Originally posted by lhg0962:
In fact, Spencer, you are absolutely right to be enraged. I hope someone finds that cat and gives it a proper home, preferably not where it came from! It is running away from something!
For some reason this comment reminded me of something I once did.

This will probably outrage some people, and on one hand I felt very guilty, but on the other I probably saved a cat's life-

I had a friend who lived on the outskirts of a rural town. She had several dogs, who were tormenting her cat, so she took her cat over to an empty house she owned in town. The house was on the town square, which was zoned commercial, so her house would always be empty, and no one lived on the square. But she thougth her cat was ok. Once I had gone to see her, and she said she couldn't find Bingo. We drove into Sanger to look for her, but couldn't find her. The next time I talked to her, she had been seen by my friend, but only that. Then the next time I saw her, Bingo was lost again. Ten days later she was still gone! I thought the worst had happened, and was so relieved to hear that she had been found - she had gotten caught in someone's shed, and since this was business storage, it wasn't used often. Ten days later they went back to the shed, and there was Bingo. I couldn't stand it, so few weeks later, after waiting until dark, me and another friend drove up to Sanger and got Bingo and adopted her at the next Adopt-a-Pet. My friend never to this day knows that I stole her cat, but I couldn't stand the thought of her only being checked on every few days, and the likelyhood that she would get locked in another building again, and maybe not rescued in time. Funny thing, though, is my friend never mentioned that Bingo had gotten lost again. I think by then she had forgotten she even owned a cat.