First, the indoor cat thing. Plain and simple, where I live it is NOT safe for any of my cats to be outside. As it is, we allow them out on our balcony, INSIDE a 8 x 5 enclosure my hubby and I built. As soon as the tarp on the top flies up or an outdoor cat shrieks (usually from yet ANOTHER cat fight), they want IN, and NOW!!! I take my ques from my cats and my cats prefer living the luxurious indoor life.

(Twisterdog...I agree completely!!!)

As far as animals being given up. I have a "strange" point of veiw. We volunteer at our Humane Society every week (more for me lately, not working) and see a ton of truely wonderful animals come in. I don't condemn those that bring them in simply because the animals will now go to their forever home...a home the deserve. Our shelter is great, there are a ton of people to love the animals and they all seem very happy. I'm often sad to see them go to a new home, but they seem to feel the opposite. Sometimes, the shelter is a better place for animals that aren't "welcome" in their current homes. If someone with allergies isn't willing to take an Allegra every now and then, they don't deserve to have those animals.

When we got married, David had a rabbit. It was hard having the time for her, as they are much like dogs in the time department. We decided to get her a friend, so she'd have something to do while we weren't able to share our time with her. We quickly discovered that it didn't help and she got unhappy. We knew it was time to find a new, deserving home for her. We didn't have a time limit, we just HAD to find the right person. It wasn't fair to them if we kept them just to be "responsible". After about a year of looking for a good home, I found one in a co-worker. She is utterly in love with Faith and Thomas...spends every lunch hour (drives 20 minutes to see them at lunch!) with them, spends nights reading to them, Faith sleeps in her bed, etc, etc, etc. I get to keep up with how they are doing and they are much happier than they were at our house. Recently, I learned that they got a new bunny friend...Angel.