You co-ordinated a cat rescue? Hold up there, hero. Sounds like you just found a cat.

See, this is why dog owners are way more responsible that cat owners. You never see packs of stray dogs running around. Meanwhile, your cat's feral offspring are shitting in my tomato plants every summer.

Ugh, I'm currently stuck with a cat that the previous tenant of the house I just moved to left behind. I'm supposed to get a dog in a week (been planning on it for years and JUST moved to a place where I'm allowed to have a dog), but now I have a cat instead. I don't even like cats, but I'm also not enough of an asshole to dump this one without finding it a legitimate home.

I fully support this IA. Pets are family. If you had a child, and the apt you wanted to move to said "no kids allowed", would you dump the kid? People who can so easily abandon a pet, I guess it was just an accessory to them? It seems like borderline sociopathic behavior to have such detachment from a living creature you have been living with for years.

I support this, but what's with the hipster comment? Every IA has to have one. It doesn't apply here. I'd be glad to have a grown cat. Kittens can be infuriating.

NEUTER AND SPAY! And the same goes for cats and dogs.

And, seriously, quit buying designer breeds from folks who profit from flooding the population via their greed. Dogs aren't t-shirts, people -- making money from pimping out a dog is just as horrible as it is to do so with a human.

Please adopt from the Humane Society or another rescue organization -- there are always plenty of good brands and styles to choose from if you're patient. And, if you want to get really crazy (i.e., compassionate), you could even adopt one that isn't a puppy or purebred.

^I'm deliberately not adopting any dog under the age of 3. Puppies turn into adolescent dogs, and I simply don't have that kind of time to spend keeping it out of shit.

Be nice to the kittens, people. (Though if they've lost their mittens, get real and DON'T GIVE THEM ANY PIE.)

First off, Human in Training, keep training. Equating the studding of canines to human sex trafficking is one of the stupidest things I've ever read. Thankfully, the rest of your comment seems to be on point.

Secondly, any IA post is eligible for use of the term hipster. Afterall, it is the Portland Mercury.

A lot of this nonsense could be eliminated if people made responsible procreation decisions and raised decent human beings. Unfortunately, most human children turn straight into douchebags as their only guidance is provided by their ignorant selfish moronic parents. Merica, fuck yeah!!!

@ RickStevens:

YEAH, I'LL KEEP TRAINING SO LONG AS YOU KEEP...STEVENS-ING. SO THERE!

/*sticking my tongue out, crossing my eyes, and waving my hands with my thumbs in my ears*/

@ RickStevens:

You're right that i shouldn't have equated the "studding of canines" (what a hilarious euphemism, by the way, for "letting my dog unnecessarily fuck other dogs so that i can make some mad cash and add to the problem of overpopulation") to human sex trafficking. Obviously one is quite a bit worse than the other, being that we're all inherently speciesist; I mean, murdering a dog also isn't a very cool thing to do, but i suppose it's still better than murdering a human. So, excellent point, i guess.

"Thankfully, the rest of your comment seems to be on point."

Awww, shucks. Thankfully, i like the last little bit of your comment, too. I agree that quite a lot of our problems stem from stupid people having stupid babies that they raise stupidly and didn't even want in the first place. This is why the first thing i mentioned in my initial comment was that there should be a lot more spaying and neutering going on in this world, and that it shouldn't just be restricted to only the non-humans. Government subsidized coupons for free vasectomies/tubal ligations should be handed out like candy everywhere.

The ASPCA is literally drowning in pussy right now.

@Human in Training

If I was there for your routine in the first comment, I would've given you the Three Stooges eye poke for sure.

If you blocked it, I would've put my fist up to you and once you smakced it down, I would use the windmill technique to bonk you on your noggin.

As for your second comment, it appears we're on the same page. For once, cooler heads prevailed on this blog.

Speaking as a cat, I just simply do not understand people who don't like cats. I also don't understand why anyone would adopt a kitten and then later abandon it. Didn't you love that little animal? Don't you have any feelings for it?

My heart melts every time my kittens do pretty much anything - even when they're chewing my headphone cord or book corners to shreds.

Personally, I look forward to growing old with my cats. I find their company much more interesting and agreeable than that of most humans, nowadays.