If you were to adopt a cat,

[raccoon]

Poll question: If you were to adopt a cat,

where would you look for one?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

1. petfinder. i found kitty on petfinder. worlds best cat.

[Orsino]

2. I've had a couple of hand-me-downs, but...

...most just sort of show up. I don't look for them; they look for me.

[onehandle]

3. Never give a cat or kitten away to strangers.

They go for $20 to $40 each at animal labs.

[Sanity Claws]

4. Animal shelter

Shelters have so many cats and kittens who need a home.
Both of my cats picked me at the shelter. One decided to hit me on the head as I walked by his little cage. The other one did a little dance when I looked in his cage. I couldn't be happier that I have these two little boys.

[spinbaby]

5. We never have to look for a cat

They just show up. The latest refugee turned up on our porch emaciated and sick two weeks ago. We have six now.

[Wcross]

7. They tend to show up here also!

Some mighty nice "people" tend to drop them off for me up by the road. Same thing with dogs.

[Arugula Latte]

6. Our methods:

Kittens #1 and #2 (siblings) -- barn kitties who were placed with us through a kind animal liaison lady.

Kitten #3 -- showed up on our porch, tiny, starving, desperate

Kitten #4 -- shelter kitten

We hope to adopt older kitties from the shelter at some point, too.

[huskerlaw]

8. My oldest 2 are former shelter cats

By principle, that's where I get my pets. If nobody adopts them, they're most likely going to be killed. If I can save one or two, that's definitely the way I'm gonna go.

My new kitten, on the other hand, was rescued by my boss. So I suppose she's a bit of a hand-me-down. Though I did save her from a trip to the shelter (albeit a no-kill one...), so I think of that as saving a space at the nice shelter for another kitty.

[Arkansas Granny]

9. I usually wind up being adopted by cats. I would have to go way

back to recall the last time I looked for a cat to adopt. My current kitty was a feral kitten that my daughter rescued as she was climbing a brick wall to get back into the eaves of the building where she was born. My daughter took her home where the kitten managed to claw the grill off the A/C duct and fell into the ductwork. My son-in-law took the ductwork apart so she could get out and she lived under their house for two or three weeks (the grandchildren crawled under the house twice a day with food and water) before they were able to catch her in a humane trap. I took her home after that and she eventually turned out to be a really nice kitty. I've had her for about 6 years now.

[Critters2]

10. One of mine was a neighborhood stray who kept trying to sneak

into my house.

The other two were Humane Society fosters I was caring for, who weren't adopted yet when it was time to move. If I hadn't adopted them, had returned them to the HS, I knew they would've been euthanized. The reason they were with me in the first place was that the shelter was full. So, I adopted 'em!

All three are great cats!!


edited because "sneak" has an "n"

[LeftyMom]

11. I think I'm getting a stray

I wasn't really looking for another cat, but she seems to like me and needs a home.