The cat and dog overpopulation problem has reached desperate levels in too many communities. It's hard to understand the cruel indifference to the welfare of their animals that so many people in my area display. The Fresno County shelters are completely swamped by so many unwanted/unneeded animals that many beautiful and sweet creatures who never did anything wrong end their lives by gas or needle, simply because there is no way to care for them with the underfunded animal control programs.
In an interesting twist, Marin County frequently comes to Fresno and loads up on adoptable animals from the SPCA and Humane Society here; in affluent Marin County outside San Francisco, they actually have a LACK of enough abandoned animals to meet the demand there. That is because the type of people who live in Marin spay and neuter their pets and will not patronize puppy mills or buy pet store dogs and cats. What a sad comment on Fresno, that the people here are so ignorant and lowclass that their shelters have the highest populations in California and the rich folks come here to do what we are unable to do. I've never been able to bear visiting these shelters because of the feeling of desperation that they give me
But at least I contribute heavily to the Fresno Feline Foundation, a no-kill shelter/clinic which actively works to find homes for the animals turned in to them and keeps any which are not adoptable in their loving care for as long as they live. We got the momster's two Maine Coons from The Feline Foundation and T'Pau, Queen of the Universe, came from the Madera County Shelter.
I know that Rikki Tikki Tabby will have a wonderful home with Marichiko and by now should be well on his way to developing a major attitude as befitting his environment
