Tales & Tails of New York

A woman called earlier today.

"I am looking to adopt a pair of kittens."

I told the woman about several pairs of kittens and cats we have for adoption.  A few fostered by myself and the others in volunteer foster homes.

"What if I am interested in Martha and Rachel, the Tortie sisters?" the woman asked.

"Well, I will give you the number of the foster people who are caring for them in their home and you have to get in touch with them to see the kittens."

"Oh, OK.  Well, I guess I will just keep looking."

Is dialing a second telephone number that hard, I wondered later?

Other calls I got today?

. A social worker telling me about a "client" who has 17 cats in her home and needs to place all of them.

.  A woman who "just had a baby" and needs to put her three cats up for adoption.

 . Another woman who just found a Pomeranium mixed, older dog wandering around on the streets of Brooklyn.  She already has a dog and can't keep this one.

.  A woman who needs to "find a home" for a cat her boyfriend rescued a few months ago.  He is living with an "allergic roommate" and the woman is living with a rommmate who doesn't like cats.

"Why can't we match up the allergic roommate with the one who doesn't like cats and that way you and your boyfriend move in together and keep the cat?" I asked.

Oh well, I have to try something.

Tonight, I checked our website and Petfinders to make sure we are not asking for people to give us animals.  Hm, it does seem we are trying to find homes for the animals we have already.

Hm, what is the answer to all of this?

I know!  A "magic wand!"

If I had a magic wand, I would:

10 - Match all the people who don' t like animals with those who are "allergic." That way, thousands of potential homes for animals would be freed to take animals in, once the complainers are gone and living "happily ever after" in their animal-free, antiseptic, germ-free, pristine, plastic bubbles.

9 -- Pass a law to ban all landlords who ban pets in apartment buildings.

8-- Change all the calls asking for help to calls seriously proclaiming, "I want to help -- and then, actually helping.   Change all the "Can't's" to "Can's."  i.e. "I can't foster, I can't adopt, I can't donate, I can't help, because......to I can help, foster, adopt, etc.etc."

7-- Develop a simple pill that could be given to animals, causing them to be sterile. (No more excuses for failure to spay/neuter).

6 --The next fancy building to be bought or constructed by Donald Trump (or other real estate mongul) to be a state of the art animal shelter. 

5-- Change "Karma."  All those breaking commitments to or abandoning their pets to later experience abandonment from someone they love or care about. All those who neglect or forgetting to feed their animals to later experience hunger or neglect from loved ones.

4 -- Create free veterinary help/spay/neuter to those rescuing an animal from the street.

3 -Create a situation whereby the children or other close relatives of elderly people who die would happily and responsibly take in the caregiver's beloved pets.

2 --Create a situation whereby all those who criticize or condemn the killings that occur in our shelters, instead, find ways they can help and bring the killings down.

1-- Be sure that all lottery winners were either animals lovers or animal rescuers!

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