Where did everyone get their cat from?

[I_love_cats]

I am curious as to where everyone got their cat from. I adopted all of my cats from the Humane Society where I volunteer and I am happy with my cats. Alot of people say getting a cat from a petstore is a bad idea. Here, in Toronto where I live, there is a petsmart that has cats and kittens for adoption. Would you recommend getting a cat or a kitten from a petstore or is a bad idea. Please let me know what you think.

[Nomilynn]

I voted "other" because I have three cats and I got all three of them differently!

I got Bassett outside a grocery store from a cardboard box (someone was giving them away)

Tilly I got through a shelter at PetSmart

Nutmeg I got through an adoption agency at a pet food store.

[Uabassoon]

I got Tibby from a shelter and Corkscrew from a friend who got him at a shelter.

[Chinadoll]

I voted other because all 3 came from different places

Scout-stray I found outside my apartment door in desperate need of TLC.

Gigi-suppossedly my boyfriend's kitty. His coworker's cat had kittens and he brought her home. He thinks he's taking her from my apartment when he gets his own apartment. Soooooo NOT happenning.

Bixby-my mother bought him from a petstore because she said he was too beautiful to go home with anyone else. She told me she found him because she knew I was only taking in animals on emergancy cases only. I got the truth out of her soon enough...he was too well cared for to be a stray and he was too cute to let go.

[krazyaboutkatz]

I adopted Storm from the Humane Society. He was very sick at the time and I didn't realize it. I'm glad that I adopted him because some people wouldn't have wanted to spend the extra money on a new sick cat. We have a very special bond. He was about 1 year old when I got him. He actually picked me and got my attention at the shelter by sticking his paw out of the cage.

I adopted Pepper through a pet organization called Care. He was at a pet store called Petco. He was the only long haired kitten there and was very friendly and purry. He lost his mother when he was very young so he was bottle fed. He was only 9 weeks old when I got him.

I adopted Sunny through a pet organization called Unconditional Love. I saw the ad in the newspaper and left a message telling them that I was looking for an orange male kitten. A lady called me back and said that they had an orange male but he was about 6 months old. I went down there the next day and it was love at first sight. He turned out to be 8 months old but that was fine with me. He's brought a lot of life into my household.

[C.C.'s Mom]

Both my kitties are rescues.

Rudie was in a shelter living in a box for about 3 years. He was scared, skinny and looking miserable. Nobody ever gave him a chance because 'he was not social'.
He's the most loving cat I've ever had. I love him so much! He's my big boy - happy, always chatting and in a good mood.

Eddy was in the same rescue. She was given away by an old lady whose other cat passed away and she didn't feel like keeping Eddy as an only cat. She and Rudie were best friends at the shelter, so we took them both.

My sweetie Maya is from a shelter !!
She chose us !!!
We got her after that our first cat Sydney was gone to the Rainbow Bridge !!
We are very happy with this little loving rascal !! I advise everybody to get hteir cat from a shelter !! Usually , you won't find any pure-breeds there ; but if you care to save a pet , go the shelter !! You can make an unhappy pet VERY HAPPY with doing this !!! Maya loves us very much , and so do we : she is a real friend and sweety !!!

[jenluckenbach]

I voted shelter, but some were different.
Amber and Sterling came from the local "kill" shelter.
Ashley, Calvin, Fern, Rutherford, Monte and Willow came from local no-kill shelters.
Biddy and Lucas were strays.
and Jasper was a kitten from a litter on it's way to a shelter when a kind lady intervened and took him to our common vet and the people at the vet called me.

[neko1]

Neko and Pumpkin were from the shelter, Cookie was a feral cat that we caught. She and a bunch of other cats lived outside my fiance's old job. Tama my abyssinian was given to me by a client at the vet's office where I work. When he was a kitten her husband accidentally stepped on his foot and fractured a bone so she had to bring him in every 2 weeks for a rebandage. Every time she brought him in, I wanted an aby more and more. It turned out that her son had violent allergic reactions to the cat and she knew that I loved abyssinians so she gave him to me. I hope to post pics soon of his little cast.

[-Panther-]

That would be shelter, I'm "an animal rescue worker". And all my cats are from there

[Kirsten]

That's an interesting question, and I find it very positive that so many came from the shelter.

I got Luna from some friends of my family; they had a litter of five kittens when I lost my Katz, and since I decided to get a new cat, I promised them to take one when they're old enough. And I made a very good choice with Luna!

Kirsten

[Former User]

We got Casper and Kitty from a woman who my husbands colleague at work knew. Her cat had 3 kittens and they were heading to the shelter. We had not planned on taking cats just yet, but we coulnd't let this opportunity pass us and we took them. The 3rd kitten also avoided shelter, the woman who's cat got those kittens, her mother then took the 3rd kitten. Happy ending to that then.

[Vermontcat]

I checked "other" because I got my cat when I saw an ad in the newspaper for Free Kittens. I had just finished college and had my own place and I was ready to get a kitten of my own. The ad said they had 4 black and white kittens, 2 males and 2 females and I had always wanted a black and white female. My then boyfriend (now husband) and I went over and picked her up and took her home. She has been with us for 14 wonderful years now! I think that it proves the saying is true " The best things in life are free!"

[Cookiebaker]

We got Marigold kitty from the local human society. They had brand new kitties for adoption that were SO cute. We kept looking at them but couldn't decide on "just one". The lady finally said, "oh we have one more but she's not much...she's been here forever...we didn't PTS because she was pregnant and had kittens, and we had to wait until the kittens were weaned." We went into this other room (where she was all by herself), and took her out of her cage. She was so friendly, and cuddly, and didn't want to go back into her cage. We talked it over for a couple of minutes and it was decided. We went and got some basic supplies (food, litter & box, toys, collar etc) and picked her up that afternoon. They usually charge like $40 (I think) plus the cost of fixing, but they only charged us for fixing her. She's the best kitty ever, and I am so glad that we rescued her!!

[kohala]

I voted "friend", as a friend did turn me on to her. Actually, though, she was 3 months old and about to be given to the humane society when several of my friends told me about her. My Dad had just passed away, and they felt I should have a companion. She lived in Pacific Beach with her birth family, near where my friends had their boats at Campland-on-the-Bay. Annie, a delightful lass from Sligo, Ireland, took the kitten to her boat on a night I was going to stay over. The next morning, when I went to her boat, I saw not a kitten, but a little cat. I was going to reject her (I can't imagine doing that to any being now, 16 years later!), but she came up to me, meowing desperately, so I took her inland with me. She stuck to me like fur, putting her paws over my forearm when I would lie down, as if to say, stay with me, rest, stop running around so much, hence my recognition of her profession, "therapy cat". A year and a half later, she bonded instantly to Dadcat, and we have been a happy, healing, loving family ever since. The End!