At this point, I'd be camped in the front yard with a cricket bat. I sure hope you catch whoever is doing this. 
I Am Angry Today Because . . .
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(((jacobtlong))) Hope you catch these grinches!!
Neesy
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If it's not a human being cutting the lights (and it's still possible that this is the case) is it possible that this could be a squirrel?Funny thing is I call my neighbors the Griswolds because they decorate their yard over the top, too. I like to think we have an unspoken competition with each other. He has a lot more yard ornaments and decorations, but mine are all LED and look better.
Conclusion of the Christmas Light Vandals
Wouldn't it be funny if it's a squirrel chewing through the wiring?
Any luck catching the culprit(s)?
I broke my vow to just drink eight beers max when I go out. Last Friday I was watching the cricket(I love cricket) and I had two jugs/pitchers of Budweiser and some other single schooners of beer. Then I noticed I had my debit card in my wallet which I thought I didn't have . I had $150 in the debit card. I remember watching the Newcastle Scottish marching band come into the pub (they walk through playing the bagpipes and beating kettle drums etc) and I put some money in their collection box. I also spent about ten bucks on the meat raffle. I can't remember anything after that. I don't know how my father could go out with his mates and drink twenty beers then come home and drink two bottles of whiskey.
Well, so far I haven't caught anyone, but I've also prevented further damage by monitoring my cameras. So far I haven't seen anything outside of two neighborhood cats that roam around at night and nothing else bad has happened to my lights. I don't think the vandal(s) will be trying it again. I almost hope they do. Cuz I'm watching.
Also I took the concept of selfies to the next level...
Well, so far I haven't caught anyone, but I've also prevented further damage by monitoring my cameras. So far I haven't seen anything outside of two neighborhood cats that roam around at night and nothing else bad has happened to my lights. I don't think the vandal(s) will be trying it again. I almost hope they do. Cuz I'm watching.
Caught yourself on camera!! Fingers crossed no more issues.
Just from the way you worded it Jacob, I am wondering if it is your neighbors, jealous of the LED's display..hope I am wrong..
I was FURIOUS Friday when I found out that Brutus the Wonder Cat was microchipped. I've owned him since he was 6 weeks old with his eyes crusted shut, trying to wrestle a piece of food out of our outside dish. I even posted pictures here, I think.
I never had him chipped.
When our house burned down in 2016, Tall Guy and I stayed with my daughter and her boyfriend in their spare room. We went back and forth to the home site every day to take care of the cats we fed. And one day in May 2017, there was teeny tiny little Brutus.
During the time we were at my daughter's, her boyfriend's mother came to visit from South Carolina each May, and during December/January for holidays.
Come to find out after some intensive investigation that she took Brutus to a third-party vet on January 3rd and had him chipped without my knowledge or consent, then registered herself as the owner (and naming him "Brewster." Bru - get it?) Tall guy and I moved home and (obviously) took Brutus with us. The other mother asked if she could keep him at the apartment and visit until she left, but I declined. There's always been something off about her, and I didn't trust her as far as I could spit her. And my instincts turned out to be right.
My daughter and her boyfriend broke up in August of this year, and that's when Wing-Nut started threatening to take my cat. In texts, all over my FB. Babbling incoherently that the law was on her side and there's nothing I can do to stop it.
I told her in completely impolite terms to forget it and go away. She has zero claim to my cat.
It was after my daughter told me that her boyfriend and Wing-Nut chipped HER cats before they left in August, and kept terrorizing her with threats of coming to get them, that I started to think. Took Brutus to the vet, and sure enough. He's chipped.
Honestly, FURIOUS doesn't come close to my level of outrage.
I asked the vet (MY vet) to print out Brutus's medical records so I could prove that I've been bringing him for routine care since he was itty-bitty. They did, happily, and offered to testify if it came to it, that Brutus is mine. Has been his whole life.
I went straight to the chief of police with everything I had and laid it all out. He had that look on his face, like "All this, over a CAT?" but he heard me out. It's a small town and I've known him since I moved down here. At first, he was like "Well, if the chip's in her name, there's not much I can do." But I whipped out the medical records and scrolled through pictures on Brutus the Wonder Cat's FB page of me and my cat since he was little.
