I recently received this answer request on Quora:
Are the homes that cats find in shelters really good ones?
In the interest of mitigating my obvious human bias, I asked my three cats this question.
Their answer? Definitely not.
The human who adopted us from the shelter is a total garbage nightmare. Get this: She only gives us canned food twice a day. The rest of the day, we have to survive on kibble. Kibble!
The torture doesn’t stop there. Just this morning, the horrible human brushed us. That wasn’t so bad, but then she also trimmed our nails. How dare she!
Every night, the oldest cat gets wrapped in a towel and given a pill. What is the purpose of this pill?
Trick question: It has no purpose, other than to torment the cat by keeping her alive so that the human can pill her again tomorrow.
You’d think even a human would find other things to do now and then, but no. The agony continues day and night.
For example, we cats aren’t even allowed to run back and forth across the bed at five in the morning! We have to do that in the rest of the house instead!
What is the point of existence if you can’t trample someone in their sleep every night?!
It’s not just the human, either. The local wildlife is in on the cruelty, as well.
For instance, there’s a local squirrel who sits on the fence and stares at the cats. Does this squirrel come inside and get eaten like a good prey animal? Of course it doesn’t! How rude!
And don’t even get us started on the birds. Those feathered jerks sit on the feeder all day long, just on the other side of the glass that separates them from the cat tree (which, by the way, the human vacuums once a week with that awful monster that lives in the closet).
Even our toys are in on the torment. Yesterday, the kitten knocked a stuffed mousie down an air vent, and the mousie didn’t even come back when called.
The audacity!
Worst of all: Once or twice a year, for absolutely no reason at all, the human puts all three cats into boxes and drives us TO THE VET.
And if a cat gets sick? There’s an even bigger chance they’ll have to go TO THE VET.
The human clearly preys upon feline weakness.
“But it can’t be all bad!” I hear you cry. “Surely you get petted every now and then? Treats? Catnip?”
Oh, you sweet summer child.
The human, delighted by feline misery, frequently pets the cats with only one hand. Worse, sometimes the human will do this while using the other hand to cruelly thwart the cat’s attempts to snatch human food off the human’s plate.
What did kitty ever do to deserve this?
Does the human tell us we are good cats and pretty cats? Of course she does. Do we understand English? No, we do not.
As for catnip, let’s just say this: The human hoards it in the backyard and in a little jar in the pantry, and she can’t even get high off it.
UGH. WHY ARE HUMANS ALLOWED?
Help end feline suffering: donate to the Gracie, Melody and Pippa Toy and Treat Fund.
Dani Alexis 
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