http://www.feralcatbehavior.com/324/the-year-of-strays.html Blogging about feral cats and life in general Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:30:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 http://www.feralcatbehavior.com/324/the-year-of-strays.html#comment-19406 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:34:53 +0000 http://www.feralcatbehavior.com/324/the-year-of-strays.html#comment-19406 I agree! Being considered "eccentric" is much preferable to not caring. I even aspired to being "the crazy cat lady" for a while, but two friends have me beat with their households of rescues and fosters. One has 11 permanent residents and various temporary visitors. It really riles me to see how people think of pets as disposable property that are dumped with even less thought than the weekly garbage as soon as they tire of them, or the poor things act like nature made them. "They're just animals" ......makes me want to find a way to leave them outside without food or water in our winters (Northern Ontario). GRRRR..... I agree! Being considered “eccentric” is much preferable to not caring. I even aspired to being “the crazy cat lady” for a while, but two friends have me beat with their households of rescues and fosters. One has 11 permanent residents and various temporary visitors. It really riles me to see how people think of pets as disposable property that are dumped with even less thought than the weekly garbage as soon as they tire of them, or the poor things act like nature made them. “They’re just animals” ……makes me want to find a way to leave them outside without food or water in our winters (Northern Ontario). GRRRR…..

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