Jay Jay is 17 lbs, and he hasn't broken anything or run out of room to
run. And he loves the windowsills (he even fits on them). His favorite
places are the cat tree and the cement floor in the laundry room.

Now, Kira, on the other hand - she's the dangerous one. She fell off
the cat tree behind me and sunk two claws into the back of my
shoulder. What a clutz.

Mary,

I don't know what your communications were with Dan and I am really
mystified as to what you keep referring to. It really was irrelevant to me
who said what to whom and who phoned and said what to the shelter given that
a cat's life was potentially at stake. We feared that that was becoming the
focus rather than getting Conan out. Then, there was your speculation and
excuse about "out-of-town" adoptions. When I read the phrase: "we can not
save this cat" in your post, I couldn't understand that after all of the
publicized back and forth you and others were giving up. I posted my view. A
few of us then sprang into action fearful that Conan was at risk. As I
recall, you offered to give *anyone* who adopted Conan the adoption fee you
generously donated. Since you were not involved in our decision to get him
out of the shelter before the "re-evaluation" date, we did not feel that it
would be the right thing to do to accept the money and I posted that.

That is your and anyone else's prerogative. You have your opinions and
principles. My and others' criteria for a great home do not coincide with
yours, that was clear in your posts. You/others find things amusing and/or
acceptable that we don't in terms of animal welfare. The three of us have
the same principles in regards to adopting out and we made/make decisions as
a group.

You either do not have our entire e-mail correspondence as you claim, or you
missed the information in said correspondence, or you are not telling the
truth.

For Pete's sake Mary, "running rampant"....do you hear how ridiculous this
sounds? The configuration of the space along with several other factors were
at issue. But as you have the entire correspondence, you know that already,
so who is being disingenuous?.

I truly do not understand your obsession with having to be right about cats
suffering when that is not the case. You did the same with Henry. Are you
that much of a masochist that you have to keep an image of suffering alive
or is it because you said it so many times that it would make you look
foolish to be wrong. Why can you not accept and be happy about the fact that
Conan is alive, happy, and well-cared for?  If you really believe that I
could be party to a plan that would harm an animal in any way, you don't
know me, have not read or comprehended a thing I have posted here now and
throughout the years, or you have a need to be right no matter what the
facts are.

And that is, in a nutshell, what it is all about with you: competition. I
can't for the life of me understand how rescuing an animal can be framed in
terms of winning and losing. Conan is alive and well and we will find a
great permanent home for him. It seems to matter more to you that you were
not part of the actual rescue than that he is safe. I don't get that.

Enough said.

M.