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Well, there has been a stray that has harassed my Kitty Katty the whole time we have had him and my SO has a humane trap because he always is having to trap animals at his work.
Well we caught her and she is so pretty and afraid and I need to know what to do with her.
She looks well nourished but I am pretty sure she is a stray. She has no tags. She is always hanging around our house for some reason. My cat is terrorized over her.
Now I am terrorized over what to do about her now that we have her.
Any advice? I have already left a message with the rescue where we got KK.
I would hate to see her killed. I can't keep her and that is for sure.
I'd put up a couple of notices in your neighborhood, and post on craiglist under "lost and found."
Might also call a couple of nearby vets. Or take her to one and have her scanned for a microchip...a long shot but some people do microchip cats.
Also, at my humane society, you can call in with a description of a found pet and they will post it for people looking for a lost pet.
Over the years I've reconnected animals I've found with their owners using all of the above methods. Don't provide a detailed description, let people describe the pet in order to weed out folks looking to scam a free cat...
That wouldn't hurt, in case someone around you is missing their cat.
Calling the rescue was a good idea. I hope you find an owner, or a home for her, poor thing!
Thank you for your response but there is no way I can keep this cat until a possible owner can be found, and I do not work, so I def can't afford to have her microchipped and all of that.
She is the cat that has been causing my cat problems.
Given the fact that I cannot keep her, I also cannot keep her caged outside either. I do not think she is someones pet. She has been hanging around for quite a bit. She may have once been someones pet, but she isn't anymore.
She gets into peoples trash and she stalks my yard, sits right on my front porch, chills on the deck. My cat is terrorized by her, such a cute little kitty.
She actually looks just like a cat I used to have. =(
Well, you certainly can't keep the cat locked up in a trap - bring the poor thing to the humane society or let it go. You took responsibility for that cat once you decided to trap it. Now follow through. Hopefully you didn't trap someone's pet.
Chiroptera was saying to have the vet check for a microchip. If it came from a shelter originally, it's probably chipped, and that could lead you to the owner if there still is one, or let you know where you could return the cat to.
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If you don't have somewhere to take her, then you need to let her go. Are you feeding her? The neighborhood cats were getting into my recycling, but now that I feed them twice per day, they have stopped. If you want to feed her but don't want her hanging around your house, maybe you could put food out on the very edge of your yard, so she hangs out there instead...
Is your cat an indoor cat? How can she be terrorizing your cat if she is outside? Or do you mean that your cat goes out and this other cat seems to think that she owns the place?
Regardless, if you don't want to take her to a shelter, then you'll have to open the trap and let her go.
Well, you certainly can't keep the cat locked up in a trap - bring the poor thing to the humane society or let it go. You took responsibility for that cat once you decided to trap it. Now follow through. Hopefully you didn't trap someone's pet.
I obviously know that. I did not decide to trap the cat, my SO did. If I trapped someones pet, they are not taking good care of it by letting it roam the streets with no identification on it. It is out day and night.
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Chiroptera was saying to have the vet check for a microchip. If it came from a shelter originally, it's probably chipped, and that could lead you to the owner if there still is one, or let you know where you could return the cat to.
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Why would you trap a cat without a plan?
If you don't have somewhere to take her, then you need to let her go. Are you feeding her? The neighborhood cats were getting into my recycling, but now that I feed them twice per day, they have stopped. If you want to feed her but don't want her hanging around your house, maybe you could put food out on the very edge of your yard, so she hangs out there instead...
Is your cat an indoor cat? How can she be terrorizing your cat if she is outside? Or do you mean that your cat goes out and this other cat seems to think that she owns the place?
Regardless, if you don't want to take her to a shelter, then you'll have to open the trap and let her go.
I am not feeding her. She was just trapped overnight.
I am not sure if you own cats but if you do, you should understand how a cat can be terrorizing an indoor cat by stalking the yard all the time.
My cat never goes out unless I am taking him to the vet or if he is on a harness out in our back yard.
I did not post this to be attacked, I posted it asking for help in the most humane way to deal with this cat.
I have called the rescues, including the one my cat came from and they are not taking in anymore cats. I am taking her to the ASPCA.
I will not under any circumstances bring her into my house. Good Lord, I don't know if people pick and choose which threads they want to read or what.
I am familiar with most all of the posters on this forum and their pets.
I have taken care of the situation.
She will be checked for a microchip and her health will be checked and if she is friendly and adoptable she will be adopted.
I understand totally, and I'm not criticising. If one of the rescues you called originally adopted that cat out, they will take it back. A vet wouldn't charge you to check it for a microchip. It probably doesn't have one, but if it does and it traces back to a rescue (people don't always transfer the info over to them after adopting), they'll take it back even if they previously told you no. Anyway, the ASPCA will check for a chip.
If your area has a lost and found pet facebook page, you might take a pic, post it there, and say where you've taken the cat. It will be on stray hold for a few days.
Probably the indoor cat sees it from the outside. It was mentioned in another thread and I can't remember all details, but I can relate because we've had cats come by outside as well, including one in particular who almost seems to live to taunt the indoor cats through windows and such. (We were talking to neighbor recently and it really agitates her cat. Amber mostly doesn't notice right now I don't think. I don't know if it's still coming because I've moved the camera. I'm assuming the cat at my place is stray/feral and was planning to TNR but had to put that on hold for now. There are at least a few cats, and I hope we don't end up with a ton of kittens. For a while when it was colder I put out food and had a shelter, and cats did come by but wherever their true home base is I'm not sure. It's not right near or visible from the yard and there hasn't been sign of kittens.)
Anyway, so back to this case. So you've trapped a cat that you would rather not TNR (i.e. rather not just neuter and return to its same spot) because of the way it agitates your own cat. When trapping, yes, you really do have to have somewhere planned out to go with the trapped cat. You can only manage it in the trap so long. But that's hindsight, you already have it, so, what? Contact shelters in your area. What I would do is at least try to have it scanned for a microchip and check to see if it's neutered. That should be standard in most shelter intake, but sometimes they can be sloppy. You might also check with vet offices; they may also be able to scan and can check for neutering and may do so for nothing. BUT. They may not be well acquainted with handling a feral if that's what this is. There are two types of chip as well so ideally you want to cover both, and scan all over not just where they normally insert the chips because they can migrate. If they find one, it can be perhaps reunited with an owner. If that owner is instead some a-hole who abandoned the cat, then, well it's not much different than not finding a chip.
A chip and/or already neutered would be a sign that perhaps the cat could eventually find home as a pet, if it met a patient rescue organization. But placing a cat without prior arrangement is difficult. And if it is really just feral, there's usually not much hope for placing them with anyone. A few other ideas: some shelters run a "barn cat" type program where borderline cats can be placed into farms where they would live in the barn and catch mice and such. Other types of relocation to join feral colonies or something may be possible (this is not usually seen as a good idea, but in your scenario someone may decide that it could work). By the way, look for sign of the ear being tipped, which is done to ferals who are TNR. That would be an indication that this cat wouldn't be a candidate for pet placement but at least has already been neutered.
You're basically going to have to scramble a lot today if you want to find a place for this cat to go and not be killed, apart from if it turns out to be someone's lost pet. Good luck. Not sure of your location but I'll offer some help with internet digging for local organizations if you post or DM a general location.
Thanks Greg. I've got it taken care of now....... I appreciate your response.
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