I am a firm believer that an individual can be both a cat person and a dog person without having to prioritize one choice over the other. I’ve never understood the notion of someone only liking either cats or only dogs, and honestly, I find the ideology to be a bit whack. Why the hell can’t we like both cats and dogs? Who came up with this ridiculous assertion? My pets and I would like to know.
Our family has always had dogs on the farm, and one might assume we also always had cats. Alas, this is not the case; we didn’t end up getting a cat as a pet in our family until about 11 years ago, and Lionel, the cat in question, is currently residing with Blaine and me in our home. We ended up rescuing an abandoned kitten we found in one of the barns on our property and took him in, and we are in the process of trying to wrangle in this kitten’s mother to get her spayed, which brings me to the main point of this post.
Cats reproduce at propesterous rates, and their breeding isn’t slowing down anytime soon. This issue isn’t a new one, but, sadly, in rural areas, it is a raging one. So many people will adopt a cat and then decide for whatever reason that they no longer wish to own a cat as a pet. Their solution is to dump said cat off at a farm somewhere so it is no longer their problem; this cat, if it is a female, will quickly become impregnated by a male. If the cat is male, he will do his due diligence to mate as soon as possible. Kittens come, and the cycle repeats, over and over again.
If you would like to adopt a cat, please ensure the cat is spayed or neutered once it is in your possession. It’s the least we can do.
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