My Fiance finally decided it was a good idea to get a second cat YAY. So I took a trip to the local animal shelter, where I saw TONS of kittens, and only a few older cats, almost all of them were clamoring for attention, one really was sweet but he was a long haired and his fur was already matted in places.
I checked petfinder and found some beautiful cats at an animal shelter about 45 minutes away so we took a trip there. It was a very small facility, about the size of my apartment (1300 sq ft) or smaller. We were shown to the cat area where they ONLY had kittens left, TONS of them, like maybe 30. There were flies everywhere, but we decided to look anyways. Most of the kittens looked to be 5 to 6 weeks old only, nd if you put your hand near them they would try and suck on your finger, poor babies! None really said take me home though, I know thats awful of us, we could have taken them out of that terrible place but they just seemed too...well young. We held some and were there about half an hour when I picked up an orange kitty who had been asleep, it cuddled up to me and then...I looked into its eyes and saw...fleas. Crawling all over this poor thing. I panicked (im allergic to flea bites, not sickly or anything just I get gigantic purple spots that are extremely itchy and painful about the size of a quarter that turn into nasty ugly scars)
We left, went home, and stripped at the front door, washed everything and took showers. Now I feel so guilty I didn't even do anything or say anything to the people there. Maybe they didnt know the kittens had fleas...
I checked petfinder and found some beautiful cats at an animal shelter about 45 minutes away so we took a trip there. It was a very small facility, about the size of my apartment (1300 sq ft) or smaller. We were shown to the cat area where they ONLY had kittens left, TONS of them, like maybe 30. There were flies everywhere, but we decided to look anyways. Most of the kittens looked to be 5 to 6 weeks old only, nd if you put your hand near them they would try and suck on your finger, poor babies! None really said take me home though, I know thats awful of us, we could have taken them out of that terrible place but they just seemed too...well young. We held some and were there about half an hour when I picked up an orange kitty who had been asleep, it cuddled up to me and then...I looked into its eyes and saw...fleas. Crawling all over this poor thing. I panicked (im allergic to flea bites, not sickly or anything just I get gigantic purple spots that are extremely itchy and painful about the size of a quarter that turn into nasty ugly scars)
We left, went home, and stripped at the front door, washed everything and took showers. Now I feel so guilty I didn't even do anything or say anything to the people there. Maybe they didnt know the kittens had fleas...