Casual Cruelty or The Throw Away Pet Syndrome

NUTTER'S UPDATE:

Last evening Nutter's family and the little girl came back with a cat carrier to collect Nutter's.  So....I condemned out of turn, and for that I apologize.  Having said my apologies, there are still too many people that do in fact throw pets away when the pet gets inconvenient.  So...there you go. 

The older I get the more disgusted I am with people. My daughter lives in a condo complex, as do I.  In fact we live a couple blocks apart but are "controlled" by two separate Homeowner Associations.  Her Association allows for one registered cat.  She has a cat and he is registered.  She had two cats when she first moved in 4 years ago and Gato was not registered. Gato disappeared within about a week as does each and every unregistered cat. That was a brutal lesson learned and we can discuss whether it is right or wrong to break the rules.  Regardless, Gato paid the price of our ignorance and the Association's efficiency. 

However, that is not where this is going.  My daughter's neighbors had a young calico cat which took a liking to hanging with Em's cat and Em.  Em called her Peanut Butter or Nutters for short.  She was the neighbor's cat, but cats being cats, decided that the digs upstairs had better food and lacked annoying young children.  Well....said neighbors moved to Arizona yesterday.  They packed everything up and left; only they didn't take the cat.  Nutters now belongs to Em, sort of.  The problem is that you can only have one cat and Nutters is no longer a registered cat.  The owners and the keepers of the registration just left town.  And in this Homeowners Association you can only have one registered cat.  Big problem.  Em will care for Nutters if we can find a way to keep her alive long enough to get her registered against the rules or registered to some one "new" or find her a new home. 

Nutters

So the neighbors casually move to Arizona and throw away a pet that has no way of providing for itself in a neighborhood that to not be registered is a death sentence.  The irony is that she is fixed, has her shots and when her tail was injured her owners paid for her medical and partial amputation.  But now Nutters is really inconvenient and so abandoned to fend for herself. 

So Tuesday I will gird my loins and go fight to get this cat registered against the rules, or to get a reprieve of death sentence long enough to find her a new home.  Don't even ask how I feel about her former owners, cos it ain't nice.