How did you get your cats? Options

[itsme]

All of mine cats were saved. I feel really good about doing this? How did you aquire all of your cats?

[Catsfriend]

OH MY GOD ... a baby kitten thrown into a drain ... what creature on Earth would possibly do such a thing?

I am so happy that Xanthus has found you.

Thank you for rescueing him.

But I shouldn't be asking. Last year, I went to our local waste deposit site to throw some bulky rubbish and a load of bags filled with soiled cat litter away, and the man who lives in that little caravan on site and collects the $4 fees there asked me into his "home" and showed me those 5 newborn kittens that he had found the day before in a garbage bag - alive - and had been nursing since then by gently dropping condensed sweetened milk into their mouths that he had bought for his coffee. Yes, I took them on and hand-raised them and gave them away to some unqualified people for cheaper than free who never came back to me with a thankyou ever after. Silly me. And I keep doing it again and again. I guess, OldTom is right saying I'm a "nutcase". Perhaps I should rather keep all those precious characters until they find really good homes rather than giving them away to people who won't ever appreciate them - but then I will be called a "cat hoarder" and classified "mentally ill" in medical terms. So, I'd rather be a "nutcase". In comparison, it still sound nicer.

I hope that we will arrive at the day when no more little children will come running into my arms again, at my daughter's primary school, telling me shocked in tears, "My kittycat had babies last night and my dad killed them all..."

Administrator, can you please move this topic to the "Rescue" section? Because I'm in tears myself now, too, when I read and remember these stories. This topic is no more classified "G".