Phone call this morning. It was nice to hear an old friend’s voice. Green-eyes used to work with me at HP, and even after I stopped working there she kept contact… Well, she called and it was ok until she started this weird questioning about cats… then she asks me if it is normal for a cat to come back home after she has left the cat in another city… because she wanted to get rid off kitty… and kitty came back scrawny and hungry after 3 days… I was baffled, shocked, you name it… Then she goes on to tell me same thing happen to a friend of hers who tried to get rid off a cat but then kitty came back after a few days… from Añasco to Moca!!! God! Then she complains about femme cat having kitties… and as I mention sterilization she says she ain’t spending money on a cat… and then she mentions they sleep in her car motor… Ok… So a the nice experience of listening to a friendly voice turned into… a gasping, slapping, incredibly unbelievable BAD trip. Then she asks my cats colors, and as I say black she almost screams because, oh my, how can I actually LIVE with 5 black cats? As she hanged up I tried to catch my breath and stabilize my emotions… How can ANYONE be so insensible to a cats’ true needs? Why people believe black cats are so different than the rest? They have no mutations… Just 4 legs and a tail and the same kitty-drive… Then the thing about disposing of them as if they were trash… When they are born in a certain place, no matter where you take them… if the new place is not safe or good for them, they will go back to what they understand is “home”. Distance doesn’t matter. They cannot understand that a human simply doesn’t want them around, period. I was appalled, and felt sad and the thought of the poor kitties being treated that way makes me sick… And the worst thing is that 80% of the people in the island behave this way with the little furry defenseless animals… They treat cats as if they had no pain, no need for love, no need for shelter or companionship… and after showing a bit of humanity they dispose of them as if they were trash when they get bigger and “not so cute”. It angers me. It makes me wanna scream and slap with a shoe all of those who harm poor innocent kitties just because… Ignorance is not an excuse. Supersticion is not an excuse. There is absolutely NO excuse for doing such a thing… And then, people think of themselves as “human”. What a joke.

Visited el Calvo and picked up Tril at his job. Then came back home... Tired, a bit stressed, a lot sad...

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