Thank you for saying this. It should be broadcast far and wide, honestly.
We adopted Luna, Farouche and Selena from a cat "sanctuary" in town. We figured the cats would be coming from a place that had a good record and good kitties because of what we'd seen there (we'd gone to an open house, tremendous response from the public) and from talking to them.
Farouche died 5 days after we brought him home, from effusive FIP (confirmed by autopsy).
We adopted Selena about a week after he died, from the same place. All three were littermates. She died on Christmas day from dry FIP, just 3 months after we brought her home (not confirmed by autopsy, but clinical symptoms were consistent).
Luna continues to be her annoying self, lovable, sweet and annoying. Her FIP status is unknown.
Based on what the shelter told us, both of the vets we used for Selena and Farouche (one was the shelter practice, the second was independent), this place has a serious FIP problem. No fewer than 8 cats died from FIP in a 1 month period. Yet nobody ever says anything about this shelter but how great they are. No wonder they didn't balk at paying for Farouche's bills at their own vet, they must be used to it by now.
Yes, it is really nice to see a large, old home in the city filled with free-roaming cats, looking at you from the window perches the shelter has. But it makes me sick to think of how many of them are sick and dying because the damned place doesn't care enough to bleach litterboxes and the "kitten rooms" when there have been sick cats in them. Oh, I could rant on and on. I was calling the place a cat factory, which is so close to how they are at pet stores.
Bastards. All of 'em.
I hope that little boy learns that he didn't do anything wrong, and his parents get him another bird (from a reputable dealer!) and he can bond with it. That bothered me the most (and was the one thing we were grateful for with our ordeal - that we didn't have children to be subjected to this).
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Date: 2004-03-27 10:06 am (UTC)We adopted Luna, Farouche and Selena from a cat "sanctuary" in town. We figured the cats would be coming from a place that had a good record and good kitties because of what we'd seen there (we'd gone to an open house, tremendous response from the public) and from talking to them.
Farouche died 5 days after we brought him home, from effusive FIP (confirmed by autopsy).
We adopted Selena about a week after he died, from the same place. All three were littermates. She died on Christmas day from dry FIP, just 3 months after we brought her home (not confirmed by autopsy, but clinical symptoms were consistent).
Luna continues to be her annoying self, lovable, sweet and annoying. Her FIP status is unknown.
Based on what the shelter told us, both of the vets we used for Selena and Farouche (one was the shelter practice, the second was independent), this place has a serious FIP problem. No fewer than 8 cats died from FIP in a 1 month period. Yet nobody ever says anything about this shelter but how great they are. No wonder they didn't balk at paying for Farouche's bills at their own vet, they must be used to it by now.
Yes, it is really nice to see a large, old home in the city filled with free-roaming cats, looking at you from the window perches the shelter has. But it makes me sick to think of how many of them are sick and dying because the damned place doesn't care enough to bleach litterboxes and the "kitten rooms" when there have been sick cats in them. Oh, I could rant on and on. I was calling the place a cat factory, which is so close to how they are at pet stores.
Bastards. All of 'em.
I hope that little boy learns that he didn't do anything wrong, and his parents get him another bird (from a reputable dealer!) and he can bond with it. That bothered me the most (and was the one thing we were grateful for with our ordeal - that we didn't have children to be subjected to this).