Why does PETA hate cats?

Some blanks. Knock yourselves out!

Original pic from a couple of weeks ago...

Too many cats.

Too many cats.

Oh! There's a limit?

i can has greenlight?!

YES I CAN HAS!!!



*Dr. Nick voice* Hi Everybody!!

/greenlight and the start of a 5 day weekend??!
//this is the best day ever

That's not good news. Poor people dump those kittens out on the street.

see more Lolcats and funny pictures

leftteffticle: i can has greenlight?!

YES I CAN HAS!!!

Congrats on your green!

ive been waiting so long to bust out the lion harbl picture

Click to go to the greatest thread evar.

FuturePastNow: That's not good news. Poor people dump those kittens out on the street.

Yeah, I hate to spoil everyone's cutesie-wootsie picture time, but that's not really "spiffy" news at all.

This thread is PG13

this is why the world needs more groups like this:

Traveling Spay and Neuter Van (new window)

Is there a feline version of Down Syndrome? This little one looks like Chewbaca when she closes her eyes.

leftteffticle:

OK, I know it took me a while to realize this, BUT, did anyone else notice the irony of leftteffticle posting a thread about neutering?



/no more sponsorships for you, hon

blanks for your amusement...

It's like he's mourning his harbls.

sherpa18: leftteffticle:

OK, I know it took me a while to realize this, BUT, did anyone else notice the irony of leftteffticle posting a thread about neutering?

/no more sponsorships for you, hon

unintentional, i swear. i do not have an odd testicle fetish. promise.

leftteffticle:

unintentional, i swear. i do not have an odd testicle fetish. promise.

Odd? Odd??
Don't they usually come in pairs (unless you're Lance Armstrong?)

quantum_jellyroll: leftteffticle:

unintentional, i swear. i do not have an odd testicle fetish. promise.

Odd? Odd??
Don't they usually come in pairs (unless you're Lance Armstrong?)

my last name can cleverly be turned in to "teffticle". both my and my cousin's peers came up with this back in high school. so together, we're teffticles, a full sack. if you look at a map, i live on the left and she lives on the right. so henceforth leftteffticle.

and regardless, the word harbl is hiiighlarious.

leftteffticle: quantum_jellyroll: leftteffticle:

unintentional, i swear. i do not have an odd testicle fetish. promise.

Odd? Odd??
Don't they usually come in pairs (unless you're Lance Armstrong?)

my last name can cleverly be turned in to "teffticle". both my and my cousin's peers came up with this back in high school. so together, we're teffticles, a full sack. if you look at a map, i live on the left and she lives on the right. so henceforth leftteffticle.

and regardless, the word harbl is hiiighlarious.

It's only funny until one of them gets hurt.

quantum_jellyroll: soiled myself laughing

That one I collected. I didn't make it but i love it.

/happy Caturday, evebuddy!
//TGIC!

Jeff telling Mr. Thumbs to knock it the hell of with a sick kitten. Mr. Thumbs always lets the new ones know who is "boss" whenever they com in to the house. He never hurts them and with in a day or so he stops. Jeff is the big daddy kitty who takes care of the babies. I had never seen him do this though.
This particular baby came to us very malnourished and emaciated. She and her littermates (the orange and the fluffy black and white) were dropped off in a box at someones barn. Her head wasn't much bigger than my thumb she was so tiny.
We tried feeding her, but she had failure to thrive and sadly only lasted a day with us. Her brothers, who were pretty weak themselves, are doing much better and playing like they should.
But it was like Jeff knew...

That's food all over his face. He likes sleeping in the bowl.

bah time for bed.
This is the new litter, but I haven't had a chance to take pics of them. That'll be for next week.

cretinbob: Jeff telling Mr. Thumbs to knock it the hell of with a sick kitten. Mr. Thumbs always lets the new ones know who is "boss" whenever they com in to the house. He never hurts them and with in a day or so he stops. Jeff is the big daddy kitty who takes care of the babies. I had never seen him do this though.
This particular baby came to us very malnourished and emaciated. She and her littermates (the orange and the fluffy black and white) were dropped off in a box at someones barn. Her head wasn't much bigger than my thumb she was so tiny.
We tried feeding her, but she had failure to thrive and sadly only lasted a day with us. Her brothers, who were pretty weak themselves, are doing much better and playing like they should.
But it was like Jeff knew...

I'm so sorry about the baby. It's so hard trying to build them up once they've fallen so far behind, you and your wife are beyond awesome.

RIP little girl.

leftteffticle: i can has greenlight?!
YES I CAN HAS!!!
*Dr. Nick voice* Hi Everybody!!
/greenlight and the start of a 5 day weekend??!
//this is the best day ever

Congrats on the green light! Happy Caturday, evvybody!

Bessyglass loved the 'Cat Puke' lolcat. Still giggling. Great find!

Young Emo...posed for this provocative photo and was nootered the following week (and adopted too!)

If you own a cat you probably also own a vibrator, seeing that no man wants an ugly old crazy woman.

Fark was so slow this morning, I figured everyone was in a drunken half awake state, then a caturday post and bam, 160 posts in under 10 minutes.

Rev. Skarekroe: FuturePastNow: That's not good news. Poor people dump those kittens out on the street.

Yeah, I hate to spoil everyone's cutesie-wootsie picture time, but that's not really "spiffy" news at all.

Actually, the article is indeed spiffy as the study was published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Assn. Veterinarians need to know that for scores of low-income people spaying and neutering remains cost prohibitive and now they have a peer-reviewed study directly correlating income to spay/neuter status.

Perhaps the study will encourage more vets to accept low-cost vouchers or even offer spay/neuter services on a sliding scale. It's a complicated issue...but we can always dream, right?

WildMonkey: If you own a cat you probably also own a vibrator, seeing that no man wants an ugly old crazy woman.

Happy Caturday, Wild Monkey!
*Bug's Bunny smooch*
Love, Ricksha

My foster Mom is so tiny her kittens are practically bigger than her now, a case of kittens having kittens.

Ricksha Shiksa: Rev. Skarekroe: FuturePastNow: That's not good news. Poor people dump those kittens out on the street.

Yeah, I hate to spoil everyone's cutesie-wootsie picture time, but that's not really "spiffy" news at all.

Actually, the article is indeed spiffy as the study was published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Assn. Veterinarians need to know that for scores of low-income people spaying and neutering remains cost prohibitive and now they have a peer-reviewed study directly correlating income to spay/neuter status.

Perhaps the study will encourage more vets to accept low-cost vouchers or even offer spay/neuter services on a sliding scale. It's a complicated issue...but we can always dream, right?

