About a month ago, I had to say goodbye to my sweet cat Reggie.
His kidneys were failing, so I had him put to sleep so he wouldn't suffer.
Yesterday I went to the Santa Barbara Humane Society to start
looking for a companion cat for my other cat Oscar. I had adopted Oscar from
the S.B. Humane Society during the six years that I was a cat volunteer there.
I stopped volunteering when I broke my hip last year.
Even though Oscar had been screened for the Leukemia virus (I
still have the paperwork) before I adopted him, I just thought it would be
smart to confirm that their cats are still screened, since I wouldn't want to
risk exposing Oscar to leukemia, which is very contagious and deadly. I was
shocked when they told me that they don't screen anymore. I asked them if I
decided to adopt a cat, could I pay a fee to have that cat screened. I was told
that I could not, and I would have to have that done through a private vet.