i truly hope so, and i hope they have to suffer an eternity of pain
and torment for what they have done in abandoning a poor defencless
little creature who most likely gave them nothing but love and loyalty
and undying devotion throughout their tiny life which was then thrown
back in their face because they got too old/big/sick/didn't match the
new curtains. Utterly horrendous the way humans abandon these animals
who depend on us for their welfare, who we have brought up to depend
on us and live in our world to our rules, these poor littl;e mites who
probably trusted their 'mums and dads' to look after them, who then
let them down.

god it makes so angry
i now have to go downstairs and cuddle my naughty tortie who is asleep
in her bed on the sofa (she like her bed to be on the sofa, dunno why,
just does) and just that happened to her; old owners left her behind
to fend for herself when they moved house, thoroughly despicable, and
she is the most gentle and timid little smudgy chocolate angel in the
world. They didn;t deserve her, They left her behind in january to
cope outside inthe cold and rain, and she deserves much better cos she
is my little chocolate princess and she si never going to go through
that again.

grrrrrr bookie

The previous owners went through all the trouble of microchipping them and
didn't want them back? 'the f.ck?! I thought the whole point of
microchipping was to get your cat back if they ever got lost(when they get
found and checked for a chip).

fuckign w.nkers, I HATE the idea some cretins have thought that a
kitten is just a 'thing' to be given away as a gift at christmas and
then kept only for as long as it is cute then just thrown away when it
gets a bit bigger, just absolutely abominable the way some people
think and regard a precious life like that. tell you what why dont;
kidnap one of their kids, preferably a very young one who cannot fend
for itself, give to someone as a 'gift' and tell the recipient to just
throw it out with the trash when they get bored of it after a few
months, or it starts to get a bit needy or gets ill or too costly, see
how they like that eh? it is exactly the same thing, a life, treated
liek a throwaway toy, utterly despicable.
the whole thing just makes my blood boil with anger

Yup!  I agree, the problem is NOT the cats....it's the people.  This
is all too typical in society today, we don't find solutions for
problems, we just bandaid them.

Well, we decided that this Saturday we are going to ring some
doorbells in the area to make sure that it does not belong to
someone.  If that doesn't work, we take him/her to the vet and foster
him until we can find a good home.  We found homes for plenty of cats
in the past.

You wouldn't believe some of the stories we have.....we found a home
for a declawed cat that was thrown out of an apartment in a house my
that was sold, found a home for a cat that was badly attacked hanging
around our house - someone dumped!, found a home for a cat that
someone dumped out of a condo when they moved out of.

PETA has issues with feral cats? I thought they cared about all animals. At
our last place there was a feral stray, and when Joxer would go out in our
yard, he made friends with the feral. Eventually the feral would come into
my room to eat/drink. We moved before I was able to win the cat's trust
better, but I was making progress. Had been able to touch him/her a couple
times, but when we moved I tried to catch Mischief(turned about to be an
appropriate name, definite trouble causer, but not their fault, they're
wild), and they didn't appreciate it. Hadn't been living well off whatever
prey it could catch(was a small cat, even though it was full grown...about
half Joxer's size). It was Joxer who got Mischief to become slightly less
feral, because Mischief I'm sure wanted to know why Joxer was well fed and
such, so would follow Joxer into my room. I was careful to not move alot
when Mischief came in, because even after they got accustomed to my presence
in the room, still was quite skittish. Luckily my neighbors took to putting
food out for Mischief after I moved, which was a big relief to me. As for
PETA, I know their hearts are in the right place, but from what I've heard,
their execution of their ideals is waaaaaaaaaay off. Which makes it harder
for regular(as in 'nonactivist) animal lovers unfortunately, because people
will think you're like one of their more 'intense' members if you say you
support animal rights, and not give you as much credit for whatever it is
you're saying. And somewhere in between on and off topic and the randomness
in my head, I just remembered a conversation from Highway to Heaven(mom used
to watch that show all the time, and I might be paraphrasing some words
here, but the gist is the same):

Mark: I guess dog is really man's best friend after all.
Jonathan: Strange isn't it?
Mark: What?
Jonathan: You'd think man's best friend...would be man.

that's why pretty much every animal rescue group giong promotes
spaying and neutering of our cats and dogs, in order to try to curb
all these extra kitties and puppies being born with noone willing to
take them in (or possibly even worse, take them in then abandon them
to fend for themselves when they get too big and expensive)
unfortunately too many people don't listen and can't be bothered
getting their animals sorted out, they whinge about the cost etc,
selfish bastards, then they get lumbered with a litter of young ones
which they cannot look after, hence they get dumped. very sad