hit a cat and I’ll hit your kid

The woman in this video, Tina Teixeira of Lodi, California, must be grieving intensely over the loss of her cat last week in a hit and run just beyond her front yard. Because if grief isn’t the reason for her actions, then I don’t know what is.

Yes, that’s right, Tina thinks the solution to cat hit-and-runs is to sit in her yard with a sign that says “hit a cat and I’ll hit your kid.” And she seems quite shocked that anyone would think she was nuts.

Tina, here is a tip for you: keep your cats indoors. I guarantee it will work better than that sign.

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the return of george aka puka

This is George. More than 13 years after he went missing from his home in Santa Rosa, California, he’s back!

But this isn’t one of those stories where a cat hitches a ride on the underside of a car and makes it all the way across the country (and you’d be surprised how many of those there are). George was just three miles from the home of his owners, Frank Walberg and Melinda Merman, living in a trailer park. Though this article is somewhat fuzzy on the exact details, it appeared George had been living there since eight weeks after he went missing at home of a woman who named him “Puka.”

So what we have learned from George’s escapade is:

1. Keep your cats indoors.
2. If you have to let them out, get them microchipped (that’s how they found out George was really George).
3. It doesn’t matter if you let everyone in your town know that you’re missing a cat from your lovely feline-friendly home. Some lady will still keep him in her trailer and give him a stupid name.

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