Hi All,
Every once in a while I get people who post to the Adoptable
FeLV/FIV/FIP and put free for the fee, it clearly say's at the TOP of
the page this is not allowed, so I send them a drafted letter which I'm
copying below with the reply I got from the person I sent it to.
Please tell me if my letter is rude because that obviously isn't my
intention and I don't want to scare anyone away BUT I do want them to
realize how dangerous it is to post a pet for FREE. My letter follow
below:
Hi Kathy,
Belinda here, I admin the ads, and there are no "Free
To Good Home" ads allowed, none is the same as FREE. This is very
dangerous for the cat, there are all kinds of lunatics out there.
I
don't think you want Tiger to end up being ripped to shreds by a Pit
Bull in training to fight, or to spend his last few minutes on earth
petrified while a snake squeezes the life out of him and devours him.
Or maybe a sick, demented person who scours ads daily looking for an
animal to torture and beat until they tire of them and finally put them
out of their misery by killing them. Then there's the buncher who looks
for free or cheap pets to take to labs where they are experimented on
and then killed when they have served their purpose, these bunchers get
anywhere from $30 to $100 dollars a pet from these labs.
Giving
an animal away FREE is very dangerous for that animal and I personally
would rather euthanise a pet than take a chance that they could end up
in some horrible situation like those I described.
I get emails
every single day about some poor pet that has endured horrible things
until they finally died or were killed. I have even been told by some
of my rescues how a whole family will come to look at an adoptee making
them appear quite normal, only to find out later the pet was tortured
again and again until it finally died or was killed. Please, please be
very, very careful who you hand Tiger over to, he is depending on you
to make sure he is safe when he goes to his new home!! Thank you.
I'm
not saying this to be mean, believe me I know these kinds of things
happen a hundred times a day to innocent animals. I've changed your ad
to negotiable.
Please read these links for more info about how dangerous this is for
the cat:
http://www.theanimalspirit.com/adopt.html
http://www.petrescue.com/library/free-pet.htm
http://www.parrett.net/animalaid/free.html
I
belong to a group of people who are all owned by FeLV+/FIV, most if not
all have other cats who are negative. Some let their cats mix some
don't, it's a personal preference thing.
I personally had 6
cats, my Bailey was my FeLV positive, he was + at 5 months of age. I
just lost him last month to anemia at 11 years of age, he wasn't sick
for all of those years. I just lost him in May after a 5 month illness
to what turned out to be cancer. He lived, ate, slept, played with,
groomed and on occasion had spats with all his vaccinated, negative
housemates for all those years and nobody ever got it from him. It is
almost impossible for a healthy, adult cat to get it from a positive
and if they ever did the healthy adult cats immune system would fight
it off.
The
bottom line is it isn't as contagious as most vets would have you
believe. AND FIV is even less contagious and harder to give to another
cat as it takes a deep bite wound to for it to be even possible to
transmit it from one cat to another.
If your interested in checking the group out you can do that here:
http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
Please feel free to contact me anytime.
253 891-1197
Here's someone named Davids reply, just got it:
oh wow that was rude. did you think it was
absolutely needed to go on
for 3 paragraphs about what COULD happen to him. i think you are the
demented one! these people will get there hands on animals no matter
what i say in my ad or what i don't say. but thanks for the help, i
guess. i have decided to keep him so take it off all way, creep!
I'm afraid my reply was rude, I just am tired of people not reading or
following directions and then yelling at me for it when I point it out,
I lost it this time :(
I'm really tired of people
like you who are too lazy to read or
if you did follow directions tell me I'm rude, your email was
VERY rude, mine was informational, but I wouldn't expect someone
like you to know the difference. Take the ad off yourself, it's a free
service and this is part of it being free!
I usually get a reply saying they had no idea of the dangers and they
are happy to learn about it. I've only had one other person be rude
like this in all the time the service has been available.
Please don't candy coat anything, I know I can be tactless sometimes
and I only want to help these kitties that is the priority, so any
suggestions are appreciated. Thanks guys.
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http://adopt.bemikitties.com
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Belinda
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