I went to Pet Smart yesterday and made the serious mistake of looking at the cats that have been left behind. How sad. Each one said something about how their owner had to give them up.
Oh, I can't see that, but I can't adopt any cats. I have two cats and there's no way we want any others disturbing their routine. But it makes me sad to see, and to contemplate what these owners (and cats) had to go through when they needed to give them up. It must have been terrible.
I don't want to look at them. I don't want to get their hopes up. I feel sorry for them, because I know a cat likes to have a home and not to be in a glass cage in a pet store. They want to be sleeping on a bed, stretched on a couch, curled in a chair.