this is more of me venting than anything, but it makes me angry and I need to talk to someone about it. My friend has a lot of cats, which would not be a problem if she could care for them properly. Before she had an indoor/outdoor cat that was used to hunt mice, this cat was killed by a coyote and they wanted to get another cat to replace him, but she said she would not get attached because this one would probably die too. that made me mad, but luckily they did not get another. Anyway they had 3 intact cats, 1 male and two female. One of them got pregnant (a mixed breed) and delivered one kitten which was killed soon after by one of their dogs (I don't know why he was allowed in with the kitten). Soon after they let her breed again (i said let but since they don't ever separate them I guess it would just be they did not stop them from breeding) and she had I think like four kittens, they kept one and gave the others away. then she had another litter (I met these kittens and the cat from the previous litter was large but I believe was not much more than a year old) with six kittens I think. I don't remember if they kept one or gave them all away. the room they were kept in was far from clean. They then got her fixed I believe, well at least i know she has had no more babies. they then purchased a Bengal kitten male from a breeder (good or bad i don't know). they planned to breed him to their other intact Bengal female. He is under a year. just a few weeks ago the female gave birth, but my friend did not know if they were the Bengals or the other mixed males kittens since she got pregnant before they got the other boy fixed. Anyway the only baby was a still birth. Well what bugged me even more was that last week she told me she thinks the cat is pregnant again! it has been no more than three weeks since she had the still birth and she is already pregnant! I said "already" and she kinda giggled and said yeah I know but we want kitties so bad
. i can tell you that these cats that are pregnant never once go to the vets while they are pregnant or after they give birth and the kittens never see the vets before they go to new homes. I'm very tempted to suggest that she terminate the pregnancy but I know she'll think I'm crazy since like she said she really wants kitties. She said well at least we know who the father is now.i did not tell her that a male can still get the female pregnant up to a month after being fixed. I really wish i could just get all of the cats out of the situation. She also had a dog but they treat her better, their other dog died because the hip dysplasia was crippling him (he was very obese too) but they want to get a Australian Shepherd now too. I wish I could say something to stop her from breeding but I know nothing I say will matter since she thinks she knows so much more than me about cats, and another thing that bugs me is that all our friends think she is a cat expert because she has more cats than me! Well i've told some of my friends that i don't like how she cares for her cats but I can't tell most of them because they will tell her what i said and she'll be a jerk to me. *sigh* at least my best friend agrees that she is evil for breeding her cats like that. What would you do? (end rant/vent)
