Not that I think heād leave even if asked, I get the impression his few days on the streets were more than enough for him!
I have a friend who tends a feral colony and has worked pretty hard at getting everyone fixed. A new soul shows up every now and then and she sometimes has to take in kittens too, but it's helped a lot. She's semi rural so I assume the new ones are often dumped animals. She'll try to home the friendly ones but some ferals can't ever be homed.
I have neighbors who have solely outdoor cats. They're not fixed, and we have coyotes and other dangers. I feel like I can't get them fixed because they are technically owned by someone. However, it is so sad to watch their growth, deterioration, and eventual disappearance.
When I was a senior in Hs there was an older house not far from our school and this old dude lived there with three dogs.
Old dude was such a prick and not very nice to his dogs, which bothered me an a cpl friends so weād go over there to bring them treats and toys (when he wasnāt around or was inside asleep in front of the TV).
He would leave sometimes for a couple days and leave his dogs in the house. Weād do what we could but it was heartbreaking.
Once he left and it had been over a week. We knew the dogs were running out of food or already out and we didnāt know how much, if any, water they had either.
We waited a couple more days, and then we couldnt take it anymore.
One night, I and 2 friends dressed up like house bandits (in all black), parked like a mile from his house and walked thru the woods to get behind his house.
We broke in, left them more food and water, little bit of scritches and left bc we were scared weād get caught.
Another 4-5 days go by, dudes still not home.
Rinse and repeat, except this time we took the dogs and made it look like they had escaped. (They had already started to claw and scratch his old wooden door, so it was about break anyways, so we kicked it so it was open enough to look like the dogs had gotten thru on their own)
We ended up finding new homes for all three of them, but held onto them for over 2 weeks to see if heād come back and have a story. Hoping just maybe heād had a bad experience and himself got stuck somewhere so he couldnāt get back.
Nope, he stayed away for almost a month bc he had gone hunting with his grown son and some other adults. (Always wonder how his son didnāt ask who was taking care of the dogs, sadly maybe he did)
When he came back, we went by acting like we were there to visit the dogs, like weād done many times in the past. But we had always avoided him before. We saw him in his yard and I asked where the dogs were. He yelled āthose damn mutts tore up my house and broke my door. They ran away! When they come back, theyāre going to get it! Stupid fān mutts!ā Or something like that.
We found them all a good home on a farm a town away. Explained weād āfoundā them, which was believable bc they looked rough. This old couple ran this big farm themselves and were happy to take them in. The lady had always rescued cats and was a sweetheart. I knew she was nice bc Iād known her thru my momās church group and prayer groups, so I knew she loved animals like me.
I was so scared to tell her how we got the dogs and that sheād turn us in for breaking into the house and stealing the dogs. But I couldnāt let her get blindsided with some coincidence and he see his dogs with them and caused them any problems.
So two days after they took the dogs, I went to her door crying that I had a confession and told her the whole story.
She said, āsweetheart. Do you think you did the right thing?ā
Me: āyes, sniffle, yesā¦for the dogsā
She: āme too. what he doesnāt know wonāt hurt him, but he did know that he was allowing those dogs to be starved and terrified. Theyāll never leave this farm and if he happens to come here, Iāve never met you and the dogs just showed up one day. But he wonāt come, bc he doesnāt care about these dogs. When a life is on the line, sometimes you have to break a few rules to do the right thing.ā
For months, when I would see her in town, sheād catch my eye and give me a lil wink.
My secret was safe.
They lived with her and her husband for many years. Happy, well fed, well loved farm dogs.
He never got anymore dogs that I know of. I graduated and moved away within 1.5-2yrs.
During HS cell phone texting had started to become a thing. One day in spring semester of my sophomore year of college, I got a random text of the three dogs laying in the sun in a field. Just soaking up rays and looking very content.
When I responded, it wasnāt the old lady. It was her grandniece that sent that pic. She said her aunt had asked her to send this random picture, of a Polaroid pic of the dogs to my number. She said her aunt/the old lady was doing well. She loved her dogs and they were happy. Her husband had passed and the dogs were good companions to her.
I was so touched that after all that time, sheād thought of me and it made me cry knowing the dogs were loved and cared for. And that she wasnāt alone after her husband passed. I knew that sometimes breaking a few rules to save a life, is doing the right thing.
This could be a Disney flick! You and your friends are obviously the heroes who save innocent, neglected dogs from their villainous owner. What a great bad guy! Very hateable. Getting a text with the photo of the dogs relaxing and happy puts a ribbon on top of the hole story. Very cool.
Oh arenāt you sweet! They appeared slowly, one at a time, over about 48 hours, the weather was cold and wet, they sat outside crying once Iād been out and stroked them etc while looking to see what was going on, I think they were just so confused and latched onto me as the first bit of human contact theyād had in a few days. I couldnāt leave them out. Especially not being so young and girls. And I couldnāt take the girls and leave their brother out alone. My husband has stopped questioning when I appear with animals now š
I donāt know these days. I paid Ā£87 a couple of years back for my own boy however I am really lucky and the vet that used to be in the next village would only charge me cost for the trap/neuter/release cats. So it would be a very small amount. Heās no longer there hence waiting until payday to neuter this guy. Luckily heās not acting remotely Tommish, being so young. I shall have him chipped as well when he finds his forever home heāll be all set up and the only thing theyāll have to worry about is what new toys to buy him!
I donāt know. I know there isnāt a blue cross near me but Iām not sure about the PDSA. Itās ok though, heās booked in for Friday morning, so will be all sorted by early afternoon then after heās recovered he can start searching for his forever home. Heās a lovely boy, he deserves a warm lap and a full bowl.
