Lost Pet Notices
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It’s an odd thing with lost pet notices. When you haven’t lost your pet, they seem a bit twee or overly fluffy, and I don’t pay much attention to them. When you Have lost your pet, they are part of a laborious, worried, desperate series of efforts to find them or even just to know they were found run over or whatever. I was so lucky when my cat went missing that a neighbour responded to one of my notices to say they’d seen her in a walled garden nearby and I got her home. During the 3 weeks before finding her, I went to view 2 dead cats and 3 cats that looked absolutely nothing like her. But I was so grateful to every one of the people who contacted me, who had read one of my notices or letterbox flyers, and engaged with my loss.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
I always stop to have a look at any posters and keep an eye out - it is horrific to me that someone doesn't know what happened to their pet and is desperately trying to find them and hoping that someone will see their flyer and call them with some news. Worse than knowing they have died IMO.
I had a tortoise many years ago who was stolen, I never found out what became of him or where he ended up. He wasn't an affectionate pet like a dog or cat or bird (although he did like a head rub) but it still cuts me up to this day to not know what happened to him and that someone would be as cruel as to steal a pet from a child for financial gain. If it was my cuddly affectionate cat lost, I'd be probably on the verge of mental collapse tbh.
I had a tortoise many years ago who was stolen, I never found out what became of him or where he ended up. He wasn't an affectionate pet like a dog or cat or bird (although he did like a head rub) but it still cuts me up to this day to not know what happened to him and that someone would be as cruel as to steal a pet from a child for financial gain. If it was my cuddly affectionate cat lost, I'd be probably on the verge of mental collapse tbh.
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Think I've posted before but daughter of a neighbour lost their family lurcher, really sweet dog they loved him to pieces, were afraid that he'd gone down a mineshaft or something. Incredible dedication she and husband spent months going looking for him every weekend, put up posters all over the place asking for sightings.
They had excrescences phone her up, laughing and make 'woof woof' noises at her fucking lowlifes
They had excrescences phone her up, laughing and make 'woof woof' noises at her fucking lowlifes
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Think I've posted before but daughter of a neighbour lost their family lurcher, really sweet dog they loved him to pieces, were afraid that he'd gone down a mineshaft or something. Incredible dedication she and husband spent months going looking for him every weekend, put up posters all over the place asking for sightings.
They had excrescences phone her up, laughing and make 'woof woof' noises at her fucking lowlifes
You know what, I don't have a belief in hell, or karma, or whatever you do will come back on you threefold or whatever that is based in religious or spiritual belief.
I do believe though that people who go around generally being unpleasant to people and making them unhappy will, over a period of time, find that they lose the goodwill of people they come into contact with - and may someday find themselves at a disadvantage and without willing help due to the way they have treated others. A kind of practical atheist non-spiritual karma.
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Changing the facts
Of they find themselves surrounded exclusively by other shitty people and have to go through life with only shitty people in their gang.
Problem is that such types aren’t good at taking personal responsibility, or at self reflection, so they consequently believe the whole world is a shitty place populated by shitty people, so they better go on being shitty to protect themselves from the other shits. Once in a while they encounter a purely decent person who is kind to them, they either shit on their kindness or they’re so flabbergasted by this rare person that they glom onto them and use them up.
But anyway.
Pet notices.
I too always check out local pet posters. Some of them are months old and that’s really sad. Once in a while I send an encouraging text to the number opening with “I haven’t found your pet (to assuage hope) but I wish you well” kinda thing. I do that if the poster is especially heart-wrenching, written by a child, that sort of thing.
Twice this year I’ve had stray cats turn up in my garden and I’ve worked hard to reunite them with their families. First was a three legged dude who’d been given up by his people so the chip went back to them but they didn’t want him. The vet who had done the amputation took him in in the end.
More recently a sweet little un-chipped girl cat turned up and I posted photos of her on all the places. Facebook lost cat pages, Nextdoor, Pet Reunited and a bunch of others. As a result I’ve been getting loads of notifications asking if I’ve found this pet, that pet etc. Some of them are really heartbreaking, especially the ones that are asking for updates many years after the pet was lost. Others are baffling, like the one that repeatedly says their cat is missing yet again and then miraculously found in the back garden two hours later. A few are heartwarming, like the dog who was missing for three months and turned up in a farmyard many miles from home due to a bizarre string of unlikely coincidences.
I‘ve had to stop the notifications and exit the groups because the thought of all these lost pets and sad families has got under my skin.
Problem is that such types aren’t good at taking personal responsibility, or at self reflection, so they consequently believe the whole world is a shitty place populated by shitty people, so they better go on being shitty to protect themselves from the other shits. Once in a while they encounter a purely decent person who is kind to them, they either shit on their kindness or they’re so flabbergasted by this rare person that they glom onto them and use them up.
But anyway.
Pet notices.
I too always check out local pet posters. Some of them are months old and that’s really sad. Once in a while I send an encouraging text to the number opening with “I haven’t found your pet (to assuage hope) but I wish you well” kinda thing. I do that if the poster is especially heart-wrenching, written by a child, that sort of thing.
Twice this year I’ve had stray cats turn up in my garden and I’ve worked hard to reunite them with their families. First was a three legged dude who’d been given up by his people so the chip went back to them but they didn’t want him. The vet who had done the amputation took him in in the end.
More recently a sweet little un-chipped girl cat turned up and I posted photos of her on all the places. Facebook lost cat pages, Nextdoor, Pet Reunited and a bunch of others. As a result I’ve been getting loads of notifications asking if I’ve found this pet, that pet etc. Some of them are really heartbreaking, especially the ones that are asking for updates many years after the pet was lost. Others are baffling, like the one that repeatedly says their cat is missing yet again and then miraculously found in the back garden two hours later. A few are heartwarming, like the dog who was missing for three months and turned up in a farmyard many miles from home due to a bizarre string of unlikely coincidences.
I‘ve had to stop the notifications and exit the groups because the thought of all these lost pets and sad families has got under my skin.
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Changing the facts
There was a good story locally. A ginger tom kitten, about 8 months old was lost for a week. Notices in all the places I was signed up for. He was found tangled up in the barbed wire at Brixton Prison. Sad and scared but not badly injured. Checked out at the vet and reunited. Of course, his name was Buster.
