I monitor the cat shelter website for cats I like (I can’t get anymore I have two already. I just like looking at cats). Anyway, I saw one cat as returned for being “too affectionate”. 1) too affectionate? What the fuck is that??? 2) I don’t think that’s a bad thing. Affectionate cats are great.
I mean, they’re not furniture. they’re living beings with needs and emotions. You can’t get a companion animal and expect them to just sit there and do nothing all day. they need affection and attention. If you just want a cat to sit there and do nothing, get a fucking statue.
My latest rescue came from his third stint in the shelter. I have no clue why. he’s a great little guy.
/rant
Once received a dog from the shelter who was returned two times before for being too energetic and scary. It was the most loving goofball I’ve ever seen. He even loved going to the vet and took his time to greet all the people working there whenever we had to go.
Dog tax
Him hanging with one of our bottle lambs in an empty kiddie pool. They were nearly inseparable.
And here in full
That right there is a good boy
The bestest boy <3
In what world is an animal that sleeps 16+ hours a day too playful? Was she originally adopted by ground slothes?
Yeah, I’m wondering if too playful meant too attackey? Once we got a cat who had a “clean” history. He was so sweet and snuggly except he’d get in this zone where he would crash out and attack our legs and bite. We tried everything we could think of, my partner and I had had like 15 cats previously between us. No amount of play time, novelty in toys, attention, affection, space, whatever made him not attack our ankles and bite. I started feeling too anxious to walk across the house to the kitchen. With a sick pit in our stomachs we had to bring him back to the shelter. There we found out we had been lied to and he had lived as an outdoor cat for a while, and had been returned once before for biting. We had a 3 bedroom house and a screened in porch but it just wasn’t enough for him. We were also discouraged from reporting the biting as it would “make it harder to rehome him.”
I don’t know if I’ll have another animal in my house again. The biting and scratching was stressful and awful but having to return Beau was so difficult, and felt like such a failure. I can’t handle falling in love and then failing another animal.
You can’t judge someone for the third hand account. Maybe OP and her dad were a much better fit and the animal is different in their home.
I’m sorry but 15 cats is a lot of cats. It’s a bit doxx-y (so feel free not to answer) but how many were you housing at one time?
The most I’ve had at once was 6, but that doesn’t really count because it was a short time that I took in a momma cat and her litter who were all adopted out two months later. I kept momma for about a year after before adopting her out. I’ve never had a cat its whole life. I have fostered a ton of kittens, and had cats for years, including cats that previously lived outdoors and then when I adopt, it’s usually been older cats who need extra care.
Yes, 15 would be quite a lot if you assume full lifespans of the cats!
Thats not what they said. They said cumulatively 15 cats over two lifetimes.
Thats not what they said.
You’re the one assuming things I never said. I asked how many they had at one time. Obviously, that entails ownership of cats distributed over time.
Maybe you’ve never lived with a particularly wild cat? They can be quite the handful and cats have such strong personality it’s hard to work with if their quirks don’t mesh well with your own. They also operate on their own schedule and sometimes that means playtime is in 10 minute intervals of pure chaos randomly sprinkled about in the dead of night
Those other eight hours, some cats maintain constant lightspeed
I’ve got one that is “too” playful. I love her and she’s staying, but she does need to chill the fuck out sometimes lmao.
Doesn’t help that her version of playful is knives. Stabby little kitty. But she’s stabbing me with love so it’s ok.
My dog had been returned to the shelter because the folks who adopted him wanted him to stay in their yard most of the time and he kept digging out and escaping. That’s ok for some dogs but he was a dog who slept in my bed after having me tuck him in.
I have my cat in part because the previous owners said he needed more room to run around and they were in an apartment.
He really does like to run around.
“This furry companion is too furry and too companion-y.”
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One of our cats was a twice-returned. Shelter staff said previous adoptive parents complained he was too playful. We got him home like 7 years ago and this guy has been the definition of chill ever since.
Before me, this was one of my cats’ third stints in the shelter. Makes me sad. He’s a great little guy
Our cat had been returned several times for being too rambunctious. By the time we met met he was an “older kitten” and hard to adopt. 14 years later and he is still the best and cuddliest cat ever.
Awwww… sweet kitty!
how many fucking cats do you have
you post a different cat every time
also Ella is my little sisters name
