Emotional

Jennifer say:


Today after our 'big debate' with a dog owner, sister and I were overwhelmed with emotion and cried in front of the dog owner.

As usual, we feed our community cats at night, today we fed later at 11.00 pm. We saw the two sister whom always bring their dog down at past 10.30 pm. The elder sister then came to find us and spoke upright that if we know it is illegal to feed cats.

I told her that it is not illegal as our ex PM had said so earlier. Then we began our long arguement abt strays cats. It was obivous that the elder sister was over protective of her dog to the sense that she hated cats. I am not so good at speaking and i offended her when i said that her dog barked at mimi and scared them and mimi and friends meowed as they are happy to see us. It is true but she did not want to hear of that and said I was being unreasonable. I hated it esp when she asked why dogs in our area are put to sleep and why cats cannot be put to sleep too? She also questioned why the number of cats are increasing?

We told her that we had sterilized all the cats in our area, the reason why cats are increasing is because ppl keep abandoning their pet cats downstairs. I was angry that she did not seem to realise that cats do not really disturb people - she thinks that cats are noisy, disturb people, jump at people and appear everywhere.Her younger sister said that cats send to SPCA will be adopted but i explainted that most cats will be put to sleep. Sister then explained about responsible feeding and sterilization of cats to her while i keep my mouth shut. I felt it is best since i felt i cannot speak properly or think properly before i pop out my words. I actually was in an state of angriness to think properly before i speak. It happened everytime i am in the state of anger. I now felt that i spouted rubbish whenever i am angry..i should stop this bad habit...

But we are in the losing end as we do not own those community cats, one call to SPCA and that is the end of those cats's lifes. I then become more humble and 'apologised' to her if my earlier word sound harsh and create misunderstanding. Actually i do not want enemies not esp with potential complainer.

I then said that i hope she will understand that cats are mostly put down at SPCA. She seem to be more 'understandable' and asked us to feed mimi and ginger. After that, sister cried when she said something to her..i also cried as i felt that this whole arguement abt strays is getting a bit out of hands when people do not understand anything about community cats. The two sisters do not even know that mimi is sterilized until i pointed out mimi tipped ear.

Actually, i felt that the main problem is ppl feed irresponsibilty. The elder sister said that in the park, someone left rice in the floor and her dog attempted to eat that. I know whom did that, Auntie L had already told that person not to feed but she still did not listen. I had not met that auntie that feed anywhere for many months as now i fed at a later hour. i told her that we never feed in the park anymore and we always picked up our litter after feeding our cats.

Why is it that our stupid notice board 'teaches' people not to feed cats?
Why never teach people(residents) to accept cats as our part of our daily lives?
Why never teach on the difference bwt unsterlizied and sterilized cats so that people know that cats will NO LONGER reproduce when they are sterilized?

Our area is already 100% cats sterilized. I do not understand why the sister keep saying that cats are increasing in our area? I felt that it is injustice to say this when she did not understand anything at all.

Do all dog owners hated cats? i do not think so...Celeste is also a dog owner but yet she also love cats as well... WHY is it so?

I felt that all schools should have national education of sterlization of cats to make them understand more about community cats.*sign*