Does this seem plausible?

I see what you mean....how healthy can the kitties be if you saw kitty poop in the window????!!!!! For the amount of money she was charging to take them in, she should have been down on her knees with a 24k. gold pooper
scooper propped between her perfectly whitened teeth or perfectly manicured fingernails. Ugh...makes me ill. She most likely thinks that she
is a 'charity'. I'm quite sure she claims it as such on her tax return. Well, I'm
being petty, and I do apologize. That's just very frustrating to me...considering there are so many well-deserved shelters that could really use that money.
Oh, and I noticed that you are a 'tabby' person. Me too! Don't they have the most wonderful personalities? I'll always have a tabby in the family...very mellow but soooooooo affectionate! Just love 'em!

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Originally posted by Grace
Someone with a guilty conscience - that's who. Not the stray part, but their own cat. They need to get rid of it - for whatever reason; they feel guilty. So they sell out the $ $ $ to appease their conscience.

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That is right to the point!! Oh, I hate people like that :mad: :mad:

That is something that I have never heard of,and the only way,atht I would do anything ,like that is if I could no longer provide the care,for the Found Casts,taht they deserve! When I pass on,or are incapacitated,the Found Cats are going to The Pampered eline,a Borading facility,and the animal welfare,will over see thier care!

Sounds like a horrible woman! Bet you wish you would have just drove by!!! I am stunned that people pay this woman to take their cats in! Just doesn't make sense.

As for the high adoption fees, $300 dollars is a little much . . . but when I think about it . . . by the time I get Brodie neutered, we will have spent well over $300 dollars on his vaccs and surgery. We only had to pay a 10 dollar adoption fee for him, but no benefits, if you know what I mean.

Unfortunately, I do believe there are people who are willing to "pay" someone to take a cat off their hands. When living in Connecticut, our neighbor wanted to get rid of her 5 cats (hubby died and they were his cats anyway...that's the story). Anyway, she was so ignorant of the situations in local shelters that she couldn't believe that "they" wouldn't take 5 adult cats from her just from one phone call.
She knew I had worked with a shelter on Long Island and one evening called me to say that if I didn't help her find a place that would take the cats, she was going to dump them outside and close the door! And she made the statement that she would pay $150 per cat to put them in a shelter. I told her that wasn't the point. Her five cats in a no-kill shelter means that 5 cats in a kill shelter will die. Space, not money was the issue. She wasn't having it and upped her offer to $200 per cat! I was so angry by that time that within a week, I had found a place for the 4 that were adoptable and we took in Norbert. However, once the cats were safe and she had made a donation to the shelter, I blasted her and luckily we moved after that.
There are people like that out there - sorry this lady is making money off of their ignorance and the cats' misery.