Two guys fishing caught real cats By genseeker (Read 548 times)

[genseeker]

wsls.com/2015/08/31/swimming-kittens-rescued-from-warrior-river/

[richardv]

They appear to be healthy. But, it makes me wonder how they got there.

[genseeker]

Saw on another page that had more info. It's secluded there and the guys speculate they were dumped. Good news is they found a home for them.

I added 2 cats to my clutter this year that were dumped and found a home for a third (she was very timid & afraid) with an older couple. Ended up getting 8 cats fixed this year which included the 2 dumped cats, 3 survivors from a litter from a dumped momma last year, & 3 surviving kittens from the 2 girls from last year's litter. Also just paid to have an eye removed on 1 of the kittens because it got ruptured when they were running wild. Took me a year to tame down last year's litter but now everyone is fixed.

I absolutely hate people who abandon animals. Won't take any to the shelter here myself. Over 90% kill rate on cats and within the last few months, several pit bull looking dogs have been put down wrongly. Both times they got out of damaged fences (car hit one lady's fence & tree took out the other) & both times the owners had taken photos of the dogs down & reported them missing & all of them were microchipped. All the dogs were picked up hours after the missing report was made yet the dogs were destroyed without notifying the owners and within a couple of hours of being picked up. NC is supposed to have a mandatory hold time on strays & they didn't even follow that.

[jct842]

Surprising but cats swim well. My daughters had a cat we used to take out on the sail boat all the time 40 years ago. Small lake about a mile across and shallow, boat had to be anchored out a couple hundred feet. The cat always had to swim back. After a half a dozen trips out they left the cat on shore and it swam out by itself after that. It used to lay on the bow sprint and watch the water go by. I used to get in a little closer to let the crew off, water was pretty shallow so only the cat had to swim.

Have a friend who old cat used to go in the shower with her, my cat won't go in till the water is shut off.