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In reply to the discussion: Have you ever rescued a stray animal? [View all]PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,857 posts)I've heard way too many stories of how university students adopt a cat for the school year and then just abandon it in May. It doesn't seem to happen as much with dogs, but that's not at all the point. The point is being responsible for the four legged critter you take in.
I am a cat person, currently without any resident cats. Right now my life is such that it would be irresponsible of me to have a cat. Heck, a friend gave me a poinsettia for Christmas in 2017, and I only kept it alive for 9 months because a neighbor helped out. If I can't keep a plant alive, I have no business with a cat.
Someday, someday, when I stop travelling so much, I will go to my local animal shelter and adopt the very oldest at they have. If I'm lucky it will be two cats who've been together for a long time, and whose owner has gone into a nursing home and no one close to him was willing to take the cats. But I will.
Someday. Someday.