Arn't white cats with blue eyes almost always deaf? even here, where outdoor cats are the norm, everybody knows that a deaf cat should be indoor only..
Some people seem to think farm pets are... disposable, I guess. Or replaceable. I can't imagine any of our pets dying, I'd be so heartbroken. Yet they go through cats like dollar bills!
Now, lots of people on farms have free roaming pets. It's not uncommon and they're not always seen as 'disposable'. A lot of the time it's an animal that just showed up one day and stuck around, you don't just lock a dog like that inside your house, it's not right. Some use the dogs to protect livestock, which can't be done if the dog is inside or in a pen. And some use the cats to control vermin, which again can't be done if the animal is inisde or in a pen. So don't go jumping to conclusions about how the animals were cared for. This is one thing that irritates me about this community, some of you don't understand that it's a lot different out in the country on a dirt road than in town with constant traffic.
But there's no excuse for breeding stray cats, or pretty cats, just because. I promise even down the dirt road there's no shortage of kittens, nad there's lots of people even out in BFN working to find farms to rehome ferals to.
Good god most of those cats were under a year, a few made it to what - 14 months at the oldest???
Can't really blame them for the death of the felv + kitten though, although if it had lived longer it too would have suffered the same fate as the rest (killed by predator or hbc). And the one went hunting and didn't see the car. yeah, they're children and can be taught to look both ways *eye roll*
Well, had he not been allowed to free roam with other untested cats or hadn't been born to a byb who apparently wasn't aware cats should be tested prior to giving birth, it technically could have been prevented. So, I'm gonna go ahead and blame them for that one, too. Just because I can. :p
There is a chance they got the cat from someone else. There are also false negatives, or the disease can lie dormant for years. I'm trying to give them the benefit of the doubt. Although it would have been dead at roughly a year of age anyways.
Sorry, I'm a little sensitive to it right now, two of my fosters came up positive, one has since been PTS, the other I'm keeping until it's time to say goodbye as he's already symptomatic. The remaining three are negative (tested twice) and will be going to a sanctuary that takes in felv + cats and those that have been exposed (the shelter will not permit them to be adopted out sadly, so the sanctuary is their best bet. I can't afford to keep three more cats, or they'd stay here.)
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You'd think they would learn. Fuckers.
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So don't go jumping to conclusions about how the animals were cared for. This is one thing that irritates me about this community, some of you don't understand that it's a lot different out in the country on a dirt road than in town with constant traffic.
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But there's no excuse for breeding stray cats, or pretty cats, just because. I promise even down the dirt road there's no shortage of kittens, nad there's lots of people even out in BFN working to find farms to rehome ferals to.
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Why not?
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Can't really blame them for the death of the felv + kitten though, although if it had lived longer it too would have suffered the same fate as the rest (killed by predator or hbc). And the one went hunting and didn't see the car. yeah, they're children and can be taught to look both ways *eye roll*
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Sorry, I'm a little sensitive to it right now, two of my fosters came up positive, one has since been PTS, the other I'm keeping until it's time to say goodbye as he's already symptomatic. The remaining three are negative (tested twice) and will be going to a sanctuary that takes in felv + cats and those that have been exposed (the shelter will not permit them to be adopted out sadly, so the sanctuary is their best bet. I can't afford to keep three more cats, or they'd stay here.)
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