Beau and his sister were abused and abandoned as kittens, and rescued from the pound soon before they were to be euthanized!! Their wonderful foster family (whom I met via a great website called Petfinder.com ( http://www.petfinder.com/ ) brought him to me from two states away, and he will never know violence again. Together we saved two very grateful (and now, very spoiled) cats (they kept his sister, who is gorgeous, just like him) :)
The ASPCA is a great organization that fights for everyday rights of animals of different kinds. It's free and quick to be a part of their different lobbying campaigns to help our loving pets from morons like these. Help the animals and sign up with them, it's free and all they do is occaisionally send an email that you click on and send back, and they send a letter to your local Congressman to vote for specific anti-cruelty issues. It's real issues, not raising heck over silly stuff. Your word does count. I have recieved many letters from the government saying bills I back actually passed. It's a good thing. http://www.aspca.org/site/PageServer?pagename=lobby_home