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October 13, 2004
Pet Peeve Of The Day: The Pet Adoption Nazis
A friend of mine and her husband have been going through the lengthy and grueling process of adopting a cat. Not a child, a cat. After being interviewed, providing references, and agreeing to allow representatives from Greenland Rescue to randomly drop by their home to verify that they were taking proper care of the kitten, they were rejected. Why? Because the interviewer felt that they were "indifferent" to de-clawing. Not that they planned to run right out and have the cat de-clawed, mind you. Just that they were not militantly opposed to the concept.
What the hell is wrong with these people? This is the second time in the past year that I've seen friends of mine raked over the coals just because they wanted to bring an unwanted animal into their warm and loving, if slightly imperfect, home. It's ridiculous. Thousands of animals are put to sleep in shelters in this country, but people who want to adopt a pet are turned away because they don't march lock-step to PETA's drumbeat of delusion.
Thankfully, my friends were able to visit the local SPCA and adopt a kitten just by proving that they had a home. A kitten that would have been put to sleep in a matter of days, mind you. People are dumb...
Posted by Dan at October 13, 2004 11:04 AM
Comments
In defense of the Greenland Rescue folks I must point out a few things about the above scenario. Number one, the husband was heavily intoxicated by what appeared to be a strange combination of vanilla extract and airplane glue, and was overhead several times mumbling,"I love the smell of de-clawing in the morning, it smells like victory!" This could have been overlooked, though, if the male inhabitant had no openly relieved himself into the new cat's
litter box while the GR employees were on site.
Posted by: Dave at October 21, 2004 10:10 AM
If that wasn't enough, when questioned by the GR folks on his behavior he said in a british accent, "Do I make you horny?" while at the same time spinning around to face them, all the while continuing to urinate (and soak what looked like a very expensive couch). The man then offered to "cook up some lunch" by throwing little scruffy into the microwave, which GR could have attributed to the extract/glue buzz had the man not admitted he was voting Republican in Nov. No self respecting animal rights worker could put a cat in a "Red" home even if the alternative is putting him to sleep. Sure, a recently converted redneck who sniffs glue, drinks extract, uses bad pickup lines infront of his wife, has poor bladder control,confuses cats with microwavable burritos, and is in favor of de-clawing would be fine. But Republican? No way.
Posted by: Dave at October 21, 2004 10:28 AM
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