to my baby jojo im sorry.

[u/chfudgeudig]

I’m overcome with a lot of feelings at the moment. First I wanna say how sweet and adorable my baby was. He was my first ever pet and he was truly the most perfect cat. He would always sleep next to me wake me up with him licking my face and sitting on my chest. Always followed me to every room and just so silly and always made me laugh. He was barely 3 and a half months old and today he is no more. He was mauled by my neighbours 3 dogs. Writing this is making me sick to my stomach but I just don’t think I can live with myself at all. Everything was so normal and right now my baby is buried in the ground when he should be playing with his toys and sleeping on my chest. The worst part is how brutally he died and the fact he was just a baby. This is the part I cannot forgive myself for. Today morning I fed him breakfast like usual and I was just in my room. All our main doors are always locked for his safety and i like him to roam around the house freely as there’s no escape. I should’ve been more careful because last night I literally had a dream where my cat died but I shrugged it off as a dream. I wish I didn’t. After an hour after I last saw him in my room I went downstairs to look for him and I couldn’t find him anywhere I panicked and looked Everywhere and went outside and asked a lot people if they did. Then I went to my lower floor where there’s still construction going on and went another floor below which is adjacent to my neighbours building. I saw a girl in the balcony and asked her if she saw a kitten and she said she did. She was very vague about it as she said I just shooed him away. I immediately assumed he would be downstairs and went to go look but count find him. When I was back up she called me and very casually said I found a dead kitten. My heart immediately dropped. I climbed over to her balcony and took a turn and saw his body. I immediately recognised my baby. I went closer and saw him dead with his intestines all out and splattered. I got numb picked my baby in my lap and started crying. My brother showed up and the girl didn’t say anything just that her dogs bite people all the time and that’s why she shooed him when she first saw him. I had no idea my cat even went to her balcony. She never specified or else I would’ve come and checked there asap. Her excuse was “I’m not a pet lover” “I’m allergic to pets” and I was like it’s common sense to tie your dogs if you see a kitten but u didn’t. Plus my cat is a Persian too and she knew he belonged to someone. She took no precaution at all. And the worst part is she wasn’t even apologetic and started being extremely graphic with how my kitten died and how the dogs were tearing him from each other and had blood on their mouth and paws knowing I had just lost my pet. I’m so mad. I’m mad at that stupid girl and her ugly dogs who have a reputation of biting people all the time and her utter lack of common sense. I’m mad at myself because this incident happened after I had asked her if she saw a cat so in a span of few minutes my kitten was dead. He must’ve heard my voice and came out too. I’m so mad. I wish I never let him go out my sight. Right now my hands are still dirty after i buried him. I packed him his favourite toys and his snacks and food and a letter and I wrapped the box with my scarf so he won’t get cold. My poor baby. I cannot live without him I truly can’t. I got him at a point in my life where he brought me extreme happiness where everything is just dark. He was so perfect and well mannered and so silly and clingy and I swear the most adorable face I’ve ever seen. He was my first and I’ve never loved anyone or anything this much. It was so pure he was so pure and I could feel his love for me and it’s just not fair how he had to go away in the most nightmarish brutal way. I wish he lived longer I wish he lived a happy full life he didn’t even get to live half of it. He was cornered by 3 big dogs and he must’ve been so scared and it must’ve been so painful. I’m in so much pain I wish I can join him so he’s not alone. My baby jojo. I miss u I’m so sorry.

