From: yowie9644@DIE.SPAM.DIE.yahoo.com.au 
  
 "~*SooZy*~"  wrote in message 
 news:bknajj$hv$1@hercules.btinternet.com... 
 > "Cat Protector"  wrote in message 
 > news:b3nbb.1012$La.363@fed1read02... 
 > > It seems from the description that this group might end up encouraging 
 > > people from adopting from breeders instead of the already full shelters. 
 > The 
 > > purebred fancy might have grown but I feel that cats found in shelters 
 are 
 > > just as good as the purebreeds. In fact sometimes you see purebreds end 
 up 
 > > in the shelters. This newsgroup could be a bad idea here. 
 > 
 > but you do not find that many purebred cats in shelters! compared to poor 
 > little moggies :-(  but then if you have paid €300.00 plus for a cat you 
 > must really want it. 
  
 Sadly, you *do* find purebreds in shelters. Admittedly, the "moggie" far 
 outnumbers them, but to say that purebred kitties never end up in shelters 
 is false. Cats end up in shelters for all sorts of different reasons, 
 purebreds aren't immune from escaping and getting lost and being brought to 
 shelters by well meaning strangers, or their owners becoming incapable of 
 caring for them through illness, death or other circumstances beyond thier 
 control, or a new member of the family being highly allergic for example. 
 Not all cats end up in shelters simply because they were "excess to need", 
 some are there because a compassionate human being genuinely thinks that the 
 cat would be better off with a "second chance" at the shelter than the other 
 alternatives available to them at the time. 
  
 Yowie 
  
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