Horrible experience today!!! :o(

[kimlovescats]

Dumb as I am, I stopped by our local Animal (high-kill) Shelter today. Just call me a glutten for punishment. Anyway, as I was walking around looking at all the sad faces in the windows, I noticed a beautiful blue kitty who was apparently sick with the URI. He/she was open mouth breathing and had watery eyes, she was crying out to me, and I was trying to comfort it through the glass. I also noticed sneeze marks all over the glass, so I brought it to the officer at the desk's attention. A few minutes later, I had another kitty out for some loving, a gorgeous long-haired black boy .... such a temptation! Anyway, I noticed they came in with a carrier and left again, but I didn't really pay attention to what they were doing. There had been several phone calls, and a few other visitors there, so I thought someone was being adopted. Just before I left, I was asking the "story" on the black kitty I was holding.... I had noticed he was front declawed, but NOT neutered, which I thought was strange? Anyway, I asked "how long" he had before being PTS, the officer said he had a pretty good chance as long as he wasn't sick, "like that other one"!!! It suddenly hit me .... and I asked .... they had takent that gray cat immediately out and back to be PTS because of ME!!!!! It was all I could do to not pitch a fit, or get hysterical ... I said, "Oh NO! So I just sent him to his death sentence! My gosh, an URI is not a death sentence!!!!" He said that they don't have an on-staff vet, so as quickly as the URI spreads, they immediately KILL anyone who has symptoms!!!!!!!
God, I want to go back and rescue ALL of them!