Praise Jah! From the same True Christians™ who brought you Throwaway Families, we now have Disposable Pets.
~Sue
Heart-warming story as Lewis finds new home
THE potentially heart-breaking experience of giving away a much-loved pet cat became heart-warming for Birkdale’s Marja and Lawrence Opperman.
Marja and Lawrence worried about the fate of the desexed ‘‘chocolate-point’’ Burmese male, Lewis, for many weeks as they organised their affairs and put their their home on the market to allow them to travel.
As she prepared a classified advertisement offering Lewis free to a good home, Marja prayed for the ageing and deaf cat which was suffering a bout of the flu.
The Oppermans owned Lewis about a year after he was advertised as a giveaway in Logan City. “When we picked him up we were told he was about 12 years old and he had been neglected,” Marya said this week.
“He was skinny and had patches; he had no whiskers, but he was a fantastic cat. He was very sweet and very good natured. He started purring as soon as he came near you.
“It was a rescue mission but I have had cats all my life – I stabilised him and his diet and got a vet to look at him.” Marja said Lewis became “part of the family” as she nursed him back to good health.
He loved to sit on her shoulder. A Jehova’s Witness, Marja said: “I prayed and prayed: Please let him go to a good home that gives the attention he deserves, maybe with someone in a wheelchair.”
On the day the ad appeared, the first caller was a woman who said she had suffered a stroke, was paralysed on her left side and now needed a wheelchair. “I told her that he was old and deaf and had been sick but he was sweet and loved attention, and she said, ‘that’s just what I want’.” Marja and Lawrence delivered Lewis to the woman’s Victoria Point home that afternoon. “She was so happy she burst into tears – it was very emotional,” Marja said. “She offered us a cup of tea and she called herself his mum. “I think she will suit him and he will suit her perfectly.
Her carer also seemed to think it was a good match up.” Marja said Burmese cats seemed to have long lives. She owned one of the breed for 20 years from its kittenhood. The Oppermans, who have lived in Redland City for the past 13 years, plan to see some more of Australia.
With Lewis’s future now secure, they are plotting a route that will include visiting friends in Cooktown but still have more preparation to do before they hit the road for the trip of a lifetime.
Part of the family dumped for road trip of a lifetime
by betterdaze 9 Replies latest jw friends
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betterdaze
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fokyc
I wonder whether a Watchtower and Awake were presented with the cat?
Why do they need a trip of a lifetime when Armageddon is just around the corner?
Bros & Sisters were worried when we went on a cruise in 1975! What would we do if Armageddon came!!
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nancy drew
There is nothing I want to do that would cause me to part with my little old lady diabetic kitty. she belongs to us no matter what and we will take her wherever we go till death do us part.
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CuriousButterfly
That is so sick. Animals are not disposable, why bother getting one? When they become inconvenient you pass them on.
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cantleave
We've got a 14 year old burmese cat - sh*t i was hoping it would die soon, I really don't want it lasting another six years.
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bigmac
bad news im afraid cantleave, my last siamese cat lived to 20!
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Mary
I knew people at the Hall who would get their kid a dog from the local pound and then never spend any time with it, training it or anything. And of course, the pet just became a 'nuisance' so they would take it out and drop it off in the country.
How loving and Christ-like, eh?
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JWoods
We've got a 14 year old burmese cat - sh*t i was hoping it would die soon, I really don't want it lasting another six years.
I just read in Scientific American that the longest-living known domestic cat made it to 36 years.
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
The "Bethel Family" is looking to give members "free to good homes"... or not-so-good homes, they really don't care.
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Hadit
If people are willing to dump their own children, parents and friends then what hope does an animal have?