the stray cat saga (snapshots vii)

Wednesday: The Cats Protection League has still to call back. There are probably too many cats to protect, or maybe they've just given up trying. I try to get through to the RSPCA and fail, I keep returning to a recorded message. It claims I'll be connected if I hold on, it lies.

Thursday: I finally get through to the RSPCA, they tell me about a web-site called 'Pets Located'. Why they couldn't tell me about this when I was in their building last week I've no idea. Mystery is now entered at Pets Located, she is also on the waiting list for RSPCA re-homing. She still avoids me.

Friday: I am increasingly saddened by finding 'Mystery' regularly asleep in our shed. This is despite the fact that we've provided a box and bedding and we're still feeding her. It's probably my hormones.

Saturday: Rapidly (or not so rapidly in fact) coming to the conclusion that no-one cares too much about stray cats. A possible sign of the troubled economic times is that pets can sometimes be the first to suffer. In my line of work I've noticed that spending on 'luxuries', such as concert tickets, is already on the wane. People are concerned about the future, the cuts and rising prices are starting to hit their pockets.

Whether this means that pets will be cast out rather than indulged remains to be seen and I shouldn't be basing this whole theory on one personal incident. This said, one of our existing cats was adopted by us from the RSPCA - he'd been abandoned when his previous owners moved house. Consequently it appears to me that people are already leaving their pets behind.