Although this vet practice may be fine when it comes to domestic and owned animals, I would never take a feral cat here for fear it would suffer the same fate as a semi-feral cat a rescue friend was o... Read More
Although this vet practice may be fine when it comes to domestic and owned animals, I would never take a feral cat here for fear it would suffer the same fate as a semi-feral cat a rescue friend was once involved with.
The cat in question was used to being fed at a home, where she had recently had 9 kittens, all rehomed, and where she would accept strokes. The cat, who had given birth to several previous litters, was then taken to this vet practice for spaying. The vet, after keeping the cat overnight, and not waiting until she could reach my rescue friend on the phone, who would have found the cat a safe place at a sanctuary, decided the cat was too stressed to stay another night and ended her life.
I am sure if this poor cat, who was young and in a perfect state health, could have spoken for herself she would have chosen the sanctuary, where she could have lived out the rest of her days happily, over death, as I am sure would most feral and semi-feral cats, who sadly are too often treated as an inferior species and of lesser value than pet animals. Read Less