Originally Posted by
super807
Good for you for providing a safe and caring home for those animals.
Sadly, the abandoned cat problem is widespread. Fourteen years ago, I was working at the Agriculture Museum here in Ottawa, which is on a big spread of farm land in the middle of the city. We had some barn cats, but a lot of people seemed to think the farm was a great place to dump their unwanted pets. Within a one month period, I brought home two cats that had been abandonned there. Each cat was only five months old.
The first one I found, I am sure he had never even been outside before. His fluffy white fur was so clean, no mats and his paws didn't even have dirt marks on them. He was terrified when I found him. Fortunately I found him before Otis, the barn tom cat did. Otis would have beatten the tar out of my fluffy one. Both of those cats were fabulous pets, friendly and sweet, really personable. Shadow, the little black female, passed away two months ago. Oreo, the fluffy while and black male is still with me. They've never been any trouble and it always boggles my mind that people could just abandon them like that.