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[quote=Anonymous]I grew up in farm country where you could have a hard time giving away a cat or a kitten. I moved to the city, got a kitten (this was many years ago, the cat lived to be 19 and has been deceased for several years). Got her from a free kittens ad in the paper (ads were free if you were giving away the kittens, I don't know if they even do that any more). The lady giving away kittens was a cat lover who gave you a little can of cat food AND insisted on taking your picture with the kitten, she had an album full of pics of kittens with their new owners. Plan was to have her spayed like a responsible pet owner. Around the time she was the right age I lost my job. She was supposed to be an inside cat but she got out when in heat and had kittens. Worried what I was going to do with those kittens. When I advertised to give them away I was astonished how many calls I got.

Some years later, cat died, got mice as cold weather approached. A friend of my son's who worked at a machine shop found this cat, stray, in the cold, hanging around the machine shop for weeks. Caught her, took her to the vet (she needed to be treated for worms and I think mites), gave me to take care of the mice. Cat was also pregnant, had kittens. Ran an ad. Phone ringing off the hook. But also harassed by animal welfare fanatics for having a cat who had kittens. It was pretty awful.

And yes I have heard that it can be very difficult to adopt an animal. Also, my dog is now late middle age and so am I. I'm going to want another dog when he passes on but hear that shelters don't want to let people in their 60s adopt animals.

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