A few weeks ago my wife showed me a dog video of a small dog that was available for adoption. We applied through this agency called Last Hope. They had a dog adoption event at a local Pet Smart store. They did not have his dog with them so we're able to discuss it with their staff. We were told that had already applied for adoption but they would let us know. Friday I was looking on their website and saw that dog was gone so I think someone adopted it. All the rest of their dogs are too large to be lapdogs but they were all well behaved and well mannered. I was amazed at the pitbull mixes were the most affectionate dogs that they had. We took Atlas with us and the made friends with all the dogs. He seemed very frustrated though because we would let them off his leash to play with the other dogs so he got to go to the dog park afterwards.
While we were at Pet Smart Matt drove me over to look at the kittens. Many of them more 6 months old so they weren't really kittens anymore. While we were looking at one in particular he kept licking its paws just like Macy would and then look at us like we are annoying her. While this was going on I started thinking I am probably more of a cat person even though I like dogs. Dogs used to not like me until I got MS. I think maybe I am a nonthreatening person now in this made the difference.
Friday I was looking at their cat adoptions and found they do not list whether the cat is declawed or not. With me not being able to move it seems best to have a declawed cat, at least on the front paws. Indoor cat seem better off being declawed in the front but so many cats that could be placed easier if they were declawed. The shelters are so full of cats it seems better to me that they go through getting declawed rather than putting them down because there are just too many cats. So we did find a cat by emailing them and asking if they had any that were declawed. There is one that we are interested in and I think we will see if we can meet it. I'm a little afraid of getting a cat because they are so individualistic. I can't compare it to Macy as far as become attached to me because she was unique and the timing was perfect. It would be nice to have another animal around. Hopefully it will like sleeping on top of me because I really miss that. I'll keep you posted because it is not a short process with Last Hope.
The one thing that makes my church for cat difficult is the issue of declawing. I agree that it is a negative thing to do but many indoor cats really should be declawed. In my situation it is a must. I don't want a kitten and they recover from declawing in a day or 2. Please older is a very long recovery for an adult cat so I need one that is already declawed. I'm finding that almost all of the shelter cats are not declawed. My quandary is this - is a cat better off getting declawed or being put down because there are just too many cats and not enough people?
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