Need some help

I need to rehome Oreo and Tootsie. I'm moving to Alberta in a few months
time and there's no way i can fly four cats out there, two is going to be
bad enough. I thought i'd start making an effort now before its too late
and i end up having to take them to a shelter.

Kristy
i live in NB, Canada.. any Mainers interested?


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"OU812?" wrote:

I need to rehome Oreo and Tootsie. I'm moving to Alberta in a few months
time and there's no way i can fly four cats out there, two is going to be
bad enough. I thought i'd start making an effort now before its too late
and i end up having to take them to a shelter.

Kristy
i live in NB, Canada.. any Mainers interested?

I'm sorry to hear that you have to split up your kids. They sound
like a handful. I hope you'll find it fun settling down in Alberta!

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 15:49:13 -0500, Takayuki
wrote:

"OU812?" wrote:

I need to rehome Oreo and Tootsie. I'm moving to Alberta in a few months
time and there's no way i can fly four cats out there, two is going to be
bad enough. I thought i'd start making an effort now before its too late
and i end up having to take them to a shelter.

Kristy
i live in NB, Canada.. any Mainers interested?

I'm sorry to hear that you have to split up your kids. They sound
like a handful. I hope you'll find it fun settling down in Alberta!

Ooops, missed the OP, so just echoing Tak's thoughts. A little too far
here in Oklahoma, but sending purrs that you can find good homes with
the extra lead time before you have to move.
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Kristy wrote:
I need to rehome Oreo and Tootsie. I'm
moving to Alberta in a few months time
and there's no way i can fly four cats out
there, two is going to be bad enough. I
thought i'd start making an effort now
before its too late and i end up having to
take them to a shelter.

If these were children you'd find a way to bring them along. Your cats
deserve no less. Rehoming them or eventually dumping them at a shelter
because of your poor planning is completely wrong. Skip flying and drive
so you can move everyone together. Plenty of people have moved and
successfully transported multiple cats long distances. There's no reason
you can't do the same. Yes, it will take extra effort, but so what?

Megan



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splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then
providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision,
raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and
material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his
way."

- W.H. Murray

wrote:

Kristy wrote:
I need to rehome Oreo and Tootsie. I'm
moving to Alberta in a few months time
and there's no way i can fly four cats out
there, two is going to be bad enough. I
thought i'd start making an effort now
before its too late and i end up having to
take them to a shelter.

If these were children you'd find a way to bring them along. Your cats
deserve no less. Rehoming them or eventually dumping them at a shelter
because of your poor planning is completely wrong. Skip flying and drive
so you can move everyone together. Plenty of people have moved and
successfully transported multiple cats long distances. There's no reason
you can't do the same. Yes, it will take extra effort, but so what?

Rehoming some of them isn't bad if it's done well. A lot of people
here have rehomed kitties, even ones they've become attached to.

I think that Kristy's situation is that she's taken on a few more
kitties than she probably should have, so if she can locate a few
available suckers, I mean slaves, out there, a redistribution would be
good all around.

Rehoming some of them isn't bad if it's
done well.

It is when you're excuse is because you're "moving." Adopting a cat is a
LIFETIME committment and it really annoys me when people want to become
apologists for those that make irresponsible decisions that cause cats
to lose their homes. You're also failing to look at the big picture.
There are already limited amounts of homes available for cats and there
are *millions* of cats waiting for them. By shirking what should be a
lifetime responsibility, she not only puts her cats into an unnecessary
and stressful/potentially deadly situation, she also will be responsible
for the deaths of two cats that could have gone to the home her cats
took. There are already millions of cats being put to sleep for lack of
homes and to intentionally add two more to those numbers is
unconscionable.

Megan



"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do
nothing."

-Edmund Burke

Learn The TRUTH About Declawing
http://www.stopdeclaw.com

Zuzu's Cats Photo Album:
http://www.PictureTrail.com/zuzu22

"Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one
elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and
splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then
providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision,
raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and
material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his
way."

- W.H. Murray

wrote:

It is when you're excuse is because you're "moving." Adopting a cat is a
LIFETIME committment and it really annoys me when people want to become
apologists for those that make irresponsible decisions that cause cats
to lose their homes. You're also failing to look at the big picture.
There are already limited amounts of homes available for cats and there
are *millions* of cats waiting for them. By shirking what should be a
lifetime responsibility, she not only puts her cats into an unnecessary
and stressful/potentially deadly situation, she also will be responsible
for the deaths of two cats that could have gone to the home her cats
took. There are already millions of cats being put to sleep for lack of
homes and to intentionally add two more to those numbers is
unconscionable.

I would apologize for being an apologist, but that would be
self-defeating.

So to summarize, I am failing to look at the big picture and
advocating putting cats in potentially deadly and stressful
situations, and perhaps causing the deaths of two cats who would
otherwise have been homed.

And Kristy is an irresponsible person who endangers her own cats as
well as other cats, because she is shirking a lifetime commitment and
is indifferent to the millions of cats being euthanized all over the
world.

Certainly, we sound like a pair of murderous villains here. I didn't
realize how evil we were being until you pointed it out.

Kristy: I know that you're doing your best for your kitties, and I
hope that you'll be able to work this out, whether you find that you
can take them all with you or not.

