A limping kitten

[chicken]

Today while we were at the vet waiting to pick up the lactated ringer's for Jasmine, a man came in carrying a small white kitten.

He explained to the people at the front desk that his wife had found the kitten on the street, and that it was limping, and could he find out what was wrong with it?

When he agreed to their question about whether he "wanted to take responsibility for it" they gave him a form to fill out, but then he started balking when he found out how expensive X-rays would be. He left the kitten just sitting mewing on the floor while he went outside to have a conversation with his wife on the phone.

We had this momentary pang. Maybe we should pay for the poor thing's X-rays! But no. We had our own sick kitty at home.

In the end the people at the desk seemed to lower the prices a bit, and we handed the man a small amount of cash, and we left (because by then we had finished our own transaction for our own kitty).

It was just SO cute, and was limping piteously, favoring both its right front and back paws, and had a weird rash on its back.

I am a huge sucker for small injured creatures.

It's probably a good thing that our apartment complex has a rule limiting pet ownership to a maximum of two pets (not counting fish).

Comments

[kaydee23.livejournal.com]

It's hard, isn't it? I am protected by the two pet limit at my apartment. If I lived in my own house I'd be one of those crazy dog/cat collectors/hoarders. I'd keep rescuing and picking up sick and injured animals until my neighbors called the city, the health department, and the SPCA.

I would have wanted to take the kitty home too:(

My stepsister is a vet-tech, and she has several dogs and cats because she keeps taking home pets from her vets' office that are similar to the little white kitten.

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

My stepsister is a vet-tech, and she has several dogs and cats because she keeps taking home pets from her vets' office that are similar to the little white kitten.

I got that impression from the people behind the desk -- they said that people abandon pets all the time at the vet. Sometimes they take them in themselves, other times they have to take them to a shelter, etc.

My boss found a big white German Shepherd who had been abandoned on the street. He pretty much owns it by now, even though he won't admit it.

I just don't see how people can be so cruel as to abandon a helpless animal.

[kaydee23.livejournal.com]

I don't understand it either. The animals are innocent and helpless. Also, the people at my vets' office take in strays and rejects all the time, including the vets.

We would have had 9000 dogs and cats when I was growing up because we lived out in the country and people dropped off dogs and cats all the time. We kept a few, and the rest my father tearfully took to the animal shelter. Well, first he and mother would argue, we'd cry, and they'd call everyone they knew to see if they wanted them. Sometimes friends would take them in.

One of the cats daddy insisted on keeping lived about 20 years. He still misses her. Their new cat is too fearful, almost feral. She was found on someone else's farm. He's winning her over, slowly.

[anelith.livejournal.com]

Aw, poor kitten. You were sweet to donate some money to help. I know it's hard not to keep on taking in the orphans. When we adopted Pye and Obie it was awful to see all the other cats in the shelter and not go, "We'll take that one, and that one, and that one..." And we were just in the cat room! There was the dog room, and the bird room, and the exotic pet room, and outside were chickens and horses and goats and you name it, all wanting homes and loving families. Argh!

Obviously we all need to live on farms, and never need sleep, and have ten times the energy. And of course about a thousand times the money. Ha!

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

Obviously we all need to live on farms, and never need sleep, and have ten times the energy. And of course about a thousand times the money. Ha!

That's why Doris Day is so awesome. She's spent a good amount of money she made from her movie career taking care of animals, building kennel extensions onto her own home for more animals, starting her animal foundation, etc.

Not many people have such resources.