I share your frustration...I spent more than $1,000 of my own money last year trapping all of the neighborhood cats and having them desexed....even a few who's owners couldn't be bothered to do the right thing. I still have a few of the boys to do, but for now (at least) none of the females are fertile...and I will continue as quickly as possible to do the fellas....it's tough, though, because my employment is kind of iffy....but I have to stay focused and do what I can...and that's all I can do. I am fostering a momma (barely more than a kitten herself) that was part of a group of 25 cats dumped behind a library when their owner was evicted from her house...and of course none were spayed/neutered. I lost one of the babies within the first 24 hours...and I am amazed that this emaciated little mother is doing so well with the other three. I get so frustrated and angry that I cannot sleep at night....I don't know how you deal with such ignorance and stupidity on a daily basis.... Debbie (COL) "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle" Philo
> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:09:14 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] OT- Venting > > I want to vent, too! I've had a bad, bad day! > I work at a county shelter and we have just about had it with people. A woman > called today and told me that she was getting ready to call Channel 2 news > about us, because we were so very rude. Why was she ticked off? Because she > surrendered her dog 2 weeks ago - she and her husband "couldn't tolerate" the > dog's destructive behavior - and we were not "doing enough" to get her dog > adopted. Ummmm......you weren't willing to spend any time and effort > whatsoever on your dog, so why would anyone else? They decided to just > reclaim the dog today, since they didn't want her to be euthanized. My > colleague who handled the reclaim very nicely questioned the husband about > his plans for the dog. Would they work with her, train her, try to find her > another home? After all, we didn't want the dog to be reclaimed only to be > dumped on us again. Not exactly fair to the dog, is it? The husband said he > was ready to start cursing out my coworker, and apparently a nasty > email is in the works. And someone else dumped his dog because she had a hot > spot, and he didn't want to pay a vet, and when we told him that we had a > low-cost vet we could refer him to, the excuse was, "She's too wild around > the kids." We try to help them, and they counter with another BS excuse. I'm > sick of it! > And you guys will love this one. Last week a woman surrendered 5 kittens. It > seems that THREE of her cats had litters of 7 at the same time, and she needs > to round up all the kittens and bring them to us, because, of course, they > all roam around outside! She then proceeded to blame the neighborhood tomcats > for knocking up her females, when naturally it's her irresponsibility that > got her into this mess. They are planning to bring us nearly 30 cats in all. > We had to euthanize FIFTY cats and kittens last week, and just as many this > week, and STILL people refuse to spay/neuter or keep their animals confined > when they're in heat. > This has to stop. It just has to stop. > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > [email protected] > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org _________________________________________________________________ Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list [email protected] http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
