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Speaker 2: So Ask Gunkhart is a segment we do every Thursday.
Speaker 2: It's where you call in with your deepest, darkest, biggest dilemmas.
Speaker 2: And we've got one about a lost cat today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm anxious about this. Hannah's on. Hey Hannah, how
Speaker 1: can we help with your cat dilemma?
Speaker 3: Hey guys, So basically this is about my cat Shadow.
Speaker 3: So she's five yep, her about Yeah, we've had her
Speaker 3: about five years. So she was a kitten fairly young
Speaker 3: when we got her. We found her on the street.
Speaker 3: She seemed unwell, really skinny, so we essentially saved her.
Speaker 3: She's been an indoor cat. Recently, we went to the
Speaker 3: VAT and they checked her microchip and just to update
Speaker 3: it with any new info we had, and it actually
Speaker 3: belonged to somebody else who has been looking for this
Speaker 3: said cat for five years. Yes, yes, we've had it
Speaker 3: for five years. Like I said, it's just it was
Speaker 3: a kitten when we got it, so it would have
Speaker 3: been a kitten when the past owners essentially lost it.
Speaker 3: But I've grown so close to this cat over the
Speaker 3: past five years. She's my baby essentially, like and these
Speaker 3: new owners have come forward and said that they want Shadow.
Speaker 4: Back and said, we've like, is there like a legal
Speaker 4: obligation we have a duty of care?
Speaker 2: Hannah, Was there a reason why you never took the
Speaker 2: kitten originally to get it scanned to check if out
Speaker 2: had a microchip five years ago when you found it.
Speaker 3: Well, we did. We've taken her to the vet quite
Speaker 3: a few times, but they've never actually checked the microchip,
Speaker 3: so it was just updating information. They thought, oh, you
Speaker 3: know what, maybe we just check this microchip, and that's
Speaker 3: when all the details popped up.
Speaker 4: So you probably thought when you first found it that
Speaker 4: it's a kitten.
Speaker 1: It's so young. Wouldn't you thought it was a little straight.
Speaker 1: You didn't even get think to get a micro chip.
Speaker 3: Checked exactly, And she was skinny. She was just so little.
Speaker 3: I just thought, you know, she was like you said,
Speaker 3: she's astray.
Speaker 5: I think in this sense, I think this would be
Speaker 5: different if you found a cat that was already ten
Speaker 5: years old. And then you had it for another couple
Speaker 5: of years. I think it would you'd have to give
Speaker 5: it back to the owner because it's it was their cat.
Speaker 5: In this case, it was a tiny little kitten when
Speaker 5: you found it, I feel like it's your cat.
Speaker 4: Cat?
Speaker 3: Are you raised?
Speaker 5: You've looked after it, and essentially they let it escape
Speaker 5: when I was little?
Speaker 2: Would you can you not go and buy them another
Speaker 2: cat and be like, here's a kitten.
Speaker 4: It's black, and I could buy them another cat?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, look, because obviously cats they're not free,
Speaker 2: you know, just pick them up. Even even when you
Speaker 2: go to the pan and you buy a cat, they
Speaker 2: still cost money. If they really want a cat, can't
Speaker 2: you just offer to go and buy them a kitten
Speaker 2: and then they can start from scratch with a new Shadow.
Speaker 4: Point two, well haven't you have you spoken to them, Hannah,
Speaker 4: Like have you just said pull your head in? You
Speaker 4: haven't raised Shaddy.
Speaker 3: I've spoken to them through the vet. So the vet
Speaker 3: has told me that they really want Shadow back, And
Speaker 3: like you said, I would be more than willing to
Speaker 3: buy them a new cat because Shadow is essentially mine.
Speaker 3: I love her so much. I can't even think of
Speaker 3: life without her. Yeah, do you know.
Speaker 2: I think you need to get in contact with the other,
Speaker 2: you know, the old owners of Shadow, because I think
Speaker 2: it's easy to go through the vet and not see
Speaker 2: the like how much it's affecting you, and not see
Speaker 2: how much of a bond that you've created over five years.
Speaker 2: And maybe if you were able to speak to them
Speaker 2: and like explain to them how it's been and you know,
Speaker 2: what you've done for the cat, then maybe they might
Speaker 2: have a bit more understanding as to why you want
Speaker 2: to keep the cat, and they might be happy with
Speaker 2: getting another one.
Speaker 4: Just pack up and move.
Speaker 5: It's also an option, fugitive hat you can and run,
Speaker 5: hit the road.
Speaker 2: It doesn't work when you do that with children. That'll
Speaker 2: get you in jail. But I reckon a cat's fine.
Speaker 2: Could you get into big trouble if you keep the
Speaker 2: cat I don't even know at this point.
Speaker 4: And get the cat and run, keep the cat, run, run,
Speaker 4: run and run for the way to look. Let him
Speaker 4: take you to small courts for a cat. It's like
Speaker 4: I keep this updated with that, Hannah, please, okay.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, oh good luck.
Speaker 5: That's so difficult because you don't actually care to image.
Speaker 4: Just like I say that. But I don't want to to.
Speaker 4: I care.
Speaker 2: Imagine though, Imagine if somebody found Delilah and kept Delilah
Speaker 2: for five years. Delilah's only one and a half.
Speaker 5: Tyler is two and two months two.
Speaker 2: So imagine if somebody found Delilah kept her for five years.
Speaker 2: Technically they had her longer than you did, and then
Speaker 2: was like, but I've had Dallilah for five years totally.
Speaker 5: The only reason this is different is because it was
Speaker 5: a tiny, malnourished kitten. If Dyla gets out, all she's
Speaker 5: been gorging on his salmon like she's doing.
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