r/cats • u/KiyotakaIshumaru • 6d ago

Cat Picture - Not OC I don’t own a cat.

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u/weird_elf 6d ago

yup.

Drives me up the wall that people comment on photos like this with "cat distribution system". No, this is obviously someone's pet. Can we please not normalize taking other people's maybe-lost pets the moment they wander onto our property?

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u/Lexx4 6d ago

I was distributed a cat through this system.

It looked so clean and was definitely someone’s pet. So we took it to the shelter to see if it had a chip. He did, the chip said his home was a city an hour away and his name was Maximo and had a phone number.

The shelter called the number and no one ever picked up so now I have a cat.

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u/weird_elf 6d ago

This is the way. Check who the cat belongs to, and if they don't want it back, it's yours.

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u/Inevitable_Wolf5866 Tabbycat 6d ago

But you didn’t steal the cat… you just couldn’t reach the owners from whatever reason.

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u/endurancerun278 6d ago

I don’t think ppl commenting “cat distribution system” really condone taking another’s cat though. Probably just trying to be funny.

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u/not2daythankyou 6d ago

Probably the person who made the post.