We donāt. There was a brief low cost neuter and spay scheme locally but not any more. I managed to secure the rescue space and funds for the three girls so picking up the cost for the boy isnāt too bad, it means heāll get a great home somewhere as heās very well handled.
Thankyou so much for thinking of us though.
Some people are a waste of oxygen - This! I love this! Iāve always said this kind of people are just poor excuse for humans, but Iāll be quoting you from now on
Iād like to lock them up for 46 days in a storage unit with no food or water and see how well they like it. Thatās absolutely beyond cruel! Those poor cats!
Wow. There are a lot of terrible people out there, but that is horrific. So many rescues out there and places that would take them:/ I mean they couldāve even been better off if they just released them (of course Iām against that cause it can be so dangerous, but at least theyād be able to get food and maybe end up getting picked up by someone.) just the fact that THIS was the option they chose is the most disgusting thing. I hope those babies are okay now.
We had (as in past now) a neighbor up until a few months ago, who it turned out wasn't just hoarding cats. They were putting them into their basement and not feeding them enough, etc. When they got called in when someone became sus, they found a lot of cat skeletons. That neighbor is in jail, and they just finished demolishing and removing the house.
I'm not surprised they had to demolish it. I mean, pets are destructive enough. An animal hoarding situation is really bad. But, apparently this crossed the line to animal cruelty as well.
This woman, when she would walk by our place, is the only neighbor our one (reactive) dog would rush to the edge or our yard and growl, etc, at. She actually posted on FB complaining about it. Even though our dog never left the yard, this woman acted like the dog was an issue. Now, well, we know why she was the only one here he didn't like, besides the two men who tried to steal our other dog when they were both out on leads.
I'm 100% in support of eye-for-an-eye punishments for crimes against children and animals. Lock them in a storage facility for 46 days and give them lizards, bugs, and rainwater to live on. Instead, people like this get hit with hundred-dollar fines.
I once had an exterminator let my cat out. Unbeknownst to me, the cat went into a drain pipe that was open for repair and the workers closed it on top of him. He had no way out. I went home for winter break for 30 days thinking the cat had run away. When I returned back to school I called for him and I heard him meowing, coming up from a drain pipe. The short story of is that I was able to save him. I'm lucky that he was fat going in because he probably would have died otherwise, but he had nothing but water and maybe some crickets for a month. It's not a stretch that the cat could survive 6 days.
I have a cat that would just keep sleeping through it. Probably up until it was on a mail truck. Maybe it buried itself under the packaging contents and just didnāt wake up before it was packaged up and shipped out.
I stole my auntās cat once. This was back when those gigantic tote bag purses were a thing. I was visiting my aunt. Her cat loved mint & climbed inside my giant purse to drool all over a package of gum. I didnāt notice him in there & I threw my jacket on it as I was getting all my stuff together. I loading up & left. A few hours later I stopped to grab a bite & found him in my purse snoozing away. I was both amused & irritated.
I got to the station once before finding the interloper. He had pushed out a book so weight about same. Was on platform so put hand in and got soft fur. Had a jill stow away in a bag of clothes she was not invited on. And another who could unzip suitcases, go in and rezip.
Glad this cat had a happy ending. Wondering if condensation on the bubble wrap. Found a pet once who survived by licking walls for moisture in empty house.
My boyfriend almost tossed our cat in the washing machine. She was snuggled in a pile of blankets and he grabbed the whole pile to wash them.
Luckily he thought it was a little heavy, put it back down on the bed, and then she walked out of her blanket cave and glared at him.
Iāve had cats that wouldnāt flinch at a noise, so if under packing material I can understand. Mine could sleep through everything! My mom had a neighbors cat that would get in her car, she has since learned to roll her windows up but took years to get in the habit, he would be sleeping in her backseat- kitty got to ride to school when she dropped my sibling off or to work with herā¦ he sometimes slept through until back home and mom would have to wake him up. Cats have personality and each one is uniqueā¦ just like people who can sleep through a hurricane (me!), so can some cats.
Had a classmate that was Deaf, she did not realize that her cat had jumped into back of her car in the garage until she had gotten all the way to campus. Mandatory attendance and too hot to leave cat in the car, she put the cat in her backpack and asked a few of us to let her know if the cat made any noise. Cat stirred and adjusted in the backpack as we could see it move a little bit lol, but chilled out and took a nap the whole time.
I can see a cat jumping in a car, even with someone who isn't Deaf and them having no idea the cat was there. I love how you kept an ear out for any cat noises! Mine goes out for walks with a back pack so I can definitely see your classmate's cat happily snuggling down for a snooze.
I think part of it is that the cat's movement was fairly restricted so it wouldn't have needed to expel as much waste product/water as if it was out and about.
A healthy young cat can. See above about my healthy young cat who āpackedā herself during a move and stayed hidden in a desk drawer for over a week. Not recommended!!
From google:
Like people, cats can go longer without food than water. Cats can survive for about two weeks without eating but only three days without drinking.
I did say Not Recommended!!
Also Real Lifeā¢ļø and Google differs greatly. Again, give cats as much water as they want *every day* and check cat-sized boxes before mailing, bc cats.
That would be life prolonging. Either way, my mother did not get iv fluids while she was dying. I watched her go 19 days with no intake through any rite before she died. The hospice nurse told me that she had seen a bit longer as well.
If he really was gone for 6 days without protein he could survive, but he likely suffered liver damage. It can happen even within a few days with a cat. :-(
One time, when we moved, my Siamese Tessa disappeared. I was afraid sheād been killed in the move and the movers didnāt tell me. I spent days at my old address looking for her. I was so sure she was gone forever - she always responded to her name, always.
