Short Essay#1- Cats Problems

(I revised a lot of part of my essay so that it has a really different part than the first one)

To Cats owner: Love Your Cats and Never Abandon Them Again 

    Short Introduction: There is a story from New York Times talks about cat problems in China. The title is “Cat Rescues in China Raise Host of New Questions”, and the link of this article is: http://cn.nytimes.com/article/china/2013/01/29/c29catrescue/en/. The original audience is Chinese readers who check news in the Chinese edition of New York Times. The original purpose is point the issue of cats’ problem in China. The new audience is for the cats’ owners. The new purpose is persuading those owners to take care of cats.

      The story talks about how to solve the problem when the rescuers rescue nearly 1000 cats from a truck. It happened several months ago, animal lovers got the information from Weibo (Chinese Twitter) that a truck has accident in the high way, but someone found that nearly 1000 cats in the truck as the cargo, and they would send to the restaurants in Guangzhou, China. Fifty rescuers found the location of the truck gave 8000 dollars to the drivers and rescued those 1000 cats. Some cats were dead in the crowded cages, some cats were got injured and some cats were even giving birth. Nearly 200 cats are dead in that time. The rescue story is heart-warming, but the big problem is how to deal with the huge amounts of cats. Rescuers did not send them to the original areas because rescuers afraid cats will be caught again or traded again; Rescuers tried to call friends or family to raise some cats, but they could not give all cats homes; In addition, they send other cats to the animal hospitals to give the injured cats some medical helps. The local newspaper, Sanxiang Metropolitan newspaper wrote that: those cats have “the awkward fate”. In China, dogs and cats are widely eaten if they are homeless. Although more and more ordinary citizen are acting to stop trading cats and dogs, the trading activities still exist in a lot of areas. A volunteer Ms. Tian mentions that “cats reproduce fast, and it is very possible to cause alarm people living in the community and lead to the disaster for the feline ecosphere. If it happens, both of owners and other resident will be affected a lot”. Although volunteers’ rescue and current conditions are not perfect, all volunteers have a warm heart and need to encourage. In compare, the owners who abandon their cats should take responsibilities of the cats’ problems, and cats’ traders, catchers and eaters should be punished by laws.         

          In my opinion, although cats trading have no law to prove that is illegal, we should solve the problems for the animals and environments. From the owner’s angel, if owners plan to have cats in homes, you should take care of them until they die. A lot of owners, they purchase cats at homes, but they found that raising cats have to face a lot of problems so that those owners abandon cats. I think those owners should not raise cats if they did not prepare for all things. If owners can be responsible, there will be fewer homeless cats or cats’ problems in China. For the owners, it is better to provide sterilization for cats rather than abandon them, and you will not consider the birth problems of your cats. In the USA, animal hospitals choose to provide sterilization for cats, and the hospitals also do the same things for homeless cats. The problem is that if no one decides to raise homeless cats, they will be chosen to have euthanasia, and nearly 60% cats are dead of euthanasia. Those cats have poor life as a pet so that the owners should consider a better life for cats, and it also will decrease the number of eaten cats. The rescue activities are warm, but we do not want to see the poor stories again so that solving this problem is important and we need to give the pet’s basic rights.