Has anybody seen.....?

Question

Have you seen any kittens in or around Sacramento??? I know its not exaclty "kitten season" as some would say, but my friend and I are both looking to get a kitten. We have tried local pet shops for ads but have seen nothing. The few ads in the paper that I called had already handed out their kitties. We're having such trouble finding kittens! I'm looking for one around 8 weeks old, and I'd prefer not to go to the shelter because they want over $100! You think it would be lower since they seem to be in such a hurry to find homes...And yes I know that that goes towards the vet fees, but c'mon!
I know a vet here where I live and she only charges around $10 for spay/neuter and only a few extra bucks for vaccinations, of which I do beleive in.
So...If you have seen any kittens, or if you know anyone who has any, or if maybe you know of a pet store that has some...

PLEASE please let us know! We appreciate all of your help and suggestions.

...We have been searching Craigs....

Answer 1

Hi there again...I apologize that giving you Craigslist hasn't helped you in your quest to locate kittens. Perhaps consider Petfinder.com: http://search.petfinder.com/search/search.cgi (type in your zip and select cat and baby to reveal the results)
When I did a search it pulled a large listing of kittens in the region and hopefully one of these babies are still available. Kitten season is very slow this time of the year as you have discovered so please be patient.

Answer 2

I love cats but my husband does not. He’s afraid of the claws because people who do not like cats are loved by them so all cats end up on my husband’s lap with happiness, loud purring and kneading (with big claws…ouch…) like when they were kittens and slowly milk-treading, without knowing that their paws are not tiny anymore.
For years, I have been miserable, missing the cat in my life, the companionship, the soothing, the majestic, the purring, the softness and the beauty of it. Anyway, one day, back in April 1993, my husband tells one of my best friends that he is thinking of letting me have a cat for my birthday on June the 6th, but it is a secret and he asks my friend to find a cat for me (she has two months between April and June). Fortunately, my friend being MY friend spilled the beans right away and told me that my husband had warmed up to the idea of me having a cat. As soon as she told me this, I had to find a cat before my husband would change his mind. I was on a mission to find a cat TODAY, April 4th, 1993. Well, apparently, April in South Carolina USA is like your problem in Sacramento now, not exactly “kitten season”. The Human Society (which, by the way, charged $25 for a kitten in 1993 if they had any) did not have any kitten and anyway I was not interested because I wanted a female cat to be able to have babies for a few years. I had small children and the best example you can give your children about parenting is to let them see how a female cat does it (I believe I am a very good mother because I learned from a female cat when I was growing up). So here I was in April-no kitten season like you are in December-no kitten season. There is a time where kittens are everywhere and a time where you cannot find any. Cats usually have two litters a years so if you can wait a little (by the way, what is your hurry?), kittens will show up eventually and be all over the place. In my case, I did not want to wait and I finally was extremely lucky in the end. I went to a pet store in a Jockey Lot and Farmers market where I went straight to the back store cages to see if any animals were in there and here was this trembling, scared and lonely little tiny 6 weeks old female kitten that a teenage girl (still in the store and looking concerned) just brought in. The only kitten, in the whole store, in the whole town, in the whole county, maybe in the whole state…(apparently a February birth freak of nature sort of thing…) so I never had to choose between this one or that one. I did not care if she was black, white, short or long hair, I saw a kitten, the only one I could ever find, my only hope, and I took her and put her in my shirt, next to my heart where she stayed all day and decided I was her new mother.
By the way, my friend (with my husband’s money) paid $15 for her then. In 1993, the Human Society charged $25 if I remember correctly. Your $100 for a kitten really seems like a rip-off…I had a look at the site of the Sacramento SPCA (The Sacramento Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) http://www.sspca.org/AdoptionProcedure.html#step5 and their fees are as followed: the adoption fee for dogs is $100.00. The adoption fee for cats is $85.00. Some other sites, like the Humane Society in other part of the country charged $60 for a cat. For those enormous fees, you get the neuter surgery (I did not want that since I wanted my female cat to experience motherhood), you get the de-worming and this and that and even the microchip identification! Well, just know then when my cat had babies twice a year, I did not sell them (against my principle). The usually four kittens had no surgery, no vaccinations, no de-worming and no microchip. They were just looking for a good home and I gave them away for free but I always made sure I knew the people who adopted them so they would not be some bad people looking for animals to sell to experimenting laboratories.
I know that sometimes you have to pay a lot for animals otherwise bad people just take them and sell them to laboratories for experiments for your shampoo or what not. Let’s say a lab gives you, the bad guy, $whatever for a cat to experiment on. So Humane Society and every other organization charged more so their animals do not end up in labs. When I see all those fliers in my neighborhood about missing pets, I am just wondering if bad people just steal those beloved pets to sell them to labs.
My advice is as follow: Wait for “kitten season” if you can, you will be able to find desperate people trying to get rid of their cat’s kittens. Or feel lucky and go to the nearest flea market pet store where a teenage girl just brought a little bundle of love.
My cat is 13 years old now and she is one of the wonders of my life. Maybe you can wait a few months to get your own wonder…

Answer 3

Check out www.petfinder.org They have some great resources for pets in your area...

Good luck finding your new furry friend!

Answer 4

Try petfinder.com. look in the papers or easy ad. Hope this helps!

Answer 5

Try "The recycler"
I got a baby bird over there and i love her soooo

Answer 6

Look in your backyard , i just threw a kitty over your fence.

Answer 7

try www.petfinder.com