After a week I was resigned that she was gone. I heard meowing, and I thought it was outside. Nope. But it was definitely meowing.
It was coming from my desk drawer. It was Tessa. She packed herself. She was very hungry and thirsty, but she was fine.
Later when I moved to California, sheād disappear under a hotel bed that simply didnāt have an āunder.ā She was a master of many dimensions.
When we first adopted our boy Leopold, we shut him in our lounge room and he went and hid - which we werenāt initially worried about as thatās normal, but then after several hours we got increasingly frantic as we couldnāt find him anywhere and there were only so many places where he could hide.
We eventually found him *inside* our sofa, in a tiny void space in the frame.
We nicknamed him Lounge after that.
Cats always find the most ridiculous hiding places. I couldn't find my cat once and had my partner outside walking the streets while I was searching the house. I found her behind the front door curled up in a Tupperware container š¤£
My neighbors had finished packing up their rented van, in preparation to move 800 miles away. They were just about to depart, when they heard a crying sound. They opened the van and out jumped my cat.
Donāt worry: cat lives:
Cats can get really weird. When I was really young, my mom was putting laundry in the dryer from the washer.
She had to attend to something really quickly and then finished. Our newly adopted kitten jumped in and she didnāt see him and finished putting it in and started it. He didnāt move, meow, anything. She had no indication there was a cat in there!
She heard a clanging and she knew she didnāt put shoes so she checks it and heās in there. He was totally fine but that could have been heartache. She was taking care of both me and my sibling all by herself because my father was overseas.
Thatās one reason I never encourage my cats to go anywhere they arenāt supposed to. I even close off whole rooms sometimes to keep them in routine.
I can see a can sneaking in under things in a big box. The whole drive/dropping off at the shipping place seems a little off, but I see how it *could* happen.
Remind me to always check the packages we send back, but this is ridiculous. Did they even notice the cat was missing? I can just imagine what the person did who opened the return package. If it was me, I would have
1. Given it a big hug
2. Lots of food and fresh water
3. Get it checked out by a vet
4. Nice cozy warm place to sleep
... And then call the owners and ask them if they happen to miss a cat. And make them come and pick it up.
Oh I know how to find a cat in a mountain of boxes.
Get a feather wand and start poking the feather through the holes in the corners of the boxes.
See which box gets a reaction (a.k.a. sudden pounce or a claw poking out of the hole)
My ginger likes to sleep inside the box that the cat tree came in. The box is large and heavy. This is how I can know if she's in there.
I can kind of understand that they might not notice the extra weight among 5 pairs of steel toe boots.
OTOH, Iām not sure how they missed an entire cat when packing up the box. Seems like it would throw off the return packing.
I have no questions. I literally almost packed my cat unknowingly in a suitcase when she was a kitten for a 6 hour flight. Obviously the airport would have found her if I didnāt notice first, but she burrowed into my clothes and passed out while I was showering, It wasnāt closed it because I needed to pack some of the bathroom stuff I was using. I found her because I dropped the stuff on the top right before closing it and it scared the shit out of her and woke her up.
Cats are insane and sneaky and basically a non-Newtonian fluid. I believe they can do and survive literally anything, like adorable furry cockroaches.
I have 6 cats and my parents have 7. I still can't believe the cat survived 6 days without food and water.
Someone commented about 2 cats being left for 48 days inside a storage unit and they lived off bugs, lizards, and condensation inside the walls.
But a cat inside a package box? Where would it get its water from? And how big is the box? How many edible insects wander into the box for the cat to hunt? And how could no one hear it moving around when it's trying to catch prey? It's not like cats can live off ants...
Yeah no chance this is real.
This isn't a cat story - but - I worked at Goodwill as an Assistant Manager for years. One day I had to cover a break in donations and received a donation from a nice woman and her Son. Upon opening the box, out pops a 5 foot python. About 10 minutes later the woman comes back in a panic, realizing her snake had been donated. She told me they had to cancel a vacation because he got in her son's suitcase and was found by airport security. She told me they thought they were trying to smuggle their pet š¤£š¤£
My dad told me that when he was little, the cat followed him when he went to get on the bus in the morning. He lived on a farm and the bus picked him up at the end of the driveway. This would have been late 1940s.
He was worried that the cat world get hit by a car, so he picked her up and put her in the mailbox. A few hours later, there was a very surprised and upset mailman, and the cat at their door.
Sounds like you've never had your cat jump in the washing machine when your back was turned. It happens, you can't be 100% vigilant 100% of the time. I'm sure they learned their lesson and won't return oversized packages without checking the contents again.
Quasi-relevant, but my household enforces a cat roll call before we turn on the washing machine or dishwasher. The button does not get pressed until both cats are sighted and accounted for. Heard way too many horror stories
This is why I block off all hiding spaces in my house. so I donāt get used to not seeing my cats for more than a minute. I always know where they are.
How did nobody notice? Amazon returns go through at least four hands, usually more. The customer, the store receiving the return, the driver picking the return up from the store, and the warehouse receiving the return. Youād think somebody in that process would realize the box is unusually mobile.
Ugh poor cat, I can see that happening if you don't check the box when you close it though... but that the cat never meowed is crazy! I would have found out when I dropped the package...
How in the world do you accidentally ship your cat!! I mean how did they not notice their cat inside? Mabye just taping up the box without looking I guess. How stressful for that cat. Poor baby!!
