looking through cat adoption websites makes me so sad.

[Oliver Onions]

I had to bite my tongue to stop from going off on a work colleague because she announced she was giving her cat up for adoption because she wanted to go travelling and couldn't look after the cat any more. Absolute selfish bitch.

are you patrick tomlinson's sock account?

He said he sat on the lizard, not raped it to death.

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

I had to bite my tongue to stop from going off on a work colleague because she announced she was giving her cat up for adoption because she wanted to go travelling and couldn't look after the cat any more. Absolute selfish bitch.

cat > travel. is she on instagram? i find a bunch of the 'omg i want to travel' types tend to be on Instagram and mostly just do nigger see nigger do behavior. they see a bunch of other travel photos from other people and want to go get photos for their own instagram. personally i think doing lots of trtavel sucks. ive done some of it and i always find im much happier once i get home.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Or if you want, get a cat and a dog. My dad has a small little black cat and a huge black lab/german shephard mix dog, and they're best friends.
I don't know if anyone else has experiences with owning a dog and a cat but from what I've seen the two of them can get along very easily.

Have this combo. A calico and a mastiff. The calico is the one in charge. The mastiff follows the cat around like an annoying clingy friend. I have no idea how the cat puts up with it.

 

[Yours Truly 2095]

I used to volunteer at a shelter. Girl cats don't get adopted as often as boys in my experience. They're typically more shy and you need to earn their trust more. OP see or ask who has been there a while. Kittens are adopted fast. Don't worry about them finding a home.

The ones that broke my heart were the ones who were so sweet and yet have been in the shelter for years. I can't tell you how happy we would be to see them get a home. I still check the feed and am so happy when the ones who are still there from when I was living in that area find homes. If it's a kill shelter also find who they plan to do it next. It's a really sad and awful question to ask i know.

 

[*Grunts Softly*]

i can't read this thread anymore, i'm too heartbroken

 

[troonshine]

https://ikzoekbaas.dierenbescherming.nl/zoek-asieldieren/katten

 

[Spunt]

Going to finally have a place where I can get my own little furballs. Once I'm settled in I'll go and look at the sad kitties and get a couple.

I'll want to take ALL the sad kitties home and cuddle them until they're not sad any more but I'll just have to settle for two.

 

[Brenda Holiday]

My mom went into the shelter and asked them to bring her a kitten, she didn't want to have to choose. That's how I got my black kitty, we assume they chose her because black cats aren't as popular.
Old grey haired dogs at the shelter make me sad. Old dogs are nice and chill, they need love too.

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

dont know why black cats arnt as adoptable, ive always loved black cats. my local shelter shows a black cat for adoption and im thinking of getting that one.

 

[There She Glows]

I've had my eye on a second cat at a rescue who hasn't been getting adopted for basically no good reason except that he's funny looking (Persian/scottish fold mix rescued from a breeder he is the cutest ugly cat) and originally had a profile that made him seem higher needs than he really is before he settled in with the foster. BUT my cat is so happy being queen of her castle and the center of attention I don't want to mess up her little world for her happiness and selfish reasons - I've got a litterbox perfect cat who only scratches where she's supposed to, self-moderates her food with an auto feeder, maybe I shouldn't mess with a good thing. She was supposed to be a special needs cat (yeah I'm a sucker) but then she wasn't maybe I should count myself lucky and not tempted fate. But the new little huge dude seems like such a sweetheart idk idk

 

[The Ugly One]

my dog did seem to want to be friendly with the cat, but the cat didnt reciprocate the feeling

Many such cases!

 

[JuanLee]

We have a feral cat who lives under our decking, apparently the neighbours fucked off abroad and left him to fend for himself. So we've been feeding him for the past few months. Still feral but showing signs of being more friendly.

At least he's getting proper food rather than eating rats and lizards.

Imagine fucking off and leaving your cat. Terrible.

 

[Cornfed]

I hopefully will be in a living situation in the next 6 months where I can have a pet again. I'm snapping up a kitty from my local shelter as soon as I find new place.

 

[hog cranking frog]

Or if you want, get a cat and a dog. My dad has a small little black cat and a huge black lab/german shephard mix dog, and they're best friends.
I don't know if anyone else has experiences with owning a dog and a cat but from what I've seen the two of them can get along very easily.

Have a similar combo. Was worried about the dogs pray drive but German shepherd and lab mixes are just big loveable dopes. The cat and the dog snuggle up together. Sometimes I'll catch the cat licking the inside of the dogs ear.

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

Have a similar combo. Was worried about the dogs pray drive but German shepherd and lab mixes are just big loveable dopes. The cat and the dog snuggle up together. Sometimes I'll catch the cat licking the inside of the dogs ear.

not sure about a mix, but if i had land for an outside dog, id want either a black lab or german shepard. i lean more towards black labs.

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

Look for a bonded pair. It's traumatizing for surrendered cats to be separated from their cat frens.

I second this! When my family adopted our current cats (siblings, only a few months old at the time) were told that they had to be adopted as a pair since they were very closely bonded already. You could tell looking at them since my boy was hiding in the back of the cage with his sister guarding him. 15 years later and they squabble and bicker occasionally but are definitely happy with each other.

I love crusty looking senior cats and would like to adopt one next, but it would be hard to add another old grumpy cat into my family of old grumpy cats that sometimes don't even get along with each other. I know someday the house will be a lot more empty but I don't wanna think about that yet.

 

[NoReturn]

Old cats are also good for apartment-dwellers. They just want to be safe and warm in their final years.

 

[Tahini Sauce]

I've known a lot of animal rescuers and veterinarians over the years. I would only ever get a shelter animal unless I found some hillbilly selling kittens out of the back of their van in a Wal-Mart parking lot. Sure, you don't want to encourage backyard breeders, but a lot of people selling kittens ended up with them through sheer irresponsibility and might treat them even more irresponsibly if they can't sell them. It's sad to think about.

Since this is a sad thread: someone else I knew started taking in every street dog she could find and ended up with a violent cannibal of a shitbull mix that killed and ate one of her smaller dogs while she was at work. That's my worst animal rescue story.

Anyway, I love cats. I hope I'll have a huge ranch style house where I can expand and enclose the back porch. I'm going to fill it with cat toys and cat furniture and a bunch of maladjusted ex-death-row felines who will trust only me.

 

[Cucktry Roads]

Yeah, don't EVER do that. I did that one day and had a cat the next day.

 

[NoodleFucker3000]

You can't save them all. Thats the fact of it. Even when cats are rescued, many of them die. Kittens that end up abandoned by the mother or dont have one are at the highest risk of euthanasia at a shelter because there is rarely enough resources to bottle feed babies every two hours and they get euthanized because that's less cruel than having them die out in the elements. Even those kittens, when fostered and fed and kept warm- they die. More often than you might think.

But you can save a cat or two. Or a lot of shelters have places you can drop off donations of food or other things. I had a cat with end stage kidney disease. After he died, I had a bunch of special food and meds leftover. donated them to a shelter and another cat who also had kidney problems, was able to stay in the shelter long enough get adopted because of that donation.

Then I adopted a couple of kittens from a TNR group. The mom was feral but the kittens got rescued. Mom is probably dead, as feral cats have astonishingly short lives, but my boys are happy and safe.

You can't save them all. But you can do your best and for the cats you can help thats all they need.