And too many canine, too. However for now, I’m enthusiastic about cats, primarily due to a tragedy that occurred in Medford, Lengthy Island, on March 31. That morning, round 7:00, a fireplace broke out at Blissful Cat Sanctuary, the place as many as 300 cats lived with proprietor and founder Chris Arsenault. About 150 cats perished, together with Chris, who died attempting to avoid wasting as many as he might. Greater than 100 survived (the search goes on), together with this poor little lady, who’s now in my foster program. I haven’t held her but, however gosh, I like her already!
Chris’s dedication and compassion made him a powerful advocate for animals on Lengthy Island. He earned the love and respect of so many and saved numerous lives over the previous 18 years. Right now, the animal rescue neighborhood mourns his loss together with the lack of all these treasured cats. I’m simply so grateful that officers dominated out arson as the reason for the fireplace. Arson would have made every little thing worse… if that’s even attainable.
What Chris tried was merely an excessive amount of for one particular person. Pet overpopulation in America is a societal downside that our authorities wants to deal with straight. The one significant strategy to deal with this subject is thru a mixture of spay/neuter, adoption, and TNVR (entice, neuter, vaccinate, return).
Regardless of what some individuals say, eradication applications don’t work and solely create extra issues. In addition they use horrific strategies, like poisoning, leghold traps, capturing, gassing, drowning, and hunger, whereas by no means addressing the underlying subject. Alley Cat Rescue has a superb clarification of why eradication applications fail.
In a great world — and I admit I’m a dreamer — there could be no want for Blissful Cat Sanctuary and no want for my program, both. In a great world, our authorities would fund a program to supply free, high-quality spay/neuter providers, which might deal with pet overpopulation and ease the struggling that comes with it. It could help adoption applications, advantageous individuals who permit their cats to roam, and ban the business breeding of all pets.
