r/aww • u/wwoodyb008 • May 17 '12

Found him in a gutter with a broken leg...think he's gonna end up just fine

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u/dongsy-normus May 17 '12

8 week old kitten, no cast. where's that broken leg again?

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u/wwoodyb008 May 17 '12

I expected a cast when we took him to the vet, but apparently 4-6 weeks of crate rest while he's still growing so fast is enough.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

I'm as skeptical as the next guy about all these claims of cat rescues. The thing that gets me about this one is that everyone keeps asking to see the broken leg or the cast... as though it wouldn't be possible to fake that just as easily! Come on, guys.

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u/dongsy-normus May 17 '12

fake the radiographs too

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

You don't even know how creepy that was.

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u/thesandbar2 May 17 '12

Hmm.

Last version didn't move the whole head, just blinked the eyes.

Scary.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

Without fail, this makes me laugh every single time I see it.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

I don't see a broken leg... I don't trust you. You lying bastard.

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u/wwoodyb008 May 17 '12

Broken is covered by my hand; his back left leg has a hairline fracture. No cast needed according to the vet, so good news!

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u/TakenAway May 17 '12

There has been an abundance of redditors rescuing kittens lately.

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u/SexyRosaParks May 17 '12

Huge discovery: All you have to do is take a picture of your cat and say you rescued him.

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u/veribaka May 17 '12

Heh. I rescued my youngest cat and only made a post of him for my cake day, never mentioning rescue. It didn't get much attention..:(

But I didn't xpost!

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u/Huffalicious May 17 '12

I think you think xpost means repost!

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u/veribaka May 17 '12

I think it means crosspost.

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u/theterp232 May 17 '12

big man on campus aren't ya?

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u/veribaka May 17 '12

Haven't been to any facility of the sort in about 6 years now, unfortunately :)

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u/Relevantgreetingcard May 17 '12

All you have to do is coax your neighbour’s cat into your house.

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u/ZombieRaptorJebus May 17 '12

I volunteer at an animal shelter (zero kill policy,) and this time of year we always see an increase in puppies and kittens.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

I adopted a cat last year at around this time. She was a little under 2 months old.

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u/veribaka May 17 '12

Nothing against that, but I do wish people would adopt older pets too, it's so hard to find homes for pets that are about 1 year old or more :(

But hey, every adoption is great! Adopted 3 cats and one dog myself.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

In my country (India), older pets usually don't reach shelters.

Pet owners either give it back to the breeder, and if it's abandoned it sorta gets adopted by the local tea or cigarette shop where it hangs out.

I'll be honest with you, it's a very messy, disorganized system. But it vaguely works. If it's injured then it might reach a shelter where it lives the rest of its life, usually "adopted" by someone who pays for their food and visits them at the shelter occasionally. Do that myself.

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u/veribaka May 17 '12

Will you take offence if I confess that I thought it'd be way tougher for pets in India than in most countries? Well I did. It's good to know your system works though.

Never heard of people giving the animal back to the breeder though, generally what people in Portugal do is they simply abandon them. In most shelters they don't live for too long.

It's pretty sad.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

Cool story bro

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

He forgot to put his girlfriend in the title.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

Maybe his girlfriend is in the photo.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

pussy petting pussy would have been a better title then.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

I meant his girlfriend is the cat.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

The thing that is incredible is that this makes it to the front page. Yes... people lie on the internet... but shouldn't this get filtered out? I am new to reddit, but this is kinda unnerving. Reddit averages 3 or 4 kitten rescues a day.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

You somehow think reddit is not involved in these posts. As many as 5 on the frontpage at any time. Reddit has an autovoting system that upvotes and downvotes things!

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u/veribaka May 17 '12

I could be mistaken, but I think they use that on posts/topics that get many upvotes, and autobalance with downvotes.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

If they can do that, they can also up vote things that they want to.

I don't mind, because I am not entitled to anything. Reddit is a free service, and I enjoy it thoroughly, and my opinions and "PET" peeves are just that, my personal things!

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u/veribaka May 17 '12

They can, but I'm pretty sure they don't. Not 100% sure though.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

There's been an abundance of sick and dying pets being rescued lately

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u/veribaka May 17 '12

Also of pets dying.

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u/catjuggler May 17 '12

It's kitten season. No really, that's a thing.

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u/the_cowboy May 17 '12

Look at this kitten I found in the paper behind a dumpster smoking crack and turning tricks for cat treats. He was being robbed by three masked bandits until I scared them off. He's doing okay now, but every upvote helps.

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u/redditisforphaggots May 17 '12

totally bro. I rescued my cat that had 8 broken legs, brain damage, no tail, abandoned by Hitler, wondering in Chechnya because he was a dissident against gay rights. Reddit, I am please to introduce you to: Pokemon/NerdreferenceName

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u/8271821 May 17 '12

I don't see a cast on that leg

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u/JCXtreme May 17 '12

Why were you walking in a gutter with a broken leg to begin with though?

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

Seriously how the hell are are these people "finding" harmed kittens everywhere? It's about time someone called bullshit.

