Containment 5/17/2018 - SORBET'S LOST

[The Captain]

How are we going to break this to @Chandler Cats?

Toss him some catnip?

 

[Marvin]

Right?? Nah, Chris pets are clearly cared for and given attention and excersing, jumping over the shit and piss that are only cleaned up when necessary. Don't forget the two beagles are great guard dogs as well seeing that one almost bit Catherine when she tried to pet it.

This is like Hirtes style sperging. It's fucking weird, dude.

 

[nvrwastetree]

This is like Hirtes style sperging. It's fucking weird, dude.

You're right, my apologies. Theres no point getting upset about a cat, and there's nothing I can do for said cat anyways.

 

[Marvin]

You're right, my apologies. Theres no point getting upset about a cat, and there's nothing I can do for said cat anyways.

Nah, I mean, Chris is a tard and all, and he certainly is an asshole sometimes. But not literally everything in his life is his fault.

Cats are like the easiest pet to take care of. You give them water, some food, and a place to sleep at night.

Chris does this for the cats pretty well. This is not praising Chris, this is just highlighting how easy it is to take care of a cat. Cats are so easy to take care of, even Chris Chan can do it!

Now, the pets at 14BC that are abused, are the dogs. And that's seriously fucked up.

But the cats? Nah, they're fine.

 

[nvrwastetree]

Nah, I mean, Chris is a tard and all, and he certainly is an asshole sometimes. But not literally everything in his life is his fault.

Cats are like the easiest pet to take care of. You give them water, some food, and a place to sleep at night.

Chris does this for the cats pretty well. This is not praising Chris, this is just highlighting how easy it is to take care of a cat. Cats are so easy to take care of, even Chris Chan can do it!

Now, the pets at 14BC that are abused, are the dogs. And that's seriously fucked up.

But the cats? Nah, they're fine.

I know how easy cats are to care for seeing as i have one. But, as long as you don't have a Bombay cat, a breed that's far less indenpendent, you're good. But if you do have a Bombay, be prepared to commit ~50% of your attention to it per hour since the cats going to be damn near velcroing itself to your leg.

 

[Haesindang Park]

That's one less pussy Chris will ever have.

 

[King]

Well, I mean its spring. His lost pussy might have just left to get some pussy. God forbid if Chris gets his greasy grubs on those kittens...

 

[pencil]

In the US, there are "outdoor cats" and "indoor cats". Outdoor cats wander around, hunting, fighting with other cats and other things like that. It's not about the type of cat, but the type of cat owner. Or more specifically, the type of cat ownership.

If you're treating the cat as a close personal pet, then you should never let the cat outside. But the attitude for a lot of people here (particularly in rural areas) is that cats are more like semi-feral wildlife who occasionally come inside for a safe place to sleep and to eat your food.

With outdoor cats, you'll find you don't have to feed them that much (if at all). This is because they might have several other houses at which they bed down (and get fed) and they also might fill up on birds and small mammals.

Outdoor cats will stay out all day and come back at night. Unless they have other places to sleep, in which case you might see them less often.

I love cats (not really a dog person) and I'd never let my cats outside. But I know people (and family members) who keep outdoor cats. It's a pretty common thing.

Chris is a perfectly fine pet owner to the cats.

People who don't realize this fall into one of three categories:

• someone not familiar with "standard practice" when it comes to cats in the United States
• someone not very informed about Chris' cat situation
• sperglords who just rage incessantly at anything and everything Chris does

While I feel for Chris and hope Sorbet comes back to him, I think any responsible vet would have recommended that a cat in Sorbet’s condition following the car accident be indoor-only. I’m not saying Chris is some abusive pet owner but allowing a cat with very poor health and poor sight be an outdoor cat seems a little irresponsible to me.

 

[lemongrab]

Living with cats all my life and caring for 2 terminally ill cats in just the past few months, it's almost certain that Sorbet left home to die. One thing that could give a bit of hope is that one of my cats would go cruise the neighborhood for a week when the weather first got hot again.

Poor Sorbet. I'm always sad about hearing about the passing of a pet, but this hits hard as I just lost the neighborhood cruiser kitty in February, and his sister isn't doing so well either. I can only hope that Sorbet is at peace. F.

 

[4Macie]

Why haven't Chris's new psychic wife and husband found Sorbet yet?? Or any of his thousands of other magical friends?

If Chris really cared about Sorbet, he'd have started watching some "find your cat" subliminal message videos.

(in all honesty though, I hope Sorbet found some nice new family and is currently nice and warm and with a belly full of delicious food)

 

[Marvin]

While I feel for Chris and hope Sorbet comes back to him, I think any responsible vet would have recommended that a cat in Sorbet’s condition following the car accident be indoor-only. I’m not saying Chris is some abusive pet owner but allowing a cat with very poor health and poor sight be an outdoor cat seems a little irresponsible to me.

Sorbet did not have poor health. Poor sight maybe, although that's less of a risk in Ruckersville.

