....all this cuteness around the place. It's bad enough having gorgeous little chicks who may grow up to be cockerels. It's heart breaking to see litters of tiny puppies with mum at the side of the roads. Now, to top it all, we have kittens in the loft above the chick nursery!
It's bad enough that they are there in all their two week old cuteness, but the idea of a hungry, nursing mother cat amongst the chicks....it doesn't bear thinking about if she can't find any meeces!
The situation with animals in Bulgaria is the only real problem we have with the country. There are literally puppies and kittens everywhere, they don't believe in spaying, feeding or excercising their animals, they live on the end of a short chain, never getting off unless it snaps, fed bread and scraps if there are any, and the odd bare bone. Cats don't get fed, they are there to do a job, no-one owns them.
We said when we moved here we would have to be hard hearted and not adopt any of the thousands of unwanted animals in our area as we have no idea if our move will work out and couldn't bear to have to try to re-home before returning to the UK where we would have to find somewhere to rent with two dogs already. Farm animals no problem, there are plenty of poor and hungry people who would have them.
But we are torn about these three scraps, even though i don't care for cats, OH does, and I can't bear to see any animal homeless. Oh dear.