It was impossible to tell the first few days but she had obviously been socialized at one point which means she was either dumped here or was one of my SILs outcasts. The ones she tosses outside when they aren't cute little kittens anymore. Probably on her way to church with her kids in the car watching.
She is one of those sad human beings that will bring home a whole litter of kittens to rescue but then toss them out when they start spraying and coming into heat never thinking to S/N. It seems their religion is against S/N. Unless a dog or cat comes to her fixed she won't do it. I keep bringing up in our county that an intact animal should be about 500 dollars per year to license. A breeder with high quality puppies or kittens would make that back on the first pet sold.
My cats have to have a county license but they do not have to wear a collar or tag. Its 5 dollars per cat per year and it does go to the AC fund that helps provide services.
Intact pets are the biggest issue in animal overpopulation. It's not the real breeders who produce purebreds in a healthy clean home using high breeding standards. It's puppy/kitten mills that mass produce and your nice neighbor who forgot that cats can start breeding well before the one year mark or are just heartless and don't think of the consequences to their own pet or it's offspring. The first step is mandatory micro chipping with low cost options for all pet owners. Cats remain most at risk since they are often left out from a very young age to fend for themselves. You start where you start and eventually if you persist you end up where you want to be. Which would be someone getting a bill in the mail after their dog or cat got hit by a car and killed or caused damage to the vehicle or produced a litter of puppies or kittens which instead of the taxpayer being saddled with was now passed to the owner complete with properly liens like houses and cars. When I had saddlebreds it was the sellers responsibility to transfer the papers to the buyer not like most breeds where you sign the papers and hand them to the buyer for them to file chips could be manage the same way.
The first step to animal control is being able to ID who owns the pet. Next comes enforcing S/N of non breeding animals. I'm being realistic here. If you can't sell the offspring for at least 500 dollars why are you even playing at animal maker. The reality is there will always be excess kittens at shelters and rescues. Right now there's so many they have regular events to waive the adoption fees. I don't know the number but actual adoption rates are pretty dismal. Some rescues may do pretty good but it does nothing for the millions dumped in garbage bags every year.
Both domestic and human populations need to come under control.
The eyes in that picture were just wonderful. Emerald green is beautiful but B/W caught her soul.