He told me not to worry about it. If she tried to come down here with a cop and knocked on my door, she can't have my cat. I proved adequately that I own him.
Still purturbed, I asked him if Attempted Theft is a crime in Louisiana. I already know that it is. It's tough to prove, but if a person takes a deliberate act toward accomplishing the theft of property of another, it's punishable. Like, oh, say, fraudulently chipping somebody else's cat so that you can claim it later.
Yup. I wanted her charged with attempted theft. On the spot.
He did me one better. He sat back, rubbed his chin and asked me: "Whose permission did she have to remove the cat from the premises when she took it to the vet to get it chipped?"
I said "Nobody's!"
He said: "That sounds like theft to me."
So there's a warrant out for her arrest for theft if she comes back down here. And I'm not telling her. Let it be a surprise. She doesn't even have to knock on my door. Even though I still have Brutus.
Put it like this. If I steal your car, it's theft. Even if I give it right back, it's still theft. So, even though she brought Brutus back to the apartment after she got him chipped, it doesn't erase the fact that she took him in the first place. And there's no grey area about it. The chip is the proof. I've got verification from the third-party vet she took him to that she did it. No getting out of it.
So. Brutus is safe and Wing-nut will have to answer for her actions. Good. Done and done.
But what's really grinding my gears is that she chipped him in January, but kept trying to play all nicey-nicey, smiling in my face online, and when she came down to visit her kid in May, all "Let's be friends!" Acting like nothing ever happened. And so did her kid, who turned around and did exactly the same thing to my daughter's cats. That apple didn't fall far, did it?
They knew that whole time, and smiled in my face like nothing ever happened. At least until August when those true colors started leaking through.
They say that Karma's a bitch if you are, and I hope that's true. I really do.
I didn't sleep until very late on Friday, full of anger, worry, and a whole host of other not-so-pretty emotions. But it's all sorted now. I've handed the legalities over to the police, and I'm handing their fate over to the Uinverse.
Me, I'm just going to enjoy Brutus, the he's-mine-and-you-can't-have-him Cat.
When our house burned down in 2016, Tall Guy and I stayed with my daughter and her boyfriend in their spare room. We went back and forth to the home site every day to take care of the cats we fed. And one day in May 2017, there was teeny tiny little Brutus.
During the time we were at my daughter's, her boyfriend's mother came to visit from South Carolina each May, and during December/January for holidays.
Come to find out after some intensive investigation that she took Brutus to a third-party vet on January 3rd and had him chipped without my knowledge or consent, then registered herself as the owner (and naming him "Brewster." Bru - get it?) Tall guy and I moved home and (obviously) took Brutus with us. The other mother asked if she could keep him at the apartment and visit until she left, but I declined. There's always been something off about her, and I didn't trust her as far as I could spit her. And my instincts turned out to be right.
My daughter and her boyfriend broke up in August of this year, and that's when Wing-Nut started threatening to take my cat. In texts, all over my FB. Babbling incoherently that the law was on her side and there's nothing I can do to stop it.
I told her in completely impolite terms to forget it and go away. She has zero claim to my cat.
It was after my daughter told me that her boyfriend and Wing-Nut chipped HER cats before they left in August, and kept terrorizing her with threats of coming to get them, that I started to think. Took Brutus to the vet, and sure enough. He's chipped.
Honestly, FURIOUS doesn't come close to my level of outrage.
I asked the vet (MY vet) to print out Brutus's medical records so I could prove that I've been bringing him for routine care since he was itty-bitty. They did, happily, and offered to testify if it came to it, that Brutus is mine. Has been his whole life.
I went straight to the chief of police with everything I had and laid it all out. He had that look on his face, like "All this, over a CAT?" but he heard me out. It's a small town and I've known him since I moved down here. At first, he was like "Well, if the chip's in her name, there's not much I can do." But I whipped out the medical records and scrolled through pictures on Brutus the Wonder Cat's FB page of me and my cat since he was little.
