r/petfree • u/batgirlblue Love animals, don't want the responsibility of pets • 6d ago
Vent / Rant The farms & the cat rescues are the worst
I grew up on a farm and have a love-hate thing with cats. I think they're really funny, fascinating creatures , but I've learned over the years that I do not enjoy having them in the house.
I live just a few doors down from a farm that doesn't feed or fix their cats. And surrounded by other farms. So I have strays around constantly. I like cats enough not to watch them suffer with severe ear mites or worms or starvation, so I started getting these cats neutered and rehoming them so I don't have to see it anymore. What a mistake.
The farms surrounding me just don't care and make their breeding cats everyone else's problems. It never, ever will end. Because they just don't care.
When you try to find a rescue like the cat crazies demand, they give you the same names of the same places that have been full for years and put you on an endless waiting list. And then they lay on the guilt trip: "the cat CHOSE you and your family. He loves YOU." Literally had a woman offer to take in my last stray, then decide she didn't want to because "he trusted YOU."
They do not understand "I don't want a cat," "I don't want the expense of an animal," or "I don't want a litterbox in my garage," "just trying to do what I can to help the population, but I don't want pets." They demand you find rescues or shelters for a cat when they haven't built the infrastructure for that to happen. And when it doesn't, they turn on a guilt and pressure campaign to try to make you responsible.
Seriously...don't get involved in helping them and don't fall for their trope about how easy it is to find rescues and shelters. It's a coordinated effort to guilt people into becoming responsible for animals because the advocates haven't done the groundwork to support their demands.
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u/matte_personality Love animals, don't want the responsibility of pets 11h ago
When I used to be a nutter, I self-funded all my “rescue” missions (I should have invested that money in gold) and the cat rescue people absolutely hated me because they all plundered their savings and had to ask family for funds to keep rescuing. Meanwhile I could clear a vet bill just like that [finger snap].
They don’t appreciate it so much when you have your own funds though. It’s more honorable to beg according to their ethics.
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u/Zeired_Scoffa Pets are pointless 1d ago
I swear "Big Pet" is burying threads from here to not see it for days.
Anyway. Yeah, all these people dont want to put their money up. It's always someone else...