Meowmee gotted me frum un Aminal Rezku groop.
Day wuz nize.
Awlzo sum breeders have kitys da ar 'retiring'.
Doze ar effurr giffen , ur kozt less.

Pitoonya

"Miss Violette" wrote in message
...
I understand your frustration and what you say is all too
common, I was
pointing out there are a few that actually do it right, so
there is hope,
asking the breeders to train is an excellent idea, soft
Mme. Anaïs ^..^ wrote in message
...
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 10:47:54 -0500, Miss Violette's little,
agile paws
typed:

I have never actually adopted a cat as they always just
come but the
shelter
here, APL is a wonderful clean place with decent workers,
as a matter of
fact if you ask baby kitty's Mom she can tell you, soft

I don't doubt your word, Lee, but that was not my point - or
the
original poster's.

While everyone acknowledges that throwaway and abandoned cats
are a
problem, and that shelters are overcrowded, no one in the cat
community seems to be willing to address the greatest
obstacle to
placing these poor kitties in loving homes: obsessive and
self-righteous shelter workers.

I don't go to cat shows often, but when I do invariably I
will meet
yet another person choosing a kitty from a breeder because
they have
been treated like crap by local shelters. It's a commonly
heard
complaint among cat newbies, yet never acknowledged (at least
to me)
by experienced cat owners...

Let's face it - even on this small newsgroup of perhaps 12
regular
posters are two individuals who state clearly that they
*wanted* to
adopt a homeless cat, but were stymied by the shelter - and
for no
rational reason at all - just a shelter worker's need to be a
controlling pain-in-the-ass. That's a rather high
percentage...

And what did the shelter worker accomplish? Two more homeless
cats
are still in a shelter, and two more people will never visit
a shelter
again. Multiply this by those in the real world whose
complaints you
haven't heard, and you can see the extent of the problem.

People in the community need to address this - and shelters
need to
ask successful breeders teach their workers how to conduct a
proper
interview, and weed out those shelter workers who simply do
not have
interpersonal skills. After all, the goal is to find a loving
home for
a homeless cat, not fulfill the needs of a shelter worker.

Y'know, I'd like to see a potential adopter ask to examine a
shelter's books and tax returns, the licenses and permits to
run the
shelter and for their most recent health inspection results.
Then take
random stool samples and swab areas of the shelter and send
them to a
lab to be checked for pathogens. Then ask the shelter to
provide a
random list of past adopter's phone numbers so that the
potential
adopter can ask about that person's satisfaction. Being
treated in the
same manner as they treat potential adopters might wake a few
of them
up....
--
Purrs,

Mme. Anaïs
10/9/2005 3:16:25 PM
anais+at+electric-ink+dot+com