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Cupid has no idea how lucky she is to be alive. Not only did she escape a High Kill Shelter when she had less than 24hrs before she was separated from her offspring and very likely to be put down, but she survived a thousand mile transport, and being nursed on to the point of almost killing her. Cupid got sick, too and has managed to recover enough to be spayed. She relapsed a bit, but nothing serious. She's gained a few POUNDS in just over a month. This lady has won the lottery a million times over.
The time has come to start finding Cupid the perfect home. I've already had to say, “No” to an adopter. It's just not a good fit. Cupid is not going to be an outdoor cat. She's been through too much and her coat is finally sleek and beautiful. To allow her to run around, risk getting parasites, fleas, injured, you know the drill...well I just can't do it. Sure, we do adopt out to folks who let their cats outdoors, but we also have special circumstances and this is one. Cupid will have the best life I can give her and the best home I can find. I would rather say no again and again, until it really feels “right” to me. I don't care how long it takes.
I have lots of time, now. I won't be fostering any more cats until “Kitten Season” kicks in in our town in May.
Cupid is the last mama-cat I can save from Georgia. We will no longer be doing any transports other than with our new partner New Hope, a group affiliated with Animal Care & Control in NYC. It was not my decision to end doing transports and I understand why we have to pull back, but I hope to find a way to help the cats of Georgia. They are in such dire need, we all need to band together and find a solution for the overpopulation problem and the over-euthanasia problems there.
I am forced to close my doors, but I will never close my heart.
Cupid and her kittens made it. All the others I was lucky enough to get here before her were lucky, too. They were also the prettiest, sweetest cats I've ever had the pleasure of dealing with-all 32 of them.
I feel badly turning my back on the ones in Georgia that need help the most, but I look at it as only temporary, until I can find another way to help. If any of you are interested in helping cats in Georgia, let me know. Maybe we can team up and do something amazing!
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Wish I was nearby... Cupid is
Wish I was nearby...
Cupid is really pretty! She deserves a good home after all that's happened to her and I really hope the right person comes along very soon. However, I thought it was psychologically bad for cats to always be kept indoors? Wouldn't she be ok in a home where her owner is in most of the time and will make sure she can stay indoors when she wants, but go out a little in the day-time, for fresh air & exercise? Parasite/worm treatments are available for regular preventive treatment here in UK - how about in the US?
Best of luck with re-homing all those lovely kittens, and their gorgeous mother!
Actually...no
Cat's don't need to go outdoors. They tend to revert back to being feral the more and more they are on their own. If you want a "wilder" cat, then let them outdoors. If you want a snuggly cat, don't.
If they want fresh air, I open the window. ;-)
My cats get play time, they have lots of fun places to relax, there are bird feeders outside the windows so they can see prey and they get cat grass. I also work on keeping things interesting for them.
Sure there are treatments for parasites, etc, but they are medications-do I really want to give my cat that are essentially poisons that kill off parasites that aren't really good for the cat in the first place? The less I medicate them, the better and healthier they are. Also, around here we have LOTS of coyotes, foxes, dogs, crazy drivers, etc...I wouldn't want my cats to have to face that. Their life expectancy drops by many years by going outdoors, too.
What's bad for the cats is to just leave them indoors and not do anything to stimulate their prey drive, help them burn off energy and to ignore them, so on that point you are correct. You don't want the cat laying around day and night. They need to run around, but can do it happily and safely inside the home instead of out.
We just want to send purrs to
We just want to send purrs to you for the wonderful work that you do and the incredible care that you've given all of these kitties! You're a very special person.
Charlemagne and Tamar
(2 kitties lucky enough to have found their forever home very early)
Cats are safer indoors....
From all the things Robin mentioned, as well as from pesticides people put on their lawns, other animals, and evil humans. Yep - evil humans - people who kill and torture animals, sometimes just because the animal enters their yard, sometimes for no apparent reason at all. Last summer a landlord killed his tenant's cat: http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local-beat/Landlord-Killed-Tenants-Ca...
Cats are generally safer indoors.
kudos
Robin - Cupid is gorgeous and she deserves the peaceful life on an indoor cat. Be patient - you will find the right match! And the kittens are stunning - you will have no problem with them!
Don't forget they say 'when 1 door closes another will open'. Yes 1 door closed on the GA transport but I am sure there will be another one opened somehow!
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