CS> Robin, I understad you are upset, but lets be real for a 
 CS> moment. Ivy allows a cat to have 1 litter, and finds homes 
 CS> for all the kittens.
 CS> It isnt our job to abuse her in the echo.  Unlike many who 
 CS> just abandon the kittens, she finds them homes. She is a 
 CS> responsible cat owner.
 CS> It's the *irresponsible* ones you need to be angry at, not Ivy.
 CS> xxcarol
     For every dog or cat owner who feels that it's acceptable to breed a 
litter as long as "I find homes for them all!", I'd like to point out that 
each of those goes to a home that might otherwise adopt an animal from a 
shelter, and because they don't, that animal is euthanized.
     To blindly close your eyes and pretend that just because an issue hasn't 
directly manifested itself in your life the issue doesn't exist is the height 
of ignorance.
     Might I also point out that in her original message, when she talked of 
breeding Golgie for the first time, she told about how the stud of choice was 
a "flea factory" from outside?  And yet, in a later message, when asked why 
she has chosen to inbreed them, when there are so many viable cats out there 
who are not of Goldie's line, she expressed concern about fleas and such?  It 
seems like she is being somewhat hypocritical there; not an indication to me 
(at least) of a "responsible cat owner."
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