I'm a Slave to a Feral Cat Colony

[Michigan Swamp Buck]

MSB,

Good work with the cats.  Help them as you can, they have a overwhelming sense of dignity and are so very intelligent.

That one vet you described sounds like a fool.

We had a colony of five next door a few years ago.  Local vet offered free sterilization, so with the permission of their owners, we got them rounded up and "fixed" so that the colony would not grow apace.  They only do what nature bids them do.

That was the gal at the desk that was the fool, the actual vet was cool, but she was much closer to my age. I suppose I should forgive her for her ignorance and attitude toward me, but I really hope that when I badmouth that vet to the folks around here, it will come back to them through the grapevine. I won't go to FB and do that, although they would deserve it IMO.

The thing is, I must suppose that people who work as a vet or in a vet's office or the zoo have a real love for animals. But like others have said, its all about the money they can fleece from you because of your love for "Fluffy" or "Fido". 

Nature can care less what we think and feel unless it supports the natural system as it really is. Pain, suffering, and death are what nature is all about, and we must reproduce to continue the cycle. All the happy-lovey crap is an illusion in my opinion, meant to control you for nature's purpose of reproduction, or survival of the fittest, or whatever it is she wants from our existence.

ETA: I'm of the opinion that our physical reality is actually Hell that we are doomed to repeat forever. I'm not talking about reincarnation here (although I could be), but more like "Ground Hog's Day" where the same thing happens over and over again forever. A new cosmological theory has the universe inside a supermassive black hole that we have no hope of ever leaving to see what else is out there. We are in a dark universe in the bottomless pit of hell.