From: soozyqureshi@cathotmail.com 
  
 "Yowie"  wrote in message 
 news:bko7if$3vbi3$1@ID-159608.news.uni-berlin.de... 
 > "~*SooZy*~"  wrote in message 
 > news:bknajj$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. 
  
 Yes that's why I said you do not find that many!   no body said purebred 
 cats never end up in shelters!!!!!!!!! 
  
  
 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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