By: Café Mocha Valencia

Café Mocha Valencia — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:59:02 +0000

The cat charity I work for never says this to potential adopters. We recommend keeping a cat in for at least 4-6 weeks so they get used to the new scents/familiarise themselves with their surroundings.
We have had it on a few occasions where a cat has returned to it’s old home and so sometimes we try and rehome them in a different area of town or a few towns over.

By: Café Mocha Valencia

Café Mocha Valencia — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 06:06:05 +0000

I know you’re not joking. Nor is the shelter. Most shelters don’t want you to let cats outside because their likelihood of injury is so much higher. There’s wild animals than can eat them, cars that can run them over, loose dogs that could kill them, diseases from other cats, cruel people that could poison them, sick children that could torture them. Do I really have to keep going??? And a lot of the cats at shelters have never know the outdoors – so it’s very cruel to think they’ll adapt to life outdoors.
Think of it from the shelter’s perspective. They’re put a lot of time, money and love into caring for the animals that are dumped there – some often on the verge of death and many that have to go through months and months with a foster parent rehabilitating them from abuse or making feral cats social. So why would you think they’d want you to take a cat from the safety of the shelter to the dangerous outdoors?

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By: Café Mocha Valencia

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