A friend sent this to me..
 

I liked this a lot - whether it's a dog, horse, bunny, snake, and/or a cat... the point is the same. BE RESPONSIBLE!!
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I Cleaned Up Your Mess Today - AGAIN!


Date: 2008-06-03, 9:36AM

You decided that you wanted to move to an apartment that didn't allow pets (and by the way, landlords are forbidden to do this in Toronto). I don't know what lured you. Maybe it was a boyfriend or a girlfriend. Maybe it was a great view. Maybe you liked the woodwork. At any rate, it was more important to you than she was. So you took her down to the shelter, still wearing her cute little pink leopard collar with a bow, and you cheerfully wrote on the card that she was very healthy for her age and friendly and just likes to sleep in the sun! I guess you knew her pretty well - you put her birthday down on the card, too, making me believe you've probably had her for her entire life.

Then you left, secure in your rationalization that somehow, in the midst of kitten season, your seventeen year old cat would find a home. The shelter took a picture of her scared face and big eyes and put it on the web.

For two weeks, I looked at that picture. I hoped someone else would see her fear and feel compelled to help her, but the public wasn't seeing her. She was back in isolation, getting vitamin B shots and subcutaneous fluids. The tech wrote "depressed" on her card. I'm not surprised. I'd be depressed too if I went from "sleeping in the sun" to a metal cage with a thin layer of newspaper.

Finally today, I couldn't stand it anymore. I felt too guilty thinking about her sitting in that cage at her age. So I went down and I got her, and now she's curled up on a fleece baby blanket in a cat tree in my bathroom. When I go in there, she rubs her head on my hand.

Today, I cleaned up your mess. I felt worse for your cat than you did. And all over the city, other rescuers did the same. They rescued your abandoned cats and dogs and bunnies and exotics. And we all wondered the same thing as we did it: How could you create this situation? How is it that you feel no remorse? How is it that you were you able to walk away from an animal you shared your home with for a year, ten years, fifteen years, knowing that they might die because of your actions?

I'll never meet you to ask you those questions. I just hope I meet the person who will be good enough to give your baby that sunny spot to sleep for the rest of her life (however long that is). She deserves it, and it's a crying shame you didn't have the decency to give it to her. This was originally posted in 2006. I am re-posting because the message hasn't sunk in!

If only people would stop and think. Owning an animal isn't a temporary thing. It is a privilege! They should be part of your family.. or don't get them. We live in a throw-away society and all I can say is "SHAME ON US".

When a baby comes into our home, we have them for life. People who do not feel that way.. shouldn't have them. One of our cats was almost 20 when he left us and another was 22.

This is a great post and I hope people will stop and think... before they buy.

This is why I waited now, at 29, to get my first dog. (Grew up with dogs, but this is my own.)

We're buying a house and even putting up a special fenced area outside for her to go out and potty.

Now that Im settled, Im ready for her. I can give her everything she needs her whole life and she will always be mine. :)

So true.. it is sad when people have to put their pets in shelters, but even more so when their pet is at such an old age... i honestly do NOT understand how a person could do that.. unless they are in great financial need or need medical assistance (which sadly is not the case for most of the abandoned pets at shelters).. i do not understand it..

:thumbup: ... I AGREE WITH YOU ....

Great post love.

Hugs Shirl :bee:

So very true. :(