Sorry, but I have to vent a bit!
Seems since I have planned to get Lily, people start making me feel bad about it.
Not only that my mother and her fiancé have told me from her first pictures she was ugly and unfriendly (which I have mentioned here before), people keep telling me how hard it would be to travel when you have to cats (actually I can't see their point because 1. I don't travel much 2. I would have to find a cat sitter anyway 3. IMO it's even more comfortable for cats to be left alone when they have company). Okay, vet bills, food and litter x 2 is another thing, but I will make it somehow.
People here (not everyone, but a few never seems to get tired of it) keep criticizing me for being "overprotective" with my cats and find it overcareful that I don't let my cats sit in open windows or leave them alone with burning candles. Or that I've banned toxic plants from my place and take the cats to the vet when they show signs of illness. I'm often told not too follow "the American standards" too much and to keep in mind a cat is a cat and has nine lives. Meanwhile I refuse to discuss things like this with these people, it's nothing but wasted energy and time. But it's also disappointing.
Latest example: I talked to a friend (the one who usually calls me overprotective) on the phone and told her that Lily is allowed to go outside now by her current owners and that I'm worried about that (see topic here. When I told her that, her reply was like "Well, If I were you, I wouldn't take her anymore now. WQould be too cruel and heartless to keep her indoors now that she knows the outside world. Is there any possibility your friends can keep her?"
Can you believe that? I have asked my friends (those who Lily still lives with) to keep her indoors, my wish was ignored, and now I'm told it would be selfish of me to take her now??? I'm so very disappointed about everything! Instead of looking forward to Lily, everyone seems to want to ruin it for me, just as if it's not meant to be!
Kirsten
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