Sometimes I hate people. A lot.

[Jilly_in_VA]

Today i was doing my usual shelter shift when we got a new arrival. She was an adorable teenage tortie and white kitty who was absolutely terrified. The woman from medical who brought her in said she was an owner surrender, her name was Lilo, and she was 8 months old. We all did our best to make little Lilo feel at home in the scary place, fetching her a bed and a fuzzy blanket, talking to her softly and offering lots of pets.Gradually she seemed to settle down, at least a little, and before I left, I stopped by her kennel again to see how she was doing. She came up to me asking for pets, which I gave happily, and then she turned and licked my hand, which about broke my heart. I ran into the woman from medical on my way out, and she said, "Oh, by the way, I found out Lilo's back story. She was surrendered because she didn't get along with their newborn."

WHAT????? How does a kitten not get along with a newborn? Maybe shows some jealousy, but it's like with any sibling...you've got to introduce them gradually and give it time! You don't just dump the kitten in the shelter. Hopefully Lilo finds a more understanding and reasonable human next time around.

[FullySupportDems]

1. Sometimes I love people...

People like you, working or volunteering in shelters. You're the best. I don't think I could do it. Abused and abandoned animals break my heart. Knowing there are people like you help. You go on hating people, and I don't blame you one bit. People are awful. Except when they're the BEST.

[LiberalLoner]

2. 💙💙💙 good people are what make the world bearable.

[FullySupportDems]

6. That's so true! :)

[erronis]

15. Thank you for saying that - my feelings exactly. And thanks to jilly_in_va for what she does!

[FullySupportDems]

18. Purrs and waggy tails!

Love to the people who give love to our furry friends when they need it the most!

[Figarosmom]

3. Maybe Lilo

Will be better off if her old family gave her up so easy. I wonder what the motivation was of getting a kitten when expecting was?

[Diamond_Dog]

4. I have heard of pets taken to a shelter just for having fleas.

[OldBaldy1701E]

11. I have heard of them being dumped off at the shelter because they were not the color that the owner wanted. (n/t)

[Clouds Passing]

5. Thank you for working with the unwanted and abandoned fur children.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

7. I stole

A cat in an abuse situation. She was a beautiful medium hair black cat.
She had human teeth marks where her ears had been bitten and one reason this asshole abused her was he thought the cat would steal thier baby’s breath.

Looks like stupid medieval superstitions are still harming cats.

Well when I got her home She was scared but calmed down in a day.
Had her vetted. Broken rib ,bruised kidney. She was declawed too.

Later she would be on seizure meds and have a special diet because of her kidney damage. But she was the sweetest baby. Her name was Fricka and she was amazingly photogenic . She was stunning in every picture I took of her. Had her for like 11 years with us and decades later I still miss her.

[erronis]

16. The prior owners were so cruel --- declawing a cat actually means removing their front paw bones.

Horrible!

[I_UndergroundPanther]

25. I know

I could not let her stay with them
My heart would not stand for it.
Her first toe bones were taken out surgically at the joint.I am thankful they didn’t use the guillotine method where they break the toe off..
And Fricka was so beautiful. I still love her, always will. That’s how I am with the cats that come into my life.

[Easterncedar]

8. Just for your own sake

Try to imagine new parents who are stressed and frightened, aren’t sleeping, aren’t coping well and who decide a kitten would be safer and happier in a new home, but have no friends or family who can take in their cat. They broke and did their best.

Sure, it might not be true and the unknown people could be careless and ignorant jerks who probably shouldn’t be parents either, but isn’t it better for your soul to give them the benefit of the doubt? And if they aren’t up to the job, either way, isn’t it better for the kitten to have better people?

You’re a good person and I appreciate how much you care.

[LoisB]

9. Thank all the gods that there are people like you.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

26. Agree

Totally here

[get the red out]

10. I hate people

The stupidity is overpowering in too many humans, and when it hurts animals (or kids), I have no use for them.

[OldBaldy1701E]

12. Hear Hear! (n/t)

[Evolve Dammit]

13. Fucking people. I'm starting to hate our species...

[3catwoman3]

14. This sounds like BS to me.

If cats don't like someone/something that isn't another cat, they usually just stay away.

Poor little kitty - she'll be better off elsewhere.

[orleans]

17. that's how i ended up with a little rescued dog

the owners lied and said she was six yrs old.
they dumped off her and her brother.
she was at this unusual shelter for about 3 months -- hadn't been given her med (Benadryl) (due to itchy allergies) for three fucking months b/c they never told the shelter she needed them. people told shelter they were having a baby and decided to get rid of the dogs!

i couldn't take the brother but i was able to take her. i managed to track down her vet due to her rabbi tag. that was how i learned of her allergies. i also learned that she was ten yrs old, not six. (i would have taken her regardless)

this little dog, as it turned out, absolutely LOVED children. she would have been the perfect dog for that asswipe family and their new edition.

what assholes! i also learned who they were. i remember he worked in a bank.

i adored her. she died three years after i met her. i was so fucking devastated i slept with her little coat for two goddamn years. i still have three large photos of her on my bookcase that i look at every day. (she passed eleven and a half years ago)

my daughter brought me a little rescue dog a year and a half later, for christmas. she's still with me. i took her into the vet a couple days later to get checked out and they guessed she was a year and a half old. a couple weeks ago i was talking to the vet and she looked up the birthday they put on file. oddly enuf, they put the same date for her birthday that was the other's death day.

sorry for the trip down memory lane. i hope lilo finds a wonderful home and a wonderful person finds her and they live happily ever after.

[erronis]

20. You bring tears to my eyes. Thanks for being so caring!!!!

[OverBurn]

19. The owner may have believed the old wife's tale about Cats stealing baby's breathe.

It's total bullshit, but some people still believe it. I love when one of my Kitty's lays across my chest.

[erronis]

21. And we all know that those types of people believe a whole bunch of other shit.

Sometimes a human is just a waste of good protein that should be used for better purposes.

[slightlv]

23. When my daughter was newborn, I got all

kinds of warnings from neighbors and others about how the cats would do anything from steal her breath to suffocate her by sitting on her face. (sigh) This was 40-some years ago, but still... we're way past medieval days. Just as much as anything else, I'd find one of the cats in the crib doing head boops or gently stroking the baby's cheek with one soft paw, trying to help "hush" her crying.

Having rescued for over 50 years, and at one point living within a block of a shelter (city pound), I had all kinds of animals dropped off near my house. Some of them just broke your heart, many of them we never learned their backstory, but I have taken a baseball bat out with me to save a cat or dog in distress. Like you, I hate people with a white hot anger some times.

[Dem2theMax]

22. I have to use the Nextdoor app, because the community I live in insists on using it to communicate important information

I am constantly reading stories like this.
The cat, the dog, doesn't get along with;
The other cat, the other dog, the husband, the wife, the kids, the next door neighbor's dog, the next door neighbor's cat, the new baby. It goes on and on. And the reason? 'We don't have the time to work on it. We are too busy.' That's always the excuse. We don't have the time to work on it.

[Nigrum Cattus]

24. Not get along ?

I was in the Vet once when a guy came in and said "I need this dog euthanized".
The desk person asked "why?" and he explained that the dog had nipped his
daughter, not bit, nipped. The desk person refused and he left in a huff, selfish

[I_UndergroundPanther]

27. That guy

Trying to murder his dog needs to be euthanized. People that treat animals like expendable objects need to be treated like expendable objects.