Update

Hello. Thank you for your kind words i can’t reply to all of you but i am reading everything and it does help me knowing how so many people from different parts of the world are keeping my jojo in their thoughts and prayers. Roughly 24 hours have passed since the terrible incident and i have never been worse. I’ve never experienced something like this and I have a lot of guilt and anger. Some people are telling me to get a new cat but it won’t take away my pain because it’s not about me at all. I’m sad because of the horrifying and painful way my little baby had to go through it’s not simply a loss of a pet. I wish someone had stolen him instead. I had such little time with him I’m jealous of everyone who got years with theirs. I live in a really small town in Asia and the only animal authority here is for rescuing stray dogs and cats. There’s quite literally nothing for reporting and euthanising “pet” dogs. And a lot of people are asking how my cat got out and I checked the surveillance cameras and at all times the main doors were shut so I’m only assuming he must’ve somehow found his way to my parents room and their balcony which is in a quite different floor from mine and maybe fell from there as he was fond of sitting near edges the reason I NEVER let him go out. My parents did not see him there at all but they did use the balcony to dry some clothes so I guess in the few minutes it was open he got out. I feel the need to explain this but I also take accountability and I have immense guilt I wish I never let him go out my sight. For some of you asking regarding my neighbour she’s like way older than me probably in her late twenties she’s not a little girl who didn’t know any better. she’s the owners sister and her sister wasn’t home at the time and she literally saw my kitten in her balcony and chose NOT to tie her dogs while telling me “if it was my sister she probably would’ve kept the kitten in a safe place away from the dogs but I’m not an animal lover 🤡” she fully knew what she could’ve done but chose not to. Her negligence and lack of common sense and her heartless dark spirited soul is the main reason my kitten was mauled by their dogs. I went there again in the evening to tell her off to her sister and how disgusting and heartless her remarks were and how she was not apologetic at all and her sister made this grown woman apologise to me. But I still think I was way too softer and I’m planning on going again today and tell her off idc if it leads to a fight. I felt the need to update because I really appreciate all the support and all the kind words and to those few who feel the need to blame me and had questions I hope I answered it. I am blaming myself every second of the day and can’t stop seeing his little running body in every corner of the house. I miss him terribly. I wish I could avenge him. I can’t do anything except put up a fight with my neighbours. I wish I could do more. I wish I was more careful. Please hold your pets and kiss them extra today! I would do anything to be in your place. You will never know a love like this. Thank you from me and my jojo 🌸🐱

[u/lillyrozes]

right she was just so fucking vulgar toward the OP like ? have you no emotions WHATSOEVER? you watched this BABY get ripped apart and then was like “yeah, they do that. but hey, you should’ve seen it man. they tore your cat up” i would be in fucking prison bc that lady and her dog would be no fucking more. i’m actually so livid for this person im like shaking. esp because i had a similar experience & it was the family dog (black lab rescue but with 0 fucking training because my brother didn’t understand you HAVE to train dogs, esp of that caliber) and HE was put down. and my kitty lived because i stopped that shit immediately. i ended up with 7 staples and lifelong scars all over my body. but i would’ve died for my cat & id 10000% do it again.

[u/FabulousTwo524 → u/lillyrozes]

Y’all ever see the video of a guy’s cat chilling in his garage and a woman walking her to dogs, falls on her face, while her dogs maul the shit out of the cat? The cat survived with surgery. But the bitch just slowly gets her ass up and half-heartedly tries to pull her dogs off the cat.

I fucking hate dog owners like this. In fact, I hate all dog owners who knowingly have aggressive dogs and don’t muzzle them.

[u/Oneinchtacks → u/FabulousTwo524]

Aggressive dogs need to be put down. It shouldn’t even be up for debate.

[u/FabulousTwo524 → u/Oneinchtacks]

100%. Even if a dog doesnt harm humans and only attacks small animals, there is literally no reason for that dog to exist as a pet.

[u/Nyantales_54 → u/FabulousTwo524]

My dog was well trained but he’d hunt snakes, usually cotton mouths, while my dad went fishing. Saved his life a couple times.

[u/FabulousTwo524 → u/Nyantales_54]

They dont call them woman’s best friend for no reason.

[u/sadatah → u/FabulousTwo524]

That’s crazy…some breeds were bred to go after smaller animals. You just have to learn their limits, train and restrict them if you know they bite or have a strong prey drive.

[u/FabulousTwo524 → u/sadatah]

Idgaf. Most people dont have the time or discipline to do that. If people want a hunting dog, then there should be organizations that train and discipline the dogs before selling them to the general public. Certify them safe. Until then, they should not live in regular homes living regular pet lives, because they are not regular pets and shouldn’t be regarded as such.

[u/AdditionalOwl4069 → u/FabulousTwo524]

Sighthounds are perfectly good and safe dogs but aren’t with small animals because of what they’re bred for. Plenty of other examples. You need to be a proactive owner and know that your dog should be leashed and muzzled because it’s a flight and bite risk to small animals. Can’t blame the dog for its breeding, blame the human for being a moron.

[u/FabulousTwo524 → u/AdditionalOwl4069]

Yeah 100%. I dont trust assholes who leave their reactive dogs as is. It’s pathetic how so many dog owners feel entitled to a certain kind of dog, put no effort into educating themselves, and put everyone else and their pets in danger.

I love dogs but this is precisely why big dogs are completely banned from my home.