I doubt that's the reason. Most city pounds/animal rescue centers spay and neuter cats for very little money - less than $50.

I'm willing to bet that if a survey were conducted among low-income pet owners, the main reasons for failure to spay/neuter would be ignorance and apathy.

More pics of my fosters

Nogale: Ricksha Shiksa: Rev. Skarekroe: FuturePastNow: That's not good news. Poor people dump those kittens out on the street.

Yeah, I hate to spoil everyone's cutesie-wootsie picture time, but that's not really "spiffy" news at all.

Actually, the article is indeed spiffy as the study was published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Assn. Veterinarians need to know that for scores of low-income people spaying and neutering remains cost prohibitive and now they have a peer-reviewed study directly correlating income to spay/neuter status.

Perhaps the study will encourage more vets to accept low-cost vouchers or even offer spay/neuter services on a sliding scale. It's a complicated issue...but we can always dream, right?

I doubt that's the reason. Most city pounds/animal rescue centers spay and neuter cats for very little money - less than $50.

I'm willing to bet that if a survey were conducted among low-income pet owners, the main reasons for failure to spay/neuter would be ignorance and apathy.

Not true of just low-income pet owners. I know people who could afford to fix their pets, but can't be bothered, and then there's those who think it's "cruel".

my cats are energetic this morning!


/I squealed and scared all the cats and my bf when I took that last picture. He's just so darned cute!
//yay for caturday!

/some from a few caturdays back

Nogale: Ricksha Shiksa: Rev. Skarekroe: FuturePastNow: That's not good news. Poor people dump those kittens out on the street.

Yeah, I hate to spoil everyone's cutesie-wootsie picture time, but that's not really "spiffy" news at all.

Actually, the article is indeed spiffy as the study was published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Assn. Veterinarians need to know that for scores of low-income people spaying and neutering remains cost prohibitive and now they have a peer-reviewed study directly correlating income to spay/neuter status.

Perhaps the study will encourage more vets to accept low-cost vouchers or even offer spay/neuter services on a sliding scale. It's a complicated issue...but we can always dream, right?

I doubt that's the reason. Most city pounds/animal rescue centers spay and neuter cats for very little money - less than $50.

I'm willing to bet that if a survey were conducted among low-income pet owners, the main reasons for failure to spay/neuter would be ignorance and apathy.


There is no doubt that ignorance and apathy enter into the equation; however, cost and accessability are factors that cannot be denied.

Nogale:

I doubt that's the reason. Most city pounds/animal rescue centers spay and neuter cats for very little money - less than $50.

I'm willing to bet that if a survey were conducted among low-income pet owners, the main reasons for failure to spay/neuter would be ignorance and apathy.

I wish there were under $50 spay and neuter clinics around here. I only wish. Basically you are looking at around $200 to get the job done. The city run clinic is a bit less expensive, but the waiting list is about 9 months long. The Humane Society used to spay/neuter pets before they allowed them to be adopted (or if they were kittens, gave you a voucher) but they can't afford that any more.

Meanwhile, my Mom (she is really not a crazy kat lady) and her husband live in Tucson. There is a large feral cat group in the area, and Mom catnaps them as she can and takes them to the low cost Spay/Neuter clinic nearby. Three of those kitties have managed to wangle their way into the house - The Bench Cat, The Missy Cat, and The Aggravating Cat (Benchy, Missy and Aggy). There is no way she could do this at $200 a pop. She is retired, and though reasonably comfortable, not able to support massive numbers of cat "fixings" at that price.

Actually, she got a bit of a shock with the last kitty she took in - she thought the very hairy cat was probably pregnant, and was quite prepared to pay the premium to have that terminated along with the spay. She arrived back to find her bill was a lot smaller than expected - the cat was a male, who obviously had been partaking very substantially from Mom's outdoor food dish.

Around where I live it's not that expensive. I used spot vouchers for my four cats and it cost around 200 including the medicine and their "disposal" fee. I want to know what they do with all those harbls...

Annamonster: Around where I live it's not that expensive. I used spot vouchers for my four cats and it cost around 200 including the medicine and their "disposal" fee. I want to know what they do with all those harbls...

With my dearly departed Piddah the vet didn't remove them he just disconnected the plumbing. This was the early '90s,

lajimi: Annamonster: Around where I live it's not that expensive. I used spot vouchers for my four cats and it cost around 200 including the medicine and their "disposal" fee. I want to know what they do with all those harbls...

With my dearly departed Piddah the vet didn't remove them he just disconnected the plumbing. This was the early '90s,

oh mai! what a strange way to do it, I wonder if it's less painful or effective?

Two of my cats, Charcoal and Jesus, don't seem to know their balls are gone. They hump our legs almost every night...and they will get violent about it! We've woken up to a cat mrowing and growling at us because we moved our leg and they start biting the blanket and any toes sticking out before mounting another leg.

those pervs. We call them Charcoalmolester and Humperdinkle sometimes.

At my shelter no animal leaves without being fixed and they have a van that goes to low income neighborhoods and neuters beginning at $25. Females are a little more since it's a bigger job. I just assumed all shelters were like this, too bad.

InferiousX: Annamonster

loves them!

lajimi: With my dearly departed Piddah the vet didn't remove them he just disconnected the plumbing. This was the early '90s,

OR...For those who want their pet to retain his natural look and self esteem, you could try these (poppity) ;-)

My little angel...

IMG]http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/steraesal/DSCF0191.jpg

Pre-harbls removal

Ok got the image now.

CooperDaKat: lajimi: With my dearly departed Piddah the vet didn't remove them he just disconnected the plumbing. This was the early '90s,

OR...For those who want their pet to retain his natural look and self esteem, you could try these (poppity) ;-)

bwahahaa The concept of neuticles always destroys me.

/Existential absurdity

predle: At my shelter no animal leaves without being fixed and they have a van that goes to low income neighborhoods and neuters beginning at $25. Females are a little more since it's a bigger job. I just assumed all shelters were like this, too bad.

If I have the right of it, it depends a lot on whether they can find a vet willing to do them at a lower price in the area. I'm sure most or all shelters would like to, but some are in areas that you simply can't find a low-cost place to have it done.

I don't know how "Spiffy" this is; was the "Obvious" tag on vacation? I agree it's good to have an "official" study to back up what people already knew, however.


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///One of my Bonnie a did a while back.

FuturePastNow: That's not good news. Poor people dump those kittens out on the street.

