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"Judith Latham" wrote in message ... In article , Christina Websell wrote: Thanks to my vet, Boyfie has made a complete recovery, I think. He is out and about as much as he wants, but due to his shaved bits he is soon in if it's cold. I worry about the KFC police because he looks like he has mange or something but I know that he will never be caught by the RSPCA. Took me months to get him inside so he isn't up to being scooped up by anyone else. I am sure the RSPCA do good things but I've never been a fan of then, and neither is June. We've seen what they do. I got a dog from them just before it was put down, they get a week there. Well, she was a challenge and I knew why she was dumped, but I had her until she was 14. She broke into my food cupboards every day. She knew the meat tins and not the peaches or grapefruit so how did she know that? That's really great news about Boyfie. I'm not surprised he feels the cold on his shed bit. It has been very cold and windy and think how we would feel if someone cut a big hole in our clothes. The RSPCA in Birmingham don't put an animal down after a week anymore, they may have in the past (probably did) but I know that now if they are having a difficulty finding a home for an animal, they sometimes send it to another of their homes and try there. Judith -- Judith Latham Stourbridge, West Midlands. UK. ~~~~~~~~~ I hope they don't do that any more. The shelter where I got Duffy has a policy of keeping healthy animals for "at least" 14 days if space is available, and they try for longer periods. Duffy had been at the shelter for several months, so it's obvious they were trying to find a home for him. I will be forever grateful to them for keeping him for so long. Tragically, far more cats and dogs (and some other animals) are euthanized than those that find homes. However, I have never heard of a shelter electrocuting an animal, as Tweed described in another post. We have rescue groups here that have rescued a large number of cats and dogs (different groups), and they will often "pull" adoptable animals from shelters just before they would otherwise be euthanized. They are placed in foster homes for care and socialization. Of course, that all depends on the availability of foster parents. That's how I got both Selina and Nikki. Selina was rescued from a church parking lot and was pregnant at the time. All of her kittens were adopted. Nikki was rescued from a WalMart parking lot. It's amazing that either of them survived, given the number of cars they had to avoid. MaryL |
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On Friday, February 7, 2014 4:01:26 PM UTC-5, Judith Latham wrote:
The RSPCA in Birmingham don't put an animal down after a week anymore, they may have in the past (probably did) but I know that now if they are having a difficulty finding a home for an animal, they sometimes send it to another of their homes and try there. Judith Stourbridge, West Midlands. UK. That's how the Princess Rita ended up with me. They told me at the shelter that she'd been recently moved from another shelter, so she could find a home. Just in time for me to come along, of course. Jane - owned and operated by the Princess Rita |
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On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 23:51:25 +0000, Christina Websell wrote:
"Cheryl" wrote in message ... On 2014-02-08 4:29 PM, Christina Websell wrote: His own posh collar that he arrived with? I took it off when no-one claimed him and I did make a lot of effort towards finding where he came from. It was a seriously posh cost-a-lot collar which suggests he was well loved in a previous home, but hey, if they cannot be bothered to get their teenage cat neutered, he'll be off after the girls maybe too far to find his way home, which is probably what happened to my Boykin, and it's their own fault that they lost him. He is so lovely they are probably missing him still. Too bad, he's mine now! It may be my imagination, but I think male cats are more likely to roam off and get lost than female ones - actually, they're probably roaming because they're searching for females. I'm certain my Sammy had a home at one point; a good one, because he's always been so friendly and affectionate with people he must have had good experiences with them as a kitten. The people who gave him to me after they found him roaming in their neighbourhood said they'd looked for his owner unsuccessfully, and I didn't quite believe them, so I checked out all the usual local places people report lost pets. I was also unable to find anyone who reported missing a young adult tomcat. Maybe he hid in a car or truck and went missing from some distant place. Maybe he'd been missing so long he wasn't on the current lists. Maybe no one bothered looking, not even for such a sweet cat. Their loss, my gain. I agree. Boyfie is a gain for me. The vet asked me how he got his name and I explained about KFC not allowing any other cats in her garden except him so he must have been her boyfriend and how the name stuck. He told me that young "teenage" male cats will travel miles looking for girls if they are not neutered and then they get out of their familiar area and cannot find their way home. I thought like you that Boyfie had got into a van like you did with Sammy because no-one claimed him even though I advertised him as a found cat. But the simple truth is that they both wandered outside their own area and got lost because their original owners couldn't be arsed to neuter them - and they deserved to lose Sammy & Boyfriend. Part of me is sorry for them that they lost him but it's their own fault. The other part of me says "It serves you right and you missed out on the most kind and gentle boy in the world" simply because you didn't give him the snip. Tweed Domestic animals aren't the only ones who go for inadvertent long- distance trips. Some years ago, I was driving past a railroad yard here in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, and was surprised to see a porcupine crossing the road, coming out of the railroad yard. While Tennessee is theoretically within the normal range for such animals, they are more often associated with the northeast USA, so I suspect this porcupine climbed up into a boxcar loaded with some attractive-smelling cargo, then went on an unexpected train ride. |
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