ADOPTED!
From Yen Chian:
Hi Dr Chan,
Few days back, a family come over to see the kitten. They have just lost their cat a few days back and have adopted a new one and would love to add a new one. The kitten they just adopted was a male so I told them that they must spay etc. After I mention the adoption fee which is Rm 50. It include helping other stray, they immediately says that they doesn’t want the kitten. It make me feel upset but I guess that family cannot really take care of the cat well.
Here,
Can you blog this one with the picture?
This is for potential owner.
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Personality: Timid, shy. Takes time to warm up to you. Can really bite and attack if she wants too but mostly she won’t do it. Sweet girl at heart and will show it in time.History: I found her all alone while rescuing my dog who hid under the drain. I was watching her for 2 hours in the same time rescuing my dog as she has asked for help for the whole 2 hrs and no mom came. I took her back home after being bitten 2 times.
Cleanliness:Already wipe her with petdiartic dry shampoo. Too young to wash her. Tick free.
Health: She have a little eye problem which excrete dirt always. But is healing already 🙂
Color: Grey with dark black strip.
Current diet is : Wet food Whiskas Jr & Friskies.
Estimate age: 2-3 mths or less.
Adoption condition:
1) Tell me your experience on handling cat.
2)Spay it when it reach 4-6 mths.
3)Tell me which vet you go.
4) Love her unconditionally.
5) If cannot take care of it anymore due to some reason, please return it back. But no such reason eg: She is already old. Hard to care for it.
6)Give updates whenever you have time. I don’t ask much. Just if you have time and if 1 picture also will do if you are free.
Comments
8 responses to “Lily, kitten for adoption (Tjong Yen Chian’s)”
I think it’s not fair to assume that the family will not be able to take good care of the kitten when they refused to pay adoption fee.
It is my principle too not to pay adoption fee.
BK..Mind sharing the reason for your principle? Just curious.
Hi Bernice
Personally I felt if we are sincerely wanting to help the animals we should do it wholeheartedly.
When someone impose an adoption fee I will get the impression that you are a calculative person or trying to make a small profit out of the poor animal.
Anyway this is just my thoughts.
Hi BK,
There’s a reason why I assume that they couldn’t care for the kitten well.
1) They told me that their cat is those Garfield looking type and they let it roam around the neighbourhood. It got lost for a few days only and they have already adopted a new one. A male kitten. ( Did they search for the cat within this short amount of time? Did they bother asking around,paste poster, ask at the internet? No. They didn’t do that.)
2) When I ask them to spay Lily. They don’t even understand spay or neuter. They doesn’t seems happy bout it that they I explain the spay neuter to them ( They have a male kitten at home. Anytime by 4-5 mths, Lily might just get pregnant and there would be more homeless kitten. Can they keep it all? Or throw it away?)
3)I told them that Rm 50 is to cover up the cost the food, cleaning the eye, helping other stray etc. I pay Rm 50 to adopt my puppy. The Rm 50 goes helping the stray. Some cost higher because some cover the cost of spaying too.
4) I pass them a few packet of food along with the adoption and offer to clean the kitten up before going to a new home so she will start fresh and nice at the home.
Although Rm 50 is not much, it helps number of strays. I don’t sell the kitten. This is to ensure that at least they are willing to pay for it. Most people accept things for free and ended up not taking care of it. Why? Cause it’s free. If that person is truly a pet/animal lover, I don’t think they would immediately say No. At least they will try to ask why.
It is based on experience and I have gone through some bad cases before and it left a scar. Not only that but then I am willing to answer their question or ask them so I know that this kitten will end up in a good home. I hope you understand my situation BK and any other potential adopter.
Cheapskates don’t make good pet owners.
I would strongly encourage Yen Chian to maintain that adoption fee as this would separate the serious adopter from those who do adopt on a whim or unprepared to give the best for the furkid.
I have had experiences of giving my foster furkids to both type of adopters (those who paid and those who gets for free) and I find that those who do pay are the better and more responsible adopters. In fact, those who don’t pay have been found to scrounge on the basic furkid needs such as vaccination, tick/flea/heartworm protection and even spaying/neutering.
For every adoption that I put up, there will ALWAYS be a number of potential adopters who don’t meet the adoption requirements including paying the adoption fee but eventually, the best one will turn up and makes the wait worth it.
hi there, may i know where your location at ?
i was just really wish to adopt this little poor baby….
BK, my own opinion is that the mere act of rescuing an animal in need shows a good heart. RM50 will never be enough to make a profit for a rescuer, as most rescuers will have taken the cat or dog to the vet, de-flead, de-wormed, vaccinated, maybe spayed and neutered. By the time many animals are put up for adoption, the vet bills are well in the RM100s. I don’t mind at all helping the rescuer to defray these costs. If, on the other hand, I see someone listing a cat or kitten with, for example, a RM500 adoption fee, and the animal has never been spayed, neutered or vaccinated, then I also assume I’m dealing with a profiteer. Yen Chian is a student with a very good heart who has taken this kitten for treatment. I think RM50 adoption fee is more than reasonable in this case. 🙂