Dilemma 令人矛盾
Dawn recently wrote in her blog that the left-leaning government in Andean country recently passed the world's first legislation prohibiting the use of live animals in circuses (see http://fe20.story.media.ac4.yahoo.com/news/story/maple/en-US/time/20091027/wl_time/08599193234300).
For most animals lovers this is a piece of great news but the problems that ensued is where do all these animals go then? This is also a big question for many cats and dogs fosters like me. My friends and I are co-catgivers in our our HDB estate. And from time to time we may encounter abandoned kittens which were too young to fend for themselves and we were then left with the task to foster them and to eventually find good homes for them.
About a year ago, a pair of non-sterilised siblings were dumped and caught by our town council. Luckily for them, the town council's property officer was compassionate and kind enough to give them to us instead of sending them to AVA for their death sentence.
As we were short of space at that time, we had them sterilised and released them into our colony of community cats. However, they went missing thereafter until about a few weeks later the male kitty turned up suddenly near our feeding area very emaciated. He was very scared and refused to eat and drink. Fearing for the worse, I brought him home and he thrived and became very manja in a home environment.
He was then adopted by a family who has a pair of young children and a persian cat. All went well for about a year until recently. The adopted family wanted to return him to us citing reasons that he was mischievous and liked to loiter in the corridor etc.
Worried that he might be dumped again we decided to take him back and just 1 week short of the due date, I got an sms saying that they wanted to continue keeping him as their children are very fond of him.
What are we to do? We are also in a dilemma too. Where are we going to place him if we insist on taking him back, though we are worried about his well being with the family? So the best option we have now is to let him stay with his family while we monitor his well being. If we were to take him back, we will either have to release him to our colony or to put him in a shelter where his quality of life would be compromised.
This really is it!!!!!! What else can we do???
最近在 Dawn的部落格中读到一则有关安第斯左派政府通过法令禁止马戏团雇用动物表演的信息。
对爱护动物者而言这的确是一则好消息，问题是这些动物将何去何从呢？关于这个问题相信是很多中途都会遇到的。我和我的朋友都在照顾和喂养我们社区里的猫。我们偶儿会碰到一些遭遗弃的幼猫。由于小猫太小没有能力自己存活，我们只好把他们带回家照料再为他们找个好人家领养。
大约一年前，有一对还没有结紥的小猫被遗弃在我们的社区里。好在他们遇上了好心的市政理事会管理人及时把他们移交给我们而不是把他们送去农粮局毁灭。
由于当时我们以经没有地方能够受留他们，在结紥后我们就将他们安置在我们的社区猫群里。之后他们竟然失去了踪影。但几个星期后，那只公的小猫又忽然出现! 他再出现时已非常瘦削、也非常害怕不吃不喝的。没办法只好把他带回家。带回家之后，他茁壮成长还很亲人。
不久之后，他就被一户家庭领养。那家人有两个小孩和一只波斯猫。小猫被领养大概一年后，他的家人最近发短讯给我说要将他归还给我们，原因是他很调皮并且喜欢跑到走廊闲晃等等。
因当心他又在被遗弃我们于是决定把他接回来。就在要把他接回来的一星期前，他的家人忽然改变主意，要继续收养他因为他的小孩非常喜欢他，不要他被带走。
我们该怎么做呢？我们其实也很矛盾的。虽然我们很当心他在家里的状况，但如我们把他接回来能把他安置在哪呢？现在最好的方案就是让他继续留在那里了。如果硬是把他带回来的话却只能把他安置在我们的社区里或是带去动物收容所，这样他就没有了应有的生活品质。
真的就只能这样了，要不然能怎么办呢？？？
For most animals lovers this is a piece of great news but the problems that ensued is where do all these animals go then? This is also a big question for many cats and dogs fosters like me. My friends and I are co-catgivers in our our HDB estate. And from time to time we may encounter abandoned kittens which were too young to fend for themselves and we were then left with the task to foster them and to eventually find good homes for them.
About a year ago, a pair of non-sterilised siblings were dumped and caught by our town council. Luckily for them, the town council's property officer was compassionate and kind enough to give them to us instead of sending them to AVA for their death sentence.
As we were short of space at that time, we had them sterilised and released them into our colony of community cats. However, they went missing thereafter until about a few weeks later the male kitty turned up suddenly near our feeding area very emaciated. He was very scared and refused to eat and drink. Fearing for the worse, I brought him home and he thrived and became very manja in a home environment.
He was then adopted by a family who has a pair of young children and a persian cat. All went well for about a year until recently. The adopted family wanted to return him to us citing reasons that he was mischievous and liked to loiter in the corridor etc.
Worried that he might be dumped again we decided to take him back and just 1 week short of the due date, I got an sms saying that they wanted to continue keeping him as their children are very fond of him.
What are we to do? We are also in a dilemma too. Where are we going to place him if we insist on taking him back, though we are worried about his well being with the family? So the best option we have now is to let him stay with his family while we monitor his well being. If we were to take him back, we will either have to release him to our colony or to put him in a shelter where his quality of life would be compromised.
This really is it!!!!!! What else can we do???
最近在 Dawn的部落格中读到一则有关安第斯左派政府通过法令禁止马戏团雇用动物表演的信息。
对爱护动物者而言这的确是一则好消息，问题是这些动物将何去何从呢？关于这个问题相信是很多中途都会遇到的。我和我的朋友都在照顾和喂养我们社区里的猫。我们偶儿会碰到一些遭遗弃的幼猫。由于小猫太小没有能力自己存活，我们只好把他们带回家照料再为他们找个好人家领养。
大约一年前，有一对还没有结紥的小猫被遗弃在我们的社区里。好在他们遇上了好心的市政理事会管理人及时把他们移交给我们而不是把他们送去农粮局毁灭。
由于当时我们以经没有地方能够受留他们，在结紥后我们就将他们安置在我们的社区猫群里。之后他们竟然失去了踪影。但几个星期后，那只公的小猫又忽然出现! 他再出现时已非常瘦削、也非常害怕不吃不喝的。没办法只好把他带回家。带回家之后，他茁壮成长还很亲人。
不久之后，他就被一户家庭领养。那家人有两个小孩和一只波斯猫。小猫被领养大概一年后，他的家人最近发短讯给我说要将他归还给我们，原因是他很调皮并且喜欢跑到走廊闲晃等等。
因当心他又在被遗弃我们于是决定把他接回来。就在要把他接回来的一星期前，他的家人忽然改变主意，要继续收养他因为他的小孩非常喜欢他，不要他被带走。
我们该怎么做呢？我们其实也很矛盾的。虽然我们很当心他在家里的状况，但如我们把他接回来能把他安置在哪呢？现在最好的方案就是让他继续留在那里了。如果硬是把他带回来的话却只能把他安置在我们的社区里或是带去动物收容所，这样他就没有了应有的生活品质。
真的就只能这样了，要不然能怎么办呢？？？
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