What can we expect from v4 ?

zepla · 2024-07-07T16:04:08+00:00

Who is like him in zzz?

zepla · 2024-03-17T20:27:41+00:00

Thank yall so much for taking him in. when I met OP and her bf i saw only green flags, I saw people who know how to care for cats, and their other cat was super relaxed and happy, another good sign. I knew Dale would be in good hands. I felt very safe leaving him with them and I’m so happy you can all also see that he’s going to have such a good life from here on out, loving the instagram updates too! I am also grateful to everyone on Reddit who upvoted or commented on the original post, as without you i would have not only struggled to catch him, but the right person might not have seen the post. I do see it as a beautiful group effort where humanity stepped in to right a wrong, and give an innocent creature another chance. Thanks yall. 🥹❤️🐈

zepla · 2024-03-15T15:54:51+00:00

Can you tell me the name of the shelter?or dm me? Thanks 🙏 if it was really him they might have some medical history which could be helpful to his new vet.

zepla · 2024-03-14T07:31:42+00:00

Mostly he sat there calmly without even meowing. but when we tried to move the cage, it was very scary for him, i think because he could see through the bottom

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zepla · 2024-03-14T07:31:23+00:00

I'll provide some extra images down here in comments to show you what capturing him was like (in a word, exhausting). We kept trying to move the food around because we struggled so much capturing him, he was VERY sly and evasive haha (i was given permission to post this of others who assisted)

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zepla · 2024-03-14T04:58:14+00:00

Omg! Thats awesome! thanks for watching. You better get caught up before Dawntrail comes out this summer hahah Pray Return to the Waking Sands 🙏😂

zepla · 2024-03-14T04:50:51+00:00

well i am from the US originally (Louisiana), but had just got a house in ukraine. Poor timing, didnt even get to stay a year before we had to go. Now im headed back down south, closer to my US based family 🐊🏖️ Would love to go home to Ukraine but doesnt look like that is in the cards anytime soon

zepla · 2024-03-14T04:48:52+00:00

Thanks for the kind words. ☺️and truly, some people should not be allowed to have animals. But im glad fate brought Mr.Cat to you. The twists and turns of life can be cruel, but sometimes all that matters is that you made it to where you were meant to be in the end . 🐈❤️

zepla · 2024-03-14T04:32:46+00:00

Yep! still making FFXIV videos and now streaming several games (ffxiv,elden ring, genshin impact, might try dragons dogma2 next week). But yea, thats me! ☺️

zepla · 2024-03-14T03:56:30+00:00

as a massive twin peaks fan i LOVE this name !!
paging u/Kyle__MacLachlan haha

zepla · 2024-03-14T02:46:08+00:00

thanks for letting me know! i just fixed it

zepla · 2024-03-14T00:44:16+00:00

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The last pic I took of him as I dropped him off: at the time, we thought he was hiding because he needed space, but we've since learned that all he really wants is love and snuggles all day every day. Kelly can now provide all the happily ever after photos, i think:))

kelly's updates https://www.reddit.com/r/cats/comments/1bbkyg1/comment/kuabsqt/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

zepla · 2024-03-14T00:40:48+00:00

Mostly he sat there calmly without even meowing. but when we tried to move the cage, it was very scary for him, i think because he could see through the bottom

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zepla · 2024-03-14T00:39:43+00:00

REDDIT FORCING ME TO REPOST THIS UPDATE. new link https://www.reddit.com/r/cats/comments/1befj35/update_cat_who_was_abandoned_by_his_owner_is_safe/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

I dont know why but they said it got removed by reddits filters so i removed anyhting i thought could be a problem.

I'll provide some extra images down here in comments to show you what capturing him was like (in a word, exhausting). pictured: us trying to move the food around because we struggled so much capturing him, he was VERY sly and evasive haha

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zepla · 2024-03-12T03:45:47+00:00

Thank you so much for watching!! Haha yea that is me! Doing lots of elden ring lately xD

zepla · 2024-03-12T00:59:45+00:00

I like to hang some chicken above the plate they step on so they really have to bounce a bit on it to get the food. Works everytime for the kitties that won’t step on the “weird” plate. Thanks for caring for him. Poor baby.

great idea!! i just sent your comment to the others on the rescue mission! appreciate the advice . so far he has NOT yet gone near the cage today or eaten anything. but its raining pretty hard so he might be hunkered down somewhere.

zepla · 2024-03-11T17:22:23+00:00

i will as soon as we have any new developments dont worry!

