That is how I decide on what meat I will eat. 
Thus I do not eat sheep, but I eat cows just fine.
I also do not eat horses.
Pigs just taste too darn good though. 
My next door neighbors left their three cats when they defaulted on their mortgage. My mother couldn’t stand it, so she started feeding them-three of the prettiest cats you’ve ever seen-including a mother and a baby-a calico we started to call Cali and her kitten, a lovely orange and cream cat my sister named Ginger.
Well, we finally thought they weren’t coming back. Since Cali and Ginger trusted us, we trapped them in a large cardboard box. The other cat then showed up just as we were about to get into the car, so my mother tricked her out of hiding with a plate of tuna and put her in this old carrier. We then took them to the farm where we got Misty, Buffy and Gypsy. That was the night we first saw our little Tess. My mom said no, not another cat, then we decided later on to take her in. When we went back, all three cats were thriving-especially Cali, who insisted on being in the room where Lynn keeps the kittens.
Of course, you guys probably remember Tess got sick and we had to have her put to sleep. 
Last I heard, all three of them were adopted out.
But the funniest part-a few days after we took them to the farm, we saw the daughter and her friends back at the house. They were supposed to be gone, but they kept coming back to smoke weed in the empty house. :rolleyes:
Well, the daughter’s out there calling, “Here kitty-kitty-kitty!” And she kept saying to her friends, “They’ve GOT to be here!” They finally gave up and left.
It was SO hard not to start laughing…we were in the kitchen with the lights off, staying back from the windows so they couldn’t see us.
Remember, this is the fucking genious who said anyone who’d ever done any drugs should be killed. He apparently knows nothing about killing people as he likes to throw it around very lightly.
Hey Com2…bite me. You really need to check yourself…everytime you go off, you decide that someone must die, or you just go off on bad/odd/too weird for sane tangents.
Sam
P.S.- I’ve never left an animal behind, so it has nothing to do with your OP, just that you’re an ass.
I agree that abandoning pets is cruel. Com2Kid, does the shelter you were planning to contact have a no-kill policy? If not, I suggest trying to contact a rescue group that has a no-kill policy. I volunteer with a feral cat rescue group, and we would definitely help you out in this situation - if we were in Seattle. I did find this list of rescue groups though: www.paws.org/work/factsheet/advocacyfactsheets/feralorgs.html. I hope it helps.
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Hehe. Sorry, but its 12:20am and even I noticed that one. 
Insulting somebody and then giving them advice is not a good way to convince anybody of anything.
One or the other, doing both just makes ya look silly.
Strange, was just going to call the humanes society. They have legal authority to report dickheads and write them tickets and such. (or at least they do that anyways, I don’t know about the authority part, for example the BSA does a bunch of shit that they don’t have the legal right to do. . . . but that is a whole nother op. 
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The cat is REALLY tame though, and really old. What she/he needs is just a home to stay in and be loved in for the last few years of his/her life.
If the cat is a pure-bred Persian, are there any rescue organisations in your area set up for them? If you can contact one, it might offer a better chance of rehoming a pedigree than a standard shelter, and most of them are no-kill.
http://www.persiancats.org has some links on it, but I don’t know if they’re any use to you.
Best of luck to you, and the cat, with re-homing.
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All of this is making me want to go out and catch Boots and bring her home. Mom, Conan and Schrodinger will just have to deal…
Boots lives in my complex, I think. I met her shortly after I brought Schrodinger home. Beautiful, grey and white, fluffy, half her tail missing. She came up to me and demanded to be petted. I complied. Her person came out and asked it I wanted her, he was in the Air Force, being transferred soon, couldn’t take Boots with him… I went home and asked Mom. She said, no, two cats is enough, thank you.
Kept seeing Boots around. She seemed to be getting a bit dirty, then dirtier. Last time I saw her, she was asleep on the patio of the apartment where she had lived with her person. She seemed to be becoming mistrustful of me.
The other day it occurred to me, I met this cat, what, five months ago, and she’s still around (well, actually, I haven’t seen her in a while, I hope she’s ok). Could this man have moved away and abandoned Boots? She still seemed to regard his apartment as home, but didn’t seem to be being let in. At first I didn’t think much of it, Boots being a confirmed outdoor kitty. But, the guy had told me he had picked Boots up as a stray. Maybe he figured, she has experience surviving on her own, she’ll be OK.
I want Boots.
Bless you, from that page I found out that the Seattle City Animal Control is a no kill shelter.
Living in a liberal town rocks.
Seattle Animal Control is a no-kill shelter? Be careful of claims like this: they’re good PR, but nearly impossible in practice. Often full-access shelters will make this claim in order to snag funding from the (IMHO, shortsighted and misguided) foundations that won’t give money to a full-access shelter.
Before you take the cat to any shelter, of course, you should talk with the single mother and make sure she’s clear on what’s happening. We had a very similar case come through our animal control department a couple of years ago, involving an abusive husband and the wife’s horses: she assumed (incorrectly) that the husband would feed the horses with the food she dropped off in the barn. It may be that the wife thinks the husband is still caring for the cat; when you tell her otherwise, she may make arrangements for the cat herself.
If that doesn’t work, check out any shelter before you take the cat there. Especially if you go to a no-kill shelter: some of those places are horrifying warehouses for animals.
Good luck!
Daniel