This. And, they come straight to my place.

lajimi: Annamonster: Around where I live it's not that expensive. I used spot vouchers for my four cats and it cost around 200 including the medicine and their "disposal" fee. I want to know what they do with all those harbls...

With my dearly departed Piddah the vet didn't remove them he just disconnected the plumbing. This was the early '90s,

Doing a kitty vasectomy may stop pregnancy, but what about all of the other unpleasant tomcat traits, like spraying, yowling and prowling?

Nakor BlueRider: If I have the right of it, it depends a lot on whether they can find a vet willing to do them at a lower price in the area. I'm sure most or all shelters would like to, but some are in areas that you simply can't find a low-cost place to have it done.

Around here a few of the vets have hooked up with the pet rescue groups and adoption centers to do low cost spay and neuter procedures as a public service and to promote their businesses. Granted, this IS an area of small towns where an award from the local Chamber of Commerce or Rotary Club can be a BIG DEAL. When I lived in a much larger city there was a city clinic where the procedures were done at a low price.

ON vacation At project A-kon this weekend, so no pics of Pogo this week.

However, found this little gem in the comix market yesterday.

Well, on the topic, my vet always had me get my kitties cut at about three months. I didn't know until today (pops)that this was a controversial thing back then. I can vouch for the long term benefits. My kitties lived an average of 13 years. Old cat DJ is still going strong at almost 15.

I was at the vet's with our dog once and the vet came out and announced loudly to the desk clerk that she had to tell the owner of an older male dog that the dog has testicular cancer. The vet was complaining about people not getting their male dogs neutered because of this.
Neutering: it's a good thing.

Debby7813: Doing a kitty vasectomy may stop pregnancy, but what about all of the other unpleasant tomcat traits, like spraying, yowling and prowling?

Never had a problem with any of those. He was just a real sweetheart.

Happy Caturday Farkers!

Girlfriend has 2 kittys-
As of this moment 1 kitty is roasting in the morning sun and the other is curled up with her "Mommy".

/another rough start to another Caturday...

lysdexic: Well, on the topic, my vet always had me get my kitties cut at about three months. I didn't know until today (pops)that this was a controversial thing back then. I can vouch for the long term benefits. My kitties lived an average of 13 years. Old cat DJ is still going strong at almost 15.

wow, I also had no idea that it was controversial, I got all mine neutered around that age, and they didn't notice, and were home and running about after a few hours.

And I do recall another cat my parents neutered at an older age was groggy and wouldn't eat for almost 2 days after his surgery. He was very pissy for a week too.

Well, that was odd.

And Annnamonster, it's just too cool to see my capshuns here. I hope I've had a small part in infecting you. :)

Much better.

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This is my Bailey's first Caturday! Now that I figured out how to actually make LOLcats.

/Because I just had to find another way to waste more of my time... ;-)

"Tom Fruits" - lolololololol!!!!

So is it possible to get a cat/dog vasectomy, instead of just chopping em off?

Kitty Foyle in "her" suede chair. Lols welcomed.

emmasews: I was at the vet's with our dog once and the vet came out and announced loudly to the desk clerk that she had to tell the owner of an older male dog that the dog has testicular cancer. The vet was complaining about people not getting their male dogs neutered because of this.
Neutering: it's a good thing.

The spaying is a good thing, too. My niece & her boyfriend have 4 kittehs, the oldest of which is an 11-year old female currently going through treatment for breast cancer. Due to financial restraints, they didn't get her spayed until she was 4 or 5 (at least), and earlier this year, felt a lump on her tummy that turned out to be malignant cancer. Luckily, it had only spread to one lymph node, so surgery (quadruple mastectomy) and now chemo is kicking the cancer's butt (thank Bast!). She's doing great; apparently chemo isn't as devastating to kittehs as to humans.

//apparently, early spaying might (might being the operative word here) have prevented this.
///6 months for girls (best before first heat)- although I have heard of as early as 3 months for shelter kitties

///for boys, as soon as the harbls descend - around 5 or 6 months - easier to grab 'em and snip 'em then.

Unknown_Poltroon: So is it possible to get a cat/dog vasectomy, instead of just chopping em off?

The thing is, keeping the gonads won't prevent the sometimes unpleasant mating behaviors, and there are cancers that can be prevented by the spaying & neutering.

They won't miss what they don't get to use, and I think they'll be happier and healthier for it.

Spay & neuter - early and often.

lysdexic: Well, that was odd.

And Annnamonster, it's just too cool to see my capshuns here. I hope I've had a small part in infecting you. :)

I love seeing my cats captioned!
Especially when farkers just randomly throw them out of their lolcat collections. I've recently started saving the names on my lolcats so I can try and keep track of who made which one.

/addicted to caturday on fark now

We had our outside cat Claire spayed last week. Just the spay and rabies shot cost $100.50. The office people were trying to tell me the cat HAD to have all her shots. I told them "no", I brought in a boy cat with a fishing lure stuck in his paw months earlier. The vet "fixed" him while he was under, gave him a rabies and penicillin shot, and he was good to go. Only cost $60 and some odd cents.
Only 2 vets in town. The best one charges an arm and a leg, but we've been going to him for ages. The new one is cheaper, but she is kinda hard to get an appointment with. She's the one we took Nellie to when it was spaying time. Nellie got out of her cage and somehow knocked the cover off the floor vent. In she went and spent the next 9 days lurking. The vet felt so bad! Nell finally let her guard down and got caught in their trap. Little thing was skin and bones when she came home - couldn't have weighed 5 pounds. I'm kinda leary about taking my cats back to that vet since Nell caused the poor woman so much stress! She was talking about tearing the ductwork apart to get her out.

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Not really on topic, but here are Buddy (black & white), and Eboni, keeping my toilet warm for me...

That's not good news. Those cats just end up in giant cages in shelters or running around on the street or worse.

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Buddy (9 months) thinks my porch rocker is a jungle gym.

My boyfriend just had his kitty neutered last week. It has seemed to reduce the spraying and constant meowing, although now the little monster has taken to being mischievous and deciding that he doesn't have to listen to us anymore. We had him perfectly trained to stay out of the kitchen. Guess who decided to sneak in there every which way last night while we were cooking dinner? Still cute as hell, but boy oh boy you can tell the honeymoon period is over!

The SPCA here occasionally has programs to do free or low cost spay-and-neuter if your income is low. Not really much excuse not to do it here (though I know some of the private vets charge quite a bit for it).

