My Nonprofit Reviews

After visiting the cats at an adoption event on Saturday we were set on taking home a pair of bonded kittens. Went out and purchased all the cat supplies. We are not from NY and noticed a lot of people have indoor/outdoor cats and figured that was the norm here. On the application they ask if your cat will be an indoor, indoor/outdoor, outdoor, barn cat, or something else. My 14 year old was filling out the application and marked indoor/outdoor. When they responded they said they can only allow indoor cat owners, I replied that was fine, We would be happy to comply with that. Well at the adoption event I was speaking with one of the volunteers and informed her in passing it had been almost 15 years since we owned a cat. I had a lot of questions about the cats there and asked different volunteers in conversation if they were fixed/declawed/ vaccinated etc… I spoke with one lady in particular and asked if the cats are declawed and she said no that they stopped doing that as it was particularly painful for the cats. I said oh okay! And then was telling her a story about being scratched by my cats hind claws when I was a young girl (about 11 years old) while trying to bathe him, as a funny anecdotal story (learning you do not need to bathe a cat)... The conversation ended at that & she asked if I had seen an older orange cat named Terri. Well I sent a follow up email that night asking about the kittens we had wanted to adopt and she replied this morning. She said that knowing I had declawed my cat (which was NOT my decision as an EIGHT year old child THIRTY YEARS AGO in 1993!!!) that they would not adopt to me and my family. Oh and in that same conversation I had mentioned how my cat loved to sunbathe in my backyard during his last years of life to warm his bones (a 16/17 year old low mobility cat who was always in our sight with our back door open). My kids are extremely heartbroken and I feel so sad for the kittens. There were TONS there that needed A loving home and we would have gladly given that to them. There are many other stories like mine in greatnonprofits.org they’re dba is under every dogs dream.