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its poison!! it will poison it~~

Not after two weeks I wouldn’t have thought?

I think if it’d eaten the poison, it would have died soon after.

Maybe it’s a different cat?

If a cat eats rat poison, it dies. That cat you heard outside obviously didn’t get any of it. Cats meow lots. It’s one of their primary activities.

Before you start screaming around town that the old man is a cat killing scumbag, be sure he wasn’t just joking around. People say stupid stuff like that when they’re irritated all the time.

The cat will be sick and then die. No, it’s not the same one, unless the old guy fed it something else by accident. You’ll probably be smelling that cat sooner or later. Either that, or you’ll be seeing a bunch of other dead stuff that tried to eat the cat’s carcass.

In any case, humans who ingest that stuff die. So I don’t think a cat would be much different.

When animals get in rat poison it can sometimes take weeks for symptoms to show up:
when they do the animal usually bleeds from the mouth, nose, or anyother opening on the body, u can tell they’re sick, and sometimes they vomit or caugh.
if u see them eat it u should immediately pour peroxide down there throat so they will throw it up.
Since it’s been so long the only thing that could save it is taking it to the vet so they can give it vitamin K. if this is the cat u need to call someone.
You can google it & learn more.
Just remember this might not even be the same cat, so be careful before u accuse someone of something or if u have an animal they might do it to urs simply to get back, just trying to give advice.
hope i helped.

xXhardcorechicxX wrote:
When animals get in rat poison it can sometimes take weeks for symptoms to show up

Key word being “get in.” That happens when they roll around in it, since arsenic in certain compounds can be absorbed through your skin. When they ingest it, they get sick and die. The only difference being this: Animals feel their end coming up and isolate themselves. Just like any other animal that walks into the forest to die alone, cats are no different.

thank u dadaism, i wasnt gonna tell any1 or the old man thank u! i keep myself to myself. i was just gonna help the cat cos i care, i love all animals, im a vegan too.
thank you hardcorecic. i will check it out. I only care about the cat here.

no problem, hope the cat is okay :)

ModestTruth wrote:

xXhardcorechicxX wrote:
When animals get in rat poison it can sometimes take weeks for symptoms to show up

Key word being “get in.” That happens when they roll around in it, since arsenic in certain compounds can be absorbed through your skin. When they ingest it, they get sick and die. The only difference being this: Animals feel their end coming up and isolate themselves. Just like any other animal that walks into the forest to die alone, cats are no different.

In short, the cat probably wandered away from your area to die alone when it felt sick. I’m guessing it didn’t make it too far. But then again, two weeks IS a long time. Your neighbors could have either buried it by now or called for it to be removed. It’s nothing to be sad about. I’m sure it died a quick death.

Thank you Modest truth & hordcorechic you have been very helpful. I cant help but feel sad for the cat though, if it’s true. Thank you.

xXhardcorechicxX wrote:
When animals get in rat poison it can sometimes take weeks for symptoms to show up:
when they do the animal usually bleeds from the mouth, nose, or anyother opening on the body, u can tell they’re sick, and sometimes they vomit or caugh.
if u see them eat it u should immediately pour peroxide down there throat so they will throw it up.
Since it’s been so long the only thing that could save it is taking it to the vet so they can give it vitamin K. if this is the cat u need to call someone.
You can google it & learn more.
Just remember this might not even be the same cat, so be careful before u accuse someone of something or if u have an animal they might do it to urs simply to get back, just trying to give advice.
hope i helped.

Don’t throw peroxide down its throat!!! Take it to the vet.

Meanwhile, talk to the man and if he was serious report him to the authorities! Animal cruelty!!!!

ModestTruth wrote:

ModestTruth wrote:

xXhardcorechicxX wrote:
When animals get in rat poison it can sometimes take weeks for symptoms to show up

Key word being “get in.” That happens when they roll around in it, since arsenic in certain compounds can be absorbed through your skin. When they ingest it, they get sick and die. The only difference being this: Animals feel their end coming up and isolate themselves. Just like any other animal that walks into the forest to die alone, cats are no different.

In short, the cat probably wandered away from your area to die alone when it felt sick. I’m guessing it didn’t make it too far. But then again, two weeks IS a long time. Your neighbors could have either buried it by now or called for it to be removed. It’s nothing to be sad about. I’m sure it died a quick death.

Yes it IS something to be sad about. It’s a horrible death, and it’s MURDER.

toadstone wrote:
I think its like a double negative.

duh … what is?

I know what a double negative is. A cat dies from rat poison, just like people do.

meow!

Ahem.

“I don’t need nothing” doesn’t mean “I need something”. If you actually knew something about grammar you’d know it was a form grammatical AGREEMENT, much like the “s” added to the end of a verb with a third person singular subject. (For example, you say “He walks” not “He walk.”) Syntacticians call it Negative Agreement. The reason it is not allowed in English class is because it is Non-Standard English, not because the two negatives semantically result in a positive. Logically, two negatives cancel each other out, but this isn’t a logical construction, it’s a linguistic one with the logical/semantic relationships determined at a level other than the surface structure of the sentence.

Standard English already has Negative Agreement that is perfectly acceptable to English teachers by the way. Example:

“He doesn’t know ANYTHING.”
rather than
*”He doesn’t know SOMETHING.”

compared to

“He knows SOMETHING.”
rather than
*”He knows ANYTHING.”

Or to use your example above:

*”I don’t need SOMETHING.”
should be
“I don’t need ANYTHING.”

In the case of “I don’t need NOTHING” the NOTHING is obviously acting, grammatically, just like the ANYTHING in the example sentence above. It’s syntactic Agreement, it’s not canceling out a previous negative at all.

lol

I can tell you that my cat dies on Monday night and I’m absolutely CONVINCED he consumed something toxic, similar to what you describe, I am absolutely DEVASTATED. He died in my arms in total agony. It was probably not a meow you heard, more like a yowling wail/scream … that’s the closest I can call it, it’s absolute agony, if I’m right and he ate something contaminated or poisoned, it paralysed him and it was the most distressing scene I’ve ever witnessed, I feel angry that some people post such blase comments about it being quick, it was excruciating and I know in my heart that it was something poisonous, as he was a very lively energetic and joyful cat before.

Sorry, mistype, my cat died last Monday night.

I have a small chicken farm with lots of small chicks and a stray black cat started to Sneak into the cage to eat 2-3 chicks every day!
So I mixed up some rat poison with chicken bones in a tray and I placed it in the cat way to the cage to eat it and die and my chicks to live.

there was NO other way, i have no money for a cat proof cage and the cat is very wild to catch and release somewhere else (i tried several times and failed)

so .. am i a bad person?