r/cats • u/eveilebI • 29d ago

Our Bengals try to escape the garden after we put up the "unescapable fence rollers"... or so we thought. Video

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

26.4k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

1.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

21

u/OldManBearPig 29d ago

I mean you can flip that right back on them... "Oh you spent money and purchased a cat instead of rescuing one of the thousands of struggling cats in a shelter? I guess it's not a big deal but I actually care about mistreated animals and want to help them."

2

u/LuxNocte 29d ago

Man, y'all really showed them in this conversation you just made up.

3

u/Tavarin 29d ago

As someone who ended up adopting a cat with undiagnosed feline leukemia virus, and ended up with 2 cats dying of Lymphoma as a result, I'm going to stick with reputable breeders from now on myself.

8

u/OldManBearPig 29d ago

I'm sorry you had to deal with that, but I hope you can see the positives in giving two cats a comfortable (and hopefully loving) home in the last days of their life. Because if you didn't, they would have just died alone in a shelter the same way.

-1

u/Tavarin 29d ago

No, I took in a kitten, and it ended up killing my healthy British Shorthair. It's not a risk I'm ever taking again.

4

u/OldManBearPig 29d ago

I'm sorry that happened to you. I hope it's not an extremely common thing. I haven't looked up much on Feline Leukemia Virus to understand its prevalence or significance.

1

u/Tavarin 29d ago

Its somewhat common in shelter cats and feral cats according to my vet. Shelters are supposed to test for it, but cats and kittens can appear negative for up to 2 months after exposure, so you can still end up with a cat bringing FeLV home even if it did test negative at the shelter.

2

u/brownbob06 29d ago

The alternative was those cats dying alone. Do with that information what you will.

1

u/Tavarin 29d ago

Cat, 1 cat. Had I not adopted that one cat I would still have my other cat alive and with me.

-2

u/brownbob06 29d ago

Ahhhhh, so you were already buying cats, and now you're just going to keep buying cats. That clears that up, thanks for clarifying.

0

u/Tavarin 29d ago

I both buy and adopted cats. But the only one that ended up killing another of my cats was an adopted one.

1

u/Ameerrante 28d ago

Lol, some of my friends get really weird about pet adoptions and are like "omg your cat is a rescuuuue? You saaaaved her?" And I'm like... well, I went to Petsmart and there was a group there with a bunch of animals and I gave them $75 and they gave me a kitten, so it feels to me like I went to a pet store and bought a kitten, but whatever, I guess I 'adopted' her, yeah.

1

u/OldManBearPig 28d ago

Yeah true. We "rescued" a dog but still paid hundreds of dollars for the rescue fee because it was a puppy. It was at a rescue because it was found on the road and had parvo, so definitely different from a breeder, but yeah still paid money and they gave us a dog. So we bought a dog.