Best Christmas gift you'll be giving.

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by Livia

Tell me about it! I don't have kids, so he IS my child.

My former next-door neighbors adopted the neighborhood stray cat, Blackie (in addition to the 3 dogs, 1 cat and rabbit which they already had). They wanted me to keep him when they moved, but there's NO way I will ever have 2 male cats in the same house, my cat will not allow it, which I told them. So after they moved and took Blackie w/ them, they brought him back to the neighborhood 'cause they decided he "wasn't adjusting well" to their new house. I was SO pissed off at them for doing that. To me, that's like abandoning a child. So, I fed him on their front porch since they haven't sold the house yet. I wanted the realtor and whoever was seeing the house to KNOW that a cat lived there. I put an ad in the paper and within 3 days, found a new home for him. He's beautiful, black with green eyes, and a real sweetheart. If I didn't already have a cat, I would have gladly kept him. The person I ended up giving him to had just had his cat killed by coyotes. He renamed him Plato (a MUCH better name). But the point of the story is, if you're going to take on the responsibility of having a pet, then see it through. Even if you no longer want the pet, take the 10 minutes I took to place an ad online, rather than dumping them on your former neighbors, or even worse, dumping them off at the pound where they'll end up being put to sleep. Mean people suck.

They totally suck. There are 3 strays by my office that I feed every day. Some *sshole must have dropped them off here, I've seen them around for months, since they were really small kittens. Now they're about 5 mos. There was a deep freeze the other night though and when I went to feed them today hardly any of their food was gone. I hope they are alright. I wish I could take them in but they won't let me near them and I can't take 3 strays into my apartment. Also, no one will take them. The shelters do not take feral cats and the animal hospital will put them to sleep So hopefully they are okay!!!

Mufy is also my baby. And he's my roommate's boyfriend! He sleeps with her most nights, little brat.