Meet Sanjiv!

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In 2 weeks I shall be introducing a new addition to my family, a little boy kitten whom I have named Sanjiv! Me, my mum and sister got to know him and his kitty family today in the afternoon and I fell head over heals in love. My mum insisted on never allowing me to get a cat, but she's a sucker for cute creatures and show her a photograph and she forgets all her issues. HA HA HA HA! I WIN! After 10 solid years of begging (10 years ago our old family cat died.)

The picture is a bit crap but he wouldn't keep still! More pictures will come soon.

Awww! He looks a bit like a Burmese, my family had one we named Axo that used to eat avocados off the neighbor's tree. Well, then again, so does Clyde, the current orange tabby residing with us

Adorable, I love cats Most of mine have been black & white colored, like my current 12 - 13 year old cat Miss Kitty.

@ 2wheels4ever: As far as I know he's a moggy, and he was £20 which is a good indication he's not a pedigree Burmese (I always feel weird when prices are put on things with a brain, but hay-ho). I wanted to avoid pedigrees because of the vet bills, mix breeds are always healthier.
I can't imagine cats eating avocados!

@ IdahoRose: Black and white are my favourite fur type. I used to have a black and white cat called Dotty throughout my early childhood, she got put down when I was 10. The reason given was that with age she was deteriorating extremely fast, though I was angry as hell at my parents for letting it happen, you wouldn't bump off grandma when she was decrepit would you??

I just watched a double-bill of Bollywood action films yesterday. I'll have to put up my thoughts on the two films (Race and Race 2) later on.

As for the cat: nice. The photo is very blurry, though.

i can not understand how people can place a price on the life of an animal. and so cheap too. the animal gets no say in what it is "worth" and can not control where it is going to go . animals are so innocent, and humans think thay can value an animal based not on it's inherent worth, but on the price of breeding it and feeding it before it is "sold"

all the money in the world can not create your darling little kitten, and i admire your bemusement at the fact that humans place a price on living beings being "sold" for for a "profit".

i am very sad that the animals in human confinement have a "price" that is just dollars and cents. i can not describe it.
if all the smartest people in the world got together and tried to create that kitten they would fail miserably, yet they are willing to part with it for 20 pounds.


i have a mouse that i have met recently who has become my friend. he trusts me and takes food out of my hand. his/her trust of me is worth more money than i could ever make, and i love it so much, but mice can be bought for $1.20 in pet shops!! !! !! the people who buy the mice are allowed to do whatever they wish to the mice after they have bought them, but mice are very affectionate and trusting and they like to be petted, and no organization on earth could ever produce one, yet the love of my little mouse could be sold for $1.20 to a kid who only wants to take it to a park and torture it? (my mouse is my friend and i will fight seriously to protect it) i sometimes have little faith in humans because they are not aware that one little mouse is just as alive and real as they are, and one little "worthless" mouse has as many hopes and fears as i do.

i do not know how to say it. i will probably be called a "tree hugger" soon. whatever.

your little kitten (while you bought it rather than rescued it(which is probably the same thing really)) has no say in it's destiny, and i am glad that you are it's "mother" now because i have always recognized you as a very decent person. he/she will have a good life in your hands.

i did not pay anything for my mouse friend, and he already climbs over me (he gets on my shoulder when he is bold, but he likes the warmth of my pockets and scurries down to there which is dangerous) and he is wild. he has not been taught to trust me. he just does. i would move worlds in order to protect him.

love cannot be bought. love has no price and it is completely blind. most people hate mice and most people are not me.

i think your new kitten is very lucky to have been "bought" by you because if someone else bought him, then his life would be in their uncertain hands.

you are a good girl monkey.

I do see other creatures as beings with minds, while I have acquired a "pet" I don't want to see him as a commodity or possession.
Thankyou! I shall try and raise the cat the best I can.

I'm taking the digital camera with me to the next visit, so I'll get better pictures of him.

yes i know you will. i wish many more people were like you.

He looks intelligent and quite inquisitive!

I hope he turns out to be very entertaining...you selected a very handsome boy...congratulations!

Sylkat

yaaay kitty!

10 years is awfully long to be catless. I'm very glad you will be getting one soon.

Note to B9: I have a mouse in my house (probably more like mice). My husband wants to kill it, but I'd rather make friends with it.

@ B9, your post just triggered flashbacks of very similar thoughts that nearly paralyzed me with sadness at the time and took me a long time to overcome, but I'll survive

It's a bummer that animals are treated as commodities, but at the same time there are people who will seek out donated animals to commit atrocities in the name of scientific research, blood sport, or even to personally fulfill their innermost sadistic twisted fantasies.

But you know what really sucks? People who pay $2000+ to buy an animal as if it were furniture or a fashion accessory, rather than adopt a shelter pet for $80 and do something, anything to make a dent in the out of control homeless pet crisis.

The 20 Lbs. for a cat would barely cover shots and spay/neuter I'm sure

He's adorable.

Thankfully the people in his birth home are worming and fleaing him before he arrives. And I can take Sanjiv to the PDSA to pay for his jabs and ball busting, when you apply for the PDSA you pay a lot less for treatments because they pay a good amount of it. It's a bit like an NHS for pets.
My first thought was to adopt from a shelter, but I was open to decent home owners who have kittens. And at Sanjiv's current house the humans are more than decent, they are obviously animal lovers and their dogs and cats are all very well cared for and all an image of health. They aren't really active breeders, it's the active breeders that tend to be a bit dodgy.

I often feel guilty in a way, because my reasons for this cat are a bit selfish. It's to improve my mental health and mood and to find a companion in one of my favourite animals. I doubt Sanjiv is dreaming of my imminent presence the same way.

what were the thoughts?



i saw an episode of judge judy where a woman bought a puppy from a breeder, and the breeder provided a pedigree document that the woman subsequently found to be falsified after she took the puppy to some kind of specialist to verify the validity of the pedigree. she had the puppy for 2 months before she found out is was not of the pedigree that she wanted, and she was suing the breeder for the return of her money in exchange for her returning the puppy to the breeder.

the breeder refused to accept the puppy back because it was, at that stage, too old to be marketable, and the validity of the woman's claim that she had disproved the pedigree was questionable.

judge judy was not inclined to rule that the money be returned to the woman, and then the woman sought a compromise.
the compromise she sought was that the breeder should pay for the euthanisation of the puppy because that is what the woman intended to do if she could not return the puppy to the breeder and be recompensed.

i can not believe the mindsets of some people who look and sound otherwise normal. what a world.