Meeting Some Burmese Kittens
February 10th 2008 21:00
Photo by Bjtripp 2. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
In the display box were two tan coloured Burmese kittens. At first I thought they were Tonkinese kittens, as they looked just liked my friend’s pet Tonks. They were so loving and playful. The sales assistant was happy to take them out and let me hold one of them. It was a squirming little bundle of joy. It kept wriggling and walking all over me and like all cats, it wanted to be right on the highest point of my body, where it could see everything. So it climbed over my shoulder and back. I kept holding it, trying to stop it from falling. The sales assistant said the kittens were six weeks old. According to the many cat books I’ve read, the best time for a kitten to be separated from its mother is twelve weeks, to allow time for kittens to be properly socialised and to develop immunity from certain diseases through their mother’s milk. So buying a kitten that is less than twelve weeks old could cause problems later on.
As tempted as I was to buy the kittens, I knew it would be better to follow my Tonk owner’s friend’s example and buy them from the local animal shelter. At the same time, I had to leave the pet shop; if I stayed any longer I would have fallen in love with the babies and it would have been harder to leave the shop empty handed.
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Comment by AmyHuang
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Hi Queenie - it's not that it's a BAD place to buy pets, but pet shops, being so commercialised, become a place where people buy pets on impulse and later dump them as they realise they all grow up and the cuteness is not there anymore. Pet shops are also where people go to buy 'presents' without really consulting with the person they are giving it to. And you guess it - these poor little ones end up in the shelters.
There are of course, pet shops that are unethical and sells animals that were forcedly bred...
I personally choose to get pets from shelters because I know I am saving another animal from being put down eventually. No matter where the pet is from, simply just have to remember it's at least a 15 years of commitment you are giving to this pet. If you are not prepared for it, don't get it....
So good on you for thinking this through Queenie! Those little ones are simply just so cute aren't they?
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