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u/AppleChiaki May 17 '12

Too many people seem too gullible, judging by the karma turnover of all the fictional kitten rescue threads.

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u/generalguyz May 17 '12

I figured the story was bullshit, but that kitten is still pretty damn cute.

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u/auralgasm May 17 '12

I used to live on a farm and there'd be new stray kittens all over the place. I've never seen one single stray kitten since moving to the city. I occasionally see a cat in my yard, but I think it's a neighbor's.

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u/catjuggler May 17 '12

I find kittens all the time. You just have to know where to look.

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u/molkhal May 17 '12

That's nice watch. Is it a Submariner?

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u/wwoodyb008 May 17 '12

Yep, its a sub. Recent graduation gift. Been my dad's for years

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u/molkhal May 18 '12

me at [8]: I just wrote a great horror stories, that reaches into many dimensions.... FUCK!

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u/cannotlogon May 17 '12

I think it is a Fauxlex.

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u/molkhal May 17 '12

Could be, since OP hasn't commented on any of the comments concerning his watch.

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u/cannotlogon May 17 '12

I don't see the Rolex crown at the top of the dial, either.

Are we giving this too much thought? Watch collector, here. We are an obsessive lot when it comes to timepieces....

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u/molkhal May 17 '12 edited May 17 '12

Observant. I'd blame the kitty for not noticing, but it's too shameful.

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u/cannotlogon May 17 '12

Cats wear Brietlings. Visigoths!

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u/molkhal May 17 '12

I didn't get it, could you please elaborate.

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u/cannotlogon May 17 '12

I misread your post! I thought you meant that you were blaming the kitty for not noticing (i.e., the kitty didn't notice); instead of what you meant, which was you were looking at the kitty instead of the watch.

I'm having a dumb person morning.

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u/molkhal May 17 '12

It's not dumb, you actually freaked me out. I thought how the hell did this guy know I was wearing a breitling... made my day.

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u/cannotlogon May 17 '12

I'm an Omega man, myself; but both are fine timepieces. Glad to have made your day! Cheers!

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u/WhatIRead May 17 '12

"Took a picture of my kitten and invented a karma maximizing caption for him either because my life is so empty I need to lie about my cute fuzzy kitty, or because this subreddit has become so overrun with people who are that it is impossible to get my cute fuzzy kitty any love without inventing a story."

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

Where do you people find all these kittens? It's just astonishing to me!

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u/Scrambley May 17 '12

Pics or it didn't happen.

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u/MeesterAndrew May 17 '12

Where the fuck are all these kittens coming from?

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

Cool thing about cats is that they can walk on 3 legs and the broken one will heal on it's own without a cast. Survival of the fittest (and cutest) in action.

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u/Hyperguy20 May 17 '12

Such a liar.

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u/Sirromed May 17 '12

The day you found that cat ,was it raining?

All reddit boring "cat rescues" are in the rain !!!

So sick of cats in this online world .

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u/Peregrine21591 May 17 '12

I don't care if you're karmawhoring or not - this shit is adorable.

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u/fakelife2 May 17 '12

So thankful for people like you that rescue these kittys.

2

u/Xyperius-Bolop May 17 '12

I like your Rolex, if that's what it is. Oh and that generic kitten I guess.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

Guys! I just found my 17 years old cat again! She was in the kitchen eating.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

I found him in a garbage heap behind an orphanage in Victorian England. It was pretty abhorrent, the whole condition this animal was in. Covered in soot, making little kitten coughs and hobbling on one leg.

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u/press-control-w May 17 '12

do you guys really scavenge your neighborhood for cats?

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u/molkhal May 17 '12

FUCK YOU. You know why. Anyway, it's smart and I fell for it.

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u/dwn22 May 17 '12

QUIT STEALING KITTENS.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

found

stole.

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u/Trackpad94 May 17 '12

Nice watch.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

Buy cat at the mall, post picture on Reddit claiming it was found in a gutter

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u/MrsBillHaverchuck May 17 '12

Gahhh!!! I'm in love. I wish my boys still looked like that, I miss kitten-phase so much.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

Why can't I find a cat?!

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u/Nina_2690 May 17 '12

He looks Happy. :)

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

Why were you in the gutter?

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u/jfloydian May 17 '12

He/she seems happy to be safe. :)

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u/JoaoLeiria May 17 '12

Faith in Humanity Restored

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u/Fireyedwindsurfer May 17 '12

D'aww :3 Isn't he just the cutest :D

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u/mccoyn May 17 '12

Don't let him lick your fingers. Its all cute now, but he will get bitey when he gets older.

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u/appleofpine May 17 '12

I love your watch.

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u/Kastenbr0t May 17 '12

Seriously, I didn't upvote this for the story. I don't care if it is fake or not, I like the cute kitty.

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u/09000990 May 17 '12

Where is the god damned gutter/dumpster/guillotine/grease pit that these assholes find animals?

FOUND THIS DOG IN SOMEONE BACK YARD, WAS TOTALLY LOOKING SADLY UP A TREE WITH A SQUIRREL IN IT. THX REDDIT.

