Hi,
This is my first post but I've been led to this site frequently with my cat questions and always appreciated the help I've found here.
I'm looking into possibly adopting another cat or kitten in the near future and have been looking on PetFinder.com (there are so many...how does one choose?!!). I have a question about cats who live in shelters and/or are fostered in people's homes vs those at a pet store; I'm not talking about the adoption events on the weekends (I got my two kitties at such an event 10 yrs ago, but the cats who are in the pet store's cages. Please tell me if I'm correct in my thinking or if I'm off base. It would seem to me that the cats in the pet stores are in more dire need of adoption than those who are fostered in people's homes, where they can roam freely, or at a shelter, where they at least have a large room to roam around. Is this correct?....Or, do the cats in the pet stores actually get adopted out quicker because they are out in front of the public? When I inquired with someone at a Petsmart one time, they said their cats really don't stay there too long before they're adopted out. But at a different pet store I kept seeing the same cat there for several weeks in a cage right by the check-out counter and another time at a different store (same chain/different location) I overheard an employee tell one of the customers that a cat was there for 2 months. Even though the employees were wonderful and big animal lovers and they'd let him/her out of the cage at various times throughout the day, it still seemed kind of depressing to me.
I've heard that the pet stores do work with a lot of the rescue groups so I'm wondering if they get rotated between foster homes and the pet store cages?
While I need to make sure I would get a new cat that will fit in good with my cats, I'd rather save one from living in a cage for too much longer.
Any insight anyone has on this would be appreciated.
Thank you!
This is my first post but I've been led to this site frequently with my cat questions and always appreciated the help I've found here.
I'm looking into possibly adopting another cat or kitten in the near future and have been looking on PetFinder.com (there are so many...how does one choose?!!). I have a question about cats who live in shelters and/or are fostered in people's homes vs those at a pet store; I'm not talking about the adoption events on the weekends (I got my two kitties at such an event 10 yrs ago, but the cats who are in the pet store's cages. Please tell me if I'm correct in my thinking or if I'm off base. It would seem to me that the cats in the pet stores are in more dire need of adoption than those who are fostered in people's homes, where they can roam freely, or at a shelter, where they at least have a large room to roam around. Is this correct?....Or, do the cats in the pet stores actually get adopted out quicker because they are out in front of the public? When I inquired with someone at a Petsmart one time, they said their cats really don't stay there too long before they're adopted out. But at a different pet store I kept seeing the same cat there for several weeks in a cage right by the check-out counter and another time at a different store (same chain/different location) I overheard an employee tell one of the customers that a cat was there for 2 months. Even though the employees were wonderful and big animal lovers and they'd let him/her out of the cage at various times throughout the day, it still seemed kind of depressing to me.
I've heard that the pet stores do work with a lot of the rescue groups so I'm wondering if they get rotated between foster homes and the pet store cages?
While I need to make sure I would get a new cat that will fit in good with my cats, I'd rather save one from living in a cage for too much longer.
Any insight anyone has on this would be appreciated.
Thank you!