*BIG HUGS* for you Leslie because I return to the board and see you have been getting a hard time again.
I know the original post has been closed but I missed it so here I am because I just wanted to say my piece and be done with it.
For goodness sake people we all read how distressed Leslie was when Amy got out and fell pregnant. She was so upset and asked for everyone's advice in a post...and most of you responded in that thread from memory.
Leslie took in Amy as a stray when she was already pregnant...not many people would do that. As for her recent escape and pregnancy, who would have guessed she would be ready to mate again so soon and bust out through a screen door. It's not like Leslie knew what she was dealing with. I certainly would not have been prepared for what happened. I don't know anything about females being on heat and how determined they are to get out. Otherwise I would have warned her. Perhaps the advice would have been better to give back when the first litter was born and weaned so she knew ahead of time. Remember we're not all experienced with this.
I definitely agree that you should have asked her via a PM to edit the message and remove the joke or clarify it. I know Leslie and guarantee she would have done so straight away. I guess us Aussies have a different sense of humour. Leslie probably didn't even realise at the time that it might not be taken as a joke. This is the net and sometimes we forget that people can't see or hear our tone when we say things. Yes she acted defensively and I would have too because she was rained down upon pretty hard and anyone that knows her and the story of Amy knows that it just wasn't called for.
I understand that this is a cat welfare site and you are trying to educate cat owners but Leslie is a wonderful person to her cats and is certainly not deserving of that. To actually hint that Leslie would purposely bring harm to Amy by breeding her too young and too often was just not nice at all. I've never met anyone more loving and caring of her furbabies. New people seeing that certainly would have been educated, the hard way, and probably turned away rather than encouraged to stick around.
I cannot find the original post either and have searched through the list of her posts looking for it. I did find this one though:
http://www.thecatsite.com/forums/sho...threadid=14062
which was around the same time and touches on the issue anyway.
So anyone new to the world of female cats read this and be prepared...apparently they are ready to mate again soon after weaning kittens...and they will get out of your house even when you think they can't. They are very determined little girls, so get them spayed asap.
Sorry to resurrect the issue but I couldn't let this go by without saying something and sending some hugs Leslie's way...
I know the original post has been closed but I missed it so here I am because I just wanted to say my piece and be done with it.
For goodness sake people we all read how distressed Leslie was when Amy got out and fell pregnant. She was so upset and asked for everyone's advice in a post...and most of you responded in that thread from memory.
Leslie took in Amy as a stray when she was already pregnant...not many people would do that. As for her recent escape and pregnancy, who would have guessed she would be ready to mate again so soon and bust out through a screen door. It's not like Leslie knew what she was dealing with. I certainly would not have been prepared for what happened. I don't know anything about females being on heat and how determined they are to get out. Otherwise I would have warned her. Perhaps the advice would have been better to give back when the first litter was born and weaned so she knew ahead of time. Remember we're not all experienced with this.
I definitely agree that you should have asked her via a PM to edit the message and remove the joke or clarify it. I know Leslie and guarantee she would have done so straight away. I guess us Aussies have a different sense of humour. Leslie probably didn't even realise at the time that it might not be taken as a joke. This is the net and sometimes we forget that people can't see or hear our tone when we say things. Yes she acted defensively and I would have too because she was rained down upon pretty hard and anyone that knows her and the story of Amy knows that it just wasn't called for.
I understand that this is a cat welfare site and you are trying to educate cat owners but Leslie is a wonderful person to her cats and is certainly not deserving of that. To actually hint that Leslie would purposely bring harm to Amy by breeding her too young and too often was just not nice at all. I've never met anyone more loving and caring of her furbabies. New people seeing that certainly would have been educated, the hard way, and probably turned away rather than encouraged to stick around.
I cannot find the original post either and have searched through the list of her posts looking for it. I did find this one though:
http://www.thecatsite.com/forums/sho...threadid=14062
which was around the same time and touches on the issue anyway.
So anyone new to the world of female cats read this and be prepared...apparently they are ready to mate again soon after weaning kittens...and they will get out of your house even when you think they can't. They are very determined little girls, so get them spayed asap.
Sorry to resurrect the issue but I couldn't let this go by without saying something and sending some hugs Leslie's way...