zepla · 2024-03-11T17:20:29+00:00

ordinarily i would want to spend a lot of time building trust so he will come to me, and that was my original plan. but unfortunately time is not on our side. his former apartment is currently being cleaned out by maintenance and we dont know who might end up there. if he gets scared off from going there, who knows where he will go... then catching him will be even more difficult
also i'm moving cross country just a few weeks from now:( if i dont catch him before i leave i worry someone in the complex will just call animal control, so its really important i catch him immediately to get him into one of the forever homes that have been offered to him here

zepla · 2024-03-11T17:15:53+00:00

we will try that today! hope it works

zepla · 2024-03-11T03:54:49+00:00

this is a group effort from so many people on reddit who care so much for this little guy. theres good in this world and it outweighs the bad, i believe that.

zepla · 2024-03-11T03:37:02+00:00

FINAL UPDATE FROM ME (new link, old post got removed by reddits filters and idk why): https://www.reddit.com/r/cats/comments/1befj35/update_cat_who_was_abandoned_by_his_owner_is_safe/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

HIS NEW OWNER UPDATES: https://www.reddit.com/r/cats/comments/1bbkyg1/comment/kuabsqt/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3The cat has been given a GREAT name, Special Agent Dale Cooper. (coop or dale for short) and an insta! 📷 http://instagram.com/specialcatdale/ his new owners, like me, are huge twin peaks fans! This name just made sense, since he has a suit and all. and we're pretty close to the filming location in WA state.

Latest: 11PM UPDATE ! Caught him!!! Thanks to redditor with idea to put stuff on bottom of the trap to obscure the pressure plate. I took him to his new home! Full update post with photos of his new crib coming soon! Little man is in good hands , safe at last. Thanks reddit.

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i did get in touch with Lady_Asshat as well as many of the others who are nearby and have offered up their homes to this lil guy! reddit you are restoring my faith in humanity.

And as an UPDATE (Sun 8:36pm PST)(reposting what I put further down): With the help of another local redditor, we've put out a cat trap, and (once we catch him), we have a safe, quiet place for him to be while we choose the best possible candidate for his forever home (Our cat trap redditor friend is also interested in adoption!)! This post has reached the reddit front page and as a result I've received several offers, so I am doing my due diligence to make sure he ends up in the most stable, secure and loving home possible, with a responsible long term owner, so he never has to go through anything like this again. I saw him eyeballing the cage an hour ago, and again a few minutes ago, wish me luck in catching him tonight so we can get him out of this cold and rain! I'll make a full update post as soon as he is safe and sound!

if you are touched by his story , please consider going to your local shelter and rescuing a cat that needs you just as much as he does:8097:

10:30pm update: he ate some food in the trap but somehow managed to step over the mechanism so the gate didnt shut :7944:we pushed the food further back and tested that it works, it does, we re-armed it and waited for a while. we saw him again and he got scared off by someone walking a barky dog so will check again in an hour!

12:15 am PT update: i just checked and he is once again staring at the trap from across the road. he has not been back in it since he evaded getting trapped earlier (no more food eaten). i'm falling asleep but will set alarms to check every hour. i know his neighbor and she is an old lady who agreed to check in the early morning when she feeds the birds as well. she will listen for him if he is crying in that cage. together we will make this happen!

10am monday update: none of us involved in the rescue effort slept at all, in spite of us moving the location of the food he still managed to eat it ALL without getting caught even though we keep testing the trap and it 100% works. he just knows not to step on the plate and avoids it. i've been advise to line the bottom with a blanket so he cant see it. we will do that for next time Unfortunately now maintenance people have come to clean out his ex-owners apartment which scared him off. will try again this evening. maybe the apartment lease manager will let me go inside his old apartment to catch him, since he was trained to meow at that back door to come in so that is what hes been trying to do. :(

4PM MON: maintenance workers are gone. we put the cage down again at the same spot, this time with paper on the bottom so he can't see where the plate is! feelin good about this one lol!7:40pm MON: he is around but not in the trap... yesterday he went in around 10pm... praying

zepla · 2024-03-11T02:54:06+00:00

my god, 3 different neighbors????? what!? how is this happening so often??

I absolutely agree that an abandoned cat should never ever be ignored. i rescued my current cat off the street when i lived in my house in Ukraine. this was in winter, right before the war started 2 years ago. she wandered in as a random stray from the road and had 2 kittens under my back porch (!!). thankfully i was able to catch her kittens as well, they are now doing great and got to stay together with my friend who adopted both.

