Advertisement
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.
Hi all, please see this major site announcement: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058427594/boards-ie-2026

Tragic situation involving a neighbour's cat

Options
24567…10

Comments

  • Options
    #32
    macnug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 619 ✭✭✭macnug


    Its a sad story for the cat owner op but the cats will do what they do and so will dogs. What's even more sad is the fact you were apprehensive about posting it in the Animals and Pets forum, just goes to show how bad its gone.


  • Options
    #33
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    Horrible thing to happen, the poor cat. At the end of the day the dog was secure in her owners garden and the neighbours cat should not have been there. I'd apologise for the cat being killed but they'd be met with a swift F uck off if they demanded my dog be put to sleep. Was up to her to ensure the cat wasn't roaming into dangerous situations. If it was a speeding car would she demand the driver lose his licence?


  • Options
    #34
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    AgileMyth wrote: »
    Alsatian is a stupid made up word. Its a German Shepherd.

    You know the name German Shepherd isn't much older? Nor the breed itself


  • Options
    #35
    muddypaws
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,616 ✭✭✭muddypaws


    dfeo wrote: »
    Hi everyone, thanks for the replies so far. The dog is chipped and there is a valid license for her. She isn't a pure German Shepherd, by the way, she's GS with God-knows-what and she's from the shelter.

    RB legislation applies to the breeds mentioned and crosses and strains of them, so she would still be covered by that legislation.


  • Options
    #36
    magentis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,237 ✭✭✭magentis


    Really annoying that actually.A legal requirement to have a dog licence,but cats are free to roam unlicenced into other peoples property,upsetting their dogs and often crawling all over cars scratching the paint work


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #37
    mcgiggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭mcgiggles


    It is a sad situation alright but these thing happen unfortunately. If the dog had gotten into the neighbours garden and did it I would understand the neighbours being p*ssed, but the dog was in its own garden. The cat was trespassing. No argument there.


  • Options
    #38
    kellsred
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 318 ✭✭kellsred


    Can I borrow your dog for a few nights?
    Couple of cats in my neighbourhood getting a bit too big for their boots....


  • Options
    #39
    Commotion Ocean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Commotion Ocean


    magentis wrote: »
    Really annoying that actually.A legal requirement to have a dog licence,but cats are free to roam unlicenced into other peoples property,upsetting their dogs and often crawling all over cars scratching the paint work

    It's an unfortunate situation magnetis, I've hairline scratches on my own car from neighbourhood cats (I can only presume). I'd never resort to hurting the creatures though.

    I have a cairn terrier cross myself, who "yaps" at my own neighbours cat coming into the garden (I'm guilty of encouraging it by offering her bits of stewing beef and petting it), we're good friends (with the cat !!) :P I think she's copped on that my dog is no more of a threat than a shadow and just looks at him when he's barking :P


  • Options
    #40
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,457 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    I grey up in the country side. Our cats would always be bring dead birds/rabbits/rats/mice home. I think, but I'm not sure, that the dog might have once. It's in their nature to do these things.

    Imagine if the cat had have killed a neighbours rabbit or something like that. Would the neighbour want their cat put down?


  • Options
    #41
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,779 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    #trellisenvy


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #42
    conacks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38 ✭conacks


    To put it into perspective, if the neighbor had trespassed into your friends garden she would be within her rights to attack her if she felt threatened so why not for the dog......


  • Options
    #43
    the14thwarrior
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 430 ✭✭the14thwarrior


    I think the neighbour is trying scare tactics, and i'm sorry for their loss..... actually i'm not, i don't like cats but no body set out to purposely kill the cat. I wonder why the neighbour thinks they have a case? private property and all that.

    i think they are off their heads, to threaten etc. I am assuming they are "getting away" with abusing and threatening behaviour because they think the dog owner owes them something. or they feel they can. huh.

    It's nature. Hope they don't get another cat. It might go the same way...


  • Options
    #44
    Armchair Andy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭Armchair Andy


    What did ye do with the cat? Curious.


  • Options
    #45
    Stigura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭Stigura


    #catprivilege :rolleyes:


  • Options
    #46
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,591 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Strange to see a dog kill a cat, it's usually the cat who would be in control 99% of time.
    Cats don't take crap from dogs. Cats take on pitbulls, bears, mountain lions and win.


