Teresa Pawcats learn the facts before making flippant reples!!!!! You know nothing, how sad you are. I have over 30 Irish kittens here, I know the facts, before judigng people make sure you know the whole story or you will continue to look stupid.
My, how rude are you! It is not as though that YOU have been a wealth of information on this issue. The only thing you have had to say about it all is that you have 30 of the kits when everyone was looking for those 50 that were about to be drowned. You didn't say where you got them from or what the actual situation was like.
The way this appeal has been posted from the beginning has been in a polemic, emotive daily mail style. We were led to believe that someone has 50 kits that are about to be drowned, which turns out not to be the case. In fact it turns out that there are over 100! What is the case is that a rescue in Ireland is overrun and is getting calls from people who have got kittens that they don't want. Big deal, we get the same in this country. I am sure that rescues over here hear it all and more! And these 100 aren't in one place yet, these are only the ones that the rescue in Ireland thinks it might be laboured with in the future.
Kelly, you say that it saddens you that people were questioning your rescue protocol. It saddens me that you still think that you are justified in staging your international rescue operations. You are sending emails to all the rescues? Why don't you pick up the phones and phone them. The response rate to that is so much more immediate than a few puny emails that are being sent out.
IMO this whole affair has been handled completely ineffectually. Why didn't the Irish rescue go to the media? Why didn't you? Why didn't they even put an appeal on their own website? Why didn't they and now you contact the big rescues in Ireland who are still professing to never even having heard of the issue.
People have repeatedly offered to write the story for you and to take them to the press. Heck, that story should open coffers quickly - it certainly did on the forums that you posted this story. And Ireland also contains cat lovers!
I stand by my opinion that you are completely hellbent for whatever reason to stage this international rescue operation. IMO this shouldn't be about egos but about the best interest of the kittens. And the best interest cannot be to drive them for hours across Ireland, then to ferry them for a few hours, and then to distribute them for another few hours within the UK, when they are still so young, many have ringworm and go knows what other issues.
