Curiosity (Almost) Killed the Cat
MY POST TODAY was going to be about my random trip taking Grandma to her doctors appointment, but that post got put on the backburner. Sam’s cat died today. She was poisoned, leaving behind six little orphaned kittens. Add to that Sam’s other female cat with six MORE kittens, and a batch of older kittens that we’re trying to get rid of and you can say she has a full house.
And you thought I was the crazy cat lady.
She called me crying earlier, wanting to know if I would list her cats on KSL for her and I gladly obliged.
I’ve gotten some spam comments before. Being in the marketing industry, that’s sort of part of the job description. But this comment, something about it just sets my blood on fire, and I think it’s that I can’t decide if it is a genuine comment or just spam.
Either way, I HATE IT:
I am very interested in your free kittens. I am an enterperneur and have been working on something that I think will be huge. There are so many different flavors of dog food for instance, chicken, lamb, and even salmon. Why not feed dogs what they really want? I have created a recipe for cat flavored dog food, and would love to use your kittens to make some of the first batches that I plan to demo in hopes of contract with eukanuba,Iams, and Pedigree. When can I pick up the kittens? Best of luck and make sure you buy a bag of this premiumn dog food if you see it in stores! Paul
Wait, slow down. Did I read that right? This guy wants to cook CATS? For dog food? What’s wrong with people? Let’s just say it’s taken every ounce of my self control to not freak out on this guy. Don’t mess with my pets dude, or you’ll be biting off more than you can chew.
In other news, if anyone wants to adopt these two kittes, just let me know. They’re orange tabby females that are ready to go to their new homes, preferably one that doesn’t want to feed them to fido.
not cool.
some people are just plain cruel.
Orange tabby females? Really?! WOW – some serious recessive gene thing going on there – orange cats are rarely, rarely female. Even rarer for an orange female cat to be fertile – they are often sterile. We had one though – her name was Mama Cat. Decades ago, my sister begged our Dad for a cat. A neighbor’s barn cat had a litter of kittens. She dragged my Dad over there, and he finally gave in, pointing to the yellow one, saying “you can have that one”. In his wisdom of animals, he figured it was male. If not male, at least sterile. With his wisdom of animals, he should have checked. She was most definitely female, and most definitely not sterile. Half a dozen litters of kittens later, he finally had her spayed. She was an excellent mother though, and when she no longer had kittens to hunt for, she would present our dog with a dead animal. Every. Single. Day. Is that love, or what?