Appear

AFTER a while you start thinking and believing and almost trusting that people will be cruel. They will come over to look at a cat or dog and be interested in adoption for a while. Maybe your parents, ever so powerfully and naively hurting, will
attempt to coax a short little biography out of them. It will always be the same thing really. So and so has had whatever experience how many years or months back and needs a pet as comfort and ad company. It's never about the animal itself.
And then when they do come and their eyes widen with shock and gross interest they will be looking at the cute little bundles of kitten fur and not the sleek bodies of fully-grown cats that really need a home because well, they don't attract anyone.
Who wants you when you don't look nice anymore? Maybe your parents and maybe your family.
Nobody else in the case of animals I can tell you. And I've been the family of so many. I've has to see kittens go away to irresponsible owners who awkwardly mentioned their last, late animal, probably died because they were careless and let the front door open and the main road busy. Or adopt puppies and dogs that are pudgy but that will be found some months later in some bush on the side of the toad where they have just been through a hit-and-run that crushed their spines and crippled them forever.
People are so ugly sometimes.
When you don't think about all the work and sweat and almost tears, tears of frustration and tears of sadness, that went into nurturing the animal then it's fine. Don't think about the people working to keep these guys alive till your previous royal eyes land upon them and you suddenly just make them yours but never truly. Don't think about the stage crew at a performance, or the directors behind the camera of movie making sure that when the actors parade in front of the character they look good.
Don't think about all the people who went into making you.