An Addition to the Household

[piasharn]

I'm up as usual. I was watching some anime when I heard my sister and her boyfriend (Oops, I forgot to tell you about Mike. We brought him back from San Diego with us.) come home. Odd... it seemed a bit early. I heard the door shut, and then...

"MEW!"

"MEW!!"

"MEEEEW!!!"

They had found a kitten just outside.

He's (yes, I checked) all by himself and so thin that you can feel every one of his bones. His nose is cut and burrs are burried everywhere in his fur. His eyes have changed colour, so he's old enough that he no longer has to nurse.

However, it has obviously been around people before, which means that it wasn't born wild. Given the starved state and the fact that there were no other cats around, I'm guessing someone abandoned a litter out here. (Again.) He must have wandered into our yard by chance.

(This is the third stray we've taken in.)

How can people do that? Why not just bring it to the animal shelter? At least that would be showing some responsibility for it. To practically condemn it to death by abandoning it, though...

I don't know which I want to do... cry or scream.

We've given him some food, cleaned out his cuts, and picked most of the burrs out of his fur. He's currently curled up amid some towels in the cat-carrying-case.

I think he'll be alright. Still, I want to see if we can get him into the vet first think on Monday morning.

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[orchydconstyne.livejournal.com]

Dusk, our six year old dog... We got him from the Birmingham Humane Society. He was there with his sister and they let us adopt him when he was just six weeks old. The sotry behind these two was that someone left the litter of six in the dumpster next door to the clinic, during receiving hours, in the cold during November. He and his sister were the only two to survive, they were all newborns with their umbilical cords still wet from birth...

People are assholes.

BTW, I don't know if you know of this guy, but I think he has my vote if he gets the Democratic platform:

http://www.deanforamerica.com/site/PageServer?pagename=homepage

I'll have a letter out to you soon! ^^

[piasharn.livejournal.com]

Ugh... I can't understand why someone would do something like that. (Not to mention that if more people got their animals spayed/neutered, we wouldn't have as many abandoned animals.) At least I know this little guy will have a good home. I just wish I could have helped his littermates as well. The gods only know what happened to them...

Yep, I'm a big Dean fan ^^ He's definately got a good chance of winning the primaries, too.