“It is work created by society but stigmatized by society,” said Rogelberg, who has studied the effects of the job on those who do it. “Society has created a need for euthanasia because they don’t adopt pets or spay and neuter them.” - Dr. Steven Rogelberg, a psychology professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte on 'A tormenting paradox"

This is the reality  - read A tormenting paradox (alt link).

If you have friends or family who have pets and won’t sterilise them, show this to them. (I got the link off this post). And tell them it’s not just unwanted pet animals who will have to die just because no one wants them - there are health issues for their unsterilised pets too, and (heaven forbid) the babies born, especially if they’re inbred, so STERILISE, dammit!

 

This newborn kitten was dumped last Wednesday, 26 Sep at a rubbish dump in Jurong West Ave 1. The witness confronted the the dumper, an encik, who said as Hari Raya was coming, he was clearing out his ‘unwanted’ items, including this tiny kitten. The kitten was an offspring of his own unsterilised female cat. (read full post here)

This little bundle of furry helplessness is now called the Songkok kitten because the box it was contained in had the words ‘Songkok Melayu Al-Barakah’. See more of its pictures here.

Why do irresponsible pet owners think it totally acceptable to dump pets when spring-cleaning? Hari Raya is such a meaningful festival, it is one of the most important events in the religious context of the Muslim way of life, being a milestone marker for the  end of Ramadan.

And yet, in the name of celebrating Hari Raya, people throw away unwanted pets like this little kitten and the birdie cage babies without care. It does not matter whether the dumped pet cats are mature and supposingly able to fend for themselves (like this pair), or simply older kittens (like the Meowsons), or are totally defenceless like this little one. Such acts make a mockery of the spirit of this sacred day.

People who dump pets as part of their process of getting ready for Hari Raya defile the sanctity of this holy day.

I can only hope such people realise the crime they're committing and do not dump pets, whether full-grown or newborns from their unsterilised pets again for the next Hari Raya.

In this discarded bird cage with the very ethnic cover, a litter of very sick kittens laid dying


This is one of them


This is another one


Altogether there were 5.

Who could be so cruel? When I saw them, I wish whoever dumped them to experience exactly what the kittens are suffering. (more details here)