# Dumped Kitten - Sigh - Cat #5? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 11, 2009, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumped-kitten-sigh-cat-5/506017 "2009-08-11T01:45:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumped-kitten-sigh-cat-5/506017/21 "2009-08-20T15:05:32Z")
Awwwwww, who’s a tiny purr-purr? So cute! ---
**Author:** ![Jimson\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@Jimson\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimson_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumped-kitten-sigh-cat-5/506017/22 "2009-08-20T15:28:23Z")
If you have horses you must have a barn. Can she be a barn cat? Or is it to late? My parents used to have a pack (pride) of barn cats. There wasn’t a rat, mouse or squirrel within 100 yards of the barn and they cleared the moles out too. She’s a cutie. Reminds me of our late cat Rex. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumped-kitten-sigh-cat-5/506017/23 "2009-08-20T18:39:02Z")
**Jimson Jim** - I have a barn, but she’s too little to be all by herself in the big wide world. The rats would probably gang up on her! I have two other cats who were supposed to be barn cats, but figured out that the livin’ was just fine in the house, with an endless dry food dispenser and a warm waterbed. I’m too tender-hearted (big SUCKER written on my forehead, just as **runner pat** said). StG ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumped-kitten-sigh-cat-5/506017/24 "2009-08-22T04:58:53Z")
Good news! I found a home for the dumped kitty. I took her to the vet for her first shots, and while I was in the parking lot, a young family with a daughter about 8 years old were coming out. They had two healthy dogs with them, including a pup they’d just gotten from the pound. When I showed the the kitten thy thought she was adorable. I told them they could have her if they wanted, and I’d prepay to have her spayed. So we went in, got her first vaccinations and I arranged her spay and next vaccinations. It’s a good deal for me - $50 vet bill now (current vacs, future vacs and spay together - quite a deal) or pay for food and vet care for the rest of her life. The mom told me they hadn’t told their daughter yet, but today her cat died. He was a grey tabby and looked just like the kitten. So it looks like it was all meant to be. StG ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumped-kitten-sigh-cat-5/506017/25 "2009-08-23T23:58:02Z")
sounds like the wee kitten arranged to be where she needed to. first with you, to get ready to live in a house with doggies. and now with a new family with doggies. any update on the pup? did he have a chip? ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumped-kitten-sigh-cat-5/506017/26 "2009-08-24T14:39:50Z")
**rocking chair** - The day after I took the pup in, he wandered off. My hope is, once the thunder storm had past and he was no longer scared, he took himself back home. StG [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumped-kitten-sigh-cat-5/506017.md?page=1)