It's the bedsit culture: people get a cat, and then, in a few months, when they move on or go travelling, they just throw the animal out. It's so discouraging.
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People's financial situation has changed, and they surrender their cats all the time, because they're downsizing or moving to a property where they are not allowed to have pets.
It's interesting. People go to an animal shelter and pick a dog that's been kicked, beaten, and has lost a leg and an eye, and they'll take that dog home and give it love and support, but they don't do that with people.
Every time someone buys a cat or a dog from a breeder or a pet shop, a cat on the streets or in an animal shelter loses his or her chance at finding a good home.
Cats and their owners are on a private, exclusive loop of affection. Thus cats have become symbolic of a community eschewed and a hyper-engagement with oneself. They represent the profound danger of growing so independent in New York that it's not merely that you don't need anyone - it's that you don't know how to need anyone.
Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.
Millions of cats are in shelters across the country waiting for a loving parent or family to bring them home.
Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.
To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
Sometimes it seems the whole purpose of pets is to bring death into the house.
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