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  • zaxdog
    zaxdog Posts: 774 Forumite
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    I have two cats and a daft lurcher and I love them to bits :D

    If you are anywhere near the west coast of Scotland we'll take the poor old dear and let her live out her life in the sun (or at least in the little sun we get) and sleeping in front of the fire.

    Please I beg you don't kill an animal that has simply become an inconvenience to you. Apart from it being so wrong imagine the lesson you are teaching your children. That animals are simply disposable objects!!!
  • zaxdog
    zaxdog Posts: 774 Forumite
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    Please let us know what i happening!
  • gettingready
    gettingready Posts: 11,330 Forumite
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    OP?

    You have 2 offers of a home for a cat - if none is near enough I am sure someone would help with transport.

    Please do not kill this cat to suit your lifestyle choice.
  • Person_one
    Person_one Posts: 28,884 Forumite
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    zaxdog wrote: »
    Please let us know what i happening!

    I'm hoping that the OP has realised from the replies just how shocking her plan was, and has decided not to go ahead with it but is feeling too ashamed/embarrassed to come back.

    I hope she does come back to update though, if she lets us know she's going to do the right thing and not kill the cat, I'm sure she'll get an overwhelmingly positive response to that.
  • Oddjob
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    I would certainly help with transport if it was too far for the OP to travel, I'm sure we could get a relay together to transport it.
    I do hope it doesn't get PTS.
  • danih
    danih Posts: 454 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    I pm'd op re provision of a new home - can also help out with transport, if location works out.
    :j got married 3rd May 2013 :beer:
  • catkins
    catkins Posts: 5,703 Forumite
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    Me and OH would help with transport if we could. I really wish the OP would let us know what is happening.
    The world is over 4 billion years old and yet you somehow managed to exist at the same time as David Bowie
  • fawd1
    fawd1 Posts: 715 Forumite
    edited 31 July 2015 at 10:20PM
    Person_one wrote: »
    I'm hoping that the OP has realised from the replies just how shocking her plan was, and has decided not to go ahead with it but is feeling too ashamed/embarrassed to come back.

    I hope she does come back to update though, if she lets us know she's going to do the right thing and not kill the cat, I'm sure she'll get an overwhelmingly positive response to that.


    Hi, I am back and frankly I am neither ashamed nor embarrassed at my plans. As it turns out I did find a home for my cat because god forbid a nearly 20 year old cat be put to sleep. He died 3 days later according to the vet "because of the trauma of moving at his age". He moved less than 2 miles. I'm sure it would have been much kinder to have him in a cat box for 3 days, on a plane, and then into a country 20 degrees hotter than he was used to. He did so well with a 5 minute car journey.

    Sorry to sound so bitter but frankly the vitriol shown by some posters who clearly have never met my cat, let alone have any idea of what he can and cannot cope with and who have assumed I am some sort of evil cat killer amazes me. I have had this cat for 18 + years. Clearly I looked after it well, or it wouldn't have still been here!
  • Scrapaholic
    Scrapaholic Posts: 577 Forumite
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    Just read through this post and so sorry to read that he's passed on . 20 years is such a long time to be part of your family and he must have been well looked after . Best wishes for your move .
  • You asked about the cost of getting the cat put to sleep. That's what people reacted to. Not in a million years would I consider getting a pet put to sleep if I couldn't find a home for him/her if I were moving.

    But personally, I'd never move and leave a pet behind. Other people can do it, I couldn't. If that meant missing opportunities so be it. Pets are for life, not until people can't be arsed looking after them anymore.
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