Kitten dropped, discovered in Boston city mailbox

[joeybee12]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_odd_mailbox_kitten

BOSTON – Officials said a two-pound, eight-week-old kitten was dropped in a public mailbox in Boston and later found unharmed among envelopes and packages. According to the MSPCA Animal Care and Adoption Center, the kitten they're calling "Postina" likely was stuffed Friday through a small opening of the mailbox and dropped several feet below.

A U.S. Postal Service letter carrier discovered Postina on Saturday during a scheduled afternoon pick-up.

The MSPCA is offering Postina for adoption after several days of nourishment and a round of vaccinations.

Animal abandonment in Massachusetts is punishable by up to a $2,500 fine and 5 years in prison.

The MSPCA said there has been a 48 percent increase in pet owners citing financial reasons for surrendering their pets.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. Did she have a Timbuktu delivery address? Look for suspicious-looking butlers.

(Kudos to whoever gets the reference)

[ChickMagic]

3. Was there a note to Abu Dabai?

Poor Nermal...

[tomreedtoon]

2. Returned to sender?

Pity the poor people's letters who were in the "litter letterbox" with the cat.

"Honey, this letter smells like some STRANGE WOMAN'S PERFUME! You'd better explain yourself! Have you been catting around?"

[WI_DEM]

4. poor little thing.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. Reminds me of these:

[arcadian]

6. Between this and Twitter

Americans deserve exactly what they get.

[NeedleCast]

10. Wut(backwards question mark)

[Locrian]

7. Dewey

sounds like another Dewey...



http://spencerlibrary.com/deweybio.htm

[closeupready]

8. OMG, LOL! That's Rule #3 on ladders just made me so laugh out loud.

:rofl:

[NeedleCast]

9. Everyone would be happier if we got a kitten in the mail from time to time

Post Office should look into this.

[damntexdem]

11. What, no stamp?

Should have been sent to the dead-letter office. There, they should have had to adopt it. ;-)

[haele]

12. It's happening all over -

And it's especially hard on the shelters due to it being kitten and puppy season right now - some people will just let the kittens or puppies go feral in the parks or in empty lots - even in the city, rather than fix Fluffy or Fido. People being forced to leave their homes or facing job losses are also abandoning pets, which is just as bad in many cases.
We were at the vet's yesterday (24/7 service vet clinic) and this couple came in with this beautiful, healthy looking, docile (he was holding it collarless in the crook of his arm in a waiting room full of dogs!)adult white and grey cat, looking to either drop it off for as a surrender or (as we found out later) for euthanization. He claimed he had to get rid of the cat that day - "it was the last day". The vet staff gave him the number to several shelters and rescue organizations, but he was claiming they were all full up.
Even though the local county shelters try hard to be no kill, they will still do euthanizations if the animals are un-adoptable or are there for over a couple months.
If we didn't already have too many animals and people to take care of at our small home, we would have taken the cat from him. My husband and I still feel sick thinking of what he might have thought was the best thing for that poor, sweet-tempered animal or what it might be going through - if things were as bad as he was implying, at best if he couldn't get it into a shelter, he was probably planning to just drop it off near some pet-friendly apartment complexes and hope someone would take cat in or at least take care of it.

I know that it's sickeningly hard for people as well as for their animals - but as the saying goes "a society is known by the way it treats the least amongst it".
And it was very obvious this cat trusted that it was part of a family, just as our cats and our dog trust they are part of our family.
If members, even "lesser" members of our families can be considered disposable in times of financial stress, what does it say about our society?
Sorry, it's still upsetting, especially when we found out after they left they would have had trusting cat killed because there was no other way they could have "disposed" of it.

Haele

[joeybee12]

13. Yup, in a parking lot this morning a gray and white cat that was obviously abandoned

was sniffing through a thrown-away fast-food bag...I feed a few feral colonies so I always have food on me so I gave some to her...she sort of approached and meowed, but waited until I was far enough away to eat...still that behavior indicates she was once someone's pet.

[Liberal_in_LA]

14. Better they dropped her in the mailbox than make her into a belt

[TankLV]

15. well - I guess it's better than the puppy flushed down a toilet & stuck in the pipe...

(they managed to rescue that poor doggie and he's OK now - a four year old boy was left alone to play with the dog and he "got dirty" so the little boy tried to "clean" him by flushing him in the toilet)