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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / August 2006Did I really say that?!
I had to go to Petsmart today...bad mistake, well maybe not, maybe I was led there. Anyway, there was a rescue group there and they had the cats displayed in cages arranged down the main aisle that leads to the cat section. Of course I had to stop and admire the kittens and cats. There was one little lady there who was lying half in/half out of her litterbox. I was scritching her ear because she looked so very sad. She wouldn't lift her head, she just lay there watching. Her foster mom told me she had just been returned. It seems these people adopted her when she was six months old and eight months later they returned her because they didn't want her anymore. So now she's a 1 1/2 year old cat competing with kittens for adoption. She's a very pretty tortie. I gave her foster mom my phone number and told her that I had a URI going through my house right now and that I had a couple of trips coming up but if she didn't find her one true home by the middle of October to call me and I would give her a lifetime home. I told DH about her tonight and he agreed. I wish I could bring her home right now but I can't take a chance of her getting this bug that has made Lacey so sick. But she's with a fosterer so she's not in a cage or threatening to be PTS so she'll be alright and if this is supposed to be it will happen for us. Julie, Hobbes, Lacey, Sam and Barnabus >I had to go to Petsmart today...bad mistake, well maybe not, maybe I was >led there. I believe you were! And I believe the URI problem will clear up sooner thank you expect! > I had to go to Petsmart today...bad mistake, well maybe not, maybe I > was led there. Anyway, there was a rescue group there and they had the [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Julie, Hobbes, Lacey, Sam and Barnabus That's a very prudent decision and you said just the right thing. >I had to go to Petsmart today...bad mistake, well maybe not, maybe I was led >there. Anyway, there was a rescue group there and they had the cats [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > >Julie, Hobbes, Lacey, Sam and Barnabus It sounds like how things started with Selena. The ones who are grown up and had a home before are just too good at looking sad when they're in a cage. > But she's with a fosterer so she's not in a cage or threatening to be PTS so > she'll be alright and if this is supposed to be it will happen for us. Oh, I hope it will! You said exactly the right thing!  SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki > and he agreed. I wish I could bring her home right now but I can't > take a chance of her getting this bug that has made Lacey so sick. > But she's with a fosterer so she's not in a cage or threatening to > be PTS so she'll be alright and if this is supposed to be it will > happen for us. Purrs for her to find a good foreverhome, either yours or someone else as wonderful. Signaturemonique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca >I had to go to Petsmart today...bad mistake, well maybe not, maybe I was led >there. Anyway, there was a rescue group there and they had the cats >displayed in cages arranged down the main aisle that leads to the cat >section. Of course I had to stop and admire the kittens and cats. <SNIP> >Julie, Hobbes, Lacey, Sam and Barnabus What I can't believe is how anyone could adopt a kitten, and then NOT KEEP HER! I mean, if they had doubts, they just shouldn't have take her in the first place. I just don't understand how some people consider pets 'disposable' (at least the cat was returned, and not dumped somewhere...) My feeling is when you adopt a cat or kitten, it's for *life*, period. That little furry angel depends on you for food, shelter, medical care, and above all, a stabile and loving home. For the rest of her life. Bless you for offering to adopt this poor kitty. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Life without cats would be only marginally worth living." -TC, and the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico kitty, Kenzie. How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven. - Robert Heinlein Life is very difficult. Once you understand that, life becomes easier. -Buddha > What I can't believe is how anyone could adopt a kitten, and then NOT > KEEP HER! I mean, if they had doubts, they just shouldn't have take her [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Bless you for offering to adopt this poor kitty. Thanks, Gandalf, that is exactly the way I feel. They gave her 8 month of feeling secure. I'm not sure how much love was bestowed on her since I don't understand how you can love an animal and then turn your back on them. our neighbors who had been caring for himSam for two years left Sam behind when they moved. He came to me and asked, very politely, I might add, if he could live with us. Would we feed him and give him water and shelter on cold nights? Would we accept the love he has to offer? He didn't care if we loved him back but he had so much love to offer that he needed a family to bestow that love upon. We took him in and have never regreted it. He has been the most perfect love buy cat and I wouldn't sell his old grey hide for any amount of money! Knowing how much love he had to offer, I figure this little girl with show her appreciation with love as well. Unless she meets our four and decides it wasn't such a good deal afterall :) Julie >> What I can't believe is how anyone could adopt a kitten, and then NOT >> KEEP HER! I mean, if they had doubts, they just shouldn't have take [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > Julie At least they took her back to the shelter and didn't just turn her out. I still can't understand how anyone could give up a pet though. SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk >Thanks, Gandalf, that is exactly the way I feel. They gave her 8 month of >feeling secure. I'm not sure how much love was bestowed on her since I don't [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >little girl with show her appreciation with love as well. Unless she meets >our four and decides it wasn't such a good deal afterall :) Sam is very lucky, and thankful to be with you. Funny, it doesn't seem like it was long ago that you had an only-cat household with a nosy orange kitten. >> I had to go to Petsmart today...bad mistake, well maybe not, maybe I was led >> there. Anyway, there was a rescue group there and they had the cats [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > KEEP HER! I mean, if they had doubts, they just shouldn't have take her > in the first place. I can't believe that, either. Frank had been returned to his original home, not once but TWICE when he was a kitten. Maybe that is why we became so bonded. When he finally learned to believe that I wouldn't return him and that he really had a onetruehome for life, maybe he wanted to reward me by becoming my closest friend. Whatever his reason, I certainly tried to make up for his unhappy kittenhood and feeling unwanted. SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki >>> I had to go to Petsmart today...bad mistake, well maybe not, maybe >>> I was led there. Anyway, there was a rescue group there and they [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > his reason, I certainly tried to make up for his unhappy kittenhood > and feeling unwanted. I used to feel that way. My adoption of Eros was a disaster; Oscar hated him, DH was allergic to him, and DH ended up in the hospital for a very serious issue (we will never know if it was because of the allergies or not). I wasn't prepared to deal with all of this. Because I was concerned about Oscar, I'd asked the previous owner before adopting whether I could give him back to her if the cats ended up fighting. She agreed, saying she would never want Eros to be in a bad situation like that, but gee, surprise, when I tried to actually do so, she refused. I tried everything I could think of to adopt Eros out myself, but it wasn't working. In the meantime I had him boarded at a very nice cattery and visited him as often as I could; he was the darling of the facility. But finally, I had to recognize that I wasn't having any luck finding anyone to take him, and I brought him to the very good shelter nearby. They let me visit him as often as I wanted until he was adopted about a month later, and he stayed in a play room about the size of a large closet with lots of use of vertical space (carpeted shelves, a full-height scratching post, etc). Anyway, for my own sanity, I can't look down on everyone who can't handle a pet anymore. I'm the person who, when dating DH, told him that if his allergies prevented him from being around Oscar, I would have to choose Oscar, because she depends on me. But by the same logic, DH and Oscar had to come first in my priorities. Fortunately, Eros was a total love-slut. I feel awful for giving him up, but I didn't ask to send a letter to his new owners; I'm too afraid they might have done something awful, like declawed him, and I would absolutely lose it. I think about him all the time and hope that he found a worthy home for his sweet, loving soul. Signaturemonique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca > I think about him all the time and hope that he found a worthy home > for his sweet, loving soul. I know that was a special situation, and it's too easy to judge a case without knowing the facts. I just felt so bad for Frank, because it happened to him twice, and the reasons I heard about seemed pretty flimsy to me. Well, their loss was my gain. Frank was the best cat I could ever have shared my life with. SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki >> I think about him all the time and hope that he found a worthy home >> for his sweet, loving soul. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > seemed pretty flimsy to me. Well, their loss was my gain. Frank was > the best cat I could ever have shared my life with. Maybe it was special; I don't know. I know that I personally encountered a situation I wasn't prepared to handle. Eros either has had at least three owners now and a kittenhood at a shelter, or four owners, either way at least two stints at a shelter ... and he is *not* a difficult cat. The most loving, adoring, snuggly creature you can imagine. I'm sure his owners are asking themselves, why on earth would anyone give up such a loving, wonderful kitty? Maybe the fact that I donated a substantial gift certificate to them to get him set up will indicate that the person who gave him up really did care for him. Signaturemonique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca > Maybe it was special; I don't know. I know that I personally > encountered a situation I wasn't prepared to handle. Eros either has > had at least three owners now and a kittenhood at a shelter, or four > owners, either way at least two stints at a shelter ... and he is > *not* a difficult cat. The most loving, adoring, snuggly creature you > can imagine. > I'm sure his owners are asking themselves, why on earth would anyone > give up such a loving, wonderful kitty? Maybe the fact that I donated > a substantial gift certificate to them to get him set up will indicate > that the person who gave him up really did care for him. Well, hopefully the shelter people told his new adoptors what happened, so they would understand. And I'm sure your donation raised their opinion of you. :) They would at least know that you weren't someone who was just dumping him at the shelter. Don't torment yourself over this. I can't imagine how you could have dealt with it any better than you did. Purrs