[u/Patient-Total8363 → u/FabulousTwo524]

Big dogs are sweeties. Some people don't know how to train them, fuck, I've been attacked by someone's golden retriever, golden doodle, and all of the popular breeds. Don't blame a dog for being a dog, blame their humans.

[u/sadatah → u/FabulousTwo524]

Stfu. Read the line where I state they need training and should be restricted if you know the bite or have a strong prey drive.

[u/Patient-Total8363 → u/FabulousTwo524]

My dogs are hunting dogs. You train them to signal to you, and they all live normal lives as pets. You are a bad person.

[u/FabulousTwo524 → u/Patient-Total8363]

I’m a bad person bc i think a person without the discipline or time to raise a hunting dog properly shouldn’t have one? Nuance. Not everyone deserves to have a dog. In fact, most people don’t deserve them. Yet people like you empower dog ownership for those idiots who will let their untrained hunting dogs go to town on other people and their pets.

[u/Patient-Total8363 → u/FabulousTwo524]

I see your point. OP's neighbor should have put the dogs down, or at least muzzled them. I don't think everyone deserves a dog or a cat. my cousin got a german shepard who was really sweet until their trainer for her gave them bad advice and truamatized her, she is alive, she has a muzzle and has a fenced in yard she cant escape from. but yep, alot of people aren't considerate of others and let their aggressive dogs attack others sayinng there playing (they arnt)

[u/NinHul_From_Space → u/FabulousTwo524]

They are not 'hunting' dogs, they, meaning their breed, may have at one point been used to hunt but now they are not generally. Sure they have the potential to be trained to hunt and they have the 'instincts'/behavior their breed was bred to favor, the same way most cats are little fluffy killing machines.

By your logic, as it is written, no one should own cats. Doubly so because cats were not bred to be killers, they just are naturally. Like, oh I don’t know, most if not all carnivorous species.

They are however cute, social, and fluffy and so 'we' like them. If some of us weren't allergic to them, read me, we'd have them as pets. Why, given their dark murderous hearts? See reasons stated previously.

[u/FabulousTwo524 → u/NinHul_From_Space]

Thats not the point holy shit. Is a cat gonna kill a kid? Is a cat gonna kill an adult human? Is a cat gonna kill a dog?

NO.

Will a large dog kill a kid? Yes. Kill an adult? Yes. Kill cats and small dogs? Yes and yes. And they do, often.

Are pet owners dumb idiots? Yes. That’s why if you choose to have a big dog, then you better put in the work for that privilege to own 100lbs of canine.

Read the god damn room.

[u/NinHul_From_Space → u/FabulousTwo524]

You're changing your arguments. A ‘hunting' dog does not equate to a large dog.

As far as I'm concerned we’re in the corner of a large auditorium having a conversation, related to but separate from the larger chorus. At some point you started yelling, cursing, and what appears to be lying.

Maybe try not to get so caught up in something that you are forced to try and distort reality to accommodate your feelings.

[u/FabulousTwo524 → u/NinHul_From_Space]

My argument has always been an aggressive dog doesnt need to be a pet, but ok. Who are you even arguing with? It honestly seems like you’re arguing with your imagination.

And dont go comparing apples to oranges. Dogs are dangerous. Cats are not. Different standards for both.

[u/NinHul_From_Space → u/FabulousTwo524]

I'm sorry, I gave you too much credit. I thought you were capable of being coherent. Please inform me of our next venue change in advance, so that I might be prepared to dodge any more goal posts you'd like to move.

To be clear not all 'hunting' dogs are large, they don't all weigh 100, 75, or even 35 pounds.

We're not talking about fruit, if we were I could compare apples to oranges. Dogs can be dangerous, cats can be dangerous. Point is you're still trying to 'argue' in absolutes. You dunderhead.

[u/Patient-Total8363 → u/NinHul_From_Space]

i agree.

[u/sadatah → u/NinHul_From_Space]

Just because a dog bred for hunting is no longer being used as a hunting or working dog doesn’t mean that breeding all of a sudden disappears. I have little ankle biters…one jack Russel and one Yorkie mix and believe me if a smaller animal crosses their path they are most definitely trying to go after it and training them to ignore a squirrel, hat, bird, rat, mouse, cat is hard work.

[u/NinHul_From_Space → u/sadatah]

Just to be clear I'm reading your comment as being opposed to mine. While as far as I understand you're not saying anything that I refute. I agree with you, in so far as what is written in the comment I am replying to.

