#i also overheard them talking on the phone saying 'yeah we're at capacity rn. we can put your cat on the waiting list | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

coldflasher · 2 years ago

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i just got back from picking out another cat at the shelter, she should be coming home tomorrow so everyone send good vibes!! (considering i got the call about gwyn literally like 3 hours before i was due to collect him i am feeling very nervous about the whole thing)

i don’t have any pics of her rn, i couldn’t take any bc she sat on my lap the whole time and refused to move. this seems like a positive sign

#still sad about gwyn #but also i do feel like a bit of a knob #i have spent most of this week in floods of tears convinced i had consigned him to a fate of years of languishing in a pen #when he'd already been there for so long already #so when i was meeting the cat today and they mentioned she too was a long-term resident i was like how long has she been here?#they said 'ages. since may'#WHAT. THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE CALLING AGES. LESS THAN SIX MONTHS??#I THOUGHT 'AGES' MEANT LIKE. YEARS #like don't get me wrong i'm sure it's still a long time for a cat to be in a relatively small pen without a forever home #but i was looking at ages in a timescale of literal years not like FOUR MONTHS #kinda would have been nice to know that before i spent a full week crying and not being able to eat due to misplaced catholic guilt #(important note: i am not catholic but just trying to emphasize the level of shame i felt here)#their turnover must be way more intense than i realized #i also overheard them talking on the phone saying 'yeah we're at capacity rn. we can put your cat on the waiting list #but there are already over 200 on the list'#WHAT. that's so sad tho jfc. 200 cats waiting to be rehomed 😭 damn

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