| I am not familiar with the term "ferel" but I do know we have
a serious overpopulation of the domestic cat in Colorado.
Granted, the newspaper ads to give away dogs far outnumbers the
ads to give away cats in this area, however, still I always hear
that hundreds of cats are destroyed at the Humane Society every
week. I feel like there should be tighter enforcement and
responsibility of pet owners or potential pet owners and fines
for them "turning their pet over to the Humane Society" should be
drastically increased so it is so expensive they will be forced
to reconsider at live up to their responsibility. Maybe if they
had to pay a higher price, they would think twice next time and
we reduce the total number of lives destroyed every year nationwide.
Yvette/Colorado Springs
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| The problem with fineing people who turn their pets into the
humane society is that then they will just dump the animals in
the wild, where they will be hit by cars, starve to death, etc.
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| Re .1
I like Yvette's sentiments, I only wish it worked that way. The feliners
in this file are the responsible kind of people that love their pets.
Then there are the people that take cats to the humane societies,
giving the animal a chance to be treated humanely, and possibly find
a new home. Then there are the other kind of people...
(Excuse me folks, this is one of my hot buttons, I'll keep it restrained)
Unfortunately, the number of cats destroyed by the humane societies
represents only a small number of the total number of "unwanted"
cats destroyed. A large number of people (and I use the term loosely)
can't be BOTHERED with humanely taking their animals to the shelter.
Several of the cats we now have, were acquired through "rescue"...
Lelia, was one of six, 8 week old kittens, found taped inside a box
in the dumpster at my grocery store. Isis was thrown from a moving car
in a shopping center parking lot. Minx and Max were going to be
put in a plastic garbage bag along with a couple of bricks, and tossed
into the river, when they were rescued by the now ex-girlfriend of the
guy who didn't want them (the kittens now live with us, the guy is lucky
that no one will tell me who he is).
There are worse cases, many cats are thrown into dog kennels at the shelter
to get rid of them, there's one case in which the kitten was tortured
before throwing it away, which I'd better not go into here (for my own sanity).
As heartbreaking as it is to know that so many cats are killed by the
humane societies, we can at least be thankful that they exist in order
to help some of the poor furfaces.
I'm not sure where I started going with this note, but it felt good
to vent a little bit with people who share the love of cats. All we
can do is to keep loving them, and teach others to love them too.
Paul
P.S. I know that it is illegal (at least in some states) to abandon
or abuse pets. Does anyone know any details of such laws?
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