Still purturbed, I asked him if Attempted Theft is a crime in Louisiana. I already know that it is. It's tough to prove, but if a person takes a deliberate act toward accomplishing the theft of property of another, it's punishable. Like, oh, say, fraudulently chipping somebody else's cat so that you can claim it later.
Yup. I wanted her charged with attempted theft. On the spot.
He did me one better. He sat back, rubbed his chin and asked me: "Whose permission did she have to remove the cat from the premises when she took it to the vet to get it chipped?"
I said "Nobody's!"
He said: "That sounds like theft to me."
So there's a warrant out for her arrest for theft if she comes back down here. And I'm not telling her. Let it be a surprise. She doesn't even have to knock on my door. Even though I still have Brutus.
Put it like this. If I steal your car, it's theft. Even if I give it right back, it's still theft. So, even though she brought Brutus back to the apartment after she got him chipped, it doesn't erase the fact that she took him in the first place. And there's no grey area about it. The chip is the proof. I've got verification from the third-party vet she took him to that she did it. No getting out of it.
So. Brutus is safe and Wing-nut will have to answer for her actions. Good. Done and done.
They knew that whole time, and smiled in my face like nothing ever happened. At least until August when those true colors started leaking through.
They say that Karma's a bitch if you are, and I hope that's true. I really do.
I didn't sleep until very late on Friday, full of anger, worry, and a whole host of other not-so-pretty emotions. But it's all sorted now. I've handed the legalities over to the police, and I'm handing their fate over to the Uinverse.
Me, I'm just going to enjoy Brutus, the he's-mine-and-you-can't-have-him Cat.
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Can't you remove the chip?
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Sorry to hear this - is this what happens when one spends a lot of time on Facebook?
Perhaps I should edit my response - I don't mean to sound so glib. I do think it's very bizarre that she would take your cat, have Brutus microchipped then claim the cat as her own. Just be glad that you don't have to deal with her family any more!
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Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
No kidding - this was my first thought
If only it were JUST facebook! She pulled this right to my face. And, you know, behid my back.
Nope. There's no taking a chip out. They're teeny-tiny, and there's really no way to locate exactly where it settled inside him. And, it turns out, the only way to have the registration information changed over into my name is if SHE gives her consent.
What? The fruitcake that wants to steal my cat has to give her permission for the company to change the information to my name? That's nuts.
The only thing I can do about it is sue her to MAKE her consent. And who's got the money for that? Not me.
It'll be good enough for me to be able to look up her mug shot.
That is just crazy she did this!
If they arrest her can't they inforce for her to sign the consent?
I'm hoping so. She'll have to go in front of a judge, and maybe the judge can make that part of his or her ruling.
All afternoon Friday and until I chatted with the police cheif, I Googled madly, searching for laws about chipping a person's pet without their knowledge or consent. There aren't any. So I'm going to approach my local representatives about proposing a law to address that. I know that in many cases, it can be hard to prove who owns what, like us finding Brutus in our yard. We didn't adopt him, so there's no paperwork. But I did take him to the vet on day one and was able to prove through vet records that he's been in my care, up to date on all his shots, etc. But there are also many MORE cases where animals are officially adopted, so there's proof, at least to that point. And, again, vet records go a long way. So, maybe in cases that are as cut and dried as mine, it can and should be a punishable crime.
As for punishment, I think my local police cheif nailed it. If they remove your property from your premises without your consent, they stole it. And the chip proves it.
My local representatives will probably get that look on their faces, too. The "All this over a CAT?" look. But I can justifiably bring up the point that, while my cat is a domestic fluffball, there are animals of substantial value that it could happen. If Bru were a Persian pure-blood with papers and everything, he'd be worth some money. Not just my heart. And there's the whole valuable dog breed world. So, I mean, it should be a thing.
our pets are very much loved and family to us all. There for we should have rights to protect them from these type people. Iam pissed and it ain't my pet.
Exactly. He's not just some cat. After we lost 2 cats and a bird in the house fire, I didn't think I'd be able to open my heart to any new pet. Brutus didn't just open my heart back up, he blasted it wide open and filled it to brimming. He's very special to me. Even if the police didn't have my back, to say that Wing-Nut would have a very hard time getting him away from me is an understatement.
