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Hello everyone~ (apologies for the long thread)
My name is Yu-Ri- I am a veterinarian living in South Korea (sorry if my English isn’t perfect). I was reading on this site for a couple months and decided it might be useful for me if I joined. I hope I can get some advice from all of the members here and that I can maybe contribute to other people’s questions as well.
In South Korea there are not as many shelters as in America, and the ones that do exist are overflowing with animals, especially cats and small critters. Normally 75-90% are euthanized every year- they are more like overcrowded houses and the animals are let free to roam wherever they want. The breeders here are mostly backyard breeders who breed the health problems into the animals. Therefore, I have adopted 4 cats, 4 gerbils/hamsters, and I foster (basically take in 3-5 at a time from the shelters) dogs that have upper respiratory infection or more serious diseases and therefore have to wait several months or even years to be adopted. I would adopt more, but here the apartment space is limited- I have a very busy but cozy household.
Luckily there are many more people in South Korea adopting and rescuing animals today.
This is Duman (I call her Dudu-means dumpling in Korean), my Siberian/Norwegian Forest Cat mix. The shelter took her in as a feral kitten and I have raised her since then. I must have put some magical food in her bowl or something, because today she is the spunkiest cat of the group (as you can see from the first picture). Let’s just say that she has “her own way of managing the household”.
This is Miso (means smile in Korean), my 4 yr. Maine Coon/DMH mix. He is a big boy and he will follow the rest of the cat flock wherever they go. He is like a living teddy bear- he is more outgoing than Haru but has the same sweet personality and will just melt into my arms when I come home from work every day. He brings a smile to my face, hence his name:
And last but certainly but not least is Sarang (means love in Korean), my 8 yr. Abyssinian. I adopted him from a backyard breeder that was giving their unwanted kittens to the shelters, not because I trusted the breeder, but because I wanted to rescue Sarang from the poor conditions he was in (By the way, when I say this, I do also mean that there are very reputable breeders in South Korea now that take the kittens very seriously.) He is always last in line and the slowest because he is the oldest, yet he seems to be the wisest and quietest of all. He is the one that goes to sleep first, that wakes up the earliest (and wakes me up too).
As you can see he is just as photogenic as the younger cats
Well those are my four cats. Apologies again for the long post and I look forward to meeting everyone and learning new things every day.
~Yu-Ri
My name is Yu-Ri- I am a veterinarian living in South Korea (sorry if my English isn’t perfect). I was reading on this site for a couple months and decided it might be useful for me if I joined. I hope I can get some advice from all of the members here and that I can maybe contribute to other people’s questions as well.
In South Korea there are not as many shelters as in America, and the ones that do exist are overflowing with animals, especially cats and small critters. Normally 75-90% are euthanized every year- they are more like overcrowded houses and the animals are let free to roam wherever they want. The breeders here are mostly backyard breeders who breed the health problems into the animals. Therefore, I have adopted 4 cats, 4 gerbils/hamsters, and I foster (basically take in 3-5 at a time from the shelters) dogs that have upper respiratory infection or more serious diseases and therefore have to wait several months or even years to be adopted. I would adopt more, but here the apartment space is limited- I have a very busy but cozy household.
Luckily there are many more people in South Korea adopting and rescuing animals today.
This is Duman (I call her Dudu-means dumpling in Korean), my Siberian/Norwegian Forest Cat mix. The shelter took her in as a feral kitten and I have raised her since then. I must have put some magical food in her bowl or something, because today she is the spunkiest cat of the group (as you can see from the first picture). Let’s just say that she has “her own way of managing the household”.
This is Miso (means smile in Korean), my 4 yr. Maine Coon/DMH mix. He is a big boy and he will follow the rest of the cat flock wherever they go. He is like a living teddy bear- he is more outgoing than Haru but has the same sweet personality and will just melt into my arms when I come home from work every day. He brings a smile to my face, hence his name:
And last but certainly but not least is Sarang (means love in Korean), my 8 yr. Abyssinian. I adopted him from a backyard breeder that was giving their unwanted kittens to the shelters, not because I trusted the breeder, but because I wanted to rescue Sarang from the poor conditions he was in (By the way, when I say this, I do also mean that there are very reputable breeders in South Korea now that take the kittens very seriously.) He is always last in line and the slowest because he is the oldest, yet he seems to be the wisest and quietest of all. He is the one that goes to sleep first, that wakes up the earliest (and wakes me up too).
As you can see he is just as photogenic as the younger cats
Well those are my four cats. Apologies again for the long post and I look forward to meeting everyone and learning new things every day.
~Yu-Ri
