One Insight, One Solution...One Helpful Cat
"Think it. Do it. Keep it simple. Even your cat would approve."
🌿Be Kind to the Person You’re Becoming🌿
🌟A Truth to Hold Onto:
“You’re still under construction
- and that’s okay.”
🐾Why it Feels so Heavy:
We want instant transformation, but change is messy and slow. You’re allowed to be proud and unfinished.
Have you ever been impatient with your own progress?
🛠️One Step Toward Better:
Talk to yourself like you would a friend learning something new.
🚪Your Next Step:
Write down one thing you’re improving at, even if it’s small.
Great videos, David. Thanks.
Many or most people cannot relate to cat owners finding preciousness and other qualities in their beloved pets, including a non-humanly innocence, that make losing them someday such a horrible heartbreak.
Perhaps it therefore is not surprising that in Surrey (B.C., Canada) there's a particular need for consistently publicly-funded trap/neuter/release (TNR) programs to keep stray or feral cat populations from exploding and therefore greatly suffering. But that seems to not be a very politically popular option with the always-vocal tax-payer-complaints organizations, whose members will nonetheless blame feral or stray cats for any reduced bird populations.
Another notable problem are the deadbeat cat owners who cruelly deliberately abandon their felines. Some owners decide to move and leave their cats behind, sometimes dropping the pets off amongst some local woods to fend for themselves. The bitter irony is that these cats breed and multiply in the wild, likely exponentially, becoming generation after generation of stray/feral cats left to suffer while killing wildlife for sustenance.
The city’s municipal government as well as too many uncaring residents did/do little or nothing to help with the local cat charity's TNR program, which has ceased functioning. And then leave it to classically cruel human hypocrisy to despise and even shoot or poison those same suffering cats for naturally feeding on smaller prey while municipal governments and many area residents largely permit the stray/feral cat populations to explode — along with the resultant feline privation within!
Through the most recent email correspondence I’ve had with a representative of a Surrey cat charity (at the end of January 2026), I’ve sadly learned that the staff and volunteers “have not been able to find trapping volunteers that are interested [in] doing it on a regular basis. … Many homed cats are being left when people move. Also, people that fail to spay/neuter their cats find themselves with [unwanted] kittens, which they dump [because] they are too lazy to find help or to contact [a rescue society] to take the kittens. Kitten season is almost an entire year [in duration].”
I told her that about six years ago, I was informed by a representative with a Surrey non-profit charity that there were about 36,000 feral/stray cats in Surrey. A couple years later I was informed that, if anything, their “numbers would have increased, not decreased” since then.
When I asked her if she’d say that Surrey’s feral/stray cat population has gone up or down in the last four years or so, she confirmed that it has: “Definitely increased. … So many cats — feral, [including] once-owned cats that become feral — living without care outdoors has definitely increased. No organization has taken on a[nother] feral cat count at this time. It is overwhelming, and no one is interested. The City needs to provide a low cost spay/neuter program to help those that take in cats to ensure they do not create more offspring that are neglected and [exist entirely] outdoors.” …
What really angers me are the taxpayer complainers who want it both ways: To not have these cats killing smaller wildlife, notably birds, however much it’s out of survival necessity, AND to also not have tax-dollar revenue going towards consistent publicly-funded TNR programs to keep those cat populations from exploding. But with such TNR programs fully functioning, those cat numbers should gradually diminish.
These needlessly suffering beautiful animals are very worthy of human sadness and serious intervention.