Darth Be'lal
08-12-2007, 07:21 PM
She wasn't a pet, she was a stray I found. My girlfriend and I went to this local park to play catch (I really, REALLY didn't want to spend any more money). Well, while going out to the field, I saw this kitten. It a shorthair gray striped female kitten with blue eyes, about 8 weeks old. I knew it was stray, lost, abondonned or all the above. My girlfriend and I and this little girl tried to approach the cat and it started to ran away. My being me, I followed. This poor kitten stopped underneath some branches. I slowly approached and started petting this poor kitten. The kitten took an immediate liking to me, and I mean immediate. She started purring and rubbing against my hand. Of course I picked her up and held her and she loved it.
WELL, I wasn't, couldn't just leave her abondonned. I brought her to the car and gave her a bit of water. It was interesting because when I was holding her, she purred. When my girlfriend held her, she started meowing plaintively. I couldn't keep her. The dog at home would've mistaken the poor kitten as a furry chew toy and torn her to bits, and I wasn't about to just abandon her either.
I didn't know where an animal shelter was at, so I took her to the vet and told the story of how she was found and asked if there was any way she could be put up for adoption. Well, they said they COULD do it. For $40, the fee covering a checkup before being sent to a shelter. Of COURSE, dammit. I didn't want to spend the money, and yet I wasn't about to drop the poor thing off by the side of the road. This kitten was about the cutest thing going. I knew she would be adopted in about ten seconds if she was placed in a shelter. *sigh* I forked over the kitten and my credit card and $40 later I left the vet with a better conscience thinking it would be going out for adoption.
I called later that night, and found out that because the kitten had feline luekemia, they couldn't put it up for adoption and they went and destroyed it..........
Looking back on the incident, I would've done it again. I had given that kitten the best chance she had for a better life. I just wish she didn't have that disease. I wish I could've adopted her, as I said, she took an instant liking to me and I would've loved to have had a cat. I did do the right thing, but I think about her sometimes.
I named her Tabitha-cat. The least I could do was give her a name to remember her by, dammit.
WELL, I wasn't, couldn't just leave her abondonned. I brought her to the car and gave her a bit of water. It was interesting because when I was holding her, she purred. When my girlfriend held her, she started meowing plaintively. I couldn't keep her. The dog at home would've mistaken the poor kitten as a furry chew toy and torn her to bits, and I wasn't about to just abandon her either.
I didn't know where an animal shelter was at, so I took her to the vet and told the story of how she was found and asked if there was any way she could be put up for adoption. Well, they said they COULD do it. For $40, the fee covering a checkup before being sent to a shelter. Of COURSE, dammit. I didn't want to spend the money, and yet I wasn't about to drop the poor thing off by the side of the road. This kitten was about the cutest thing going. I knew she would be adopted in about ten seconds if she was placed in a shelter. *sigh* I forked over the kitten and my credit card and $40 later I left the vet with a better conscience thinking it would be going out for adoption.
I called later that night, and found out that because the kitten had feline luekemia, they couldn't put it up for adoption and they went and destroyed it..........
Looking back on the incident, I would've done it again. I had given that kitten the best chance she had for a better life. I just wish she didn't have that disease. I wish I could've adopted her, as I said, she took an instant liking to me and I would've loved to have had a cat. I did do the right thing, but I think about her sometimes.
I named her Tabitha-cat. The least I could do was give her a name to remember her by, dammit.