Let's lighten the mood a little. Here's a photo of Jefe nursing and humping his favorite blanket. Even before we got him fixed he practiced safe sex on a wadded up towel in the back yard. So this is a good lead-in: Tomorrow, as it turns out, is Spay Day USA 2009. I am increasingly having issues with the Humane Society of the United States, but this is fairly benign, something we can all agree upon. Get those animals fixed! The ASPCA Mobile Spay Clinic is still out there offering lower-cost options for those who don't quite understand why it costs $300 to remove your cats' balls. Unfortunately, the had to raise their prices a bit. But I think we can agree that $75 is still pretty cheap and remember, it's still free for people on public assistance. It's pretty hard to argue with the logic in any case. Tomorrow, the Brooklyn spay van will be at Brower Park, in Crown Heights. But for Bushwick people it comes to the lovely Maria Hernandez Park thus Thursday. Check the listings for the other, lesser neighborhoods.
Honestly, I don't know how people live with unfixed pets. I dunno about dogs, but cats get loony: males spray and fight and yowl, females spray and yowl and flirt obscenely. Is that really the world you want to live in?
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I couldn't agree with you more about speutering, but I had a cat for 6 years before I had him neutered and he never once sprayed or yowled (and he was Siamese) except when we moved to CA and the windows in the house on base were slates and he could 'smell' a cat outside. Once I got it cleaned up and plastic (lovely) over the window, he never did again.
Oh, and when I was younger, I had NO idea about spaying a cat. It just wasn't 'out there' back then, but I'm SO glad it is now.
You do good work! Keep it up!
PS, I was REALLY sad to read the last post, how tragic!…and for someone to put him out in the cold like that, well, I hope they suffer someday too!