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You decided that you wanted to move to an apartment that didn't allow pets or you did not want to pay the pet deposit. 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, your adult cat would find a home. The shelter took a picture of her scared face and big eyes and put it on the shelters listings.
For a few days, 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, with upper respiratory infection caught in the crowded shelter. The vet tech wrote "depressed" "not eating" on her card. I'm not surprised. I'd be depressed too if I went from "sleeping in the sun" to a small metal cage with a thin layer of newspaper and a small cardboard shirt box for a litter pan.
Finally today, I couldn't stand it anymore. I felt too guilty thinking about her sitting in that cage.
So I went down and I got her, and now she's curled up on a fleece baby blanket in my spare room. 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 would probably be euthanized because you dumped them to a shelter?
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.
Powerful words written by a true pet lover
You decided that you wanted to move to an apartment that didn't allow pets or you did not want to pay the pet deposit. 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, your adult cat would find a home. The shelter took a picture of her scared face and big eyes and put it on the shelters listings.
For a few days, 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, with upper respiratory infection caught in the crowded shelter. The vet tech wrote "depressed" "not eating" on her card. I'm not surprised. I'd be depressed too if I went from "sleeping in the sun" to a small metal cage with a thin layer of newspaper and a small cardboard shirt box for a litter pan.
Finally today, I couldn't stand it anymore. I felt too guilty thinking about her sitting in that cage.
So I went down and I got her, and now she's curled up on a fleece baby blanket in my spare room. 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 would probably be euthanized because you dumped them to a shelter?
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.
Powerful words written by a true pet lover
