Expensive Purebred Cat Should Have Been Kept on a Short Leash

Re “It’s No Love Story for This Romeo,” Dec. 13:

The person who surreptitiously had the Santa Ana cat neutered ought to get an award from the Humane Society. He or she absolutely did the right thing.

Millions of unwanted cats and dogs are put down every year due to pet overpopulation and irresponsible owners who don’t spay or neuter their animals and let them roam free. It’s tragic, and it costs taxpayers too much money.

It’s a perfectly legitimate endeavor to breed rare and expensive purebred cats, and Romeo’s owner has every right to do so, but to let the cat roam free during the day? Is she kidding? The cat will try to mate with every female cat he can find, regardless of breed, and the product of that will not be more purebreds, but more fodder for the animal-control killing machine.

Her actions are no different from any other irresponsible pet owner’s. If she wants to breed purebred cats, she needs to keep her stud indoors and under control at all times. She ought to be ashamed of herself for being so self-indulgent and drop the lawsuit.

Larry Kaplan

Los Angeles

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I find it completely bizarre that Tara DiGiovanni would allow a $4,000 cat, or any cat for that matter, to run around loose all day while she is working. If, as she said, “these are like my children,” how could she expose her cat to the myriad of terrible things that could happen to it?

Also, has DiGiovanni considered the many problems an unneutered cat can cause? For one thing I wonder how many little Romeos have been fathered by him while on the prowl. Although I am a cat lover and have two Chihuahuas, I am afraid my sympathies do not lie with DiGiovanni.

Barbara Mace Otaki

Mission Viejo