Petr the cat

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[–]NastyWetSmear 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Seems like a pretty obvious lie, which, if this is Tumblr, like I think it is, is common for attention.

"Oh look how quirky and interesting my life is! Listen to all these amazing, really, true stories I have!"

You're telling me someone saw This face and these hands and thought "That's the same as this face and these paws". Then there's all the questions of how close a Raccoon would let a person get, though we know they are brazen and willing to come up for food, plus the idea that it wasn't made very clear and evident to her within a week that this wasn't a cat but a feral animal that sometimes carries rabies...

We all like attention, but just try and put a more real spin on it. Maybe she saw it in the bushes and thought it was a cat and left food out for it until, one day, she saw at eating from the bowl and had to ask her parents why the cat looked like that? You know, something that's both interesting and realistic?

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

We live in a world where people literally believe trans people are actually the opposite gender stuck in the wrong body rather than a mental disorder which makes them feel uncomfortable with their body.

Lots of people are really really stupid and gullible. It is entirely possible that she thought it was a species of cat.

The meme is obviously spurrious in its details. Most likely an anecdote by a parent to a child who then expounded on it to create a humerous scenario. But hardly the scam you paint it to be.

I'm sorry the world has hurt you.

[–]NastyWetSmear 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I appreciate what you're trying to do, but this is nonsense, and only a fool would look at the facts of the situation and walk away saying: "The most reasonable answer is that a 13 year old migrant thought a raccoon was a cat long enough to adopt it, show it to people and warn them of it's behaviour without having a single person correct her, come into contact with any information that would bring her understanding into question, no intervention from her parents or any moment where the feral animal she was trying to treat as a pet caused a problem that exposed her mistake."

The world's been good to me. :) That's why I'm able to approach it clearly and not be fool enough to think that, just because a person said it, it is to be taken at face value and not assessed. Honestly, give it some thought. Try and live 2 weeks in the life of a 13 year old girl attempting to treat a raccoon as a pet and tell me which scenario is more likely - That everything went super well and she was able to keep it as a pet without any issues, or at some stage someone else was made aware of her 'Cat' and corrected her. In fact, I want you to imagine her, at 13, telling people: "This is my cat" without a single person saying: "No, that's a raccoon, and you should be checked for rabies".

[–]William_World 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

it's like the story when a family got a new puppy from mexico and let it sleep in their kids bed but it was a sewer rat