PantherPride - I have to ask you where you are getting your information here.  What makes you believe that all pet cats are miserable or are floating from home to unsuitable home?  Or that most would not be kept with one family for their entire lives?

I agree with you, most people do seem to prefer kittens over adult cats.  But all the families I know of with cats do intend to keep them for their entire lives, and few would give their cats up except under dire circumstances - like becoming homeless themselves.  And most folks who get cats do their best to provide them with suitable homes, with great success, and the cats are far from miserable.

Cats_Dolls

But I think perhaps your experience may be a bit limited - there are many people out there who love cats, who do know how to care for them properly and go to great lengths to make sure their furry friends are happy and healthy, and are fully prepared to care for their cats for their entire lives. 

Just look at this forum - I've attempted to console many people here who've lost their cat to illness after many years, and I know that most of the folks who've been on this forum have done the same.  You'll find many questions here from folks who want to be sure their cat is alright and that they're doing the best thing for the cat.  You won't find folks here who'd willingly relinquish their cat to a shelter.  Many of us, though, have adopted cats from shelters and would happily do so again.  Two of mine came from shelters.

Yes, there are people here who have had their cats declawed, and there are people here who don't allow their cats outdoors and people who believe that indoor-only cats aren't happy or healthy.  These are two areas of great debate, but no matter what your personal feelings are about these issues, the fact still remains - these are people who care deeply about their cats.

And there are many many other cat-lovers out there who do not participate in this forum.  So you see why I question your ideas - not that there aren't bad owners out there, but just that there are so many good owners.

Cats_Dolls

I know it's been a while but I was worried to post again. Thanks for all the helpfull answers though

I did go to the shelter and got a trap so I could reunite cat mom with her kittens. They showed me how to use it. An hour or so after I had put the live trap out with food she went in.

I brought her to the shelter and told them I would like to adopt her and 1 kitten when they were ready to be seperated.

When my husband came home from field training about 14 days later and the kittens was 1 week away from being old enough to be adopted. We drove to the shelter so he could see them. But then they had already adopted 1 of the kittens away even though they had told me they were not ready yet. Two of the other kittens had been found dead in their cage and the last kitten and cat mother had been too sick. So they had put them down.

I was all sad since now we had hoped to get two cats with us home. They tempted us with other kittens and we found the cutest little calico female around 12 weeks old. We took her home and she was such an adorable and friendly cat. But then she started to puke white foaming stuff. First we thought she was trying to throw up hairballs. Or maybe she was nervous about her new home. Everything else looked fine. The next morning she was just lying down and didn't want to move. She had not touched her food or water. She just kept putting her nose in the water bowl without drinking. So we rushed to the emergency vet, since it was sunday and all the other vets were closed. They did blood tests on her and told us she had feline panleukopenia virus. So the vet wanted to keep her the night over for treatments. But late in the evening he called us and said she had given up and died.

So I kind of gave up on the idea of getting a cat.

Then last week when my husband was down at the appartment office to pay some bills he saw a super skinny cat wandering around. It had a flea collar so he asked some people who was there if they knew the owner. But they said it had been wandering around for days. He picked it up and sat it down before our door. Then when the door opened it rushed into our appartment.

We still had a bag of dry food and some cans from when we had the kitten. So we gave it food and it ate it all. We also made a fresh new litte box which it used. Then afterwards it ran straight to the bed.

Next day we went to the vet. She told us it was a he. And that he was neutered and about two years old. But poor guy was starved so you could see all his bones, bitemark on the one leg so he had lost hair there, scracth marks on his nose and worst of it all a dislocated hip.

Well we got him the whole treatment: stuff for fleas and worms, all kind of vacinations including rabis vacination and x-rays for the hip.

This thursday he is scheduled to have his hip fixed and then the 7 november he is going to have more vacinations.

We have put up flyers in the local petsmart in case someone is missing him plus we also got him checked for mikrochip which he didn't have.

But if no one claims him. Then we keep him. We already named him Hemingway because of his exstra toes on his frontpaws. And I read Ernest Hemingway collected cats with exstra toes.

We have bought him Blue Buffalo cat food since I read that was a good brand. And he is eating a lot. So looks like he is gaining weight. I'm excited to see what the vet says when she sees him again.

Here is a picture of him: