Quote Originally Posted by Lizzie
The shelter I foster for is in a fairly rural area so they have quite a bit of land around them with trees behind, no fence. Sometimes people simply leave the carrier in the driveway. Much worse, some of them open the carrier and make the cat get out. Of course, the cat panics and bolts into the undergrowth forcing the shelter staff to spend many hours, sometimes days, trying to catch the cat. I think the people who do this are punishing the cat for being a nuisance to them and the shelter for saying no. They are oblivious to the fact that they are the bad guy in this scenario.
This happens at the one shelter I volunteer at as well. It's located on a Mennonite farm, and it's pretty far off the main road, but people find it. They drop cats off in the carriers, in boxes, or just dump them without any shelter and leave. The farm dogs are not the most tolerant either (although they can be very sweet... they're just way over-bred by the farmer... sigh).

We really need a new shelter, and a new site. I just don't know when that will happen since our medical expenditures are just so high. I know the vet we use for the dire cases really discounts, but it's still a lot of cash for a small non-profit to come up with.

If only people would think before they adopt animals. So many are just treated like material possessions.