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- From: jkl@fsl.noaa.gov (Jennifer Longstaff)
- Subject: Re: A moral dilemma
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:34:15 GMT
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- Wilde Dame (sstover@sumax.seattleu.edu) wrote:
- :>: [story about stray cats being fed by lots of people and surviving
- :>: just fine on the streets ...]
- :>:
- :>: Any of these animals, as I observe them, would be stifled by a
- :>: single-owner, designated-home environment such as the one they would
- :>: likely be forced into by a shelter. The streets are no place for kittens
- :>: who may have trouble defending themselves, but these adult cats have grown
- :>: accustomed to their present way of life and I would feel as though I had
- :>: patronized and betrayed them if I was responsible for their loss of
- :>: freedom. My policy, and my advice, is to help the cats who need help, and
- :>: simply enjoy those who are managing for themselves. :)
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- I don't have any trouble with adult cats getting along by themselves "in
- the urban wild", but the big problem with our promoting this, and not
- "turning them in" to the shelter is that those streetwise strays *WILL* come
- in heat and they *WILL* have kittens. I think we've got to make some
- attempt to keep cat over-population down by adopting these cats and at least
- having them neutered/spayed!
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- - Jennifer (jkl@md.fsl.noaa.gov)
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