Beatrix was adopted!
Well, last week ended with an adoption! Yay!!! We wish every week could end that way : )Taylor, a volunteer who runs our rescource centre, posted a flyer in his building about Beatrix, a beautiful, gentle 4-year-old female. Someone visiting a friend in the building saw the flyer and gave us a call. He arranged to visit Bea here at the office and, after a chat with Liz and Shelly, decided he would like to share his home with Bea. So far, things have been going just fine (yay, again!).
Bea's story is not unusual. We were contacted by a woman looking to adopt an adult cat. Shelly came across Bea at a shelter and decided that she would be perfect for this woman. Shelly brought Bea home and called the woman to tell her a wonderful cat was waiting for her. The woman said "4 years old! That's too old!" (grrrrr!) So Bea had to wait for some kind soul to open their heart and home to her.
Too many amazing critters are rejected solely because of their age. In Montreal, where 100 animals a day are killed, if you're not a kitten, you don't have a chance. They have so many cats and dogs, only the youngest are given the chance at adoption. Liz was there recently for a meeting on this issue and made it just in time to rescue Minou, who now lives with me. He's a beautiful, rambunctious, energetic 2-year-old (that's him in the pic above). And it makes me sick to think that he would have been killed simply because someone thinks he's "too old". There are simply too many and it's our fault -- but of course, it's the animals that pay the price. I catch myself glaring at people with companion animals that aren't fixed. I bite my tongue when people call the office looking to surrender their animals, especially when they aren't fixed. It's so simple yet this concept seems to be beyond the grasp of some people. Humans claim that we are more evolved and that other species are savage. At this point, I'm no longer surprised by our hypocrisy.
posted by the office crew... @ 12:10 PM
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This is very exciting. I have never joined a blog and I'm losey at letter writing but not because I'm unopinionated!
About people making you crazy when you know their animals aren't fixed or they want to drop them off. I am a wildlife rehabilitator and see a lot of things I dislike when people bring babies for care. A very dear friend of mine reminds me that even if a person traps and kills a mother racoon, fox, squirrel etc. something told them to save at least the babies. This is the start we have to work with. If we are kind and patient, acknowledge their gift and show them how we treasure each animal, they might listen to what we say about more carefully removing Mom and babies next time and maybe down the road they will do something right with another animal. We may never know but it will help the next animal and that is our goal. She looks at ever situation as an opportunity to find that thread of decency and hopefully build on it. This woman is about 80 years old and has been rehabbing all her life. I have generally found her advice to be true. I work with farmers and they are notorious for killing animals. I've saved some animals with lots of information but more importantly, the farmers are teaching their grandchildren to be more humane because they realized what they are doing is wrong. We'll never know how much good work we've really done.
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