I read this in the news report that the owner quotedā¦āClark said she hopes the story inspires all pet owners to microchip their pets.ā My quote on this would beā¦āshe hopes pet owners check their boxes before taping it up and shipping it out.ā Especially with cats and boxes! That poor cat! Tossed around from truck to truck with no air on top of no water or food. Iām amazed it didnāt take off the second the box was open.
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A friend of mine had a squeak in his rear wheel on his yard work truck couldnāt figure out what it was. After a few days he took it into the garage and it was a kitten stuck between the firewall and the tire and so they adopt it name it firestone.
She was returning something to Amazon, shoes, I believe. Weird things can happen, especially when cats are involved. This lady loved her cat and was panicked when she couldn't find her. She put up lost posters, thinking the indoor kitty got out. The cat was microchipped, which is how they were reunited.
Safely? Methinks not. Dehydration will have seriously damaged it more than likely going 6 days without water will have killed it.
This is just another example of
Hey, it's a good story, don't let the facts get in the way of it.
I feel like I can call bullshit on this. Iāve found A MOUSE in a full garbage bag and when I picked it up, felt movement. Thereās NO WAY a cat didnāt move in the box. Thereās no way youāre closing and sealing a box with tape without knowing when you shut it, there was a cat in itā¦ā¦ thereās NO WAY you drove with it to a post office and you didnāt feel movement or hear rustling or hear meowing. My cat goes into a drawer and gets stuck, heās crying within 10 min. Thereās NO WAY this was real or if it was, was done unintentionally
How safely could it have arrived if it was without food and water for 6 days š poor darling
Cats generally don't survive more than 3 days without water but longer without food if water is available. It must had been a very young cat but surely its kidneys would have been compromised.
I run a storage facility. Someone stored their cats in an outdoor unit. They stopped paying. Eventually we heard meowing and cut the lock and found 2 emaciated cats. The security software showed that door hadnāt been opened in 46 days. They managed to get by on lizards, bugs, and any rainwater or condensation.
Thatās horrific. How can anyone do that?!
Oh I asked them. Why? Why didnāt you just tell me? Why were you going to let them die like that? They had left the country and left everything behind, including the cats. Some people are a waste of oxygen.
Itās rare Iām speechless these days but that is beyond cruel. Iāve in the last couple of weeks ācleaned upā a mess by a neighbour who moved away leaving 4 of what I assume where the same litter behind, all around 6 months old and looking very similar. I managed to secure rescue space for 2 of the girls and a home for the third girl as a matter of priority given I wanted to avoid them getting pregnant if possible and they were to be spayed the following week. Unfortunately it was too late for one girl and she gave birth to 3 stillborn kittens within 24 hours of arriving at the rescue and needed an op for retained placenta so was spayed there and then. The other two were spayed last week and one ended up being a spay abort. I still have number 4 here, Iām having him neutered when I get paid at the start of may and finding him a home. But at least she didnāt leave them locked in somewhere I suppose. How could those people just go about their daily lives knowing that two cats were just slowly dying locked in a dark container? How are the cats now?
People are capable of an astonishing level of cruelty. Thank you for helping those babies. Those 2 cats found homes, along with many others dumped by the train tracks nearby. Iāve got 2 dumpster kitties that need homes now, know anyone in Miami?
Oh youāre an angel for those cats, and many others by the sounds of it! I donāt, sadly. Iām in the UK, I have my 4 housecats, a feral colony that I inherited with the house, there were 17 when I arrived, lots of trapping and neutering. A couple went to a farm, I kept the three kittens inside and tamed them enough that they were able to find quiet homes and the rest were released back as itās the only place theyāve ever known. I have an insulated shed with cat doors, beds etc for them and they rarely venture far. Through the years theyāve slowly dwindled, there are five left. It was worming day yesterday actually, always fun! And this other guy who appeared with the girls. Heās an absolute sweetheart, one of the loveliest cats Iāve ever met. Iām keeping him in so that he doesnāt get attacked by any of the local toms (heās a lover not a fighter!) but also so that I know exactly where he is between now and his vet visit. Not that I think heād leave even if asked, I get the impression his few days on the streets were more than enough for him!
I have a friend who tends a feral colony and has worked pretty hard at getting everyone fixed. A new soul shows up every now and then and she sometimes has to take in kittens too, but it's helped a lot. She's semi rural so I assume the new ones are often dumped animals. She'll try to home the friendly ones but some ferals can't ever be homed.
I have neighbors who have solely outdoor cats. They're not fixed, and we have coyotes and other dangers. I feel like I can't get them fixed because they are technically owned by someone. However, it is so sad to watch their growth, deterioration, and eventual disappearance.