Living with cats all my life and caring for 2 terminally ill cats in just the past few months, it's almost certain that Sorbet left home to die. One thing that could give a bit of hope is that one of my cats would go cruise the neighborhood for a week when the weather first got hot again.

Poor Sorbet. I'm always sad about hearing about the passing of a pet, but this hits hard as I just lost the neighborhood cruiser kitty in February, and his sister isn't doing so well either. I can only hope that Sorbet is at peace. F.

What? What makes you think Sorbet left home to die?

Like, reactions like these are bizarre to me. Does everyone on KF commenting on Sorbet raise cats in mansions in Long Island or some shit? Because everyone seems really disconnected from how a large portion of cats in the United States live.

It's like someone from New York city with a pet miniature pig being appalled at how pigs on farms live.

 

[Maxliam]

Cats are assholes that are prone to wandering away and go missing for weeks at a time. When it's more than two months then you worry.

Mine are curious about outside and spend hours staring out my sliding glass door but when I open it up to let them just out on the patio, they sniff the rocks and the tree and try to clumsily chase squirrels and birds. After about say 20 minutes they're ready to go back inside.

When I first got them from my brother I was living on the second story of one of the buildings. My orange tabby who is a loud dumb ass apparently jumped from the balcony and sat his dumb ass in the bushes like a scared bitch for 2 hours. The onlly reason I realized he wasn't in the apartment any more was because he wasn't meowing his dumb ass off. My other cat who rarely meows came up to me while I was playing vidya and just stared at me like "Yo...we got problems!!". I got outside and found him hiding in the bushes below me. Had to carry his fat ass up the stairs.

Cats vary widely. Some are pure hellspawn like my sister's cat, Kitty, who just hated everything except her on this planet. He'd kill anything he could and would attack anyone but her. He was pure evil. He'd bolt out of my sister's apartment if you didn't close the door. Ready to unleash his unholy nature on the unsuspecting world.

Can cat people fill me in? I know a lot of people just let their cats outside unattended and just assume they'll come back.. I also know people who have a don't let the cat go outside policy, they'll never come back. Is every cat different or does it depend on the environment? Obviously i'm aware of barn cats and stuff, but chris lives in a more trafficked suburban environment, is it appropriate to let them out there?

I know with dogs, depending on where you live, it's a terrible idea to just let them go outside unattended for hours. They'll either get hit by a car darting back and forth between streets or find some way to cause serious destruction. You pretty much only let them out in a fenced in area. Even if there was no danger of cars, you let dogs out and they find each other, they get super riled up. Do cats just sort of chill when they get out?

How often do cats want to go out? How long do they usually stay out there? What do they do? And when does it become weird they don't want to come back in?

Depends on the cat and area. When I lived in South Texas in a quiet small town in a very quiet neighborhood we just had the cats roam outside and made sure they had their shots and flea/tick medicine. They went to the bathroom outside and we fed them outside. They were lean and in great shape. We would sometimes let them in if the storm was going to come or in the winter if it got really really cold. That does happen in Texas where we can have the temp get down to the 20's or a few rare chances the teens. I know people up north are laughing at that being considered cold but for Texans that is like artic temps for us.

Now that I live in Austin on a very busy street I watch my cats like a hawk. They also tend to prefer to stay inside since they have lived indoors their entire lives. My current two cats are very clingy to me and not at all aloof like people envision cats. Again, cats vary in personality just like dogs or any creatures really.

While I feel for Chris and hope Sorbet comes back to him, I think any responsible vet would have recommended that a cat in Sorbet’s condition following the car accident be indoor-only. I’m not saying Chris is some abusive pet owner but allowing a cat with very poor health and poor sight be an outdoor cat seems a little irresponsible to me.

Chris is just a dumbass. Cats are pretty easy to take care of. Keep their shit box clean, keep their water bowl clean and full and feed them right and they're pretty much good to go. You gotta be a real dipshit to fuck it up. And Chris is a really big dipshit. Not really malevolent but an incompetent goof. I hope for that cat's sake he was picked up by someone who isn't a complete dumb ass.

 

[Marvin]

Chris is just a dumbass. Cats are pretty easy to take care of. Keep their shit box clean, keep their water bowl clean and full and feed them right and they're pretty much good to go. You gotta be a real dipshit to fuck it up. And Chris is a really big dipshit. Not really malevolent but an incompetent goof. I hope for that cat's sake he was picked up by someone who isn't a complete dumb ass.

Chris is a dipshit, but not big enough of a dipshit to fuck up taking care of his cats. He does that pretty well.

 

[lemongrab]

What? What makes you think Sorbet left home to die?

Like, reactions like these are bizarre to me. Does everyone on KF commenting on Sorbet raise cats in mansions in Long Island or some shit? Because everyone seems really disconnected from how a large portion of cats in the United States live.

Long Island is a terrible place to grow up.

