I'm a cat lover - god knows because I have had up to 42 of them at any given time thanks to the "kindness of strangers" dumping them nearby.  Despite my allergies we end up taking them in - more often than not they do not get fixed in time before having kittens due to the costs involved and how rare it is that anyone dumps just one.

I have worked in a Vet Hospital, and despite my beliefs I know that there are times when euthanising an animal is mored humane than allowing it to suffer for a procedure you can not afford.

A tooth - well that's a bit extreme, I personally had an older cat that we adored, previous tenants of a house we rented had left her behind as a kitten and in hunger she snuck in the house one night and ate my cockatiel.  Despite that we adored her and she moved across country with us, we had her for 10 years until she disappeared.  She had lost her teeth by then and I had to feed her canned food (only for her - the rest of the pack gets cheap dry food) so dealing with a tooth loss is not that major and there must have been something the cat could be given for pain of that sort.

It's wonderful that she is fine now and happy with her eating.

Despite loving animals look at what is happening right now - people are losing their homes and they have to move in to rentals - this means that their pets are ending up in shelters, hundreds of pet so loved they even have microchips.

Sometimes we are forced to make hard decisions - part of the responsibility of owning and caring for an animal is making those very difficult decisions in order to insure the quality of and pain free existence of our furry friends.

I have been lucky enough to have had past vets euthanize on occasion for free i.e the kitten that required an 1800.00 dollar surgery for the neighbor's dog shaking it and tearing and twisting it's intestines in the process - even with surgery there were no guarantees and that kitten was in serious pain, the cat that I found one day in my living room digging into a cat food bag that had been attacked by a wild animal and had it's bowel's pulled out - it was actually semi-disemboweled with it's bowel system hanging out, again surgery was no guarantee for this animal.

Handing a cat over to a shelter is almost impossible as most of them are over crowded now and an older cat that requires surgery will most likely be euthanised.

$700 is a steep price, but not when one considers the 24 hour boarding fee and the hydration costs (I hope they gave her electrolytes, studies show animals heal faster if hydrated before and after with electrolytes).

I no longer have my favorite kitties, for over a year I was down to 5 cats including my beautiful Hero a big tom I had nursed to health after he was rescued and then someone trapped them and killed them with a baseball bat and threw them to the side of the road (mind you I'm in a rural area and we had 2 acres at the time & no they were not hit by a car).  We found 2 one day and then the other 3 a few days apart for another week. bastards

Anyhow, now we have 3 plus the new litter and 85 acres for these to roam, plus we are no longer near where the cats are being dumped so these are the last batch we'll end up with thanks to strangers.  A good thing because my allergies have become far too severe now (I'm allergic to their waste - not their fur, so they use a pet door and there are no longer any cat boxes in the house, helps immensely!).

Here are the newest babies, we have homes for 1 girl and 1 boy, 2 kitties are tortoiseshells and the other 3 are tabbys.

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