Debbie Cole Cat Rescue

I’m a cat person.

I know Debbie Cole and she is a very kindhearted and caring person who is doing everything that she can to save as many cats as she can and find them good homes. I am also totally against declawing — there are no good «reasons» to mutilate a cat that way — and rescuers who try to find good homes for the homeless pets that they’ve rescued have EVERY right to define what a «good» home is, and to refuse to adopt to people who think it’s okay to declaw.
Cat rescuers are not perfect. They are just people like you and me, who are putting out superhuman efforts and spending all of their time and money — ALL of it — to save thousands of homeless pets from being KILLED at the local animal control. Yes, perhaps they will dare to put more than one cat in a carrier or put several into a viewing kennel, I don’t see the crime there. As far as the puppy pads, I use them too because some cats will have accidents in their carriers when they go in the car, it’s just easier to clean up and more comfortable for the cat to put those absorbent pads in the carrier. Get a grip.
People like Debbie are heroes. What is Mika M. doing to save cats from being killed at the pound or living homeless on the streets? Only those who are doing as much as Debbie does to rescue homeless cats are qualified to criticize how Debbie is doing it. Otherwise, shut up and find out what you can do to HELP.

Found out this person was going to be at the local pet store for an adoption event off of Craigslist. She was an hour late to set up, and she was annoyed with everybody who chose to wait around for her, saying that they were too noisy. She was also pissed about dogs being in the pet store (pet people in La Jolla).
Everything went fine until the «interview.» She found out that I had declawed my cat (please people, I did it for health reasons, family reasons, and he is an INDOOR cat… do not review my opinions or decisions). She did not like that. She then implied that I was a terrible pet mom (even though I wasn’t the one to adopt the cat, I went with somebody else who was going to adopt). She seemed to like everything about us other than that. Then she went off into the other room to talk to her partner/​husband for 25 min, only to come back to let us know her views and why we shouldn’t have a cat.
IF HER VIEWS ON A GOOD PET PARENT IS BASED JUST ON HER PERSONAL OPINION AND THE PERSONAL DECISION OF PEOPLE DECLAWING, THEN SHE OUGHT TO HAVE A SIGN OR AT LEAST LEAVE HER OPINION ON A PERSON’S PERSONAL HEALTH/​LIFE/​ABILITY TO BE A GOOD PARENT TO HERSELF. DECLAWING DOES NOT REFLECT A PERSON’S ABILITY TO BE A GOOD PARENT, NOR SHOULD IT BE A SOLE DECIDING FACTOR ON ADOPTING A CAT.
She also implied that I would be a bad future mother because my cat WILL bite my «babies for sure, infecting their blood though their tendon pockets with who knows what.» My cat plays with dogs and other cats (declawed and not), and has never done anything like that. In fact, if my cat doesn’t like something he just squirms away. To tell somebody that they are being a bad future mother to human babies as well is just mean spirited.
She was rude, she had bad business practice and here is the kicker:
She treated her cats poorly. The cats were dirty and they were throwing the cats in their viewing cages …6 cats in one cage. Also, the crates that she used to transport her cats were lined with puppy training pads, which made me wonder how long she has them in there. Cats usually will only pee and poop when they have something to cover it up with! Those transporting crates were all medium sized and some of them had TWO cats in them instead of one! One of her cats had a pretty bad eye infection and when we pointed that out, she said «Oh! He does! Um, I saw that, I need to take care of that.» She bad mouthed other business/​shelters/​vets. If she wants to imply that some people may not be a good pet parent, the she should adjust the way she treats her own.