Comments on A thinking person's blog about cats: No kill cat shelters

Freddie, If breeders stopped breeding cats we wou...

2009-09-21T15:40:17.937-07:00

Freddie,

If breeders stopped breeding cats we wouldn't have to euthanaze/kill millions of animals each year.

Even then, though, there would still be homeless cats because there are more in the world than there are people who want to look after them.

Daisy

This is a PS

I sometimes leave links to the...

2008-09-13T09:12:00.000-07:00

This is a PS

I sometimes leave links to the Flickr website - not always. I have no obligation to leave a link. If I do it is a bonus.

One reason is that this site is for charity and I don't want visitors leaving the site.

Another is that very often the captions to the Flickr photographs do not provide a lot of information if anything at all.

Hi thanks for the comments it is appreciated.
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2008-09-13T09:05:00.000-07:00

Hi thanks for the comments it is appreciated.

There is a place for praising and criticizing. Purebred cat breeders are generally not the problem, irresponsible cat keepers are the problem.

I don't think that showing and describing purebred cats and criticizing aspects of some shelters are incompatible.

I am not saying that the shelters from which the cats illustrated are not no kill. I am talking generally.

What I am saying is, are no kill cat shelters what they say they are in every case.

And it would be nice if there was a link to the or...

2008-08-19T21:26:00.000-07:00

And it would be nice if there was a link to the original photo site so peolple can read about these cats in the true sense. I understand what you are trying to get across and I appreciate it, but let's be honest how can a site talk about non-kill shelters in a negative way while plastering pure-bred links all over the place. Where these back yard breeders have in a huge way helped to create this problem.

I am the photographer for both the photos displaye...

2008-08-19T21:19:00.000-07:00

I am the photographer for both the photos displayed here. I may have chosen my words in haste but YES they did survive and there is a difference between an animal shelter and a non-kill animal rescue. The cats displayed here are from an A No-Kill Non Profit Rescue, one I foster for called Animal Talk Rescue in Seattle, WA USA. These are the places that get phone calls from employees of government run "shelters' letting them know that some healthy adoptable animals are about to get euthanized and they quickly fill their cars and trucks up with empty animal carriers and rush to bring them back to the non-kill shelter, they are ALL spay/neutered, treated for any ailments (by a wonderful vet named Dr. Obegi who volunteers her services, this is what all vets should do.) microchipped, vaccinated etc. etc. and they ALL get homes. Sometimes it takes months. They either stay at the "Rescue" or stay in a foster homes. But none are killed. NONE.
The only time any animals were killed was when the rescue was broken into. See here
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003295558_petstore09m.html