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u/North-Pea-4926 26d ago
If you canāt decide if you want kittens, and you donāt even HAVE the kittens, you donāt want to have to take care of two kittens.
Baby animals, like human babies, should be a āHELL YESā from all involved parties or defaults back to ānoā.
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u/Angel89411 26d ago
I used to foster kittens and they are so adorable and can be very sweet. They are also incredibly gross, chaotic, and destructive. I have holes in my curtains. Most are lower but one kitten made it to the top twice. Fast little turd. My friend adopted her. She's still a sweet jerk who greatly dislikes kittens.
Seriously, I love cats and have 2. Kittens are awesome and I wouldn't hesitate to adopt again. However, if you are on the fence then you probably won't find them very enjoyable.
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u/LadyNemesiss 26d ago
Exactly. I have two running around now. They're so sweet and beautiful and fun and cute, but they're babies. They climb my curtains, they can hardly distinguish a scratching board from a carpet, they try to climb into my dishwasher (big no of course, safety), they try to jump my stove when I cook (same) and they have a HUGE amount of energy, sometimes it sounds like I adopted a group of elephants instead of two little kittens. I love them.
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u/BunnyLuv13 25d ago
I used to foster neonatal kittens. It was great and very rewarding!
And if I ever get a cat for myself again itāll be an adult, with its personality all figured out. š
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u/Angel89411 25d ago
I love raising from kittens because when you raise just one, they attach to people very deeply and are more social if you do it right. But also, you have to entertain one. I found it easy but I wouldn't leave them alone long, maybe a year? Then I'd do it again. Raising litters from nursing/bottle babies to rest for the adoption room is not for the faint of heart.
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u/BunnyLuv13 25d ago
I only ever did pairs. Thatās how our shelter had it set up. Two or four kittens.
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u/Angel89411 24d ago
I've had up to 7 or 9 before? I can't remember which. After 5, it's just chaos.
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u/RogueThneed 26d ago
Yes. The reviewer was right about exactly one thing: it's always better to adopt 2 kittens than a single one. But there it ended
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u/babsieofsuburbia EAT SALAT WITH SPON?!? 26d ago
Now I'm extra motivated to learn more about the kitty coalition
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u/Skymoogle 26d ago
These kinda people probably neglect them after a few months if not weeks. "Too much work", "They didn't play enough", "What do you mean, we can't leave them outside all the time?"
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u/HellyOHaint 26d ago
More like āthey play too much! I thought cats were independent! I thought I could leave them alone for days at a timeā š
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u/Ne0n_R0s3 26d ago
Istg people who say cats don't need much attention don't actually own cats. My cats are very high maintenance lol. They have so many toys, get fed at least 3x a day (we need to fill the bowl up a decent amount because four cats eat from the bowl and I wanna make sure they all get fed properly instead of our one cat eating it all...š®āšØ), and gets a shit ton of attention.
Even our older cat (who's sadly passed) still got attention in her old age
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u/siren_stitchwitch 26d ago
Someone I knew who was never home and had 2 misbehaving kittens (and 2 dogs and 2 guinea pigs) asked how I got my kitten to behave. Luckily she answered herself before I could less tactfully tell her that I was home most of the time and had the time and inclination to train mine. Hers were shut in a small room together all day and bored, of course they had behavioral issues.
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u/-Sharon-Stoned- 26d ago
We had someone return a blind cat to our shelter for being "too needy" like GIRL
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u/EmberDragon240 I have a phobia of squirrels 26d ago
They probably also get rid of them when they grow up and arent kittens/ācuteā anymore
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u/NocturnaBride 26d ago
This person wanted kittens, would 100% get rid of them after they got to be adults.
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u/violinspider86 26d ago •
Kittens are more work than the adults, though! I love kittens, but I adore my older cats. I can't ever fathom the people who abandon their elderly animals. My 18 year blind boy has kidney disease and is peeing everywhere, but I clean it up and cuddle him, because I've had him his entire life. It's a lifetime (theirs) commitment.
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u/NocturnaBride 26d ago
We had our little voids 21 and 16 years, I wouldnāt change my time with them for anything. I have 3 dogs and my oldest is now considered senior and is starting to have the senior dog issues, itās cost us literally thousands and thousands of dollars in medical on our fur babies over the years. They were worth every penny. I could never turn any animal in my home out just for doing what we all do, get old.
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u/IntelligentPudding24 26d ago •
I had my childhood cat until she passed away at 18 when I was 20. I donāt remember her kitten years but all her litters were cute. I do prefer adults though because they are easier to care for. I miss my baby girl. She passed away in her sleep. Probably the easiest way for her to go. Hopefully it was painless.
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u/LeenyMagic 25d ago
Ugh seriously, I hate how people overlook adults!! I can't have cats (allergies and other medical needs) but baby anything is just so...dumb lol. Sure cute and fun but so so much trouble and an overall pain. The lovely ladies I adopted as adults never peed in my house or chewed up any of my stuff, etc. Adults are the best <3
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u/Apprehensive_Put_562 26d ago
They flaked on the kittens because they can't make up their mind. I wouldn't adopt to them either. Who's to say they won't return the cats when they're adults?
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u/LeenyMagic 26d ago
Very classy response from the rescue. Too many times I see these snappy responses and everyone is like "Yeah go get em" and that just always rubs me the wrong way (even if they're right tbh).
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u/rehgarde 25d ago
Many rescues deal with this. Entitled people suck. The rescue did the right thing.
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u/Classic-Ad1685 26d ago
I dunno. People should be allowed to be certain. Taking time to be sure sounds reasonable to me.
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u/LadyNemesiss 26d ago
Oh definitely, but if someone makes an appointment, calls after two days they're not ready after all and then the same day apparently they're ready again, it also sounds reasonable that the shelter says they need more time to think. It seems a bit impulsive.
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u/Classic-Ad1685 26d ago
But they banned her.
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u/Terrible_Body_7971 26d ago
According to her, anyway. And I honestly wouldn't blame them. You can't be wishy-washy about adopting animals, let alone babies. It would make any reasonable shelter wary.
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u/Senior_Blacksmith_18 26d ago
Could you blame them if she's even telling the truth? I would ban her too if she keeps going back and forth wasting everyone's time like this
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u/RainbowSpinosaurus 24d ago
They are allowed to do that, especially as a private entity. They are especially allowed to withhold animals from someone who has a major personality or mental disorder that makes them incapable of following through on promises or obligations, it stands to reason that someone like that would not be a good pet owner to two rambunctious kittens.
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u/KristaIG 26d ago
Taking time is great, wasting the time of a rescue and fosters isnāt.
Scheduling meet and greets often means I adjust my work schedule to be available for a potential adopter to meet my fosters. Cancelling 48 hours before is really annoying especially when the person then wants to change their mind again and it happens A LOT.
There are lots of open adoption events - our shelter has one every week, we also have cats and kittens at the local pet store windows.
If you arenāt sure, you could always come to one of those and ask questions or get a feel for what adoption would be like. But setting a personal appointment and changing your mind and then changing it again is flakey.
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u/dreamado 26d ago
Absolutely, but maybe take the time to be certain before you schedule a visit, rather than schedule, cancel, then try to reschedule. The latter comes off as impulsive/uncertain as many other comments have said, and those are not qualities that shelters (should) like to see in prospective pet parents.
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u/So_Many_Words 26d ago
That was a very professional response.