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I am fully aware that this site is pro-spay/neutering. Which is why I am asking my question why, any and all comments/questions, are in view of helping me understand.
My roommate saves cats from homelessness(which is fine), and gets the spayed/neutered as soon as possible (,which is also fine). The last cat she saved, is apparently very very pregnant, I have seen some small discharge, can feel the babies moving, and by her restlessness, I know she will probably give birth within the next few days. She loves helping cats from shelters and is studying in college to be an assistant in vetenarian clinics and etc.
Everyone who defends this point of view, doesn't want kittens because it penalised older cats in shelter who could of otherwise been saved, but who will get euthanized, which I understand.
Finishing fact: the cat goes to surgery Monday and unless she has fully finished labour before Monday 8am, all kittens will be euthanized.
Here's what I really need help understanding: it's horrible to have to kill cats that have lived 2-10 years, but if it's kittens that would of otherwise been fine (and I've got the families for them too, all people that refuse shelter cats, just like me), so if it's kittens it's fine to kill them (if it's an abortion mid pregnancy or whatever it's fine) but they are livable, they have 68 gestation days, they can fully survive as long as the mother isn't killed.
That's the paradox I don't understand, it's fine to kill being that have barely lived, but killing older ones that at least got the chance to live and will probably get euthanized is horrible?
What am I not getting? I know there are a.ton of homeless cats, I know refuges are overfull, I know purposely reproducing cats I bad, I know not spaying neutering our cats is bad, I fully get that, but I don't get why it's fine to kill kittens but horrible to have to kill older cats..
Please someone explain this to me, please!
My roommate saves cats from homelessness(which is fine), and gets the spayed/neutered as soon as possible (,which is also fine). The last cat she saved, is apparently very very pregnant, I have seen some small discharge, can feel the babies moving, and by her restlessness, I know she will probably give birth within the next few days. She loves helping cats from shelters and is studying in college to be an assistant in vetenarian clinics and etc.
Everyone who defends this point of view, doesn't want kittens because it penalised older cats in shelter who could of otherwise been saved, but who will get euthanized, which I understand.
Finishing fact: the cat goes to surgery Monday and unless she has fully finished labour before Monday 8am, all kittens will be euthanized.
Here's what I really need help understanding: it's horrible to have to kill cats that have lived 2-10 years, but if it's kittens that would of otherwise been fine (and I've got the families for them too, all people that refuse shelter cats, just like me), so if it's kittens it's fine to kill them (if it's an abortion mid pregnancy or whatever it's fine) but they are livable, they have 68 gestation days, they can fully survive as long as the mother isn't killed.
That's the paradox I don't understand, it's fine to kill being that have barely lived, but killing older ones that at least got the chance to live and will probably get euthanized is horrible?
What am I not getting? I know there are a.ton of homeless cats, I know refuges are overfull, I know purposely reproducing cats I bad, I know not spaying neutering our cats is bad, I fully get that, but I don't get why it's fine to kill kittens but horrible to have to kill older cats..
Please someone explain this to me, please!