THE MIRACLE OF LIFE

Come quick, come quick", their mother said "The time is getting near"
She feels that when the kittens come the children should be here.

She told them that a big orange Tom took "Kitty" as his wife

"It's wonderful, a gift from God, the miracle of life"



At half a year young "Kitty" feels too painful and too scared

to appreciate six miracles, blind-eyed and yellow haired.

But she knows these lives depend on her and nature tells her how

and as she cleans them, children ask "Mom, can we go now?"

But now and then for six more weeks the children visit her

to play with six new magic toys made of life and fur.



The six weeks pass, the newness gone and new homes yet unfound,

Mom bundles up six miracles and takes them to the pound,

Where lovingly, with gentle hands and no tears left to cry,

the shelter workers kiss them once and take them off to die.

And "Momma Kitty" now shes called mourns her loss and then,

she's put outside, and of course, she's pregnant once again.

Dad tells "Kitty" STOP THIS NOW or you wont live here long!

But deep inside of Momma Cat, this time something's wrong.

Too young, too small, too often bred now nature's gone awry,

Momma Kitty feels it too and she crawls off to die.

She too is freed from this cruel world, and from her time of strife.

How harsh the truth, how high the price this "Miracle of Life"?

-By Barry Taylor, DVM       
On occasion I am asked if we will sell a pet kitten undesexed for whatever reason, the answer is always no, which
sometimes some people have trouble understanding.
To back up our policy that no pet kittens leave us undesexed I decided to write a page on the various reasons on
why early desexing is the responsible thing to do. During pondering how best to simply put down the many reasons
to support early desexing I was made aware of the below writings.
It bought tears to my eyes and to me summed up why no female kitten will ever be put at risk of suffering such a life
or why no male kitten will be able to further add to the population of unwanted kittens.
This poem I believe sums up why
Prowlers Bengals practices and supports early desexing of ALL pet kittens.
PROWLERS BENGALS
RACHELLE FRIIS, CHRISTCHURCH,  NEW ZEALAND
Phones/Fax: 0064 3 3126487,  021 0593 981
Email: rachelle@bengalz.com, nakuba.abys@xtra.co.nz