Update!

[Lizzie]

I am sorry :-(

I will relocate all of my fosters so Ally can come here. Nova and Lizzie and Carolyn and my beloved DaVinci will have to go live out their lives in our shelter. Cameo and Marilyn might find place in an adoption cage at Petsmart, but Cameo tends to hurt herself when left overnight in a cage. Hopefully she won't, this time. And Frazzle will just have to STAY at Petsmart whether she gets adopted or not. I'll pray that a foster home has room for the babies because they are sick and can't go to the shelter.

Then Ally can have my 3rd floor with no chance of hurting another cat.

You'll just have to give me time. And then I can be the one who is bitter.

Taking yourself out of the fostering loop for at least the next ten years would be an appalling waste of resources. Although I believe in looking at each cat as an individual, at some point you have to look at how much money, space, time, and individual effort you are expending on one cat to the detriment of many, many others. Ally will live in a barn and cope. I have a gut feeling that she will actually thrive in such an environment, as long as she is offered good protection from the elements.

Didn't you make this offer before anyone knew just how very aggressive Ally had become?

[jenluckenbach]

Didn't you make this offer before anyone knew just how very aggressive Ally had become?

Yes, but that doesn't make it an invalid offer.

[jennielynn1970]

Jen - No, you are not going to do this. Don't even think it. Seriously. I will find a barn home for her, and you will keep doing the wonderful things that you do with your fosters. They will not suffer because of one cat. I won't allow that either.

[pitc9]

Taking yourself out of the fostering loop for at least the next ten years would be an appalling waste of resources.

I 100% agree.

[pitc9]

Taking yourself out of the fostering loop for at least the next ten years would be an appalling waste of resources.

I 100% agree.

[shais_mom]

I agree with Angie x 2. There is no reason for Jenn Luckenbach to take herself out of the fostering loop.
And I agree that it is so sad that this situation as come to this. People opened their hearts temporarily for these cats and I don't think Julie had any intention of it being temporary.
And now people are bickering at each other.
Such a sad story

[jennielynn1970]

I'm not trying to bicker.... I'm just in a foul mood.

Jen L. does wonders with her fosters, I'd never want her to give up the ones she has to take in the demon cat from hell, errr... I mean, Ally.

[shais_mom]

I'm not trying to bicker.... I'm just in a foul mood.

Jen L. does wonders with her fosters, I'd never want her to give up the ones she has to take in the demon cat from hell, errr... I mean, Ally.

That's why I think you should FLY down to get WOODY. YOU NEED A VACATION! even if it a super short one!!

[Lizzie]

Veering nicely off the main topic, who is Woody? I know I don't read all the threads, no time with all my special needs fosters, so I deserve not to know - but still want to know. Is this a special back scratcher to relieve Jenn's tensions? Or a special pillow with aromatic wood shavings to cure her insomnia? Or, good grief, is it a cat?

[shais_mom]

Veering nicely off the main topic, who is Woody? I know I don't read all the threads, no time with all my special needs fosters, so I deserve not to know - but still want to know. Is this a special back scratcher to relieve Jenn's tensions? Or a special pillow with aromatic wood shavings to cure her insomnia? Or, good grief, is it a cat?

no
its a puppy! http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthread.php?t=137634

[jenluckenbach]

Or, good grief, is it a cat?

WORSE! It is a DAWG!!! (LOL)

[jazzcat]

Jen - I think we all agree that you sending back all your fosters and turning down all those future fosters the next several years just to accommodate Ally is not the answer and no one could possibly be angry at you for not doing that. It's obvious Jenn sees that too but being the one left holding the bag is hard to deal with. In her spot I would have probably made the same comment and then regretted it immediately because hurting you would not have been my intention, it's just the way I vent frustration. I think venting her frustration was all Jenn was doing and we can all understand why, this is a horrible situation.

Jenn, I still say I support your decision 100% whatever it may be because you are the only one here who has had to deal with this aggressive cat for all these months and apparently Julie doesn't want to have a say in this any longer. Very sad.

[jenluckenbach]

I am not trying to bicker. And I am not angry with my FRIEND Jennie..... I was just trying to fullfill my end of the bargain. I know that throwing away a foster home (when there are so few) would be simple stupidity, but more importantly I never want it said that my word can't be trusted.

I am angry at Julie for not keeping in proper communication with Jennie. We all knew that the time frame was uncertain, but frequent status updates are the least Julie could have done.

[shais_mom]

I am not trying to bicker. And I am not angry with my FRIEND Jennie..... I was just trying to fullfill my end of the bargain. I know that throwing away a foster home (when there are so few) would be simple stupidity, but more importantly I never want it said that my word can't be trusted.

I am angry at Julie for not keeping in proper communication with Jennie. We all knew that the time frame was uncertain, but frequent status updates are the least Julie could have done.

agreed.
She seems to have let herself fall off the face of the earth where these cats are concerned and that is not fair.

[jennielynn1970]

I am not trying to bicker. And I am not angry with my FRIEND Jennie..... I was just trying to fullfill my end of the bargain. I know that throwing away a foster home (when there are so few) would be simple stupidity, but more importantly I never want it said that my word can't be trusted.

I am angry at Julie for not keeping in proper communication with Jennie. We all knew that the time frame was uncertain, but frequent status updates are the least Julie could have done.

Ok, so next time I'm in a foul mood, I vent to myself, and not while writing.

I think this has become more than we both could bite off and chew (Ally, that is). Let's leave it at that, ok? I didn't want to make you upset, I'm so sorry I have. (((((((HUGS))))))) of forgiveness??