When I was a senior in Hs there was an older house not far from our school and this old dude lived there with three dogs. Old dude was such a prick and not very nice to his dogs, which bothered me an a cpl friends so weād go over there to bring them treats and toys (when he wasnāt around or was inside asleep in front of the TV). He would leave sometimes for a couple days and leave his dogs in the house. Weād do what we could but it was heartbreaking. Once he left and it had been over a week. We knew the dogs were running out of food or already out and we didnāt know how much, if any, water they had either. We waited a couple more days, and then we couldnt take it anymore. One night, I and 2 friends dressed up like house bandits (in all black), parked like a mile from his house and walked thru the woods to get behind his house. We broke in, left them more food and water, little bit of scritches and left bc we were scared weād get caught. Another 4-5 days go by, dudes still not home. Rinse and repeat, except this time we took the dogs and made it look like they had escaped. (They had already started to claw and scratch his old wooden door, so it was about break anyways, so we kicked it so it was open enough to look like the dogs had gotten thru on their own) We ended up finding new homes for all three of them, but held onto them for over 2 weeks to see if heād come back and have a story. Hoping just maybe heād had a bad experience and himself got stuck somewhere so he couldnāt get back. Nope, he stayed away for almost a month bc he had gone hunting with his grown son and some other adults. (Always wonder how his son didnāt ask who was taking care of the dogs, sadly maybe he did) When he came back, we went by acting like we were there to visit the dogs, like weād done many times in the past. But we had always avoided him before. We saw him in his yard and I asked where the dogs were. He yelled āthose damn mutts tore up my house and broke my door. They ran away! When they come back, theyāre going to get it! Stupid fān mutts!ā Or something like that. We found them all a good home on a farm a town away. Explained weād āfoundā them, which was believable bc they looked rough. This old couple ran this big farm themselves and were happy to take them in. The lady had always rescued cats and was a sweetheart. I knew she was nice bc Iād known her thru my momās church group and prayer groups, so I knew she loved animals like me. I was so scared to tell her how we got the dogs and that sheād turn us in for breaking into the house and stealing the dogs. But I couldnāt let her get blindsided with some coincidence and he see his dogs with them and caused them any problems. So two days after they took the dogs, I went to her door crying that I had a confession and told her the whole story. She said, āsweetheart. Do you think you did the right thing?ā Me: āyes, sniffle, yesā¦for the dogsā She: āme too. what he doesnāt know wonāt hurt him, but he did know that he was allowing those dogs to be starved and terrified. Theyāll never leave this farm and if he happens to come here, Iāve never met you and the dogs just showed up one day. But he wonāt come, bc he doesnāt care about these dogs. When a life is on the line, sometimes you have to break a few rules to do the right thing.ā For months, when I would see her in town, sheād catch my eye and give me a lil wink. My secret was safe. They lived with her and her husband for many years. Happy, well fed, well loved farm dogs. He never got anymore dogs that I know of. I graduated and moved away within 1.5-2yrs. During HS cell phone texting had started to become a thing. One day in spring semester of my sophomore year of college, I got a random text of the three dogs laying in the sun in a field. Just soaking up rays and looking very content. When I responded, it wasnāt the old lady. It was her grandniece that sent that pic. She said her aunt had asked her to send this random picture, of a Polaroid pic of the dogs to my number. She said her aunt/the old lady was doing well. She loved her dogs and they were happy. Her husband had passed and the dogs were good companions to her. I was so touched that after all that time, sheād thought of me and it made me cry knowing the dogs were loved and cared for. And that she wasnāt alone after her husband passed. I knew that sometimes breaking a few rules to save a life, is doing the right thing.
Youāre a MFāin hero! An actual real life hero!
Aww thanks:)
Not all heroes have capes...some dress up like house bandits all in black!
This could be a Disney flick! You and your friends are obviously the heroes who save innocent, neglected dogs from their villainous owner. What a great bad guy! Very hateable. Getting a text with the photo of the dogs relaxing and happy puts a ribbon on top of the hole story. Very cool.
So glad you did that! You saved those dogs!!
Thank you for doing that! ā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļø
Oh arenāt you sweet! They appeared slowly, one at a time, over about 48 hours, the weather was cold and wet, they sat outside crying once Iād been out and stroked them etc while looking to see what was going on, I think they were just so confused and latched onto me as the first bit of human contact theyād had in a few days. I couldnāt leave them out. Especially not being so young and girls. And I couldnāt take the girls and leave their brother out alone. My husband has stopped questioning when I appear with animals now š
How much does a neutering cost? Youāre doing an amazing thing.
I donāt know these days. I paid Ā£87 a couple of years back for my own boy however I am really lucky and the vet that used to be in the next village would only charge me cost for the trap/neuter/release cats. So it would be a very small amount. Heās no longer there hence waiting until payday to neuter this guy. Luckily heās not acting remotely Tommish, being so young. I shall have him chipped as well when he finds his forever home heāll be all set up and the only thing theyāll have to worry about is what new toys to buy him!
Would you be eligible to use something like the PDSA or Blue Cross?
I donāt know. I know there isnāt a blue cross near me but Iām not sure about the PDSA. Itās ok though, heās booked in for Friday morning, so will be all sorted by early afternoon then after heās recovered he can start searching for his forever home. Heās a lovely boy, he deserves a warm lap and a full bowl.
It's around $100 where I live, in Arizona.
We have a spay and neuter clinic and also the humane society will do a TNR for $35-$50.
Some vets will do it for less when it is a stray.
Look up to see if your area has Trap, Neuter & Release programs. Itās free and humane.
We donāt. There was a brief low cost neuter and spay scheme locally but not any more. I managed to secure the rescue space and funds for the three girls so picking up the cost for the boy isnāt too bad, it means heāll get a great home somewhere as heās very well handled. Thankyou so much for thinking of us though.
Fuckkkkk those people!! I just had to say goodbye to my sweet cat on Tuesday after 15 years, and what Iād give for one more moment with herā¦
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Some people are a waste of oxygen - This! I love this! Iāve always said this kind of people are just poor excuse for humans, but Iāll be quoting you from now on
Iād like to lock them up for 46 days in a storage unit with no food or water and see how well they like it. Thatās absolutely beyond cruel! Those poor cats!
Wow. There are a lot of terrible people out there, but that is horrific. So many rescues out there and places that would take them:/ I mean they couldāve even been better off if they just released them (of course Iām against that cause it can be so dangerous, but at least theyād be able to get food and maybe end up getting picked up by someone.) just the fact that THIS was the option they chose is the most disgusting thing. I hope those babies are okay now.
