It's like a Hemingway story

[kaitou]

One of the things I like to do at work is go look at the bulletin board in the hallway. Sometimes you find fun things to do, like the Women in the Outdoors day. Mostly people are trying to sell cars, or daycare services. Months and months ago someone posted a 'Free Kittens' paper on the board. When I was thinking of getting a cat, I thought about it. But the rest of the sheet saying 'Some are litter trained' scared me off.

Today someone has taken a blue Bic pen and scratched out 'Kittens' and written in 'Cats' above it. Well, it HAS been months.

(this is still not as good as the 'wedding dress - never been worn' that was posted when I started working here)

Comments

[roseinmist.livejournal.com]

Uh... Cats don't need to be "trained" unless there's something wrong with them. They go in the sandy area, so unless there are multiple sandy areas in your house that aren't the litter box, you should be okay. :o)

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

Well, that's kind of what set off warning bells in my head. 'Some' are trained? Why bother to say they're trained at all unless there are problems with some?

So I steered clear of those and got my cat Roxy. She was quite a bit more expensive than Free, but worth it I think.

[altodescant.livejournal.com]

Yeeeah... I was thinking the same thing... "some" are trained?

There are definite advantages to the way you got Roxy - one, you rescued her from a breeding operation (ethical brownie points) where lawd knows what would have happened to her. However, as a former breeder, you know she was well cared for (especially if they delivered her one-and-only litter by kitty c-section).

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know about the brownie points. This was no kitten mill, they were a 1st class cattery. I got to play with the kittens in the kitten room the day I picked up Roxy and they definitely spared no expense to make it clean and comfortable. Roxy was actually a cat they bought from another cattery for breeding in order to make sure they didn't get too genetically narrow. Sometimes I feel guilty that I didn't get a shelter cat.

But I've never had a cat before. And haven't had any pet at all since I was a kid...and like most kids my parents did all the work on that. So I thought if I got Roxy, I'd know she wasn't being given up for behavioral issues that I didn't know how to cope with. And she'd be used to being regularly groomed....basically a cat with the training wheels on. And so far she's been perfect for that.

[whimsical-cow.livejournal.com]

Well at the bottom line, she was still a kitty who needed a good, loving home, and you gave her one. So yay :)

You can always go to the shelter when you're ready for a second one ;)