Where in NB? My BIL lives in St. John.

Susan M
Otis and Chester
Calgary


"OU812?" wrote in message
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I need to rehome Oreo and Tootsie. I'm moving to Alberta in a few months
time and there's no way i can fly four cats out there, two is going to be
bad enough. I thought i'd start making an effort now before its too late
and i end up having to take them to a shelter.

Kristy
i live in NB, Canada.. any Mainers interested?


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Have been out of the loop lately: been on phone, listening to new
granddaughter bellow for food (music to my ears) instead of Evil 3 bellowing
for food here.
Hopitus is opinionated in some forms, but "judge not, that ye be not judged"
governs most of my bald statements here. Megan is much more involved and
focused on cat welfare than I, but at the Rainbow Bridge she will be
body-surfed by the multitudes there across the Bridge, because of her
unfailing efforts in their behalf. Probably because of this feline
com-mitment, her fuse is much shorter than mine is. However:
Not willing to keep my mouth shut about this rehoming business, I wish to
inspire those who may be now or in future "movers and shakers". Before too
long, I am moving to Denver area from south FL. The Evil 3 will be either
beside me in a/c comfort (more or less) in carriers rigged in shotgun seat
of my small pickup (it's no fun moving across country w/ bellowing cats, but
already did it in coming back from northern CA in '87; experience tells me
better not to have them on the loose in the cab; moving to CO should be an
improvement over 3400 miles from CA to here) OR 2 in baggage, 1 under my
seat on one-way ticket airborne. When you fly one-way, you get same
going-over as if your last name was bin Laden. For all I know, even
under-seat cat would be "wanded" and/or xray'd! LOL.
I kind of think reality will be option #1, as flying w/cats would leave
either or both sons barreling across country w/my possessions, etc. in
larger pickups and trailers attached thereto, arriving much later than Evil
3 and me, and I would be uneasy if I were not along to nag them re seatbelt
buckling, speeding, etc. Yeah, my fuse is short about the seatbelts, as you
know already. On top of that, *my* welcome mat is always out at Denver son's
house, but AFA Evil 3, serious cat allergies prevail there and more $ would
have to be put forth to board them while I stayed there waiting for
"belongings" convoy to arrive and get settled in wherever we land for good.
Evil 3 "living it up" in Aurora "cat hotel" is something I'd like to
avoid....You gotta do what you gotta do.....but sometimes more effort is
spent at one solution than it would take to solve problem with a more
satisfying but messier one.
Think it over.


"Takayuki" wrote in message
...
: wrote:
:
: It is when you're excuse is because you're "moving." Adopting a cat is a
: LIFETIME committment and it really annoys me when people want to become
: apologists for those that make irresponsible decisions that cause cats
: to lose their homes. You're also failing to look at the big picture.
: There are already limited amounts of homes available for cats and there
: are *millions* of cats waiting for them. By shirking what should be a
: lifetime responsibility, she not only puts her cats into an unnecessary
: and stressful/potentially deadly situation, she also will be responsible
: for the deaths of two cats that could have gone to the home her cats
: took. There are already millions of cats being put to sleep for lack of
: homes and to intentionally add two more to those numbers is
: unconscionable.
:
: I would apologize for being an apologist, but that would be
: self-defeating.
:
: So to summarize, I am failing to look at the big picture and
: advocating putting cats in potentially deadly and stressful
: situations, and perhaps causing the deaths of two cats who would
: otherwise have been homed.
:
: And Kristy is an irresponsible person who endangers her own cats as
: well as other cats, because she is shirking a lifetime commitment and
: is indifferent to the millions of cats being euthanized all over the
: world.
:
: Certainly, we sound like a pair of murderous villains here. I didn't
: realize how evil we were being until you pointed it out.
:
: Kristy: I know that you're doing your best for your kitties, and I
: hope that you'll be able to work this out, whether you find that you
: can take them all with you or not.
:

"Hopitus2" wrote in message
...
Have been out of the loop lately: been on phone, listening to new
Not willing to keep my mouth shut about this rehoming business, I wish
to
inspire those who may be now or in future "movers and shakers". Before too
long, I am moving to Denver area from south FL. The Evil 3 will be either
beside me in a/c comfort (more or less) in carriers rigged in shotgun seat
of my small pickup (it's no fun moving across country w/ bellowing cats,
but
already did it in coming back from northern CA in '87; experience tells me
better not to have them on the loose in the cab; moving to CO should be an
improvement over 3400 miles from CA to here) OR 2 in baggage, 1 under my
seat on one-way ticket airborne. When you fly one-way, you get same
going-over as if your last name was bin Laden. For all I know, even
under-seat cat would be "wanded" and/or xray'd! LOL.

I don't think that flying with your cats will be an option for you at all.
Not if you want them in the cabin with you. The airlines have a 1 pet per
passenger in the cabin rule, so you'd only be able to bring one with you.
Of course you could put them all in carriers and do the baggage compartment
thing, that would work especially since your flight wouldn't be all that
long. I'd never think of shipping Vino as baggage from Thailand to
Vancouver since it's about 16 hours in the air plus stop overs. But from
Florida to Colorado should be do-able. Of course the driving thing is
always a good option too. Good luck with your move :-)
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