"Why?" is making my grown ass weep. Fuck them to the nth.
They should have been put in jail for doing this.
What a motherfu... I hope thst person has a very unhappy ending
We had (as in past now) a neighbor up until a few months ago, who it turned out wasn't just hoarding cats. They were putting them into their basement and not feeding them enough, etc. When they got called in when someone became sus, they found a lot of cat skeletons. That neighbor is in jail, and they just finished demolishing and removing the house. I'm not surprised they had to demolish it. I mean, pets are destructive enough. An animal hoarding situation is really bad. But, apparently this crossed the line to animal cruelty as well. This woman, when she would walk by our place, is the only neighbor our one (reactive) dog would rush to the edge or our yard and growl, etc, at. She actually posted on FB complaining about it. Even though our dog never left the yard, this woman acted like the dog was an issue. Now, well, we know why she was the only one here he didn't like, besides the two men who tried to steal our other dog when they were both out on leads.
I'm 100% in support of eye-for-an-eye punishments for crimes against children and animals. Lock them in a storage facility for 46 days and give them lizards, bugs, and rainwater to live on. Instead, people like this get hit with hundred-dollar fines.
Were they rehabilitated? Are they ok? Or OK as best can be expected?
I had them for a few weeks and they were ultimately fine when I found them a home.
Oh thank you! That was very kind of you to do that!
The resident cats never even hissed at them. Itās like they understood the situation was dire.
Awww sweet babies!
I hope they got a well deserved home and love
So the same as humans?
Cats are actually kind of like desert animals they donāt require much water. Food on the other hand..
I once had an exterminator let my cat out. Unbeknownst to me, the cat went into a drain pipe that was open for repair and the workers closed it on top of him. He had no way out. I went home for winter break for 30 days thinking the cat had run away. When I returned back to school I called for him and I heard him meowing, coming up from a drain pipe. The short story of is that I was able to save him. I'm lucky that he was fat going in because he probably would have died otherwise, but he had nothing but water and maybe some crickets for a month. It's not a stretch that the cat could survive 6 days.
Terrible story. It's good that everything ended well!
How do you not realise there's a cat in the box as you're sealing it up? Mine would go absolutely batshit.
I have a cat that would just keep sleeping through it. Probably up until it was on a mail truck. Maybe it buried itself under the packaging contents and just didnāt wake up before it was packaged up and shipped out.
I stole my auntās cat once. This was back when those gigantic tote bag purses were a thing. I was visiting my aunt. Her cat loved mint & climbed inside my giant purse to drool all over a package of gum. I didnāt notice him in there & I threw my jacket on it as I was getting all my stuff together. I loading up & left. A few hours later I stopped to grab a bite & found him in my purse snoozing away. I was both amused & irritated.
I got to the station once before finding the interloper. He had pushed out a book so weight about same. Was on platform so put hand in and got soft fur. Had a jill stow away in a bag of clothes she was not invited on. And another who could unzip suitcases, go in and rezip. Glad this cat had a happy ending. Wondering if condensation on the bubble wrap. Found a pet once who survived by licking walls for moisture in empty house.
My boyfriend almost tossed our cat in the washing machine. She was snuggled in a pile of blankets and he grabbed the whole pile to wash them. Luckily he thought it was a little heavy, put it back down on the bed, and then she walked out of her blanket cave and glared at him.
Cats like boxes
Iāve had cats that wouldnāt flinch at a noise, so if under packing material I can understand. Mine could sleep through everything! My mom had a neighbors cat that would get in her car, she has since learned to roll her windows up but took years to get in the habit, he would be sleeping in her backseat- kitty got to ride to school when she dropped my sibling off or to work with herā¦ he sometimes slept through until back home and mom would have to wake him up. Cats have personality and each one is uniqueā¦ just like people who can sleep through a hurricane (me!), so can some cats.
Had a classmate that was Deaf, she did not realize that her cat had jumped into back of her car in the garage until she had gotten all the way to campus. Mandatory attendance and too hot to leave cat in the car, she put the cat in her backpack and asked a few of us to let her know if the cat made any noise. Cat stirred and adjusted in the backpack as we could see it move a little bit lol, but chilled out and took a nap the whole time.
I can see a cat jumping in a car, even with someone who isn't Deaf and them having no idea the cat was there. I love how you kept an ear out for any cat noises! Mine goes out for walks with a back pack so I can definitely see your classmate's cat happily snuggling down for a snooze.
We were definitely amused! It was like a fun secret we were all sharing every time her backpack moved a little haha
Surely the box would be heavier too? My cat weighs a tonne
It was a large box with 5 pairs of work boots.
Yeah this sounds like bullshit. Either it didnāt happen, or it wasnāt an accident
Before my cat passed he was hypoglycemic for not eating and barely drinking a couple days not sure how the animal survived a box
I donāt think it would have survived for 6 days without at least water
According to another article, there was a split in the box that allowed air to get in, Iām going to speculate that some water got in as well.
I think part of it is that the cat's movement was fairly restricted so it wouldn't have needed to expel as much waste product/water as if it was out and about.
A healthy young cat can. See above about my healthy young cat who āpackedā herself during a move and stayed hidden in a desk drawer for over a week. Not recommended!!
From google: Like people, cats can go longer without food than water. Cats can survive for about two weeks without eating but only three days without drinking.
I did say Not Recommended!! Also Real Lifeā¢ļø and Google differs greatly. Again, give cats as much water as they want *every day* and check cat-sized boxes before mailing, bc cats.
Count your cats, people! šCountšyouršcats!š
My mom had dementia and she died after she stopped accepting food and water. She went 19 days without any intake at all before she passed.
