So now I have a story to share with all of you.
A few years ago, I was good friends with a girl that I went to high school with (I'll keep her identity secret for the sake of privacy). I hung out at her house a lot, but I was rather shocked at the amount of pets she and her family owned. They had several dogs, a plethora of cats and kittens (none of which were spayed/neutered), as well as birds, fish, as well as several other smaller pets. Unfortunately, there were just too many cats for them to be properly taken care of (see my recent post on animal hoarding).
It made me really sad to see all these little kittens not being taken care of the way they should have been and sometimes even getting roughhoused by the dogs also living in the house. Although I am rather allergic to cats, I became attached to one of the kittens and convinced my grandmother to help me bring her home. She lived very happily with me for a few years, before my dad got remarried (to a woman with cat allergies), but now she is even happier living with my nanna. She has a few other cat friends to play around with and a wonderful woman taking care of her.
A few months after I got Annie, my friend Karen* (that I interviewed in the previous post), who is also allergic to cats, witnessed the sadness of the home these newborn kittens lived in. Though her mom wouldn't be happy with the new addition to her family, she convinced herself to bring Itty home. Thankfully, her mom was attached to him within days and Karen* once again did a great deed.
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