I'm not happy a cat show with cats AND KITTENS, the breeder crowd, are over at Linn County fairgrounds this weekend. It's about all I can do not to pack my belongings and leave this town tonight. I work my butt off to help the caste off cats, the zillions of them, in this county, and here they host a show that encourages breeding of cats. Click post title to go to story.
I want to vomit.
It's time to leave Linn County.
Saturday, March 01, 2008
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I've just found you through Cheysuli and read back. I can't believe nobody wished you a happy birthday or called you or came to see you. That's just wrong, specially as you are having such a rotten time with your kitchen appliances and with people who just don't care for their cats or other people, people like you who are helping them and remaining unthanked. I do hope things get better for you. I will try to visit you often, but I do get very behind on my blog reading, much as I love them. Take care:) xxx
ReplyDeleteThank you very much, black cat. Thanks for stopping by.
ReplyDeleteStrayer, Cat Shows do not promote the breeding of cats. Only of purebred cats. Pet cats and those that compete in the Household pet class MUST be nuetered. Additionally, many shows raise money for spay/nueter operations for various organizations and also help shelter cats find homes.
ReplyDeleteFor some reason, cat shows seem to have a very bad reputation, but I think it is due to misinformation more than anything. The Sassy Katz site does not list any info on charities at the show, but I'm sure there were some there.
Sassy Katz is linked to a bigger breeding organization. I'm sorry, I do not agree. So many purebreds end up in shelters and feral, it is unbelievable and probably not widely known. I know breeders in Eugene, who call themselves reputable, and their houses are like those of collectors, with crap on the carpets everywhere. I believe this collector/slash breeder raises abbysinnians. An abbysinnian breeder who sold them in Millersburg, moved, left a good number outside, some of whom roamed into that homeless camp out there, and others, to a neighbor, who fortunately got them fixed. Breeders are not saints and they certainly do contribute to the overpopulation and feral problem. They also by and large adopt out their kittens unfixed.
ReplyDeleteThe mere presence at the Fairgrounds of such a show, encourages the idoits out there, in Linn County, to breed, even without knowledge of what they are doing. This is how many of these trash breeders get their start--from going to cat shows like this one and thinking "I'm going to make money breeding cats."
And here's another example. Columbus Street, actually a little street off it, in Albany. Some folks I know got a constant stream of Siamese because their neighbors, him a high school teacher, bred Siamese to sell, only they did not keep them inside and the man, this teacher, told his neighbor he didn't have to, because a Siamese unfixed male was dominant and wouldn't let other stray males breed with his Siamese females. They didn't even know point colors and would advertise them as purebred. My neighbor told him, "You know, breed aside, size decides dominance in the cat world." Then the neighbor called me and asked me to come get the cats all fixed, because they'd come to his patio to eat. In the end Poppa Inc. paid a price for this stupid idiot's choice to breed Siamese for money. That is just one example of what goes on out there, when idiots get the idea they're going to breed cats for money. Hello. There are too many cats, of all breeds, out there.
ReplyDeleteAnd another thing, many of these breeding organizations actively fight spay/neuter laws, as they did in California as they did in Eugene. Why? Because they don't have a clue about the real problem and the problems they help create, the financial burdens spread to others by their breeding hearts. And they don't care. And because they fear they would be affected, that they might have to apply for a breeding license and spay and neuter the kittens they adopt out. They have spread propaganda that is unbelievable, like stating overpopulation is a myth. I have no sympathy for or love of breeders.
In one of those incidences of irony, Vladi was at the Albany show.
ReplyDeleteI know that there are bad breeders but I don't the breeders are the main problem with cat overpopulation. I believe it's the common pet owner who won't get their pet neutered that are more of the problem. I know about the controversy over the California laws and while believe in mandatry spay/neuter laws where breeders need to get a breeders license, the problem comes down to - again - how do you enforce the law with the casual pet owner who is allowing their tabby cat to roam around the neighborhood and make kittens. Why penaltize the breeders for the mistakes of the casual pet owners?
As for too many pets out there, one of my friends bought a pure bred himmie because the local shelter would not let her adopt a pet. Why? Because her husband had owned an unneutered dog prior to the couple getting married. So she brought a pure bred cat because she was deemed unfit to own a shelter cat. Go figure. (All her pets are currently spayed/neutered.)
The system needs to be fixed but the breeders aren't the whole system. And the incident you're refereing to with the Siamese is not someone who was a responsible breeder, but someone who wanted to make money off pure bred cats. There's a difference.