A resolution for cat people

[countryjake]

29. Good for Sacramento! Wonderful resolution!

Long time animal person, here, and I have stressed this same thing to countless people, especially to those adopting any new rescue.

I have been the unfortunate owner of many "working" animals in my time, critters who became the most expensive "livestock" on the farm, after they were the hapless victims of beasts with longer claws and sharper teeth than they and I was forced to spend literally thousands of dollars on either saving lives or ending suffering. I lost more than one wonderful mouser, to a neighboring farmer's poison, set out to protect his cribs from the prey my kitties were out hunting...deaths worse than anything one can imagine, I might add. I've had beloved dogs' faces ripped to shreds by more than one wild animal and tho the badgers and skunks and coons did lose those battles, blind woofies just aren't quite as efficient at protecting one's flocks, nor is one who has lost his nose and the ability to smell anything, at all.

I've had only indoor "children" for the past twenty-five year and currently am keeping herd over three once-feral cats. I often do wonder if I'll awaken some day without my eyeballs, since after many years of sharing our living space, they still all hate one another, but I would never in a million years return them to the harsh, dangerous elements that they were rescued from.