that Eros found humans who appreciate him and treat him like a prince. Joyce > Don't torment yourself over this. I can't imagine how you could have > dealt with it any better than you did. > > Purrs that Eros found humans who appreciate him and treat him like a > prince. Thank you. Signaturemonique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca > I had to go to Petsmart today...bad mistake, well maybe not, maybe I was led > there. Anyway, there was a rescue group there and they had the cats [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Julie, Hobbes, Lacey, Sam and Barnabus a LIMITED pox on the unworthy slaves who returned her (Although as someone else pointed out, they were at least responsible enough to give her back to kind people and not just dump her at the pound or worse, on the street and leave her there.)But she gave them her unconditional love, and they gave her back! How can she possibly understand that? The poor thing is in mourning for the hoomins she thought she loved and was loved by in return. I hope she can learn to trust, again. I hope this tortoise shell lady either finds a good home with new slaves as worthy as you, or that she'll come live at your place by Mid-October, Julie. There's always room for one more, right? =o) The circumstances you describe sound a little like Cesca's situation when I first spotted her at the Humane Society. She was just enough past kittenhood that adoption would have been tougher for her, but she was--and still is--so pretty, that I just could not leave her there to face being PTS. Ummmm....Upon consideration, I guess getting adopted WASN'T so tough for her after all. =o) Melissa [[There was one little lady there who was lying half in/half out of her litterbox. I was scritching her ear because she looked so very sad. She wouldn't lift her head, she just lay there watching. Her foster mom told me she had just been returned. It seems these people adopted her when she was six months old and eight months later they returned her because they didn't want her anymore. So now she's a 1 1/2 year old cat competing with kittens for adoption. She's a very pretty tortie. I gave her foster mom my phone number and told her that I had a URI going through my house right now and that I had a couple of trips coming up but if she didn't find her one true home by the middle of October to call me and I would give her a lifetime home.]] Can a cat be a poor kitty and a lucky kitty at the same time? THIS one can! Poor kitty that her ex-humans turned her world upside-down! And LUCKY kitty that you're willing to make certain she has a forever home that's going to KEEP her this time. Litterbox contents are en route to the people who treated this poor cat like a disposable item. She deserves better. The sooner we see a post declaring you've brought her home, the better. :o) Donna, Captain, and Stanley > Can a cat be a poor kitty and a lucky kitty at the same time? THIS one > can! Poor kitty that her ex-humans turned her world upside-down! And LUCKY [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > like a disposable item. She deserves better. The sooner we see a post > declaring you've brought her home, the better. :o) I'm wondering why the is kitty was returned twice. It seems like many people are against cats being returned to shelters for any reason, but quite a few on this group were encouraging Yowie to take her cat back to the shelter without trying anything else even though the cat had been great with her son. I know, that's old news, but this reminded me of it. The people returning this one may have had similar reasons. At any rate, I'm glad Julie may bring home this new baby and I wish them both a long and happy life together. Rhonda He he he! You have been summoned by the Mother Ship telepathic system! Good luck getting the household healthy in time to have another feline helper! sandra That was not in Florida was it Julie on of our local rescue groups is there everyweekend Pet rescue by Judy >I had to go to Petsmart today...bad mistake, well maybe not, maybe I was >led there. Anyway, there was a rescue group there and they had the cats [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Julie, Hobbes, Lacey, Sam and Barnabus > I had to go to Petsmart today...bad mistake, well maybe not, maybe I was led > there. Anyway, there was a rescue group there and they had the cats [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Julie, Hobbes, Lacey, Sam and Barnabus Sounds like you said it all right, and we're glad you did. Good news! BLESS YOU for having such a wonderful, loving heart. I know that if this sweet kitty winds up with you, that she'll have a wonderful life ahead of her. Again, BLESS YOU. I wish more humans were like you. The thought of someone dumping that poor girl back there because she no longer fit in with their plans makes my stomach churn and my blood boil. Mich > I had to go to Petsmart today...bad mistake, well maybe not, maybe I was led > there. Anyway, there was a rescue group there and they had the cats [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Julie, Hobbes, Lacey, Sam and Barnabus Lots of purrs and best wishes for the kitty to find her onetruehome with you or someone else, Polonca and Soncek > I had to go to Petsmart today...bad mistake, well maybe not, > maybe I was led there. Anyway, there was a rescue group there [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Julie, Hobbes, Lacey, Sam and Barnabus You will know when the time is right. :) You did so good integrating Sam, so please think about a time when you're home for a stretch to integrate another. I sure don't want that to make you not take in this needy girl! She'll be so lucky if you can take her in. And if not, we're sending purrs for her to find her foreverhome, wherever it is. SignatureCheryl |
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