Agreed, Joseph. Three years ago I wanted to get a kitten for my children at Christmas. I tried every shelter in the state, and the ones that had kittens had a holiday moratorium. I approached a handful of rescue groups and individuals and finally gave up when I received the most profoundly venomous email I have ever received, ripping me for my irresponsibility, ostensibly because in the imagined chaos of eating breakfast and opening a handful of presents, the animal would be stepped on, recycled with the wrapping paper, mistaken for the roast and cooked alive....who knows what. At any rate, for the first time in my life I did not get a pet from a shelter or rescue, I went to one of those dreaded pet stores. The cat (also black) survived Christmas and is quite well.
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