I can't let it go..

I still CRY ..I don't know how to let this go

Friday, November 2, 2007
I am bitter...too much animal cruelty
For the last couple of nights a sweet little stray cat has been coming to my house to eat. He started tearing open our garbage bags, so I bought him cat food. He kept coming around and staying on our porch so I built him a little "house" basically a box, under a chair with an old sweater inside. At first he would just leave in the day and come back at night. But this morning I woke up and he was asleep in the box. I wanted to bring him in so badly but my parents said I couldn't because he may be sick and then pass whatever germs he has on to our two precious dogs. So after praying to God for some guidance, I called the Animal Control to have him picked up. I spent the day with him on my lap as he purred while I rubbed his little head. Now I feel as though I doomed him to death. I guess at the shelter he will be held for a bit then euthanized..I thought I was doing the right thing, I was concerned about him getting hit by a car, or freezing to death (as winter is approaching). And I felt so guilty seeing his sweet little face as he would peer in the window at me..and probably wondering why I would not let him in. But now I feel I might as well just have killed him myself.

why do people insist on having animals if they are not going to take care of them? Who do we as humans, think we are that we can bring a living creature into our home and not take care of it? Someone somewhere had this beautiful little cat..(who by the way made me chuckle when I noticed he was picking food out of the dish and licking it off his paw...)and let it go outside. People might say that "well he wants to go outside, keeping him confined is cruel"..To which I ask why does he want to go outside? Because he/she is not fixed...so as Bob Barker (Price Is Right) used to close his show by saying "Help keep the pet population under control, have your pet spayed or neutered"..He was..IS right!!! It IS a form of cruelty..and what happens is good people like me, who care about animals have to spend hours crying when I only tried to do the right thing because some other jerk let their cat out when they should have been keeping it inside!!! I am really heart sick over this..I have been rescuing animals all my life. I feel like not enough people care to help them out.