  • Options
    #47
    H3llR4iser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,026 ✭✭✭H3llR4iser


    OP, I would recommend your friend keeps a very keen and watchful eye out for the health and safety of her dog; The neighbour strikes me as a complete idiot (surprise, surprise...) and I wouldn't put it past her/him to try and take the "matter" in their own hands, if they think the dog should be "put down". Throwing a meatball laced with poison over the fence and the dog getting to it is a matter of a second; I wouldn't let her out in the garden alone for the time being and until the question is "resolved" (if there could be such a thing as a resolution, with certain kind of people).


  • Options
    #48
    dodderangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    It's only a smelly cat mate. It wandered into another garden. The cats owners are at fault. Simple as. Tell em t fcuk right off.


  • Options
    #49
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    if they're doolally enough to think your dog should be put down for this, they may be doolally enough to try and poison your dog if they don't get their way.


  • Options
    #50
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    Mod- The next person to advocate animal cruelty in this thread is getting a very long ban.


  • Options
    #51
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    A horrible thing to witness, and tragic for the cats owner. Those are the only two things this situation is, though. Cats wander. Dogs chase cats. Sometimes dogs catch cats. Sometimes cats that get caught scratch the bejaysus out of dogs.

    I'm sure if the cat survived by tearing the dog's eyes out your pal would be laughed out of it if they went and blamed the cat's owner for not adequately controlling it. And rightly so.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #52
    Mr. FoggPatches
    Closed Accounts Posts: 681 ✭✭✭Mr. FoggPatches


    Its a cat. Tell them to get another one. Move on.


  • Options
    #53
    Summer wind
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭Summer wind


    Horrible thing to see happen. I've seen it myself where a dog will pick up a cat by the back of the neck and shake it until it's neck breaks. Really though cats are made to roam and its unusual enough when the cat does not get the upper hand in a fight with a dog. I don't think the dog was at fault because he was just following his instincts and unfortunately the cat was in the wrong place at the wrong time.


  • Options
    #54
    newacc2015
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,375 ✭✭✭newacc2015


    magentis wrote: »
    Really annoying that actually.A legal requirement to have a dog licence,but cats are free to roam unlicenced into other peoples property,upsetting their dogs and often crawling all over cars scratching the paint work

    A dog license is nothing more than a renamed tax. There is no restrictions on who gets it and what breed you have. Calling it a license was a nice way to rename the tax, like the Government did with USC and the pension levy. The money is used on funding the pounds around the country


  • Options
    #55
    Advbrd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Advbrd


    So a dog killed a cat. It's unusual but it happens. To suggest that the dog in this case should be put down is entirely preposterous.


  • Options
    #56
    randy hickey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭randy hickey


    My dog ate pussy
    For the first time today
    But the pussy in question
    Wasn't quite a stray

    There's been a whole commotion
    And the neighbour's in a flap
    They say there must be consequences
    For this dog that's tasted cat.


  • Options
    #57
    magentis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,237 ✭✭✭magentis


    I really think its something that needs to be looked at.Why on earth should a dog owner be required by law to have their pet licenced,whilst on the other hand a cat owner doesn't and feels its ok to let their pet be a nuisance to their neighbours,defecate wherever it feels like and often cause damage to other peoples property with no repercusions.Ridiculous when you think about it.surely cat owners should be legally obliged to keep their animals under control on their own property.


  • Options
    #58
    learn_more
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭learn_more


    randy hickey wrote: »
    My dog ate pussy
    For the first time today
    But the pussy in question
    Wasn't quite a stray

    There's been a whole commotion
    And the neighbour's in a flap
    They say there must be consequences
    For this dog that's tasted cat.

    I know the cat's dead
    'twas a really bad end
    but has to be said
    I like dogs more


  • Options
    #59
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    Has anyone tried to turn the cat into a child yet for the old Emotive angle ?


  • Options
    #60
    Sam Quentin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭Sam Quentin


    Cats are crazy suicidal freaks anyway, I'm sure he's happy now :)







    I apologise to any cat lovers, am just joking and stuff :o


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #61
    Pkiernan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,236 ✭✭✭Pkiernan


    Think of all the wild song birds that your dog has saved.


Advertisement
Advertisement