Life's challenging twists and turns just keep-a-comin'!
We can now label me as an accused, lyin', cat nabber. And to state clearly, the latter two are untrue.
This one is worthy of its own topic, so pour yourself a beverage.
After Oliver's passing and unable to mentally stand being in this house without him, I started fostering animals again for the local humane society.
Pitbull #2 had an extremely high prey drive, wanted to attack joggers and yappy dogs and basically anything that moved - tough to walk her with a neighborhood littered with squirrels and rabbits, and every morning and evening was a parade of dogs being walked. She was not successful in my care, thankfully.
During her stay, specifically a week ago yesterday, late at night, the doorbells rings. The only neighbor who would come over that late would've called or texted first so it was immediately odd. Pitty-dog goes bananas, we go to the door and I open it but keep the glass storm door closed - easy enough to talk through that.
Strange woman at the door holds up her phone with a GPS-based app pulled up and says her tracker shows her cat is in my house and I turned off the tracker. (What?)
I literally laugh out loud because the dog is doing its bananas thing and wants at this person.
"Lolololol, I can guarantee you, there is no cat in this house with this pitbull here!"
"This is <inserts house #>, right?"
"Of course it is - your headlights are shining on the house #."
"Well, you can see the tracker was turned off IN your house."
"I'm sorry but I do not have your cat. You're free to walk around the house and look in the window wells and under the pine trees. Neighbors are gone too so you can look around there."
"It's not over there - it shows IN your house was it's last location and where the tracker was turned off."
"Well, feel free to look around outside." I grab a flashlight and go to the backyard where she is and help look. Nothing.
She shows photos....they live about a mile-ish away, says husband let it out earlier and it's never been gone this long and now tracker is clear that it's here.
I say sorry, I'll keep my eyes peeled and go back in.
At some point the next day, Friday, she stops again and leaves a note at the front door. Kids and dog really miss the cat, husband accidentally let it out, if I would turn the tracker back on, she'd be able to find it (huh?), leaves a # and her first name and asks that I call her.
I don't. Nothing to say.
Already decided that if she comes back, I'll suggest we have the PD come in and look.
Over the weekend, I glance at the two social media sights and different pages. Actually found a post on the same cat from the same woman from 2 years ago when it went missing then, and found. But no current posts about a the dearly missed cat. Apparently not missed that badly.
Foster pitbull returned to shelter as scheduled that Saturday so house is quiet again.
Monday afternoon, I'm working in my home office and doorbell rings. Ugh, here we go again.
But it was the local PD. I'm not disappointed. I ask - is this about the cat? Yes.
Please, come in and look! So the cop and I went through every room, I opened every door, every cupboard top to bottom, lifted clothes hanging in the closets.... In the garage, outside around the house... you name it he looked.
I added the details about the aggressive pitbull (SO glad she was here!) and the humane society could verify its stay and no, no chance it got a cat in the backyard as hypothesized.
PD agrees I don't have the cat. "We don't typically go looking for lost cats. But if you did have it as she claims, it would be petty theft that we'd charge you with. But no, you don't have it, I'll let her know."
Monday night, I hop back onto the socials to check for lost cat posts and sure enough that shit-stirrer had posted earlier in the day and included my location (I'm one of only 2 houses at the intersection) and stated how I turned the cat's gps tracker off inside.
The number of "lock her up!" type responses... sheesh!!! Disturbing!
Her posts were essentially the cat mysteriously got out (nothing about the husband letting it out) and that she had confronted me and I denied having it. Someone suggested calling the police. She followed up with "I did and they're on their way to her house!")
Zero follow up that they did indeed search and cleared me of cat nabbing.
The chatter and hate towards the supposed person/people in my home continued. I called the police that night and asked they contact her to remove my location and be more truthful and detailed in her post. No need to remove it - she's missing a cat and I want that make the beast with two backser found!
She eventually deleted the posts. But 39 people shared her original post and those have generated comments and my location is still out there. FB admins not responding to my DMs with requests to remove.
Out driving around today and I see a white paper at a major intersection outside of my neighborhood. I turn around and look at it.
Yep. Has my location, says tracker turned off at that location, mysteriously got outside, and please call!
I of course can't take down the paper (half curled up anyway) because she'll KNOW I did that. (There were 4 that I found that were already curled up and unable to read unless you walked up to it to uncurl it.
FFS. ???
The shelter sent a message today to all fosters. There's a cat that needs medical fostering for a few weeks and it's the same color as the missing cat (but definitely not the same). So tempted to get it!!!
So that's the newest over here. :P
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[wine]
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So sorry that nutty lady has landed in your life for a spell.
Yes, temptation to get that othet cat must be high!
Unmake the beast with two backsingbelieveable
I wish I thought you were making this up, but they way people are these days.... [bang]
Too bad about the house hippo though... :-\
Oh my! Good luck with this lunatic. Anyhoo, good morning [coffee]
I would have done my best shocked look and pointed at the Pit bull and said "Oh my god, the cat IS in the house..Inside the pitbull".
Time to advertise your home taxidermy business?
Wow! People are crazy these days. I hope you are safe and no nut job comes looking for the cat or you.
How do you KNOW she's a witch???
......"she turned me into a newt...
:o [roll]
....I got better.... "
We should go on the counter-attack.
I suggest the usual suspects of the DMF obtain & collectively fund a burner phone for the purposes of having....... a n i c e little chat with Mad Cat Woman ;D
Need to channel the mind of RAT900 for a devious plot to emerge & thicken into a sticky mire from which MCW might wish she'd never blundered into......... [evil] [cheeky]
[popcorn]
WTF???
People are crazy.
Glad the PD is now able to confirm to the lady that you don't have her cat.