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Recently, someone dropped off 30 kittens outside of a local animal shelter. It just broke my heart.
I'm not allowed to have animals due to the terms of our lease, but my folks have a dog (adopted from a shelter), and two cats (the two cats were dumped on someone's property as kittens, and I arranged for my parents to adopt them). When my family had to rent housing as a kid (while either selling a house or waiting for a house to be finished), we ALWAYS rented pet-friendly places so we could keep our animals. Sure, some of them smelled like cat pee, but I got to keep my cat, and we were only living there for a few months.
Because I can't have pets but I love them so much, I do volunteer work for the animal shelter in town and donate money to them to help them out. They do great work.
I just can't imagine treating a pet like anything less than a member of the family.
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If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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