Posted on 06/06/2007 1:23:07 PM PDT by gpapa
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.
Not Global Warming - but Global Stupidity.
Irresponsible people who won’t have their kitties fixed.
Instead of sending the animals to a shelter, we should lock up the ‘people’.
I’m sorry about your loss. My kitty and I are having an “issue” with her wanting to be an outdoor cat (she is a rescue kitty and lived outside until my vet rescued her) and my wanting her to be an indoor cat. As it is I have a water bottle on my front porch and I have to blast my way in so she won’t get out. We get along beautifully, except for this one little issue!
The only way my daughter and I got daddy to agree to cats were if they were “barn kitties.” The funny thing is that my “I’m not a cat person” husband is the one they take to first! And he takes to them as well. It’s really comical at times, but not when we lose one, because it seems lately the ones we have lost were the ones he had cottoned to the most.
All of ours have also been strays, except for the one litter one had last year. We’ll be acquiring 2 more next week.....ironically on Fathers day :)
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