Thursday, May 26, 2011

Voluntarily Surrendered Animals

I struggle the most, emotionally, when I come across owner surrender sheets for the cats.  This is because those cats have lived their entire lives or the majority of their lives under a domestic roof. For the most part, these cats are surrendered due to medical or circumstantial displacement.  For example, 4 year old Marcy was surrendered because a family member was allergic to her. 
Marcy is a little over 4 years old and has been in the shelter since April 29th, 2011.


Moxy is an 11 pound Domestic Short Hair, she has been in the shelter since May 5th 2011.  Her previous parents surrendered her because they had too many pets to take care and did not have the finances to support her.

Waffles was also surrendered. He is a 10 year old Domestic Long Hair cat who is most comfortable in your lap.  Waffles loves to be loved and deserves every bit of it.  He also highly enjoys kitty toys.   He was surrendered because his owners were moving and stated they could not take him with them. 
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2 comments:

  1. (Mary) Shannon JohnstoneMay 31, 2011 at 3:57 PM

    Good work. I struggle with this topic as well. Cute kitty photos.

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  2. AnonymousJune 8, 2011 at 1:00 PM

    You've summarized nicely what I saw over and over in the animal surrender sheets for the cats. The economy, home circumstance, illness etc. I wonder what these animals must be thinking about the chaos and impersonalness of their shelter living after being in home situations for so long?

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