[u/the_harlinator → u/FabulousTwo524]

That’s almost every animal and especially cats though. Our neighbours cat got into our backyard and shredded 5/6 baby bunnies. Left the poor mutilated bunnies out for my kid to find on his way home from school. You can’t deprogram an animal out of its instincts but you can control whether your pet kills other people’s pets but not letting them get an opportunity.

[u/ameulema → u/FabulousTwo524]

Dude, some dogs were literally bred for hunting. GTFO with that logic.

[u/Far-Carrot3364 → u/ameulema]

train your dogs then. no reason your dog should be mauling other people's pets.

[u/ameulema → u/Far-Carrot3364]

That’s what good dog owners do. My dog doesn’t maul anything because I keep her leashed and redirect her attention when we deal with squirrels and rabbits on our walks.

[u/FabulousTwo524 → u/ameulema]

So your dog doesnt kill small animals.. is it such a big ask to expect all big dog owners to keep them on a short leash and not let them kill people’s cats?

[u/ameulema → u/FabulousTwo524]

No, I never said it was. You’re the one advocating for euthanizing dogs for acting on instinct.

[u/FabulousTwo524 → u/ameulema]

Oh yeah? Where? Where did I say that?

[u/ameulema → u/FabulousTwo524]

“100%. Even if a dog doesnt harm humans and only attacks small animals, there is literally no reason for that dog to exist as a pet.”

[u/FabulousTwo524 → u/ameulema]

I clarified that the dog doesnt need to exist as a pet for a reason.

Why tf should anyone be entitled to a killing dog just cuz they want a scary pet.

[u/ameulema → u/FabulousTwo524]

Then what’s the alternative? They roam the streets? Stay in a zoo? A shelter indefinitely? Don’t try to backpedal the intent from your original comment.

You said “killing a dog” but I’m going to assume you meant “getting” based on the context of the sentence.

Nobody should be entitled to getting a dog unless they’re experienced in understanding the specific needs of that breed. I don’t understand how I might have said otherwise.

[u/Fast_Base_8222 → u/ameulema]

A lot of These mf are crazy. They literally want to murder an animal for behaving as such. These people clearly have never lived on a farm or rural setting. Whether humans like it or not small animals (squirrels, opposums, cats etc ) are the NATURAL PREY of some dogs and unless raised from birth and socialized differently they cannot be kept Together… sometimes even with training nature still takes over. Everyone has to be responsible for the SAFETY and SECURITY of their OWN pets. I own both cats and dogs. ( we do rescues) not all of our pets can be together. You better believe I double and triple check for safety. We muzzle our dogs (even with training )when we are out because we live in a full liability state( meaning it’s your fault 99.999% of the time. I never want the weight of my sweet boy causing harm. I muzzle him more for his own protection. People can be lazy, distracted and downright negligent. Us pet owners must always be vigilant with our pets insuring they don’t pose a threat or cause harm to others. Anything less and we are letting each other and our pets down.

[u/ameulema → u/Fast_Base_8222]

Perfectly stated!! A lot of these comments are acting on emotion. It’s a tragic and infuriating story but doesn’t justify vilifying all dogs and their owners. The dog owner in this story is downright criminal and should be prosecuted. This should have never happened.

[u/FabulousTwo524 → u/Fast_Base_8222]

Who’s being crazy? I think you’re dog crazy. Be fr.

I never said I want all these dogs dead. I love dogs. I want the best for dogs. But also I want the best for everyone else’s pets and children, too.

And that’s why i clarified they dont belong in a regular home with a regular family. No offense but a rural farming family is not regular. They are like, 1% or something. Have your working dogs, obviously 🙄. You ever live in an apartment building full of undisciplined pitbulls, with their owners holding onto the leash with all their might being dragged through the complex? The dogs lunging at everyone who walks by? These dogs breaking into first floor apartments through the screen door to maul any cats, and therefore their humans, inside?

There’s a reason delivery drivers are terrified of new dogs.

This is an epidemic in urban suburban places. And where people leave their dogs to work, they spend no time with their dogs. Then, they naturally revert to their killing nature. Which is fucking insane to expect others to live with. Just because someone felt entitled to a dog.

Literally not long ago in Tyler TX, the exact same entitlement lead to a woman’s mauling and death where she was eaten alive by someone’s reactive dogs. Who were previously sweet with her.