Posted on 06/06/2007 1:23:07 PM PDT by gpapa
Droves of cats and kittens are swarming into animal shelters nationwide, and global warming is to blame, according to one pet adoption group.
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what will they NOT blame on climate change/global warming??
Cats know to swarm into animal shelters when it gets warmer?
Fascinating.
So, they do this every summer then?
(When an animal shelter loses it’s lease, how do the cats spread the word about the new address?)
Smart Cats. Knowing where the humane shelters are in each town.
That looks like MY cat “Stinky” and that is a bunch of BS. Stinky was a stray. All of our cats were strays except the Siamese we got at animal shelter in 2000. I see fewer and fewer strays all the time. About 11 or 12 years ago they were all over the place and we adopted some of them. Now we rarely see them. That is how we used to get our pets, strays that showed up. Now it is so rare for a stray to show up. And we have been living in three homes. Denver, So California, and Gulf Coast Texas. We had three homes. Now we are just on Gulf Coast. I always try to catch every stray cat and either keep it or take it to humane society. Been doing this since 1972.
Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria...
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Maybe PETA’s killing off all the strays now.
By the way, we adopted
Gretchen in 1972 in Stillwater Ok (deceased)
Ginger 1984 Clute Texas (deceased)
Georgie 1993 Lake Jackson Texas (deceased)
Alexander BoBo 1995 Lake Jackson Texas (deceased)
Kirby 1995 Lake Jackson Texas
Oliver 1995 Clute Texas (deceased)
Stinky 1997 Brazoria Texas
Squirt 1999 Lake Jackson Texas (she lives in Austin with my daughter)
Jasmine 2000 Houston Texas
Sambo 2002 Claremont California
Carl 2004 Clute Texas
Graybaby and Spot 2005 Lake Jackson Texas
Logan and his sister 2005 Lake Jackson Texas (gave them to other owners)
All strays except the late BoBo and Jasmine whome we bought.
The rest were strays we found on the road or near our home.
Not all of them are still living. They are all neutered or spayed. Well fed fat fluffy house cats who are not allowed to roam outdoors at all unless we are right three with them in our own fenced in back yard. Too many huge alligators here on the coast. They do attack. Biggest one in this neighborhood was 11.5 ft long, chasing neighbor’s dog in his yard, not fenced in. He lives on a lake. Lake Jackson is basically a swamp like Houston.
I don’t have a mouse problem with my cat...but my dog ate my wireless mouse recently.
That's because they are all going to the shelter, they heard they have to share humans at your house, LOL!
I have an all white cat, too. Kirby is all white and he is 12 years old. He is a sweety.
We have an all black cat like that one, named Sambo.
Well Stinky doesn’t share me with anyone. She is Miss Priss and she insists on having me all to herself. She is asleep on this desk right now. GrayBaby loves everyone but he thinks Gary, my son, is his parent so he still loves Gary best. Squirt always loved my daughter, Michelle, the most so she went to live in Austin with Michelle. She was about 4 or 5 weeks old when we found her and Michelle bottle fed her. Sambo was about 1.5 week old and about 6 oz. I bottle fed him.
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I have an all black cat too, names Peeps. She has one white whisker and a little splotch of white hairs on her neck.
Global warming????
Well spring and summer do bring in more kittens. Seen three today at my local no-kill shelter.
I guess I misread the headline and came here for the Angelina Jolie pix.
Cats go into heat when the weather starts to turn warm and then about 2 months later there's a whole lotta kittens in every animal shelter. I tried to adopt a kitten last winter and there wasn't one to be had. I got a rescue cat in March who is probably between one and two (I think closer to one because she behaves much like a kitten). But in winter there are no kittens!
So to review:
Cold weather = no kittens
Warm weather = tons o kittens
ping to my #34.....my little tripod, Squeakers!
Hey, love the tripod, a real sweetheart.
Anymore suprise jumpups for kitty?
My big guy says hi to your crew
I lived in Clute-Lake Jackson with my grandmother for a couple of years. My niece and her family still live there. Small world.
I’m still stuck in the 50’s. LOL Them old drawers are much more comfortable than those modern strings they now. Butt floss. LOL
That just makes too much sense. You can’t be interfering with their agenda by posting sensible comments like that. LOL. But seriously, I adopted my cat, Bob, in the winter and the pickins’ were pretty slim. Lucky for Bob, I guess, but anyway, the lady at the shelter said they have a lot better selection in the summer. Kitten season, like you said.
OMG..please help us down in florida. There are so many homeless cats it’s unbeleivable. I try to catch and fix what I can....but the animal control people are much better at getting them and put down hundreds a day between the few counties down here. HUNDREDS A DAY. All because people are to cheap and lazy to get their pets fixed. They are born to die.
That is the saddest reality of them all, when there is kittens/cats that have no homes, it really becomes a death sentence because people just do not take the time.
OMG—very rarely do I get accused of making too much sense!
Kitty and I are thinking about adopting a baby once she passes her 6 month feline leukemia/HIV test. That will be September and my local shelter assures me that there will still be PLENTY of babies then. First stop will be the vet to have baby fixed. We exercise responsible kitty ownership around here!
I live in a college town with a vet school. We were overrun with cats a few years back because students would turn their cats lose when they moved away. The vet school started a catch, “alter,” vaccinate and release program that has significantly reduced the number of feral cats in town. It’s been a great program. They don’t put the cats down, but they notch their ears to signify that they’ve been fixed and then volunteers are responsible for feeding the colonies. My neighborhood used to be overrun, but now I only see two or three that hang out in the hood (they visit daily to torture the sweet kitty in the window with their freedom).
Me, too. I had my Bob neutered on the way home from the shelter with him. Sometimes we pick up strays and take them to the vet and pay to have them fixed and then turn them loose where we found them. Especially the ones who have kittens in our outbuildings, etc. So many people are irresponsible pet owners. I know these people who get pets, then just move away and leave them behind when they become an inconvenience. They had a white cat once who just had one litter after another. The kittens would die of sickness or the kids would manhandle them and kill them. I picked their cat up and had her spayed. They never knew the difference. I wonder if they ever noticed how much weight she gained. She was alwways so skinny from constant pregnancy and nursing kittens.
Thats a great idea. I am sort of a one woman “catch and release” program in our town.
Around here we have 2 groups that offer assistance for spaying/neutering. One group helps any and all, the other primarily deals with the stray/feral colonies that live in one of the resort areas. Most area stores have donation boxes for one or both groups on their counters.
When I initially saw this article on another forum I did find it amusing becuase of the way it was posted (on a very serious global warming thread)..........but I really shouldn’t have because we lost another of our outside cats this morning........but that was due to what my husband believes was “An Attack of the Killer Chicken Trucks.” It had apparently wandered into the road and those 18 wheelers aren’t going to see a small furry feline while doing 45+mph.........SIGH.
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