Snowflake Challenge #3
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goatgodschildScream Into the Void. Get it all out. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
[hums "I Believe The Cats Are Taking Over"]
CW: Animal neglect (non-deadly)
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At the cat shelter, there have been two cases in the past few months whose circumstances just tick me off no end.
Case 1: In November, the County got called about a stray queen with new kits. Fine, standard setup, just pick up the kitties and bring them in. For strays, these are healthy cats, just your average moggies (this is about to be important). The queen is spayed, as is our policy for all incoming queens. The queen is chipped, so ASAP has to at least try to contact the owner. And WHAT A STORY the owner tells!
Apparently, that lovely-but-average lady was his "breeding stock" , and "all [his] neighbors knew". Well, THERE'S your problem. Cat breeding takes WORK -- it's loud, smelly, and potentially dangerous to man and beast. If you have a cat breeding operation, even a kit of a common breed can be in the $200+ range, usually more, because you're functionally paying back for the facility to manage the breeding operation, not to mention the functioning of a lineage. And this guy is running his operation out of a neighborhood house, where everyone around him is going to have to hear all of this -- no wonder his neighbors know, they probably hate his idiot guts! Clearly, it's not nearly as secure as a breeding facility needs to be, given you let your queen run off with, at minimum, about $600-800 in merchandise!
He picked up the queen, but didn't take the kits, which is pretty telling.
Case 2: An extremely pregnant queen was dropped off on Sunday, because the owners can only have one cat in their home. She's too far along to abort, because on Monday, she gives birth.
What kept you from getting her spayed before this?
If you can only have one cat in the house, how and why did you let her go courting?
And then just not deal with it until she was ready to burst?
So now they're getting a free spay out of this, and we're left taking care of MORE stray kittens that could have easily been prevented.
We're a no-kill shelter (the first in the USA!), but what makes people think their queens won't go courting? Domestic cats are sexually mature at four months.
[hums "I Believe The Cats Are Taking Over"]
CW: Animal neglect (non-deadly)
________
At the cat shelter, there have been two cases in the past few months whose circumstances just tick me off no end.
Case 1: In November, the County got called about a stray queen with new kits. Fine, standard setup, just pick up the kitties and bring them in. For strays, these are healthy cats, just your average moggies (this is about to be important). The queen is spayed, as is our policy for all incoming queens. The queen is chipped, so ASAP has to at least try to contact the owner. And WHAT A STORY the owner tells!
Apparently, that lovely-but-average lady was his "breeding stock" , and "all [his] neighbors knew". Well, THERE'S your problem. Cat breeding takes WORK -- it's loud, smelly, and potentially dangerous to man and beast. If you have a cat breeding operation, even a kit of a common breed can be in the $200+ range, usually more, because you're functionally paying back for the facility to manage the breeding operation, not to mention the functioning of a lineage. And this guy is running his operation out of a neighborhood house, where everyone around him is going to have to hear all of this -- no wonder his neighbors know, they probably hate his idiot guts! Clearly, it's not nearly as secure as a breeding facility needs to be, given you let your queen run off with, at minimum, about $600-800 in merchandise!
He picked up the queen, but didn't take the kits, which is pretty telling.
Case 2: An extremely pregnant queen was dropped off on Sunday, because the owners can only have one cat in their home. She's too far along to abort, because on Monday, she gives birth.
What kept you from getting her spayed before this?
If you can only have one cat in the house, how and why did you let her go courting?
And then just not deal with it until she was ready to burst?
So now they're getting a free spay out of this, and we're left taking care of MORE stray kittens that could have easily been prevented.
We're a no-kill shelter (the first in the USA!), but what makes people think their queens won't go courting? Domestic cats are sexually mature at four months.
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Date: 2023-01-22 03:44 pm (UTC)