- Joined
- Dec 13, 2022
My experience with shelters has been that the neurotic, 40+ year old cat ladies volunteering there simply don't want to part with the animals. The demands they had for parting with the cat i was looking at were ridiculous, they basically demanded a more luxurious living situation for it than anybody i know has. One other woman immediately demanded to make an appointment to visit my apartment to see if it's cat friendly enough before continuing any form of conversation and i just looked at her like "What the fuck?" and left. Unhinged. Needless to say the three shelters in my city are filled to the brim and have been so for ages. I heard similar stories from people in my social circle who ended up going to a breeder after these utterly ridiculous requests by the shelters. I ended up getting mine from our version of Craig's List.
I went with my mother to an "adoption day" at a shelter many years ago because she wanted someone to lug around a big carrier, and I was sharply told off for saying that my mother was going to buy a cat rather than adopt it. It was pretty clear that the "adoption" would have been canceled if it had been me performing the financial transaction to gain ownership of the animal. She's a beautiful tortoiseshell, and still frisky after all these years.