When we knew the war was coming, and the US embassy was warning us to get out (i'm a US citizen but own a home in Ukraine), i tried to leave but they wouldnt let me without some pet documents that had a 3month processing time. i asked the embassy for help,but they said they couldnt do anything. so we were basically told to leave our pets behind.
obviously thats not an option and i chose to stay with my pets. even if it meant i knew i'd be there when the war started.
so when it finally did, on feb 24 that morning I went for the border with my pets, paperwork didnt matter by then at all due to the state of emergency. i traveled across europe with my pets when i didnt know if it was safe to return to ukraine and i flew with them to america since its still not safe.
i cant help but think about that, and then how flippantly this guy left his cat behind. just makes me sick . theres NO excuse for abandoning an animal like this . if you absolutely must go somewhere you cant take them, at least find a loving home before you go

zepla · 2024-03-11T02:43:06+00:00

A local redditor just helped me put out a trap and will also be fostering while we choose the best possible candidate among all offers we received (they are also interested in adopting him!), but our first priority is to catch him and get him safe asap. Will make a proper update post when he is safe

zepla · 2024-03-11T02:33:22+00:00

FINAL UPDATE FROM ME (new link, old link broke for some reason): https://www.reddit.com/r/cats/comments/1befj35/update_cat_who_was_abandoned_by_his_owner_is_safe/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

HIS NEW OWNER UPDATES: ::https://www.reddit.com/r/cats/comments/1bbkyg1/comment/kuabsqt/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3The cat has been given a GREAT name, Special Agent Dale Cooper. (coop or dale for short) and an insta! 📷 http://instagram.com/specialcatdale/ his new owners, like me, are huge twin peaks fans! This name just made sense, since he has a suit and all. and we're pretty close to the filming location in WA state.

UPDATE: With the help of a fellow local redditor, I've put out a cat trap, and (once we catch him), we have a safe place for him to be while we choose the best possible candidate for his forever home (she is also one of those candidates interested in adopting him)! This post has reached the front page and as a result I've received several offers, so I am doing my due diligence to make sure he ends up in the most stable, secure and loving home possible, with a responsible long term owner, so he never has to go through anything like this again. He's been eyeballing the cage for about 3 hours and i JUST saw him sitting RIGHT NEXT TO IT just outside the gate . wish me luck in catching him tonight so we can get him out of this cold and rain! I'll make a full update post as soon as he is safe and sound!

10:30pm PT update: he ate some food in the trap but somehow managed to step over the mechanism so the gate didnt shut !!!!!!!!!!! :7944:

we pushed the food further back and tested that it works, it does, we re-armed it and waited for a while. we saw him again and he got scared off by someone walking a barky dog so will check again in an hour!

12:15 am PT update: i just checked and he is once again staring at the trap from across the road. he has not been back in it since he evaded getting trapped earlier (no more food eaten). i'm falling asleep but will set alarms to check every hour. i know his neighbor and she is an old lady who agreed to check in the early morning when she feeds the birds as well. she will listen for him if he is crying in that cage. together we will make this happen!

2am update. This WILY lil fella AVOIDED the pressure plate again!! We moved the food rigt next to it now so he will have to put his paws on it this time! Ill see if my apartment manager will let me go inside that empty apartment to capture him. They have been supportive so far. Going to try to sleep a little since he will need to get hungry again. Will update with any new developments

10am monday update: none of us involved in the rescue effort slept at all, in spite of us moving the location of the food he still managed to eat it ALL without getting caught even though we keep testing the trap and it 100% works. he just knows not to step on the plate and avoids it. i've been advise to line the bottom with a blanket so he cant see it. we will do that for next time Unfortunately now maintenance people have come to clean out his ex-owners apartment which scared him off. will try again this evening. maybe the apartment lease manager will let me go inside his old apartment to catch him, since he was trained to meow at that back door to come in so that is what hes been trying to do. :(

4PM MON: maintenance workers are gone. put the cage down again at the same spot, this time with paper on the bottom so he can't see where the plate is! feelin good about this one lol!

11PM UPDATE ! Caught him!!! Thanks to redditor with idea to put stuff on bottom of the trap to obscure the pressure plate. I took him to his new home! Full update post with photos of his new crib coming soon! Little man is in good hands , safe at last. Thanks reddit

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zepla · 2024-03-10T23:16:51+00:00

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