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[tallnate]

I have a kitten that I found abandoned on the street in need of a good home. She is starting to eat some dry food, when I found her she was on milk. She uses the litterbox and is very playful! I am located near Olympic park, but arrangements can be made. I don't have pictures at the moment, but she is grey with dark stripes. I'll post pics soon. Thanks!

[RobbJK9]

Animal Rescue Korea

www.animalrescuekorea.org

[RobbJK9]

Animal Rescue Korea

www.animalrescuekorea.org

[Boodleheimer]

please post more info here! are you sure it's female? have you taken it to a vet?

an aside:
i agree with animalrescuekorea in theory, but the requirement of an adoption fee (which i believe should be negotiable) strikes me as off. i don't live in seoul (where most of the pets are), so getting one is at least a 70,000 investment- of course i'm not going to take adoption lightly. i give annual donations to animal rescue groups.

[NoExplode]

[Who_Dey]

I may be interested in the kitten. I would love to see pictures! I am generally a dog person but my hours here seem unfair to a puppy so I have been considering a kitten PM me?

[Draz]

[goesslry]

[goesslry]

[snowgoose]

Whether it's a cat or a dog, while they're very young, they need more attention and care than older animals. Kittens can miaow a lot when there's nobody around to feed them or make them warm and stroke them (the mother would lick them). You should keep that in mind in case you have touchy neighbors. I've heard kittens miaowing on the street somewhere and it's a really piercing sound. I think puppies and kittens need to be fed more often as well.

Also the adoption fees that many shelters ask for go towards the costs of feeding and caring for the animals, including getting wormed, getting shots etc. They don't make any money out of it. This person giving the kitten away isn't asking for a fee, but whoever wants to take this kitten, remember that you'll have to take it to a vet for a checkup, shots, getting it neutered, since it came off the street, and that will cost money. It's not free to keep a pet in good health. Also, if it came off the street and hasn't been to the vet yet, I think there's a possibility it could die suddenly, from some kind of virus or parasite even though it doesn't seem sick now. I heard that kind of thing happens with kittens.

Also I think it costs more to neuter a female than a male. So you should know that as well. You could not get it done, but cats in heat make horrible sounds and are hard to control I heard. Probably won't make you popular with your neighbors. If you are away from home for a long time in the day, it's probably better to get a full-grown or older animal. Or else, get rabbits or hamsters.

BOODLEHEIMER - you can also look for pets near your neighborhood. Just go around to vets and grooming places. Many of them put up notices for lost or abandoned pets that have been found and taken there, or left there and the owners never came back (especially boarding places). I think they don't charge anything but you have to pay for some shots and stuff like that. But remember that you can easily pay up to W70,000 in one vet visit, if your pet is sick, for medicine plus monthly worm &parasite treatment.

[goesslry]

most vets and fosterers do, and should, charge an adoption fee. If someone isn't willing to pay 50 bucks for an adoption fee, they obviously don't know the costs in having a pet, and shouldn't take one on

to answer those questions, a female spay is about 200-300, depending on the vet. A male neuter/castration is about 100-200, depending on the vet. Males are just a cut and snip away, females require actual surgery. The surgery isn't all that expensive, but the expensive part in those fees are the blood tests.

I have been involved in animal rescue most of my life, and for over two years here in korea, and rarely have i seen a vet giving away animals. They usually ask for a small adoption fee. This helps insure that the animal is going to a good home, and not a home that number 1: doesn't know the costs in having a pet, and number 2: to help protect against dog and cat meat collectors.

You can find a lot of information regarding this here: http://www.animalrescuekorea.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=10

and here:

http://www.hsus.org/pets/pet_adoption_information/what_to_consider_before_adopting_a_pet.html

[Boodleheimer]

^ yeah, i'm sure fifty bucks is a much better gauge of how responsible a person is than, say, an interview and proper vetting.