Gothamist: Lawsuit: Cats Almost Checked Out at Pet-Friendly Hotel

chuzzlewit

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:34:30 -0500

omigod its those two main coon cats from the Overlook - they totally freak me out. get on your bigwheel and GO, danny ocicat!!!!

Spiritof76

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:36:52 -0500

Oh, joy. Another bad Photoshop job on Gothamist. They can't spare a minute to copy edit but 15 minutes to slap together a cheesy composite is fine. $400-550 per night (plus a pet surcharge) and they still have a rat problem? Bunch of incompetent boobs. Give me a thousand bucks and I could put together a rat trap a reincarnated Houdini couldn't escape, and completely safe for people and pets. At that price, though, not much of a market outside luxury buildings.

sonyactivision

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:17:27 -0500

Cats suck. That hotel should be fined for using weak and ineffective rat poison.

UnrepentantFenian

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:10:26 -0500

I can't stand cats, but if they could get to it so could children. Won't someone please think of the children?! Yikes, did I just say that?

ironybubble

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:24:07 -0500

Perhaps they have a pet-friendly hotel so that they might inexpensively do away with their rodent problem? Guess someone didn't get the memo :-) That sounds like a pretty reasonable lawsuit though. $25,000.00 of medical expenses I guess eh? Why on earth did the hotel refuse to pay? Someone's gonna get fired!

Kevin Bracken

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:56:31 -0500

That is pretty freakin' ridiculous. If you advertise it as a pet friendly hotel, rat poison should be an obvious "don't." (Come to think of it, they could just use guest's cats to control the vermin problem, hah)

Dave Hogarty

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:34:43 -0500

I'd also be concerned that there's a rat problem at the hotel large enough that they're leaving poison in guests' rooms.