EDITOR – In response to the animal lover who expressed her emotional pain: we had the same problem in a complex we lived in. We owned our unit. I had a dog but a stray ginger cat turned up and World War III broke out as I was feeding him, and we were told we could not keep a cat. I found out his owner, living in another complex, had moved out several months before, taking one cat with her and leaving the other one behind.
There was no reasoning with our chairman and his trustee friend (who was the person responsible for the whole nasty saga). Os, the cat, never gave any trouble or caught any birds. All he wanted was to visit and be fed and then go. I had him sterilised, inoculated and dewormed. A revolution started and the cat disappeared many months later. He was found dead in the next door stand. I do not know if a snake had killed him or if he was poisoned – the word had been used during one argument with the trustee.
The good news is that the chairman sold his unit and his sidekick bullyboy trustee lost support, and is now just plain Joe Bloggs with no power any more.
To Os, my gorgeous gentle ginger giant: you were responsible for a change for the better. Without you the dictatorship would still be in place today.
To Animal Lover: I hope you find your cat, Amy, and the dictator on your committee is voted out.
It is hard for the SPCA and other animal adoption organisations to find homes for animals, even without all these complexes now not allowing animals. I was told ‘It is your constitutional right to own property, and an animal can be described as property’. I don’t know if the lawyer was right, but it would be interesting to find out.
R Mee
Gillits
