People like you, working or volunteering in shelters. You're the best. I don't think I could do it. Abused and abandoned animals break my heart. Knowing there are people like you help. You go on hating people, and I don't blame you one bit. People are awful. Except when they're the BEST.

Love to the people who give love to our furry friends when they need it the most!

Will be better off if her old family gave her up so easy. I wonder what the motivation was of getting a kitten when expecting was?

A cat in an abuse situation. She was a beautiful medium hair black cat.
She had human teeth marks where her ears had been bitten and one reason this asshole abused her was he thought the cat would steal thier baby’s breath.

Looks like stupid medieval superstitions are still harming cats.

Well when I got her home She was scared but calmed down in a day.
Had her vetted. Broken rib ,bruised kidney. She was declawed too.

Later she would be on seizure meds and have a special diet because of her kidney damage. But she was the sweetest baby. Her name was Fricka and she was amazingly photogenic . She was stunning in every picture I took of her. Had her for like 11 years with us and decades later I still miss her.

Horrible!

I could not let her stay with them
My heart would not stand for it.
Her first toe bones were taken out surgically at the joint.I am thankful they didn’t use the guillotine method where they break the toe off..
And Fricka was so beautiful. I still love her, always will. That’s how I am with the cats that come into my life.

Try to imagine new parents who are stressed and frightened, aren’t sleeping, aren’t coping well and who decide a kitten would be safer and happier in a new home, but have no friends or family who can take in their cat. They broke and did their best.

Sure, it might not be true and the unknown people could be careless and ignorant jerks who probably shouldn’t be parents either, but isn’t it better for your soul to give them the benefit of the doubt? And if they aren’t up to the job, either way, isn’t it better for the kitten to have better people?

You’re a good person and I appreciate how much you care.

Totally here

The stupidity is overpowering in too many humans, and when it hurts animals (or kids), I have no use for them.

If cats don't like someone/something that isn't another cat, they usually just stay away.

Poor little kitty - she'll be better off elsewhere.

the owners lied and said she was six yrs old.
they dumped off her and her brother.
she was at this unusual shelter for about 3 months -- hadn't been given her med (Benadryl) (due to itchy allergies) for three fucking months b/c they never told the shelter she needed them. people told shelter they were having a baby and decided to get rid of the dogs!

i couldn't take the brother but i was able to take her. i managed to track down her vet due to her rabbi tag. that was how i learned of her allergies. i also learned that she was ten yrs old, not six. (i would have taken her regardless)

this little dog, as it turned out, absolutely LOVED children. she would have been the perfect dog for that asswipe family and their new edition.

what assholes! i also learned who they were. i remember he worked in a bank.

i adored her. she died three years after i met her. i was so fucking devastated i slept with her little coat for two goddamn years. i still have three large photos of her on my bookcase that i look at every day. (she passed eleven and a half years ago)

my daughter brought me a little rescue dog a year and a half later, for christmas. she's still with me. i took her into the vet a couple days later to get checked out and they guessed she was a year and a half old. a couple weeks ago i was talking to the vet and she looked up the birthday they put on file. oddly enuf, they put the same date for her birthday that was the other's death day.

sorry for the trip down memory lane. i hope lilo finds a wonderful home and a wonderful person finds her and they live happily ever after.

It's total bullshit, but some people still believe it. I love when one of my Kitty's lays across my chest.

Sometimes a human is just a waste of good protein that should be used for better purposes.

kinds of warnings from neighbors and others about how the cats would do anything from steal her breath to suffocate her by sitting on her face. (sigh) This was 40-some years ago, but still... we're way past medieval days. Just as much as anything else, I'd find one of the cats in the crib doing head boops or gently stroking the baby's cheek with one soft paw, trying to help "hush" her crying.

Having rescued for over 50 years, and at one point living within a block of a shelter (city pound), I had all kinds of animals dropped off near my house. Some of them just broke your heart, many of them we never learned their backstory, but I have taken a baseball bat out with me to save a cat or dog in distress. Like you, I hate people with a white hot anger some times.

I am constantly reading stories like this.
The cat, the dog, doesn't get along with;
The other cat, the other dog, the husband, the wife, the kids, the next door neighbor's dog, the next door neighbor's cat, the new baby. It goes on and on. And the reason? 'We don't have the time to work on it. We are too busy.' That's always the excuse. We don't have the time to work on it.

I was in the Vet once when a guy came in and said "I need this dog euthanized".
The desk person asked "why?" and he explained that the dog had nipped his
daughter, not bit, nipped. The desk person refused and he left in a huff, selfish

Trying to murder his dog needs to be euthanized. People that treat animals like expendable objects need to be treated like expendable objects.