This is also why we got our cats from the SPCA. Each was $75 pre-spayed, and pre-immunized, and local vets all participate in a program where you get a free first exam if you adopt (and actually, the adoption contract says that you HAVE to take them to the vet to get checked out). That is a LOT cheaper than having to pay for all that yourself with some feral cat that you just found.

We live in a poor rural area where the spay/neuter rate is getting better, but still not enough.

New York has a voucher program for anyone on any type of public assistance, but not many vets accept the voucher. NY also has vouchers for anyone who adopts from a shelter, but our local shelter doesn't bother telling people about it.

Our only shelter (which is not a county run shelter) has a "deal" with the most expensive vet clinic in town. They say it's going to be $65 but when someone adopts from the shelter, they pick the animal up from the vet only to find they'll be charged around $150. Now the adoption rate at the shelter has dropped and they have to euthanize more and more animals every day.

It's all about the money, but ignorance is a big part of it too.

domari: Our only shelter (which is not a county run shelter) has a "deal" with the most expensive vet clinic in town. They say it's going to be $65 but when someone adopts from the shelter, they pick the animal up from the vet only to find they'll be charged around $150. Now the adoption rate at the shelter has dropped and they have to euthanize more and more animals every day.

That sounds really shady. They definitely don't do anything like that here. I suspect that it has to do with the "poor, rural" thing. This area is sort of high income and our SPCA gets a lot of donations to pay for all their programs.

CurlyGirly: My boyfriend just had his kitty neutered last week. It has seemed to reduce the spraying and constant meowing, although now the little monster has taken to being mischievous and deciding that he doesn't have to listen to us anymore. We had him perfectly trained to stay out of the kitchen. Guess who decided to sneak in there every which way last night while we were cooking dinner? Still cute as hell, but boy oh boy you can tell the honeymoon period is over!

My daughter and I visited Tippi Hedren's big cat rescue in the California high desert a few years ago. In some cases you're only inches away from the big kittehs and it's way cool.

This is Patrick the liger, not bred for his skills in magic, but he has his harbls and he will show you them.

Mnemia: The SPCA here occasionally has programs to do free or low cost spay-and-neuter if your income is low. Not really much excuse not to do it here (though I know some of the private vets charge quite a bit for it).

This is also why we got our cats from the SPCA. Each was $75 pre-spayed, and pre-immunized, and local vets all participate in a program where you get a free first exam if you adopt (and actually, the adoption contract says that you HAVE to take them to the vet to get checked out). That is a LOT cheaper than having to pay for all that yourself with some feral cat that you just found.

That's what I try to explain to people. Adopt from a shelter or rescue and your cat will be move in ready!

But the problem is, most people who want free cats are the type of people who let them run loose and never bring them to the vet in the first place.

If someone can't afford what a shelter/rescue charges to adopt then they have no business getting an animal in the first place.

My Mandu. His neutering cost me $400. One of his harbls never descended so the vet made an incision in his groin but still couldn't find it. He had to go into the abdomen and found it. The cord was wrapped around the little guys bladder. Vet said the neutering saved his life...as he got bigger the constriction on the bladder could have killed him.

domari:
That's what I try to explain to people. Adopt from a shelter or rescue and your cat will be move in ready!

But the problem is, most people who want free cats are the type of people who let them run loose and never bring them to the vet in the first place.

If someone can't afford what a shelter/rescue charges to adopt then they have no business getting an animal in the first place.

Not true in all locations. You adopt animals here not spayed or neutered and sign a promise that you will do it. Then you have to find the $200+ to get it done. I only wish they adopted them out already 'ready'.

BTW, I would never let a cat run loose in the city - too many hazards. Cars, dogs, racoons, skunks, coyotes.

domari: That's what I try to explain to people. Adopt from a shelter or rescue and your cat will be move in ready!

But the problem is, most people who want free cats are the type of people who let them run loose and never bring them to the vet in the first place.

If someone can't afford what a shelter/rescue charges to adopt then they have no business getting an animal in the first place.

Yeah, I always wonder, if you can't afford the $75 or whatever to adopt a cat that's already had its surgery, what the hell would you do if your cat had something worse wrong with it? Just let it suffer and die? Or dump it? I suspect I don't want to know the answer.

I mean, one of our cats got this horrible gum inflammation where her gums were red and bleeding that couldn't even be controlled by steroids. The only remedy was to remove all her back teeth, something that fixed her for life. But it was like $450 to have done. Not hard to justify, but for someone who thinks $75 is too expensive?

Evil Canadian: Not true in all locations. You adopt animals here not spayed or neutered and sign a promise that you will do it. Then you have to find the $200+ to get it done. I only wish they adopted them out already 'ready'.

Yeah, I believe our SPCA ONLY adopts them out post-surgery, because they know that many people will not do it otherwise. But obviously that takes a good bit of resources. Also, is there followup where you are to make sure people actually do it? I know that here they call you a few times to make sure your new cat is getting seen by a vet, etc, and they can make you sign a contract allowing them to drop by for in-home inspections if they suspect you might be not the greatest pet owner.

i didn't realize my greenlight would cause such controversy, haha. i just wanted to use the word "harbl" in a headline.

of course of course of course have your cats spayed or neutered!
/end bob barker moment

kerewo: We had our outside cat Claire spayed last week. Just the spay and rabies shot cost $100.50. The office people were trying to tell me the cat HAD to have all her shots. I told them "no", I brought in a boy cat with a fishing lure stuck in his paw months earlier. The vet "fixed" him while he was under, gave him a rabies and penicillin shot, and he was good to go. Only cost $60 and some odd cents.
Only 2 vets in town. The best one charges an arm and a leg, but we've been going to him for ages. The new one is cheaper, but she is kinda hard to get an appointment with. She's the one we took Nellie to when it was spaying time. Nellie got out of her cage and somehow knocked the cover off the floor vent. In she went and spent the next 9 days lurking. The vet felt so bad! Nell finally let her guard down and got caught in their trap. Little thing was skin and bones when she came home - couldn't have weighed 5 pounds. I'm kinda leary about taking my cats back to that vet since Nell caused the poor woman so much stress! She was talking about tearing the ductwork apart to get her out.

Spay: $50
Night's boarding: $12
Cat stops presenting herself to your face in the morning: priceless

Classic

Evil Canadian:

Not true in all locations. You adopt animals here not spayed or neutered and sign a promise that you will do it. Then you have to find the $200+ to get it done. I only wish they adopted them out already 'ready'.

BTW, I would never let a cat run loose in the city - too many hazards. Cars, dogs, racoons, skunks, coyotes.


