Not everyone lives somewhere with an obvious feral cat population. Some of us have to adopt from shelters or we'd just... never get to have cats.
My first cat came from a shelter, and she's literally everything I've wanted in a kitty! And I guess adopting from a shelter is technically a bit of a gamble, but we adopted her partially because of how she acted in the shelter. She was in the last cage we looked at and meowing DESPERATELY while basically throwing herself against the bars. Took my husband and me like two seconds to be like YEAH THAT'S THE ONE haha.
We later found out she's probably either an escapee from or descended from cat from a local-ish Siberian breeder. So we might have accidentally gotten a fancy $2000 cat for like... $100 OMG. That said, you can't put a price value on a beloved pet, so even if we had paid thousands of dollars for her, she'd be worth it!
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Not everyone lives somewhere with an obvious feral cat population. Some of us have to adopt from shelters or we'd just... never get to have cats.
My first cat came from a shelter, and she's literally everything I've wanted in a kitty! And I guess adopting from a shelter is technically a bit of a gamble, but we adopted her partially because of how she acted in the shelter. She was in the last cage we looked at and meowing DESPERATELY while basically throwing herself against the bars. Took my husband and me like two seconds to be like YEAH THAT'S THE ONE haha.
We later found out she's probably either an escapee from or descended from cat from a local-ish Siberian breeder. So we might have accidentally gotten a fancy $2000 cat for like... $100 OMG. That said, you can't put a price value on a beloved pet, so even if we had paid thousands of dollars for her, she'd be worth it!
Also, obligatory cat tax: https://64.media.tumblr.com/cf29199f1ca359a15c6ccc34039ac3b1/9b2e9e30bfa95b1a-34/s1280x1920/97243d909ec926e2da67b564eb9cd7aabacd76bc.jpg. :D