Another Amazon Driver Steals A Cat, This Time In California

Junie the cat is a friendly tabby who was taken by an Amazon driver delivering a package to her family’s home in Bakersfield.

First, please allow me to apologize for the light blogging this week. Allergies are absolutely killing me right now and apparently pollen counts are about as high as they get locally, according to weather sites.

I don’t usually get it this bad, but holy crap! I’m stuffed up, my eyes are watering and my head is pounding. Is it possible that one type of allergy can override another? If so, maybe I should grab Bud and take a deep huff. His reaction alone would be worth it.

“What the…what is the meaning of this, human?! Unhand me immediately, and apologize with those Friskies Natural yums that I like!”

Today we have another story about an Amazon driver taking a family’s cat after delivering a package to their home in Bakersfield, California.

The family’s home security cameras captured footage of the driver approaching the friendly cat named Junie on May 14 and driving off with her.

Amazon won’t name the driver and will only say that the company is cooperating with police, according to NBC affiliate KGET in Bakersfield.

Junie Credit: Wilson family

So far Junie hasn’t been returned and Junie’s family has no answers.

I realize that Amazon is a massive company and that millions of deliveries go off without a hitch, but still. There are dozens of incidents involving drivers stealing cats that we know of, many more that preceded our efforts to track the ongoing problem, and the company has a reputation for being unhelpful in assisting customers when their drivers take off with pets. At what point does someone say “Hey guys, don’t steal cats and dogs from our customers”?

Likewise with the lack of protocols to deal with these situations and the company’s slow responses in situations where it’s critical to act as quickly as possible.

Local police are investigating while Junie’s family pleads for the return of their cat. As with several other families who have been in this position, they say they just want her back and won’t ask questions if she’s returned.

“They could just drop her off in the driveway, she knows what to do,” said Brenda Wilson, Junie’s caretaker. “She’ll come straight to the garage, get inside the house.”

PS – Please excuse this test: The Cat Guy is a no good, lousy, rotten content thief! (Wink wink!)

Update, 5:27 pm: I wanted to see if The Cat Guy was manually reposting my content or automatically scraping it. I’ve now confirmed the latter. There are few options for dealing with this, but we’ll see.

14 thoughts on “Another Amazon Driver Steals A Cat, This Time In California”

    1. I don’t have an uncensored image. The guy hasn’t been charged, so my guess is the face was blurred for legal reasons. If the police identify him publicly as a suspect or charge him, obviously that would change.

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      1. Not you. Talking to Amazon aholes. I bet someone in that area knows this pos and has them on camera. It is legal to take a photo outside and post on social media. Cop told me that.

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      2. It’s legal to take a photo in/from a public space like a street, but posting it online and saying “This guy stole a cat” could lead to consequences unless police make the accusation.

        Regardless, I’m sure the police know who the driver is. Amazon may not respond to media, but they have a department specifically for dealing with law enforcement.

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  2. Big Buddy, don’t worry about anything except taking good care of you! And of course, taking care of the World Famous, All-important, Incredibly Wonderful, Meowscular Little Buddy!🥰❤️🩵😻

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  3. Hope you feel better soon, my friend. In situations like these you and Little Buddy should swap roles, and he should become the servant for a while and attend to all your needs. But that ain’t gonna happen, is it?

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    1. Thanks, P! Buddy does take care of me in his own way. Thankfully there have been only two occasions when I was so sick I was basically incapacitated, including the one and thankfully only time I had COVID. Buddy refused to leave my side and even allowed me to sleep if I slept through his meal time.

      Cats understand more than most of us realize, and I think that’s especially true with cats who are tightly bonded to their humans. That common belief that cats are aloof has been proven wrong with careful studies, but of course it persists.

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      1. Yes. Hope your allergies get better. Should not worry about posting a lot of stuff. Of course, if it is about Buddy get moving!!😂

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  4. I may have mentioned before that there are cat foods made that supposedly reduce the presence of the allergend in cats, but I don’t know how safe for cats, or effective they might be in the allergens .

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    1. Yeah I wouldn’t mess with that stuff. We don’t know what Fel d1’s actual function is for cats. Anyway I think my cat allergies have been blunted by living with Bud, and it’s the pollen that’s really getting to me.

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    1. That’s half the problem. It is considered stealing, but under archaic laws originally meant to govern farm animals, the law views cat theft as petty larceny, the same as if two farmers argued over a few chickens who wandered on their property line. The law does not recognize sentimental/emotional value of cats and dogs.

      The UK passed a law that appropriately changed that, but we don’t have anything like that in the US.

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