Day 22 - cruel to be kind?

05-11-09

Bonfire night - now thats one thing I´m missing out on as they don´t celebrate that here obviously! We´re not long back from Mikel´s where we were all watching a movie. I´m so content with the set up I´m in and the group of volunteers here. I love spending time with them all and I treasure the times we can just hang out together not working and not as Platform2 representatives. We are such a diverse bunch and I believe this is the only situation we´d all be hanging around together. But I feel so lucky that we´ve all been brought together through such an amazing experience and I´m sure we´ll be meeting up as frequently as possible once we´re back in the UK. It´s great as we all get on as one giant group and there are no segmentations within, and I really hope it stays that way.

Yesterday at work, the kids were being rough with the kittens so again a few of us got concerned. Lauren asked our supervisor Ricardo if we´d be able to take them into a safer environment so after much enquiring and to-ing and fro-ing between families, the owner of the kittens said that we could have all 4 in 2 weeks as she doesn´t want them to be seperated from their mother any sooner. I´m a wee bit torn as to what to do as I really hate the kittens being where they are now and it´s great that we´re allowed to take care of them, but what happens when we have to leave? Will they be old enough to fly back to the UK with us? Can we afford pet passports not to mention vet/jag costs? And that is if we are even considered eligible of whatever. I´m not really sure what the drill is. If taking them back to the UK isn´t an option, which I´m thinking it most likely isn´t an option, where do they go? Cat Shelters are all full and we can´t really impose this kind of thing on people. It´s hard because Lauren especially has already grown so attached and doesn´t want to think of those important questions just now, but I´m just worried that we may ironically be doing more damage by having big hearts.