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Humane Society Runs Halloween Cat Special

Oct 24, 2009 19:10

The Humane Society in a city near me is using Halloween to promote the adoption of cats. I found an article about it here-- although I don't like that it implies that cats are some kind of accessory. In the comments people slam the promotion, saying that it will result in cats being mistreated because sick people are reportedly out to get cats at ( Read more... )

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virtualannette October 25 2009, 04:55:04 UTC

I don't know, I'm not that keen on the association of black cats with halloween being a reason to encourage people to adopt them. I mean, it's a mostly NEGATIVE association and makes the cat into a sort of holiday novelty, just like people buy chicks and bunnies for easter. They could just as easily have had a more creative cat promotion before halloween for other reasons, or something after halloween. That seems like a much better, safer idea to me ( ... )

joshthevegan October 25 2009, 06:42:55 UTC

A few years ago, there was a stray black cat that the wife and I started noticing a few months after Halloween. He had a huge scar on his head, but was super intelligent and mucho friendly.

Come to find out that one of our neighbors had brought him home (timeline-wise, Halloween would be a good guess, based on his apparent age), decided that they didn't want to care for him anymore, so they put him out on the back porch, cracked him over the head, and left him for dead.

*frowns*

mynamesjonas October 25 2009, 09:56:45 UTC

WHA?! What kind of person thinks that would ever *ever* be the appropriate thing to do? :: mind boogles ::

mynamesjonas October 25 2009, 09:57:07 UTC

(by which i actually meant ' mind boggles'...)

virtualannette October 25 2009, 16:48:07 UTC

What the eff is wrong with people?? Seriously! Gah. That makes me so so mad. Poor kitty.

devil October 26 2009, 01:38:05 UTC

Jesus christ...I fucking hate people.

crasherwake October 27 2009, 14:58:30 UTC

That is beyond horrible. Unfortunately there will always be people like that...

rekling October 27 2009, 00:11:17 UTC

That said, I am so glad I rescued my baby from a kill shelter :( I had mixed feelings about it at the time because I didn't want my adoption fees to support a kill shelter, but I also wanted to save a life.

This. I am hoping to adopt a cat soon, and I have mixed thoughts about going through the Humane Society, or through one of the local no-kill foster programs. I don't like supporting a kill shelter, but I also don't want any of the cats I've seen there to get killed. (On the other other other hand, the humane society felt WAY disorganized, to the extent of having cats' genders and de-clawing statuses listed differently in different places, getting files confused, etc...so that might factor into my decision as well)...

-Rek

crasherwake October 27 2009, 15:13:04 UTC

Is it negative? People don't routinely buy black cats from pet stores for Halloween and the shelter is attempting to find them forever homes, not pushing them as "throw away" pets. People really do like holidays, so it's a big draw and motivator for people to do things. I don't know if another promotion would work as well. It's like how Farm Sanctuary does its Adopt A Turkey Program in November, because turkeys are associated with fall.

The thing is, reading up on animal abuse around Halloween indicates that if someone is going to hurt an animal, they'd abduct one, not go through the trouble of adopting a cat. But I would hope that the shelter would heavily screen and question people, anyway, so that whomever gets a cat genuinely wants one.

More people should adopt from shelters so cats aren't put to sleep... All the homeless cats can't all go to no-kill facilities, unfortunately. So I don't really fault this shelter for t heir Halloween promotion to get cats adopted.

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