I went over just now to speak with the distant neighbour whose kitten was run down on the road a few days ago. I offered him to help spay-neuter all his pet cats. I’ll pay, I said.
The mother of all cats, Cash, was there, and he said she is probably pregnant again. It has only been two months after Cash’s last delivery. I had been liaising with the girl who co-owns Cash, reminding her to bring Cash for spaying, but looks like we’ve missed the boat again.
The girl also said she didn’t dare bring Cash since it’s “officially” owned by this neighbour. It’s Cheque who belongs to the girl, and we’ve already got Cheque spayed.
It was one of Cash’s kittens that was run down a few days ago.
The neighbour told me Cash has had SO, SO many kittens. Yes, I heard. So, why don’t we get her spayed once and for all?
He was keen at first, but later said to give him a few days to think it over. I even offered my cage and I’ll transport the cats for him. All I needed was his consent since these are his pets.
I asked him where all of Cash’s kittens are. He said most of them have died on the road, being run down by cars. But he said he’s perfectly alright with that happening. That’s how the population is controlled, he said. He also said his wife would throw away the kittens. I never knew this as the girl had told me that all the kittens were sent back to his kampung and not thrown away.
So, I told him that a better way would be to get the cats spayed-neutered so that they don’t continue to breed. That way, they wouldn’t have to die on the road and his wife wouldn’t have to throw them away. Ironically, all of Cash’s kittens are females. There are no males.
He said he would have to think it over first.
I pray his answer would be a positive one.
Pray with me, please?
He kept saying it’s okay that they are killed on the road. I think he is of the opinion that being run down is a natural way of controlling the population. On hindsight, I also know of people who say world wars, tsunamis, earthquakes, etc. are natural ways of controlling the human population.
To each his own, of course, and I am not shoving my ideas down anybody’s throat as I have no right to do so. But I still feel that for the animals under our care, spay-neuter is a much more compassionate way of population control. We offer our help to all strays, and we will appeal to owners to spay-neuter their pets too.
While we spay-neuter, some people prefer the “natural” way
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5 responses to “While we spay-neuter, some people prefer the “natural” way”
I pray that your neighbour agrees to let his cats neutered.
It is sad to learn that he can see his cats run down by cars.
i wish i could just catch them secretly and send them to the vet without he even noticing. can we do that..? =/
No, Azie, we cannot do that without his consent. These are his pets. We have to respect his wishes even though we do not agree with what he does.
I think basically what they are not telling you is their conviction that castration is dosa, never mind what Jakim says, and they do not want the dosa to be on their hands. Like the saying goes, nak seribu daya, tak nak seribu dalih.
However, in their simplistic explanation to justify their conscience, if their cats and kittens get killed on the road, the dosa is not on their hands because they did not participate in their deaths. The cats and kittens themselves just chose to walk into the path of traffic and get killed (they are asking for it?), maybe same like the way we say the cats run away because they prefer to escape and be strays, rather than face the fact that try as we did, somehow we had overlooked a way of preventing their escape because we want to keep them safe out of danger outside and try harder and better the next time so that we will succeed.
So, it looks like cats and kittens will continue to get crushed by traffic there, looking at the photos of the road area, it is a nightmare place for any cat and kitten. I simply cannot imagine how anyone could be so irresponsible not to castrate the cats because the road is too dangerous for any cat, let alone kittens!
And leaving the cats in kampung is basically dumping, whatever you say because I have seen a lot of dumpings in kampungs and the locals in turn dump them somewhere else, until ultimately the cats and kittens all die slowly and painfully, hungry, cold and sick!
I met an old malay man several weeks ago; he was feeding some stray dogs in Kelana Jaya (somewhere near the Giant hypermarket). He told me that he feeds the stray dogs everyday. I asked him whether he would like to send the stray dogs for neutering/spaying and he immediately declined. He said it is Dosa because of his muslim faith.
Even among the chinese, we have people believing in this – eg those people in Pulau Ketam.
It is very hard to get through to this group of people.