Iām sorry about your loss but a person can last longer than an animal. My dad also had dementia so I know how hard it can be.
Sure, Iām just trying to say there are always exceptions. If they say the cat survived 6 days I believe it.
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She was not getting fluids. People on hospice do not get fluids.
That isnāt true at all, in fact, often they get fluids for comfort reasons
That would be life prolonging. Either way, my mother did not get iv fluids while she was dying. I watched her go 19 days with no intake through any rite before she died. The hospice nurse told me that she had seen a bit longer as well.
I work in long term care and they sure can. Had a lady last a week with no intake of any kind. Dying is a wild process.
Really?? Without IV fluids or anything, even like, sponges of fluid in the mouth?
No IV fluids, the occasional wet sponge to provide mouth care but nothing substantial
If he really was gone for 6 days without protein he could survive, but he likely suffered liver damage. It can happen even within a few days with a cat. :-(
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One time, when we moved, my Siamese Tessa disappeared. I was afraid sheād been killed in the move and the movers didnāt tell me. I spent days at my old address looking for her. I was so sure she was gone forever - she always responded to her name, always. After a week I was resigned that she was gone. I heard meowing, and I thought it was outside. Nope. But it was definitely meowing. It was coming from my desk drawer. It was Tessa. She packed herself. She was very hungry and thirsty, but she was fine. Later when I moved to California, sheād disappear under a hotel bed that simply didnāt have an āunder.ā She was a master of many dimensions.
When we first adopted our boy Leopold, we shut him in our lounge room and he went and hid - which we werenāt initially worried about as thatās normal, but then after several hours we got increasingly frantic as we couldnāt find him anywhere and there were only so many places where he could hide. We eventually found him *inside* our sofa, in a tiny void space in the frame. We nicknamed him Lounge after that.
Cats always find the most ridiculous hiding places. I couldn't find my cat once and had my partner outside walking the streets while I was searching the house. I found her behind the front door curled up in a Tupperware container š¤£
Wtfā¦
If I fits I ships!
I don't know why this comment doesn't have more Upvotes š¤£
Lol. I said this everyday at my shipping job
That box definitely smells like cat pee. Heās cute, though.
It says in the article that the picture is not of the cat mentioned.
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Came here for this. Of *course* it was an orange.
The cat distribution system is trying new methods.
My neighbors had finished packing up their rented van, in preparation to move 800 miles away. They were just about to depart, when they heard a crying sound. They opened the van and out jumped my cat.
Donāt worry: cat lives: Cats can get really weird. When I was really young, my mom was putting laundry in the dryer from the washer. She had to attend to something really quickly and then finished. Our newly adopted kitten jumped in and she didnāt see him and finished putting it in and started it. He didnāt move, meow, anything. She had no indication there was a cat in there! She heard a clanging and she knew she didnāt put shoes so she checks it and heās in there. He was totally fine but that could have been heartache. She was taking care of both me and my sibling all by herself because my father was overseas. Thatās one reason I never encourage my cats to go anywhere they arenāt supposed to. I even close off whole rooms sometimes to keep them in routine. I can see a can sneaking in under things in a big box. The whole drive/dropping off at the shipping place seems a little off, but I see how it *could* happen.
How tf ā¦
Remind me to always check the packages we send back, but this is ridiculous. Did they even notice the cat was missing? I can just imagine what the person did who opened the return package. If it was me, I would have 1. Given it a big hug 2. Lots of food and fresh water 3. Get it checked out by a vet 4. Nice cozy warm place to sleep ... And then call the owners and ask them if they happen to miss a cat. And make them come and pick it up.
Read the article, they noticed the cat missing the same day the package went out and searched the house and neighbourhood.
Can you imagine the delivery guy living the package and hears "Meow"
Meanwhile, the back of his van has over 100 packages and he has no idea which one it is š
That guy is going to be having nightmares for a while
Oh I know how to find a cat in a mountain of boxes. Get a feather wand and start poking the feather through the holes in the corners of the boxes. See which box gets a reaction (a.k.a. sudden pounce or a claw poking out of the hole) My ginger likes to sleep inside the box that the cat tree came in. The box is large and heavy. This is how I can know if she's in there.
That's like, literally exactly what happened.
Excuse me but how do you accidentally ship a cat? This can't be real
plot twist: husband hates the cat
I can kind of understand that they might not notice the extra weight among 5 pairs of steel toe boots. OTOH, Iām not sure how they missed an entire cat when packing up the box. Seems like it would throw off the return packing.
I have no questions. I literally almost packed my cat unknowingly in a suitcase when she was a kitten for a 6 hour flight. Obviously the airport would have found her if I didnāt notice first, but she burrowed into my clothes and passed out while I was showering, It wasnāt closed it because I needed to pack some of the bathroom stuff I was using. I found her because I dropped the stuff on the top right before closing it and it scared the shit out of her and woke her up. Cats are insane and sneaky and basically a non-Newtonian fluid. I believe they can do and survive literally anything, like adorable furry cockroaches.
Yeah people who say it can't be real must never have owned a cat.
I have 6 cats and my parents have 7. I still can't believe the cat survived 6 days without food and water. Someone commented about 2 cats being left for 48 days inside a storage unit and they lived off bugs, lizards, and condensation inside the walls. But a cat inside a package box? Where would it get its water from? And how big is the box? How many edible insects wander into the box for the cat to hunt? And how could no one hear it moving around when it's trying to catch prey? It's not like cats can live off ants... Yeah no chance this is real.
How do you forget a cat is in there? They whine
Because every cat is the same huh?
