This rescue that took them is very picky on who can adopt from them. My cats got great homes. They don’t make exceptions unless they know the person personally and are sure that the animal will be taken proper care of.

One woman adopted one cat the first year and another the next. The adopter feeds organic raw. She has a huge house and 2 greyhounds who love cats. My cats are used to living with large dogs and like them. The cats are very lucky to have the best of everything.

The second adopter will provide a home forever. Her flat is rather small, but an exception was made if she installed a cat walk system on the walls to give the cats more space to lounge around. She has the ashes of every cat she has ever had and will provide a safe indoor home for all her animals forever.

Meat only diets are not natural nor nutritionally balanced. I have summarised from Brown, W.Y. (2009) “Nutritional and ethical issues regarding vegetarianism in the domestic dog.” Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition in Australia 17, 137-143

The domestic dog is an opportunistic feeder and is able to adapt to a wide variety of foodstuffs when required. Feral dogs have been observed to subsist primarily on human refuse scavenged from open dump sites in Italy (Boitani et al., 1995) and there was little evidence of predation, which is consistent with the findings of other investigators (Scott and Causey, 1973; Nesbitt, 1975).

Morphologically, the dentition of terrestrial carnivores is characterised by a pair of bladelike carnassial teeth that are adapted to shearing meat, and prominent canines for holding prey and for puncturing and ripping flesh (Wayne, 1993).
The post- carnassial molars, used for crushing and grinding, are well developed in omnivores but absent in obligatory carnivores such as the cat. The retention of these molars in the canids has allowed greater evolutionary flexibility in respect of their diet, which may account for the diverse dietary habits of contemporary canids. The nutritional requirements of the dog are also consistent with a more omnivorous diet than that of the carnivorous cat.
The nutritional requirements of the dog are consistent with a more omnivorous diet than that of the carnivorous cat. The dog has a lower protein requirement than the cat and is able to convert beta-carotene to active vitamin A and linoleic acid to arachadonic acid. This enables the dog to meet its requirements for vitamin A and arachadonic acid from plant sources, whereas the cat cannot (MacDonald et al., 1984). Moreover, the dog, but not the cat, is able to meet its taurine requirement from plant sulphur amino acids (MacDonald et al., 1984).
An other consideration is that diets for production animals are routinely formulated on a least-cost basis, and feed ingredients of inferior quality are frequently used in this process. No consideration is given to whether the diet is consistent with the production animal’s ancestral origins or whether animal producers have the right to impose their moral beliefs on their animals. When viewed in this context, there must be an ethical objection to feeding raw meat (or even much or any meat) to dogs.

I look forward to the day when all animal rights groups work together for good guardianship of all human and non human animals and perhaps are no longer needed as we are no longer cruel. But until that point, please check out the (easy to read) research …http://www.ciwf.org.uk/what_we_do/factory_farming/default.aspx thanks for your patience, regards Margaret

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I agree with you entirely BUT what is going on in Facebook at the moment desserves to be paid close attention to.
Would you rescue a kid from an earthquake to hand it over to a prostitution ring? No… you would act systematically.
That is what this post is about.. about acting systematically and doing things properly.
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