Hi Des,
Although I could never condone such selfishness, in a funny convoluted way, I can understand where this person was coming from....It is the reason why I could never work in the front line of rescue, like Teresa, Dawn, Lesley and many others do....it is just too heartbreaking. When a dear little animal dies, having suffered debilitating illness or starvation for so long before it is noticed, or a young kitten is handed in having been brutally kicked or abused that there is nothing further that can be done to save it, it must wrench at your heart and leave layer upon layer of sadness upon you, so that eventually the ability to lead a normal life becomes almost an impossibility, so spiritually weighed down with grief are you. I don't think I could ever recover from such sadness, and I feel that this is the reason why this person gave her little cat up for adoption. She was just trying to avoid the inevitable heartbreak that was awaiting her...or hopefully, was not....but she will never know and I think this was how she dealt with it.
It is not how I would deal with such an issue. I would throw every penny I had at trying to effect a cure for the little love and weep bucketloads when he/she passed on but I do sort of understand how she could have done this....
Does that make sense?
Best wishes,
Roz