It's a law in NY that any animal adopted from a shelter be neutered or spayed if old enough. The shelter in my county brings the animal to the vet when it's adopted, then the person who adopts it has to pick it up and pay the outrageous fee. Young dogs and cats have the contract and deposit which is returned when it gets fixed.

The shelter in the county next to us has it done ahead of time. We adopted a dog for $35 that was neutered, tested for every dog disease, had all it's shots, wormed, etc. Best bargain ever!

Letting them run loose shortens their lives and causes too much trouble.

predle: Nogale: Ricksha Shiksa: Rev. Skarekroe: FuturePastNow: That's not good news. Poor people dump those kittens out on the street.

Yeah, I hate to spoil everyone's cutesie-wootsie picture time, but that's not really "spiffy" news at all.

Actually, the article is indeed spiffy as the study was published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Assn. Veterinarians need to know that for scores of low-income people spaying and neutering remains cost prohibitive and now they have a peer-reviewed study directly correlating income to spay/neuter status.

Perhaps the study will encourage more vets to accept low-cost vouchers or even offer spay/neuter services on a sliding scale. It's a complicated issue...but we can always dream, right?

I doubt that's the reason. Most city pounds/animal rescue centers spay and neuter cats for very little money - less than $50.

I'm willing to bet that if a survey were conducted among low-income pet owners, the main reasons for failure to spay/neuter would be ignorance and apathy.

Not true of just low-income pet owners. I know people who could afford to fix their pets, but can't be bothered, and then there's those who think it's "cruel".

An extra-special prize goes to certain people in the subdivision bordering my apartment. They called the town in to get rid of some feral kittens that hung around the dumpster, though two of the five had already been catnapped and adopted and the tabby was getting friendly. They don't spay.

The colony, naturally, is regenerating.

Mnemia:

Yeah, I always wonder, if you can't afford the $75 or whatever to adopt a cat that's already had its surgery, what the hell would you do if your cat had something worse wrong with it? Just let it suffer and die? Or dump it? I suspect I don't want to know the answer.

I mean, one of our cats got this horrible gum inflammation where her gums were red and bleeding that couldn't even be controlled by steroids. The only remedy was to remove all her back teeth, something that fixed her for life. But it was like $450 to have done. Not hard to justify, but for someone who thinks $75 is too expensive?

You're right, you don't want to know. :(

leftteffticle: i didn't realize my greenlight would cause such controversy, haha. i just wanted to use the word "harbl" in a headline.

of course of course of course have your cats spayed or neutered!
/end bob barker moment

It happens. My first Caturday green was the same way.

Always seek professional help, even for minor outpatient surgery!

One of our rescues at the shelter. He and his brother were found at six weeks old abandoned in a carboard box.

He's far too you to get fixed right now, so when he's up for adoption at 12 weeks, his new human will get a voucher from the vet for later. Otherwise all cats are spayed/neutered, chipped and vaccinated before they leave.

Nogale: Ricksha Shiksa: Rev. Skarekroe: FuturePastNow: That's not good news. Poor people dump those kittens out on the street.

I doubt that's the reason. Most city pounds/animal rescue centers spay and neuter cats for very little money - less than $50.

I'm willing to bet that if a survey were conducted among low-income pet owners, the main reasons for failure to spay/neuter would be ignorance and apathy.

I'm not sure. $50 is not "very little money" for most college students: it's a week of spaghetti and a six-pack of good bear vs. Top Ramen and pisswater. It does not help that feline turnover is high since idiots who abandon their cats like to do so where they get adopted. The cats get adopted, but then the students leave and may not take the cats with them.

Good caturday morning all.

This is Pumpkinhead, my $5,000 (at least) kitteh that cost me a much-anticipated vacation and a lot of sleep.


I had him neutered promptly at six months of age thinking that would prevent a lot of problems. About two months later, he was sitting in the bathtub, crying. I took him to the Vet and it turns out he was blocked. Paid to have him unblocked. Happened again the next month. Repeat until I'm almost broke and playing "let's make a deal" with the credit card company. I finally put my foot down and told the Vet it was time for a poly urethrostomy. I originally went to college for veterinary and I knew if he was blocking that much, it was necessary if I wanted The Great Orange Menace to live. He was very young so he got the P/U.

He's now 22 years old, so I obviously made the right call. My son is 23. That cat is his "Brother Cat". I'm dreading the day Pumpkinhead checks out. He's starting to look elderly, too, but the sounds of him galloping through the house in the dead of night do give me a bit of hope. Cats can live to be 30 years old or more, so honestly, if there's a way to save the kitteh and ensure it lives the longest, healthiest life it can possibly have, it should be done. To me this includes spaying and neutering. Oh, and if you live in a city like I do - keep 'em indoors.

my prison kitteh

The hawks control the feral kitty population around my neighborhood.
And rabbits......squirrels......chipmunks
Wish I could them to go after the damned moles!

You should see the "survivors" scramble when they fly overhead. Like a Wild Kingdom episode right before your eyes.

/I don't hate cats, but if they are going to be wildlife, expect a wildlife outcome.

I can see this is going to be a low-browed Caturday.

/not objecting
//too much

WildMonkey: If you own a cat you probably also own a vibrator, seeing that no man wants an ugly old crazy woman.

Who pissed on your Cheerios this morning?

//hopefully, a cat.

Debby7813: Unknown_Poltroon: So is it possible to get a cat/dog vasectomy, instead of just chopping em off?

The thing is, keeping the gonads won't prevent the sometimes unpleasant mating behaviors, and there are cancers that can be prevented by the spaying & neutering.

They won't miss what they don't get to use, and I think they'll be happier and healthier for it.

Spay & neuter - early and often.

Often? How many times can you neuter an animal?

//j/k; I know what you meant.

SLP: One of our rescues at the shelter. He and his brother were found at six weeks old abandoned in a carboard box.

He's far too you to get fixed right now, so when he's up for adoption at 12 weeks, his new human will get a voucher from the vet for later. Otherwise all cats are spayed/neutered, chipped and vaccinated before they leave.

There are vets in this area that will spay/neuter healthy 12-week old kittens (weight minimum of 2.5 lbs). Pediatric spays are great as they leave little risk for an unexpected/unwanted litters.

My Mitts, who passed away peacefully on Thursday. She was born in September 1987. I miss her very much.

She was a character! She would refuse to move unless she was cuddled. Was 17 in this photo.

Evil Canadian: domari:
That's what I try to explain to people. Adopt from a shelter or rescue and your cat will be move in ready!

But the problem is, most people who want free cats are the type of people who let them run loose and never bring them to the vet in the first place.

