The animal shelter called me first but they made a mistake. Now I’m upset and don’t know what to do.
So for previous context, I lost a cat in October this past year and my sister lost a cat the following months after. We were able to get her a new kitten but he had fading kitten syndrome so he ended up passing away a few weeks ago.
While I was doing some shopping, I go to my local pet store and I see a kitten and of course I wanted to go check it out and put it and I called my sister and I asked if she wanted to see the kitten at first she said no, but then she changed her mind and when she saw this kitten, it looked like her first cat so she obviously started crying a little bit and she said she wanted him now mind you her previous Kat was a brown tabby. This one is a gray tabby so similar but different.
Fast-forward to this morning, I get a phone call saying that I’ve been approved to adopt the small gray tabby kitten. When I was at the store, I was told that somebody had applied an hour before me so they would get first choice and I questioned about it over the phone with the adoption agency. They were confused and after doing a little bit of thorough research, they realized they messed up. They apologized and knowing the situation because on the application, I was honest, and I said the full situation of what me and my sister have gone through. And the person on the phone told me they would have to contact that family first and then let me know by this afternoon.
I’m mostly just frustrated because this is the second time through this agency that this has happened previously before I got my current Kat I was trying to adopt through them a small white kitten and I got approved and they called me and then they said oh wait never mind. So I’m just wondering if I should go to that rescue and see if I can talk to somebody not to get the kitten at all, but to say that this really hurts and that there should be some more thorough checking done before phone calls are made because now my sister is upset and has been crying for the last few Hours and I don’t know what to do so I guess I’m just trying to see if anybody has any ideas what to do?