Work is tearing me apart at the moment
It's the run up to Christmas and of course, we don't sell cats around this time because they only come back to us when they're "unwanted gifts". However, it's become very very difficult for us to help the cats that we desperately want to because the entire of our bottom floor has had to be ripped out due to fungus under the flooring. We are down to half a shelter. Our other shelters are full to beyond capacity and all of a sudden we are swamped with cats where we have no space. We've been taking them in anyway.
One of them was Polly. She came in several weeks ago as a stray. Very very affectionate pretty girl and we developed a very strong bond. I was so thrilled when she was going to go to a new home, but sad that she was going to go. However, it all went wrong. She didn't go to a new home. Kid pulls tail, cat gets hurt and bites kid. Parents refuse to take cat. I wish parents would teach their kids not to pull tails. Still, it was looking good for another home. Then she got ringworm.
Polly wouldn't take the pills needed to treat the ringworm - and it would have to be over a long period of time. Over a long period of time, that stress would be detrimental - and especially seeing as it would have to be done by me, someone she trusted. So instead of finding another method to treat her, and so that she woudln't have to be in the shelter over the Christmas and the new year, they put her to sleep.
I miss her so much, she was such a little ray of sunshine in the winter for me. I'm so angry with my boss right now and there was nothing I could do to change it. I feel like I let her down.
My poor sweet little Polly, I wish she could have come home with me. She felt like she was my own... She was perfectly healthy and happy and spent all the time sitting on my shoulders while I worked. I miss her so much
One of them was Polly. She came in several weeks ago as a stray. Very very affectionate pretty girl and we developed a very strong bond. I was so thrilled when she was going to go to a new home, but sad that she was going to go. However, it all went wrong. She didn't go to a new home. Kid pulls tail, cat gets hurt and bites kid. Parents refuse to take cat. I wish parents would teach their kids not to pull tails. Still, it was looking good for another home. Then she got ringworm.
Polly wouldn't take the pills needed to treat the ringworm - and it would have to be over a long period of time. Over a long period of time, that stress would be detrimental - and especially seeing as it would have to be done by me, someone she trusted. So instead of finding another method to treat her, and so that she woudln't have to be in the shelter over the Christmas and the new year, they put her to sleep.
I miss her so much, she was such a little ray of sunshine in the winter for me. I'm so angry with my boss right now and there was nothing I could do to change it. I feel like I let her down.
My poor sweet little Polly, I wish she could have come home with me. She felt like she was my own... She was perfectly healthy and happy and spent all the time sitting on my shoulders while I worked. I miss her so much