If someone can't afford what a shelter/rescue charges to adopt then they have no business getting an animal in the first place.

Not true in all locations. You adopt animals here not spayed or neutered and sign a promise that you will do it. Then you have to find the $200+ to get it done. I only wish they adopted them out already 'ready'.

BTW, I would never let a cat run loose in the city - too many hazards. Cars, dogs, racoons, skunks, coyotes.

Other than a scene in Collateral are coyotes that prevalent in cities?

windjade: My Mitts, who passed away peacefully on Thursday. She was born in September 1987. I miss her very much.

She was a character! She would refuse to move unless she was cuddled. Was 17 in this photo.

Sorry for your loss.

Hanzo the Razor ritually cleans his special interrogation equipment.

windjade: My Mitts, who passed away peacefully on Thursday. She was born in September 1987. I miss her very much.

She was a character! She would refuse to move unless she was cuddled. Was 17 in this photo.

Sorry for your loss!

InferiousX: nrdgrl

heh! Dexter says ty fer da capshun. :D

MasterThief: see more Lolcats and funny pictures

Only thing wrong with the caption on that pic is unless that is a VERY rare kitty...
it's a female. Harbls not included.

Tri-color calico kittehs don't come in Boy...it's something to do with the chromosomes.
Even then, the extremely rare tri-color male calicos' harbls don't work (they're sterile)...so it's kind of a moot point.

/ sometimes, 'The More You Know...' can really fark up your enjoyment of stuff...
// ya know?

John Buck 41: Evil Canadian: domari:
That's what I try to explain to people. Adopt from a shelter or rescue and your cat will be move in ready!

But the problem is, most people who want free cats are the type of people who let them run loose and never bring them to the vet in the first place.

If someone can't afford what a shelter/rescue charges to adopt then they have no business getting an animal in the first place.

Not true in all locations. You adopt animals here not spayed or neutered and sign a promise that you will do it. Then you have to find the $200+ to get it done. I only wish they adopted them out already 'ready'.

BTW, I would never let a cat run loose in the city - too many hazards. Cars, dogs, racoons, skunks, coyotes.

Other than a scene in Collateral are coyotes that prevalent in cities?

We have them in the city where I live. I don't think a summer goes by that I also don't hear of at least one Mountain Lion coming down out of the surrounding foothills looking for water or food being spotted sitting calmly in a tree at a major intersection. They're not commonly spotted, but it is important to be aware that they're hanging around and take precautions. We *have* encroached on their territory, after all.

/then there are the packs of feral/abandoned dogs that roam at night...

Our new Maine Coon, Henry, getting his first bath. I've waited 20 years to get a cat and finally got hubby on board. I love seeing Henry curled up on hubby's lap :)

this is mr. grumperpuss who is somewhere between 15-18 years old, which is pretty impressive for a mostly outdoor city cat. he's my upstairs neighbor's cat. he still has his fuzzy lil harbls intact. and therefore he was out cattin' around yowling and looking for a lady this morning. at 5am. outside my bedroom window. this is why you should neuter your cats.

Evil Canadian: Nogale:

I doubt that's the reason. Most city pounds/animal rescue centers spay and neuter cats for very little money - less than $50.

I'm willing to bet that if a survey were conducted among low-income pet owners, the main reasons for failure to spay/neuter would be ignorance and apathy.

I wish there were under $50 spay and neuter clinics around here. I only wish. Basically you are looking at around $200 to get the job done. The city run clinic is a bit less expensive, but the waiting list is about 9 months long. The Humane Society used to spay/neuter pets before they allowed them to be adopted (or if they were kittens, gave you a voucher) but they can't afford that any more.

Meanwhile, my Mom (she is really not a crazy kat lady) and her husband live in Tucson. There is a large feral cat group in the area, and Mom catnaps them as she can and takes them to the low cost Spay/Neuter clinic nearby. Three of those kitties have managed to wangle their way into the house - The Bench Cat, The Missy Cat, and The Aggravating Cat (Benchy, Missy and Aggy). There is no way she could do this at $200 a pop. She is retired, and though reasonably comfortable, not able to support massive numbers of cat "fixings" at that price.

Actually, she got a bit of a shock with the last kitty she took in - she thought the very hairy cat was probably pregnant, and was quite prepared to pay the premium to have that terminated along with the spay. She arrived back to find her bill was a lot smaller than expected - the cat was a male, who obviously had been partaking very substantially from Mom's outdoor food dish.

Debby7813: lajimi: Annamonster: Around where I live it's not that expensive. I used spot vouchers for my four cats and it cost around 200 including the medicine and their "disposal" fee. I want to know what they do with all those harbls...

With my dearly departed Piddah the vet didn't remove them he just disconnected the plumbing. This was the early '90s,

Doing a kitty vasectomy may stop pregnancy, but what about all of the other unpleasant tomcat traits, like spraying, yowling and prowling?

...and fighting with other males? Tom the Vasectomy Cat may be shootin' blanks...but HE doesn't know that, and will fight just as hard (and get just as injured) as a regular tom.
Plus tomcat pee (spray, marking behavior) sTINKS...and it's damn near impossible to get rid of the smell.

I get my boys fixed fairly young- right around 6 months if possible...after the testes have dropped into the sac, but before they become operational- "On deck, but not yet online", as my vet put it.
A female cat in heat in the vicinity can affect a male cat's puberty, bringing it on faster than it might otherwise have happened...
Just so's y'all know...

this is a picture of my kitties just home from being spayed. they were 6 or 7 months old, the vet recommended to do it early, to prevent them from ever going in to heat. i was trying to capture how epically high they were. they both sat there and stared at the fire in the fireplace with huge pupils for hours.

windjade: My Mitts, who passed away peacefully on Thursday. She was born in September 1987. I miss her very much.

She was a character! She would refuse to move unless she was cuddled. Was 17 in this photo.

Sorry for your loss!

Thank you John Buck 41 and CooperDaKat (that's a wonderful cap!).

Got my Freckles spayed at 3 months. Cost almost 300 dollars, but we trust this vet and would not have risked our baby with anyone we didn't trust. She came through with flying colors. I got to bring her home the same day but even though she acted like she was awake from the anesthesia, she really wasn't.

When I took her out of the carrier, she ran wobbly around and around the house then flopped on her side and hissed at her tummy, then was up and running again. Finally caught her and put her in her room in her bed, no lights, and shut the door. She was in there for a day and a half, while I dropped water into her mouth every few hours. Then she was fine.

Scary time for me though.

