Very upsetting news... :(

Oh I was really worried when I started to read this thread but it sounds like you have rescued them from the No Kill centre.

Hoping Best Friends place them in a furrever home very soon.

I think that's very upsetting, too.

I cried all day long today because Kate was urinating all over everything and I was just convinced that we wouldn't be able to keep her. But of course everything worked out.

Maybe your cousin was really emotional after the baby was born. Hormones just FLY during that time. I remember crying constantly and being completely unreasonable - people couldn't stand to be around me. I just couldn't help it! It was like PMS X 100.

It doesn't help that all the books and advice you get on how to raise babies make you feel guilty for having cats in the house. The people who write the "How to raise babies" rules aren't particularly pet friendly.

I hope you find a good home for the cats. I'm sure you will! Hopefully they'll spend the rest of their lives in a wonderful place. I hope you'll forgive your cousin, too. Having a new baby turns people into entirely different people.

This whole situation is so disgusting!! People just make me SOOO MAD!!! I really don't understand how anyone can just throw out something they supposedly used to love...unless it's an about to be ex-husband!!!http://petoftheday.com/talk/images/our_smilies/wink.gif

I'm so glad you stepped in and went to all this trouble. They weren't even your responsability and yet you may have just saved their lives! God bless you and thank you.


p.s. My husband and I are fine. Just thinking back into the past!:) http://petoftheday.com/talk/images/o...lies/smile.gif

I'm so happy to read that a rescue shelter group is going to take the two kittys. ;) Thank you for taking the time and effort to look out of these two wellfare.

Amy, I'm so glad to hear that Best Friends will be able to take both cats and hopefully find them great loving forever homes. :D You sure are a wonderful person to take the time and effort to help these sweet cats. :)

I'm sorry to say this, Amy, but people like that make me SICK!!! If they loved the cats, and absolutely had to let them go, why didn't they do their very best to find them new loving homes or a good rescue shelter like Best Friends? They had NINE MONTHS of pregnancy in which to do it. It is a terrible example to show your children and callous in the extreme to throw away a living animal that trusts you totally.

Could these people bear to give their cats the lethal shot themselves? Could they even watch? I think that people who abandon their pets have no real idea how bleak the future may be for the cats.

And it really gives me the jeebies that the baby boomers spread utter drivel about cats smothering babies etc. Helo? You can lock a cat out of the room! If you leave your baby unattended long enough for a cat to smother it then you are not a fit parent anyway!!

At any rate, it looks like good news for the babies to be adopted by a rescue org. Updates? Did you go through siameserescue.org? They are good too apparently ... also would rosethecopycat be interested in these two? Try pm'ing her if you have no luck .....

Amy, I do hope Best Friends can take them. :) *HUGS* to you for trying! You're an angel. :)

IttyBittyKitty, that's what I was talking about - the cat smothering thing. But I didn't want to say it out loud, in case anybody by any chance hadn't heard it - I didn't want to spread a cat-unfriendly rumor.

Mothers of new babies are absolutely terrified by that story!!!

In fact a few months ago I was pregnant (miscarried unfortunately). You know how the hormones fly during pregnancy and you start getting all wierd and paranoid? I had decided that I was going to put a screen door on the baby's room so that at night I could hear the baby if it cried, yet the cats couldn't go in there and innocently fall asleep on its face.

The entire time I was pregnant the first time, and for like 4 years after I had my son, I was FREAKY! I was so paranoid something was going to happen. I got up several times a night to make sure he was breathing. I just knew for sure that something bad was going to happen to him.

So anyway Wolf-Q - in about 4 years maybe your cousin will realize that she was being utterly ridiculous as a result of her hormones and intense motherly instinct. She'll want the cats back. But until then she'll be convinced that she was right.

Amy,

Is it for sure that Best Friends is taking these cats? I got a bit confused about who it was that responded to you.

My sister did do the screen door thing when her first child was born, not because of the smothering rumor, but because she didn't want the cats jumping in the crib with the baby. It worked beautifully......kept the cats out, but the room "open" in a way. :)

Update us when you can, Amy. Obviously, these kitties have claimed our hearts already.

Logan

Oh, sorry I didn't think to put who the email was from...D'oh! :o

It's actually a organization called Wasatch Humane that is (hopefully) taking them. I work at Petco and they do the adoptions at Petco on Saturdays...Melissa (the woman I talked to) comes in quite frequently, we bath a lot of her rescue dogs. She also does Australian Shepard Rescue.

At first she told me they weren't taking in any more cats, but when I said the were spayed she said she'd see what she could do. The email I posted was from another person from Wasatch Humane, I emailed them before I called and talked to Melissa.

I haven't received any updated info since that email, but I'll let you know if I get a reply. :)

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If they loved the cats, and absolutely had to let them go, why didn't they do their very best to find them new loving homes or a good rescue shelter like Best Friends? They had NINE MONTHS of pregnancy in which to do it.

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Those were my thoughts exactly.....I can understand if they really didn't think it would work and wanted to find a new home for them. But just dropping them off at the shelter is unacceptable. :mad: I had no idea she was even thinking of getting rid of them, I just found out that day!

I had a nice argument with my dad about the whole "cats and children" thing...he hates cats, so of course he agrees with her choice. I said I plan to have cats when I move out/get married/etc. so if that's how it goes, I better not have children, because I'm certainly not going to get rid of my pets! :rolleyes:

Sure, you can have problems with cats and children..just like you can have problems with dogs and children, or any pet and children. But if you take precautions, and WATCH your kids and pets, things will be fine. Some people just can't handle that apparently.

Email I received from Wasatch Humane today:

Apparently another rescue called Lost Paws, Ruthanne, took the cats.

I did email Lost Paws that night, but they didn't reply. So I guess they ended up with them instead...oh well, at least they are safe and out of the shelter now! :)

:D !!! Just received this email !!! :D

Hello, yes we took them from the shelter right up to petsmart and to banfields for thier rabies. While they were being examined a lady saw them and adopted both. They were only in the shelter for less than 24 hours and into a loving home. They are doing great!!!!

I emailed them the night my aunt brought them in, so I guess they must have went and got them the next day..or maybe after I called the shelter? I don't know but I'm glad they are in the loving home they DESERVE now! :)

Amy, this is excellent news!!!:D I'm so glad that they were adopted out together and that they found the loving caring forever home that they both deserved. :) You've just saved 2 cats lives so please pat yourself on the back for a job well done. :D

Wow, what a great outcome. You deserve a huge pat on the back for work well done. I'm so glad the cats have a new home, and so quickly. Bravo to you and Lost Paws!

So happy to hear they have new loving homes, Amy! Great job! :D