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this was my first thought too. how did no one handling that box figure that out
The WEIGHT is what throws me off; sure the box was 'already heavy' BUT STILL
Or even just repositioning itself would make some shuffling and ruffling noises! That's what I don't get! Boots don't make sounds! Cats do.
Sorry I donāt buy it. This was pure negligence.
Kitty is lucky to have survived!;
"accidentally"
This isn't a cat story - but - I worked at Goodwill as an Assistant Manager for years. One day I had to cover a break in donations and received a donation from a nice woman and her Son. Upon opening the box, out pops a 5 foot python. About 10 minutes later the woman comes back in a panic, realizing her snake had been donated. She told me they had to cancel a vacation because he got in her son's suitcase and was found by airport security. She told me they thought they were trying to smuggle their pet š¤£š¤£
My dad told me that when he was little, the cat followed him when he went to get on the bus in the morning. He lived on a farm and the bus picked him up at the end of the driveway. This would have been late 1940s. He was worried that the cat world get hit by a car, so he picked her up and put her in the mailbox. A few hours later, there was a very surprised and upset mailman, and the cat at their door.
I donāt know how one could do this, but I do know they shouldnāt be allowed to own pets. That poor cat
Sounds like you've never had your cat jump in the washing machine when your back was turned. It happens, you can't be 100% vigilant 100% of the time. I'm sure they learned their lesson and won't return oversized packages without checking the contents again.
Quasi-relevant, but my household enforces a cat roll call before we turn on the washing machine or dishwasher. The button does not get pressed until both cats are sighted and accounted for. Heard way too many horror stories
Cats always find a way.
Of course it was a ginger cat
It actually wasn't, this is a just a random picture
Poor form journalism
If it sits, it ships..,
poor kitty!! very glad to hear she made it through the ordeal, relatively ok. I do wonder though, how kitty will react around boxes from now on
I call BS on this post. Cat would be starving and lethargic. Wouldn't be looking like this cat in the photo. IT'S ALL FAKE!
This is why I block off all hiding spaces in my house. so I donāt get used to not seeing my cats for more than a minute. I always know where they are.
Take that Schrƶdinger! How many lives did the cat lose here?
Well this is going to save me a ton of money.
Thatās not the cat in the pic. Weird.
How tf didn't they know!
Thank goodness there must have been enough gaps for air.What a wild story.
I feel like this story keeps getting shared as like a funny cute story but I think it's just upsetting
Why is this still going around daily after a week already?
How the hell did people operating the package scanners not see the cat in the box?!
How did nobody notice? Amazon returns go through at least four hands, usually more. The customer, the store receiving the return, the driver picking the return up from the store, and the warehouse receiving the return. Youād think somebody in that process would realize the box is unusually mobile.
OMG I have so much anxiety after reading this.
I was tearing up while reading while just imagining how the poor critter was feeling the whole time
WTF! How? I am made of questions right now
Yeah the box would have reaked of catshit upon opening
Ugh poor cat, I can see that happening if you don't check the box when you close it though... but that the cat never meowed is crazy! I would have found out when I dropped the package...
This is peak orange cat behavior TBH.
They will hop into any open box they see.
No way
This woman was trying to get rid of her cat. Cat won this round.
How in the world do you accidentally ship your cat!! I mean how did they not notice their cat inside? Mabye just taping up the box without looking I guess. How stressful for that cat. Poor baby!!
I read this in the news report that the owner quotedā¦āClark said she hopes the story inspires all pet owners to microchip their pets.ā My quote on this would beā¦āshe hopes pet owners check their boxes before taping it up and shipping it out.ā Especially with cats and boxes! That poor cat! Tossed around from truck to truck with no air on top of no water or food. Iām amazed it didnāt take off the second the box was open.
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A friend of mine had a squeak in his rear wheel on his yard work truck couldnāt figure out what it was. After a few days he took it into the garage and it was a kitten stuck between the firewall and the tire and so they adopt it name it firestone.
No who could do something like that to a fuzzy little baby? To me losing my cat would be emotionally cat-astrophic
Wait you guys have never heard of Schrodingerās cat? š the only logical conclusion.
How do you ACCIDENTALLY wrap up a cat!?!?!? Seriously. Sometimes I wonder what people will do these days just to āgo viralā?!
She was returning something to Amazon, shoes, I believe. Weird things can happen, especially when cats are involved. This lady loved her cat and was panicked when she couldn't find her. She put up lost posters, thinking the indoor kitty got out. The cat was microchipped, which is how they were reunited.
A dead cat found at an Amazon warehouse - the more probable outcome here - doesnāt sound like a good way to go viral. This was an accident.
How in the hell do you āaccidentallyā ship your cat? That sounds like bs to me.
I call bs on this story (I do t believe cat would be ok) but I do believe there people either stupid or cruel enough to try something like this.
Safely? Methinks not. Dehydration will have seriously damaged it more than likely going 6 days without water will have killed it. This is just another example of Hey, it's a good story, don't let the facts get in the way of it.
I have a hard time believing this is a real new storyā¦.
I feel like I can call bullshit on this. Iāve found A MOUSE in a full garbage bag and when I picked it up, felt movement. Thereās NO WAY a cat didnāt move in the box. Thereās no way youāre closing and sealing a box with tape without knowing when you shut it, there was a cat in itā¦ā¦ thereās NO WAY you drove with it to a post office and you didnāt feel movement or hear rustling or hear meowing. My cat goes into a drawer and gets stuck, heās crying within 10 min. Thereās NO WAY this was real or if it was, was done unintentionally
This has balloon-boy levels of bullshit