These are my fur-babies, Shadow and Leo. Can they has capshuns?

Too much talk. Post farking cats.

First thing I thought of:

domari: Mnemia: Yeah, I always wonder, if you can't afford the $75 or whatever to adopt a cat that's already had its surgery ...

Back in ... 1987? my cat C. B. was ten years old when some bastard kicked her. The poor girl had a broken leg and ruptured diaphragm. The vet said it would be best to kill her. We said, "What? Wait - Can she be saved?" The vet said yes, but the cost would approach $900.00.

We couldn't really afford it, but there was no question. we said, "Here's the credit card number. GET TO WORK!" I can't believe how surprised he was; people must be bad to their pets :(

Anyway, when it was all over, C. B. came home with a rod in her leg and her randy nature intact. Within a month she was pregnant again, though when it was time to deliver, she was having an uncommonly hard time. I had a flash of inspiration and cupped my hands around her chest to support her recently-repaired diaphram ... the kittens popped out in record time.

She lived for three more years of hardcore, outdoor, baby-havin', bird/squirrel/rabbit/opossum killin' fun. But then she got breast cancer (and pregnant AGAIN!) Had a single kitten, and passed away shortly after it was weaned. God, I adored her; she was a tough old biatch.

But, lesson learned. I will always get my cats fixed now. And someday - someday - I'll find out which neighbor kicked her and return the favor with a baseball bat.

BTW, I would never let a cat run loose in the city - too many hazards. Cars, dogs, racoons, skunks, coyotes.


douchebags who like to throw stuff, target and run over animals, general sickos...

This is Moira:



Moira is a male, but when we adopted him from the county animal jail, they told us he was a spayed female (thus the name. But he learned it, and will sort of say it back to us, so it's more 'Meowra' now). My husband did non-vet-related contract work there, so we were able to 'go in the back' to choose an animal, rather than picking from just the one or two they deem adoptable and keep out front. Moira was declared unadoptable because he was scared, and was being kept in the back to be euthanized (he's a sweetheart, he was just terrified at that place. I'm glad we saved him). I swear, that place is a nightmare for animals: in the back, they're just kept in stacked wire cages, which get hosed down every morning (empty cages, full ones, they just turn the hose on everything) because there are no litter boxes in them. Then the vets come by and serially euthanize animals, then just leave them lying there dead in the cages for a couple hours until a tech comes by to throw them in disposal containers. The dog side was much the same, except more of the cages were directly on the floor, for bigger dogs.

However, when the bastards they do adopt out an animal, it gets fixed and gets its vaccinations, for like a $60 adoption fee. It's a good deal, but if any animal is too young to be adopted out, they won't hold it until it can be fixed: it gets euthanized after three days, just like everybody else. You can only adopt animals that are old enough to be fixed, although they'll neuter as young as three months (that's how old Moira was, they tell us. Although, again, they also told us he was a female, so..).

There's a low-cost spay/neuter van that makes rounds in the more populated downtown areas sometimes.. like $25 a pop. I forget who runs it, but it's a national program with a website and everything. They don't take appointments, and if you can get to it it's great, but this is such a sprawlingly huge place, most people can't. A typical feline spay around here is about $180; to get our two large-breed dogs spayed, together, was nearly $800. I think adopting from PetCo will ensure a fixed and vaccinated animal, but I don't think any other place besides them and animal control will spay as part of adoption. Everyone else, you have to pay for it separately, full-price (what are these vouchers you speak of? I've never heard of them around here). Which, at least in my case, is the limiting factor.

That said, we are friends with a woman who's got a big male husky named Balto that she refuses to fix because she's sure it will just destroy his masculinity and make him feel all weak and broken, like he's not a real dog anymore without the genitals (she knows about neuticals, but that wouldn't work, because they're not the same). So far she thinks he's impregnated five or six young females who roam their area, she doesn't really keep track. After all, he's just expressing his manly self, right? I try to talk sense into her, but.. ugh.

Semi-unrelatedly: Ricksha Shicksa, you're on my favs list now. Although I still screw that up the first time, every time I type it out :P

Annamonster:

I love seeing my cats captioned!
Especially when farkers just randomly throw them out of their lolcat collections. I've recently started saving the names on my lolcats so I can try and keep track of who made which one.

/addicted to caturday on fark now

I was surprised to see you saved those harbl captions ["Day was tis big..." and "My harbls, I misses dem"]. That was back on Feb 28, 2009. They were both shots of cupid, according to my notes. You were laughing about Cupid's arrow pointing to his missing parts.

I almost always save your pics; I have a soft spot for black kitties, as I have two black ones myself, and you always post great pics. Keep them coming.

Here's a couple of others from blanks you posted. I don't know their names; when you posted the blanks, there was none listed:
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Late to the party. Here's some old harbl-related captions I made from other's blanks:
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This blank was from Sister Hand Grenade:
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This was a blank of my own reformed feral, Guido:
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I don't know where this blank came from, but it's a classic:
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The local animal shelter here has a low cost spay/ neuter clinic about once every two months where they fix 'em and give them a rabies shot for $35 a cat, I thought that all county shelters did that or something similar :/
and now Mmslle. Patches 1995-2005 the coolest cat ever. She can has caption?

Thank you CooperDaKat!!! I'm giggling too hard to think of anything to say!

John Buck 41: Evil Canadian: domari:
That's what I try to explain to people. Adopt from a shelter or rescue and your cat will be move in ready!

But the problem is, most people who want free cats are the type of people who let them run loose and never bring them to the vet in the first place.

If someone can't afford what a shelter/rescue charges to adopt then they have no business getting an animal in the first place.

Not true in all locations. You adopt animals here not spayed or neutered and sign a promise that you will do it. Then you have to find the $200+ to get it done. I only wish they adopted them out already 'ready'.

BTW, I would never let a cat run loose in the city - too many hazards. Cars, dogs, racoons, skunks, coyotes.

Other than a scene in Collateral are coyotes that prevalent in cities?


Actually where I live, yes. There's a park directly behind us, and there's always warnings posted about not letting your animals out and coyotes attacking stray/loose pets. Freaked me out the first time I read it.

headstone: Annamonster:

I love seeing my cats captioned!
Especially when farkers just randomly throw them out of their lolcat collections. I've recently started saving the names on my lolcats so I can try and keep track of who made which one.

/addicted to caturday on fark now

I was surprised to see you saved those harbl captions ["Day was tis big..." and "My harbls, I misses dem"]. That was back on Feb 28, 2009. They were both shots of cupid, according to my notes. You were laughing about Cupid's arrow pointing to his missing parts.