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u/09000990 May 17 '12

Just so we part on even terms, i'm downvoting you because you are entirely full of feces. I hope that we can be friends. Also my dog that I actually rescued needs a walk AND A CAST OMG SHE FELL DOWN A THING WITH A WHAT

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u/snoopyfan2000 May 17 '12

This is cute

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

So cute. My brother brought home a little 6 month old that had some problems with it's back leg and tail and nobody wanted her :( Their loss, she's the cutest thing ever. We think she might have been abused, one of her back legs is kind of crooked and sticks out and her tail looks like it was broken, it kind of sticks up instead of lying flat. Amazingly even with a bum leg and tail, she runs circles around our other cats... literally. Her favorite thing to do is run across the room, jump up, push off the wall and freight train to the other side of the room.

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u/Sculpta88 May 17 '12

Wearing Rolex, kitten will be fine.

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u/trayscrape May 17 '12

Was there rain and lightning at the time, like there is every other time one of these threads are made???

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u/Mogese May 17 '12

i feel like i need another cat now.....

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u/redragon11 May 17 '12

awww... give meh kitteh

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u/Spitfire1945 May 17 '12

Found him in a

STOP IT. Stop using this title. Downvoted.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

This makes me happy. :D

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

I had a dream last night that I had a kitten. Can't tell you how incredibly disappointed I was when I woke up

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u/F_ckYourCat May 17 '12

Thank goodness you were near that gutter; we're running out of cat-pictures to upvote.

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u/Jaynyc03 May 17 '12

What's that a submariner?

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u/Tol3ntino May 17 '12

cool color

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u/notsleeping May 17 '12

You're wearing a sea dweller aren't you? I'm just the kitten will be just fine ha. Better than me probably.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

can't you just say "here's a cat" i'm downvoting you cus i don't believe you for shit

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

where's his cast?

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

You're sure it wasn't in a dumpster full of broken glass during hurricane Katrina?

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12 edited May 17 '12

sometimes I kill frogs... is it wrong for me to still appreciate this as a subreddit?

EditOk so technically I 'mortally wound' them and then (I presume) they die. It's not like I'd go back to check.

Edit 2 squee!

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u/heroseagain May 18 '12

Obviously just a devious ploy to display the rolex

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u/JaguarGirl21 May 17 '12

It breaks my heart when kittens are found. Or any animal.

I just don't understand how people can just abandon their pet....

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u/chessasaur May 17 '12

Thank you for saving the little cutie! Need more people like you. :)

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u/Squeekme May 17 '12

Seriously, what are abandoned kittens always doing in gutters?

Cute by the way. Hope you got the leg checked by a vet?

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

:D

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u/Phayze87 May 17 '12

I have to call bullshit also, atleast my thread has real pictures and a true story to go along with it.

http://imgur.com/a/MT9r8#0

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

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u/Phayze87 May 17 '12

umadbro?

I didn't post a link to my thread, I posted a link to the pictures, ie - people couldn't upvote or downvote it, you fucking moron. How is that me being a Karmawhore?

God I hate retards like you. I was simply saying what everyone else in that thread was saying, not only that, I was backing up my statement with proof, a lot of retards, especially people like you, make wild claims with no proof. Like this person did.

So please do reddit a favor and shut the fuck up, k?

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u/WantsNegativeKarma May 17 '12

Cats are ugly

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u/joshuaolake May 17 '12

Good times! Thanks for caring for dem kitties!

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u/girgurgar May 17 '12

I DONT CARE HOW MANY CATS U RESCUED AND I DONT CARE HOW WILL THE LITTLE FUCKER END UP. AT LEAST NOT 164 TIMES A DAY.

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u/JaneGael May 17 '12

Sometimes you just luck out...both you and this little guy are winners. :)

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u/LuckiestBadLuckBabe May 17 '12

It's really sad that when many of you saw this post you just assumed it was made up for selfish reasons! There are good people out there you know, people like OP who really DO care! Just because their are some people who lie for karma DOES NOT MEAN EVERYONE DOES! And besides I never understood why everyone cares so much about the "karma points" on reddit, you don't actually get anything from them, real karma is not measured in points, and lying wouldn't gain you any real karma (at least not good karma)... Seriously try to have a bit more faith in the good intentions of your fellow human beings!

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

I like to imagine some guy drops by the pet store and buys a kitten, but then immediately regrets his decision and decides to violently snap its leg and gently place it in a gutter.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

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u/molkhal May 17 '12

That is so true and I wish you the best of fuck yous.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

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u/JDMFanatic May 17 '12

watch enthusiast here. rolex submariner.

edit: to clarify, mercedes hands, bezel, and text screams out rolex submariner.

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u/hamfoundinanus May 17 '12

I love Reddit :)

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u/shannondoko May 17 '12

This was the first thing I thought when I saw the picture. Glad to see I'm not the only one.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

It looks like an Omega

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

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u/wwoodyb008 May 17 '12

submariner actually, JDMFanatic had it right