Mum feels bad that when she was a girl, the family cat was left outside at night. Where we live has mild winters and there was a garage with boxes with blankets in it for the cat, but mum feels guilty now as she knows how much I like to snuggle next to her knees at night , especially in the winter.

Maybe the changes will take a generation or two to set in? That people feel differently about their pets now than maybe forty years ago, and that in 40 years time there will be improvements? Mum sure hopes so.

The great thing about older cats and kittens is you know the temperament and personality already! When we adopted Harley he was 6 months old. I still do not understand why he lived at the shelter for 6 months with no one wanting to adopt him!

My Mommeh said the saddest thing was seeing the adult cats that people would “surrender” sitting in their cages, scared and confused, wondering when they will get to go back home.

Now, about a month after the latest kittens came in someone was peeing outside the box (on my bed!) – couldn’t tell who til I got it on video, but it was Lola. Tried to use some calming stuff thinking it was stress (she is known to be an angry pee-er, even peeing on me when I tried to take her downstairs after our new floors were put in – she didn’t want to go). Ok, that didn’t work, so off to the vets – she was chubby but the picture of health, so it was stress (she hadn’t done it with the first two newbies because of Floyd being there – I am 100% convinced of that). So do we try and “rehome” her or put her in the garage – no, that is not even something that would come to my mind. We do have her in her own “room” – my office, which is nice, comfy, and has one of her favorite spots to hang out even before the peeing. She is allowed to come out when we are home if she wants to (usually she is not interested), she gets everything the others do (food, water, litter, toys, beds, etc), even to the point where if they get a treat she gets one too, on her own separate little plate. I spend a lot of time with her, and even am thinking I will try to spend the night in there sometimes (she has a couch – the part of our old couch that she loved to sit on). I would NEVER consider getting rid of her, never ever (and of course I couldn’t do that to the kittens either because they are my babies as much as she is). To me cats aren’t property, they are family. And so she is the lucky one and gets her own room – I think the others are jealous a bit to be honest, because she has a great window view. And honestly I haven’t seen her this happy since Floyd passed away last year.

The people in your story are awful – there needs to be a list somewhere that they go on so they are never allowed to have an animal again. Same with the woman who asked why a cat was worth $75. I would gladly give up any special things for me to help out my cats and other cats too. These people don’t deserve the love of these animals, and these animals sure as heck deserve better lives than those people could/are giving. I just don’t understand people who act that way, I really don’t. It makes me so angry. Which is why this is a long, rambling comment I guess. My point is that there are some people who just shouldn’t be allowed to have pets – and you seem to have met a lot of them, and it sucks that they even exist in my opinion.

Hugs to you and your husband, pets & scritches to all the big and little cats in your very loving home.

Lynne & Millie

Our vets do spays and neuters at two pounds, whenever that occurs. Many of our kittens are sick with parasites, so waiting until those are cleared up tends to coincide with 2 lbs. We had one litter altered at exactly 2 pounds, but then they all got sick with upper respiratory infections, and lost weight rapidly (lost 8 ounces which is 25% of body weight on a 2 lb kitten). So actually I am in favor of waiting even longer than 2 months, especially for females since the surgery is much more invasive than for males.

Rant away, it’s deserved.

What’s not deserved is the treatment, or lack thereof, that so many non-humans get from humans. Sometimes I wish I believed in h*ll, then I could hope that people like this rotted there for eternity.

Lots of Light (and purrs) to this cat, who definitely needs rescuing–somehow and some way–and to Padre too.

Just curious why your group waits until two months to spay and neuter, my vet does it at six weeks?