i wonder if there's a correlation between the number of cats being kidnapped/murdered/euthanized on the Plateau/Mile-End and the recent rise in mouse and rat populations in the same area.
berger blanc may be responsible for more than simply euthanizing or selling cats to laboratories.
the lab i was working for a couple of years ago said some research labs in Montreal pay $50/head for a good, clean housecat, up to $500 for some. not off the street, but from cat dealers. like the berger blanc.
the berger blanc then receives a) funding from the municipality for picking up the cat in question, and then b) funding again if and when they sell that cat to a lab or other customers.
they make more money selling cats to labs than they do giving away cats for an adoption fee. the turnover is faster, they don't have to house them as long, and they don't have to provide a public display area for people to visit with potential adoptees.
according to the vet i used to work for way back when, the SPCA's in the province of Quebec also traffic animals, as well as any other states or provinces without appropriate animal protection legislature.
so i'm sitting here and it just dawned on me that local residents have been complaining about mice and rats lately. and how that may have something to do with the fact that house cats have been going missing in this neighbourhood for 10 years now. just long enough for the mouse and rat population to re-establish and become evident.
so Berger Blanc and the SPCA and etc. may not only be responsible for murdering thousands of cherished, well-loved pets, but may also be the very reason why the local mouse and rat population is rising.
when i had cats, i never saw a mouse in my apartment. not one. not in 10 years. now that i don't have cats anymore, my apartment has mice. they like to eat my food and shit in my cupboards. they're awfully cute, but i prefer turd-less cupboards when i'm making my morning coffee, man.
my roommate, who isn't here for most of the year and so isn't around to take care of a cat, puts down bait and traps. so instead of turds in my cupboard as i'm making breakfast there are dead mice rotting in corners all over the place.
which is SICK.
two of my cats have been capnapped since i moved to this neighbourhood. i loved them both dearly. i also had cats when i lived in Vancouver, which is infamous not for catnappers but for its coyotes, who regularly eat small pets and help curb the rat and pigeon population. even though i personally witnessed coyotes running down the street in front of my house in Kitsilano, just a 20 walk or 5 minute bus ride from the downtown core, neither of my cats was ever killed or went missing.
all to say, my cats were able to fight off coyotes in Vancouver and both survived. then i moved back to montreal and one of my cats was kidnapped within weeks of moving here. and, like so many others are saying now, when i called Berger Blanc to get my cat back they were extremely rude and told me I wasn't allowed to have my cat back. they told me he already euthanized. even though it had only been ONE DAY since he had gone missing. when i asked if i could come and pick up the body, they said i wasn't allowed to do that either.
the Berger Blanc and other pet "rescue" agencies that traffic animals are more dangerous to our pets than packs of urban coyotes. they don't provide a service to us, they take our loved ones away from us.
that said, i've volunteered for the Montreal SPCA and while they're totally shady, most of the volunteers are not. the real volunteers always try their best with the resources they're given, poor kids.
anyway.
i would get another cat but the dude responsible for the apartment i'm living in now won't allow it.
so rotting mouse carcasses it is.
aaaanyway. anyway.
why spread pesticides and mouse bait and poison all over the place when all we need to do is stop murdering our pets and/or stop taking them for granted?
so weird the way humans have detached themselves - put themselves above - the rest of the animal world. we're billions of folks with tiny God complexes.
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