And too many canines, too. However for now, I’m fascinated with cats, primarily due to a tragedy that occurred in Medford, Lengthy Island, on March 31. That morning, round 7:00, a hearth broke out at Glad Cat Sanctuary, the place as many as 300 cats lived with proprietor and founder Chris Arsenault. About 150 cats perished, together with Chris, who died making an attempt to avoid wasting as many as he may. Greater than 100 survived (the search goes on), together with this poor little woman, who’s now in my foster program. I haven’t held her but, however gosh, I like her already!
Chris’s willpower and compassion made him a powerful advocate for animals on Lengthy Island. He earned the love and respect of so many and saved numerous lives over the previous 18 years. At present, the animal rescue group mourns his loss together with the lack of all these valuable cats. I’m simply so grateful that officers dominated out arson as the reason for the fireplace. Arson would have made every part worse… if that’s even potential.
What Chris tried was merely an excessive amount of for one particular person. Pet overpopulation in America is a societal downside that our authorities wants to deal with straight. The one significant approach to sort out this concern is thru a mixture of spay/neuter, adoption, and TNVR (entice, neuter, vaccinate, return).
Regardless of what some individuals say, eradication applications don’t work and solely create extra issues. In addition they use horrific strategies, like poisoning, leghold traps, taking pictures, gassing, drowning, and hunger, whereas by no means addressing the underlying concern. Alley Cat Rescue has a superb clarification of why eradication applications fail.
In a great world — and I admit I’m a dreamer — there could be no want for Glad Cat Sanctuary and no want for my program, both. In a great world, our authorities would fund a program to supply free, high-quality spay/neuter companies, which might deal with pet overpopulation and ease the struggling that comes with it. It could help adoption applications, superb individuals who enable their cats to roam, and ban the business breeding of all pets.
