Save A Purrfect Cat Day #2

In my second day at Save A Purrfect Cat I did much of the same. At first I went and visited four cats in a room in the back, Emily, Gina, Molly, and Riley. These cats have been there every time I have volunteered. When I first visited they were only kittens. Save A Purrfect Cat only will adopt out if they feel that the cats are going to the right home with the right environment. That is the main reason the cats have been at the organization so long. Gina is one of the most energetic cats I have ever been around. She is also one of the most strange cats I have met. She loves to play with laser points and other toys. She does this strange thing when you play with toys with a sting attached to them. She bites the toy and tries to play tug-a-war like a dog (she is strangely strong). I Stayed with them for close to an hour before I left to another room. The room I decided to enter housed a mother and her kittens. There were four total kittens, three of them looked the same with himalayan colors. Their names were Beau, Brock, and i forget the last. the other was just a plain black cat named bessie. Mitchel, the person who runs the adoption center taught me something I was previously unaware of, in a litter of kittens there can be multiple fathers. He told me that most likely the three who looked the same were from a different father than the other black cat. Ther mother of litter seemed to be around 9 months old, fairly young for a mother. She was also very small, so small that when I first saw her I thought she was a kitten herself. However, she is fully grown and just a small cat. The kittens were still trying to nurse on the mother even though they were far too big. In fact no milk was even there. The kittens only did this for comfort.The three himalayan had already been pre adopted into homes and were just waiting to be fixed to go to their new homes. The only thing that made this day different from my last was the time i spent helping potential adopters. Multiple Adopters entered the adoption center while I was with the kittens. My “job” as a volunteer was to show adopters around the shelter. One family came in looking for a particular cat that had already been adopted. They were pretty upset they could not adopt the cat they were looking for. However, their son had quite a lot of fun with the kittens. He most likely spent 30 minutes playing with them. Somehow volunteering made me think of something my fellow student Cole Barger wrote a paper on, Animal Testing. I found a website that covers everything on Animal Testing. http://www.lonestar.edu/stopanimaltesting.htm

The main thing I like about this website is their section on how the benefits of testing on animals do not outway the evil circumstances the animals are put in. I believe it is very important to educate ourselves on this topic and take a stance. There are alternatives that could be used and it is up to us to fight for animals rights.