I got lucky and adopted a cat from a family that were moving.
She is fully grown, desexed, vaccinated and came home with half a car full of accessories.
The owners had adopted her when their landlord was going to shoot her as she was a stray kitten.
She hid for the first few days. Got into the wall cavity behind the laundry and flatly refused any contact with me. One day I was late home and on my arrival she suddenly decided I must be OK after all and sat on me as soon as I sat down. Now she does it every day.
I often see pets on facebook as their owners are moving or because their owners don't have adequate space or time for their needs and invariably it turns into a **bleep**e fight. If someone can't look after their pets it beats them getting dumped or just left behind when the family moves.
On the other hand their seems to be a lot of people who allow their cats to breed then hope to give away the unwanted kittens. There also seems to be a lot of people who want an outdoors cat, which to me defeats the purpose of getting a cat.
I have also noticed a lot of bull terrier type of dogs, which don't seem to be the most appropriate thing to advertise for sale on facebook.
Overall, I'm a bit conflicted over pets on facebook. It's great for people who need to put their pet up for adoption but not so good when it's used for the unwanted kittens of cats that should have been desexed and dogs that are bred for the sake of breeding.
