I got an email last month from a family who adopted a pair of kittens 3 YEARS ago asking to have them returned. They are male/female possible russian blue/OSH mixes. They were adopted to a single law student...who expressed how pets were a life long commitment.
Fast forward 3 years, she gets married, has a newborn baby, and decides she would rather live in California and BOOM the cats are and I quote "in the way" (coming from her husband who just dropped them off).
What is wrong with people?
Now I have 2 more cats...making a total of 9 with the 3 I own and the 4 kittens I am fostering...in an apartment where my landlord doesn't know the cats are here. I CAN'T have 10 frecking cats and I can't keep taking back cat after cat after cat YEARS after the fact. The adopters WERE screened. I thought they had a forever home. Uggh. The nerve of people....don't want your cat...just dump it back on the rescuer. Putting "take back" clauses in adoption contracts seems like it makes it too easy for adopter's to just dump ALL responsibility at all as pet owners for no reason. It's not fair.
Fast forward 3 years, she gets married, has a newborn baby, and decides she would rather live in California and BOOM the cats are and I quote "in the way" (coming from her husband who just dropped them off).
What is wrong with people?
Now I have 2 more cats...making a total of 9 with the 3 I own and the 4 kittens I am fostering...in an apartment where my landlord doesn't know the cats are here. I CAN'T have 10 frecking cats and I can't keep taking back cat after cat after cat YEARS after the fact. The adopters WERE screened. I thought they had a forever home. Uggh. The nerve of people....don't want your cat...just dump it back on the rescuer. Putting "take back" clauses in adoption contracts seems like it makes it too easy for adopter's to just dump ALL responsibility at all as pet owners for no reason. It's not fair.