I almost always save your pics; I have a soft spot for black kitties, as I have two black ones myself, and you always post great pics. Keep them coming.

Here's a couple of others from blanks you posted. I don't know their names; when you posted the blanks, there was none listed:
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that's so awesome! I'd never had a black cat before these guys, all tabbies and calicos, and I have to say black cats have a LOT of personality! And more intelligent than any of my other cats too.
I save every captioned pic, I made a whole set on my flickr acct for my lolcats (new window)

In the first picture there is, I believe, Reece, Charcoal, then Jesus. And the second picture is all Jesus :)

Lajimi:
I just finished going through all of this Caturday and I have to say you crack me up!! You keep trying to take the high, er, higher ground! You are a hoot!

Ricksha Shiksa: SLP: One of our rescues at the shelter. He and his brother were found at six weeks old abandoned in a carboard box.

He's far too you to get fixed right now, so when he's up for adoption at 12 weeks, his new human will get a voucher from the vet for later. Otherwise all cats are spayed/neutered, chipped and vaccinated before they leave.

There are vets in this area that will spay/neuter healthy 12-week old kittens (weight minimum of 2.5 lbs). Pediatric spays are great as they leave little risk for an unexpected/unwanted litters.

Yay! That's our Abby...got her spayed this April. Her fur has grown back now.

sllink1: Lajimi:
I just finished going through all of this Caturday and I have to say you crack me up!! You keep trying to take the high, er, higher ground! You are a hoot!

Thank you, Sllink, I DO try.

Wildjade....I am so sorry for your loss. I loved this picture & captioned it for you...

moar funny pictures

well this is embarrassing. took the husband to dinner at one of our fav hangouts. beautiful tabby with the most gorgeous golden eyes....what do you teach your kids? DO NOT APPROACH STRANGE ANIMALS AS IF THEY DON'T KNOW YOU........ he hooked me good. my bad. so, the next day, my finger is BAD swollen, red and won't bend. so i went to the dr. shot in the backside and ten days of antibiotics. i no sooner got through the door and the health dept was calling. wow. they are fast. she wants me to get post rabies exposure shots and help quarantine this kitteh that is a community kitty. i approached him. not the other way around. he did not attack me. i took a liberty with him. i know better. how embarrassing....they assure me they won't euthanize him because i am an idiot....please. exercise some common sense....won't hurt you or the wild kittehs.....

I don't usually post in Caturday threads, but I observe with passion. This week, however, is different for me -- I lost a dear friend and companion when Hiro was put down late Tuesday night. He was just 5, and was suffering complications from an enlarged heart.



He's a very friendly boy and fits in well with other cats. I expect he'll have a good time on the other side of that rainbow bridge.

LordBollocks:

Hai U!



kthxbye

Jalini: I don't usually post in Caturday threads, but I observe with passion. This week, however, is different for me -- I lost a dear friend and companion when Hiro was put down late Tuesday night. He was just 5, and was suffering complications from an enlarged heart.



He's a very friendly boy and fits in well with other cats. I expect he'll have a good time on the other side of that rainbow bridge.

I'm sorry for your loss. He was a pretty cat.

DoomsDayAardvark:
I'm sorry for your loss. He was a pretty cat.

Thanks. That brought tears to my eyes. :(

Jalini: I don't usually post in Caturday threads, but I observe with passion. This week, however, is different for me -- I lost a dear friend and companion when Hiro was put down late Tuesday night. He was just 5, and was suffering complications from an enlarged heart.

He's a very friendly boy and fits in well with other cats. I expect he'll have a good time on the other side of that rainbow bridge.

I'm so sorry for your loss. Hiro looks just like my Gobby.

Jalini: DoomsDayAardvark:
I'm sorry for your loss. He was a pretty cat.

Thanks. That brought tears to my eyes. :(

I think most of us have lost furry friends. It's always rough, but caturday is a great place to find some sympathy.

DoomsDayAardvark: Jalini: I don't usually post in Caturday threads, but I observe with passion. This week, however, is different for me -- I lost a dear friend and companion when Hiro was put down late Tuesday night. He was just 5, and was suffering complications from an enlarged heart.

I must admit, that was an excellent caption... You must have a big heart as well! :-)


He's a very friendly boy and fits in well with other cats. I expect he'll have a good time on the other side of that rainbow bridge.

I'm sorry for your loss. He was a pretty cat.

Annamonster: John Buck 41: Evil Canadian: domari:
That's what I try to explain to people. Adopt from a shelter or rescue and your cat will be move in ready!

But the problem is, most people who want free cats are the type of people who let them run loose and never bring them to the vet in the first place.

If someone can't afford what a shelter/rescue charges to adopt then they have no business getting an animal in the first place.

Not true in all locations. You adopt animals here not spayed or neutered and sign a promise that you will do it. Then you have to find the $200+ to get it done. I only wish they adopted them out already 'ready'.

BTW, I would never let a cat run loose in the city - too many hazards. Cars, dogs, racoons, skunks, coyotes.

Other than a scene in Collateral are coyotes that prevalent in cities?


Actually where I live, yes. There's a park directly behind us, and there's always warnings posted about not letting your animals out and coyotes attacking stray/loose pets. Freaked me out the first time I read it.

Ok, I stand corrected. Coyotes in cities just seems like a foreign concept. I live in Maine, fercryinoutloud, and see maybe 3 or 4 a year.

Jalini: I don't usually post in Caturday threads, but I observe with passion. This week, however, is different for me -- I lost a dear friend and companion when Hiro was put down late Tuesday night. He was just 5, and was suffering complications from an enlarged heart.



He's a very friendly boy and fits in well with other cats. I expect he'll have a good time on the other side of that rainbow bridge.

Sorry, Jalini.

Jalini: I don't usually post in Caturday threads, but I observe with passion. This week, however, is different for me -- I lost a dear friend and companion when Hiro was put down late Tuesday night. He was just 5, and was suffering complications from an enlarged heart.
He's a very friendly boy and fits in well with other cats. I expect he'll have a good time on the other side of that rainbow bridge.

My heart goes out to you. He looks like such a happy, chatty boy, you made his brief life wonderful.

And good night, everyone

Jalini: I don't usually post in Caturday threads, but I observe with passion. This week, however, is different for me -- I lost a dear friend and companion when Hiro was put down late Tuesday night. He was just 5, and was suffering complications from an enlarged heart.

So sorry for your loss!

They say that kittens who grow up in poor homes are more likely to be tempted into the tawdry world of adult feline entertainment...