Conference misery::feline_v1

1270.0. "WHERE DO ALL THE OTHER KITTIES GO...." by TPVAX2::ROBBINS () Thu Apr 14 1988 17:24

    
    
         I've been contemplating this and now with Meep, the Maine 
    Coon saga, and now to top the bill the kitty in California leads
    me to something.  Everyone would like to help in someway and of
    course there are so many different ways to do that.  We have thrown
    this out in the air before and I think now is the time to throw
    it out again.  With all the little ones that our co-workers post
    seeking homes for a lot of times the alternative is their local
    humane society or pound.  In essence they are buying time hoping
    that this notesfile will work and many times it does.  Other times
    it doesn't.  The basic idea I guess is maybe if there were some
    noters that would like to be foster homes for the ones that definitely
    have to go we could at least place some somewhere and still of course
    keep pushing them for homes.  The best humane societies in the area
    rely on foster home networks to do just this however there simply
    are not enough of them to go around.  With this notesfile alone
    they would have run out of foster homes by now :^)
    
        It's an idea and will stay as an idea unless there are people
    that have the capabilities and the type of personality it takes
    to be a foster home.  I'm sure there are some of you that have thought
    of something along the same lines or probably even have a better
    idea.  Let's see if we can put our heads (and fingers) together
    and think up something that is workeable.  
                                                              kim

    Since I am the owner of Meep, I think you have a great Idea.  If
    anyone out there wants to provide the foster service, as I've said
    before, I'll be happy to provide the cat half of the deal.  Someone
    in a recent note entry commented on being cautious with "placment
    agencies" that simply dump the cats on shelters after collecting
    a fee from the unhappy ex-cat owners.  Needless to say, this makes
    the option of putting my cat in an adoption agents hands even less
    appetizing to my already strained emotional state.  If the suggestion
    of .0 could be turned into reality, I would be much happier placing
    the animal with someone that wasn't running a "factory".  Besides,
    there is always the chance that once the foster parents have the
    cat, they will find that they don't want to part with it after all!

    There is a wonderful adoption agency in Albany, NY.  They don't
    ever take your pet...They connect people for a small donation.
    (The Pet Exchange)
    
    This is how my guinnea pigs were adopted...I miss the little buggers...
    But, boy did they smell!
    
    

    Well, how about the name and address ?