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There is nothing wrong with your letter. I
have first hand knowledge of one woman who cut a hole in a cat's throat, drained
the blood into a chalice and drank it. The cat lived by the way.
Feeding live cats and small dogs to fighting animals is a well established
practice--it gets the animals to taste blood. I've heard the kittens for
snake food stories from very reliable sources who named names. The belief
among these people is that there is no real difference between a live kitten and
a live mouse/bird etc. Most animal "rescue" organizations refuse to adopt
out black cats and sometimes any solid cat near Halloween. People don't
realize the dangers and most are going to be grateful for the information.
Some may ignore it but at least they have the knowledge.
If you have men who will exclude any of God's
creatures
from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who
will deal likewise with their fellow
man.
St. Francis
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 1:51
AM
Subject: Re: OT: Need feedback
please
There was nothing rude about your reply. If a person
really puts the welfare of their animal first, they would not be offended by
the information you provided. In my mind, they care more about their ego
than they do about Tiger. They are the
creeps.
Gina
Belinda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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.
Adoptable FeLV/FIV/FIP Cats/Kittens
http://adopt.bemikitties.com
--
Belinda
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