Originally Posted by TonyF

My old neighbour (as in previous, not old) dropped by last evening for an apero. She told me her new cat, under a year old, has just produced 5 kittens, so I gave her 'the look' and asked about having the cat speyed. She told me that she'd been to the pharmacy to buy a bottle of ether to put the kittens down as she didn't want to keep any of them. I was horrified.

Anyway, she told me that another mutual friend doesn't agree with having cats speyed and when her female cats have litters she BEHEADS those that she can't rehome - and it isn't a rumour, she's actually seen her doing it to the poor little buggers.

This thread started being about cats and bad owners - cats need to be speyed before they reproduce to keep the population down, no problem about that but the French attitude to domestic animals can be just awful - you see so many wholly pampered dogs and cats here but the other side of the coin is the number that are abandoned by their owners just before the summer holidays and people just being cruel to their animals - cutting their heads off is just f****** barbaric.

Good news is that the 5 kittens were rehomed today and the woman who came for the apero last evening is currently on the 'maybe' Xmas card list!