Anyway, when cats feel it's their time to go, they typically leave home to die. Sorbet did have a bunch of pretty major health issues, namely his breathing problems, and possibly some others that developed quickly as a result of the accident. We don't know for certain what was happening with him, we don't know how old he is (as older cats can develop different things than younger cats) but I do know cats tend to suffer in silence and will act like everything is fine, and sometimes their death feels like it happens quickly because of how well they hide it. My cat died from complications of congestive heart failure that wasn't detected at all - we were too focused on treating his cancer, which was supposed to get him first.

Further, cats are insanely creatures of habit. One of the key indications something is up is a change in habits, whether outside or inside for longer periods of time than usual, changes in mannerisms, et cetera. My cat would spend every moment he could from mid-April to November outside. It wasn't unusual to not see him, and that was normal for him. Another one of our cats went missing for a day and we immediately started looking for her because it was out of her typical routine.

Sorbet is known to have health issues and has a deviation from his normal habits enough to make his owner worry about it. That's why I'm thinking Sorbet ran off, to die. It could be something else, but given how cats can be.. it doesn't look good.

 

[Zilortha]

While I feel for Chris and hope Sorbet comes back to him, I think any responsible vet would have recommended that a cat in Sorbet’s condition following the car accident be indoor-only. I’m not saying Chris is some abusive pet owner but allowing a cat with very poor health and poor sight be an outdoor cat seems a little irresponsible to me.

If Sorbet was an outdoor cat (which everything seems to point to) that isn't really an option, for Chris at least. I'm sure any knowledgeable vet would bring this up if explained the situation.

Most outdoor cats have lived their entire tiny lives like that. It's not as simple as "well just don't let them out!"... They'll try to slip out when they can, etc. It takes constant vigilance to "convert" a cat, and personally? I don't think it's very humane. Indoor cats don't realize what they're missing (so to speak), but some outdoor cats don't handle the change very well, because they have to adapt to having a lot less freedom. They can get a bit stir crazy, start tearing up furniture, get super irritable, refuse to eat, etc.

Just figured I'd point that out for perspective. This isn't really Chris's fault.

 

[Marvin]

Sorbet is known to have health issues ...

Sorbet didn't have health issues. Sorbet had an injury that healed. Like a three-legged dog that limps.

There's no reason to think it's any more complicated than that.

Like, again, has no one lived in America with outdoor cats? Some cats might be missing an ear, or missing an eye, from fights with other cats or sometimes raccoons. Or like I said, sometimes dogs get hit by cars and have to have legs amputated.

If the animal doesn't immediately die, and it heals up and lives normally, then it's fine. It's not a health issue anymore. It's a disability. That's an important distinction.

You don't just go "Lol, chuck em out, they're broken". Or if they vanish "meh, they're probably dying". What?

 

[Replicant Sasquatch]

Sorbet did not have poor health. Poor sight maybe, although that's less of a risk in Ruckersville.

What? What makes you think Sorbet left home to die?

Like, reactions like these are bizarre to me. Does everyone on KF commenting on Sorbet raise cats in mansions in Long Island or some shit? Because everyone seems really disconnected from how a large portion of cats in the United States live.

It's like someone from New York city with a pet miniature pig being appalled at how pigs on farms live.

People on this site are almost conditioned to assume the worst in Chris. They read the CWCki and just think he's a racist pet abusing TMZ case. Chris could literally cure cancer and people here would still spend most of the thread bitching about his McDonald's habit.

 

[Maxliam]

Chris is a dipshit, but not big enough of a dipshit to fuck up taking care of his cats. He does that pretty well.

I think the only reason I disagree is that the hoard isn't fit for anyone to live in. Other than that, yeah even he couldn't really fuck that up. Cats are pretty low maintenance. For someone with my hectic work schedule and overtime, they are easy as hell to take care of. I couldn't have a dog right now in my line of work. It'd be cruel to keep one in an apartment and no walks for up to 12 hours.

EDIT: just thought of something. Cats and other animals have been known to leave areas that they sense something bad is about to happen. The cat that was in the dorm that Richard Speck went on his rampage ran away the day before, almost like it sensed something evil was coming.

Who knows...maybe Sorbet senses Barb about to die and Chris might tard out?

 

[Mr. 0]

EDIT: just thought of something. Cats and other animals have been known to leave areas that they sense something bad is about to happen. The cat that was in the dorm that Richard Speck went on his rampage ran away the day before, almost like it sensed something evil was coming.

Who knows...maybe Sorbet senses Barb about to die and Chris might tard out?

For all we know that could also apply to Chris throwing twitter tantrums or Chris acknowledging Hirtes's existence.

Or hell, maybe Chris is about to tard out real bad for another reason than Barb dying.

 

[brendan fraser]

I'm sitting here with my own sleeping cat curled up in my lap. There are a few threads on this site which have made me emotional, but this is the first one which made me teary-eyed.

Whatever one can say about Chris, I truly hope that Sorbet is alright. He got pretty torn up from the car accident and thinking of him meeting a grisly end is heartbreaking. That poor kitty deserves a clean home, a full food bowl, and a nice windowsill to sunbathe in.

Give me all your , but I hope Sorbet wandered into a loving home and is currently purring in the arms of someone who will take care of him the way he deserves.