Missed Opportunity
Dammit! How come my brains don’t work fast when I need them to?!
Hmph!
I missed a golden opportunity to ‘inform’ someone whom I consider the loudspeaker around my condo area, about my work in spaying/neutering the stray cats around here. Especially since she was so ‘kindly’ telling me that the people around here are getting angry with the cats because apparently they are peeing on cars and such. Which I find rather strange. Cats are finicky animals, especially when it comes to their hygiene and they like to cover their poop and pee. Cars are smooth, metallic objects… nothing to cover their pee. Hmm…
So anyway, she was telling me… ‘Oh, just to let you know, people are getting angry with the cats… bla bla bla… so just letting you know, be careful when you’re feeding the cats to avoid unpleasantness… etc. etc.’
I guess I’m glad that she told me so that I know what’s happening (that was because I was walking back to my place and bumped into her and these 2 cats just dashed out and started following me because they thought I was gonna feed them). And I know she’s not fond of the cats either.
But I so missed the chance to tell her about my work because my brains didn’t work fast enough! Something like “You know, I have been working all these years to neuter these cats so that they don’t reproduce so we won’t have so many cats around. But nobody knows it and all they can do is complain and do nothing. At least I am being proactive about this issue and doing something about it. I don’t earn anywhere near as much as the people who stay here do but I use my hard-earned salary to pay for the surgeries myself. But all I hear are complaints. Do you know how discouraging it is for a young person who is trying to do good in this world to hear people complain and do nothing? I don’t get anything out of doing this, except a smaller bank account balance and knowing that these cats can’t reproduce, which maintains the stray cat population, in the hopes that people will be a bit more tolerant and don’t complain.”
I know I know, my approach is totally wrong. Must not be accusatory because it will put people in the auto-defensive mode but seriously, these people just complain complain complain and do nothing and the next thing I know, all the cats disappear and I hear that the management poisoned them to get rid of them. Oh wait, they don’t do nothing. They do do something. They complain to the management.
I don’t know if she or anyone else cares if I’m Mother Teresa for animals (I am not) but at least I make it known that I’m not just feeding them for fun.
Dammit, I don’t know when I’ll get such an opportunity again! *wail!*
Stupid stupid stupid! *smacks head against the wall*
There is an online community for the residents to sign-up to, to share whatever they wish regarding living in this development. Should I sign-up and publicize my work with the cats? At the moment, my cons list is more than the pros e.g. people might not be receptive and jump to the conclusion and point fingers at me for all their cat-related issues or worse, they might harass my parents about it, since I’m not the owner of our unit. And even if they were receptive, they might think that I have all the solutions to the stray problem and dump all their woes on me, when my focus at the moment is to keep the population under control. I can offer suggestions, but I’m not an all-problem solver.
Can someone please advise me??
I shall let my family and friends tell you about me. These comments may be rather old but I think the gist of them still hold 
