When it comes to cats there are lots of pleas for funds. The fundraising website is growing in popularity. Anyone can post a fundraiser. I don’t want to be cynical about this but…we cannot make the assumption that every request for funds on one of the many fundraising websites is genuine.
These sites get a hell of a lot of visitors. Millions per day some of them. The website, itself, has to be funded. It probably takes a proportion of the donations. That encourages a website to have lax controls. Cats are very popular on the internet. Cats are more popular on the internet than in real life!
What made me think this dark thought was the request for donations to “Save Snuggles”. Snuggles is a sweet looking long haired calico cat who scratches herself.
The cat’s caretaker, Beth Kululu Berryman, states that she wants funding to declaw Snuggles because it is the only way to save her life. Here is part of the request, verbatim:
I am honestly begging for your help in possibly saving her life. For reasons we have been unable to determine since I found her 2 years ago, Snuggles will scratch at her skin until it is raw..
Sorry, I have great difficulty in believing this because it is so stupid and using “declawing” makes it very emotive. It does not make sense. If a cat is scratching herself you take her to the vet and diagnose the reason, which will be itchy skin caused by an illness such as a flea bite allergy (a typical reason but one of many).
As a cat caretaker you don’t hold your hands up in despair on the internet and ask for money to declaw your cat!
Bizarre — and for me unbelievable. Think about it. It is so easy to post a picture of a sweet cat and plead for money. Where is the evidence? Don’t get me wrong. I am sure most requests for money are genuine. You can normally tell. However, there has to be a proportion of fraudulent requests. The Snuggles campaign seems to me to be one.
There is a lot of fraudulent behavior on the internet. Beware.
Note: I could be wrong about Snuggles. Of course. But if I am wrong then Beth is stupid. Sorry Beth.
Yes, all very strange. I would have respected her had she just written that she was in dire need of $$ to survive and to care for and keep her cat. Honesty pays off with me. I may have given her a few bucks.
This is just TOO DREADFUL, any butcher who agrees to FOUR PAW declaw this poor cat is an evil monster, it doesn’t bear thinking about.
What can we do?
I can’t believe people are still donating money for this cruel person to have her cat mutilated instead of investigating why she is so itchy.
I’m in tears, I HATE with a passion those EVIL people!
Has she taken the cat to the vet? She does not state that. It could be something as simple as flea bite allergy.
Dee and everyone- this is the post to which I was referring:
Thanks Dee. Her name has changed from Beth Kululu Berryman to Sandi White and it is odd she is saying this at all and especially in a comment where a lot of people will miss it.
Now, I’m not sure whether I was looking at the correct post or not.
Sorry, if I was mistaken.
In any case, I don’t think she will find any vet to declaw for $170.00.