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Most of the poor babies used to have a home and don't know how to fend for themselves. I leave food out and have rescued four. Two for me, re-homed another, and one needed euthanasia - he was dying slowly and painfully.
Not going to stop feeding! No hoards have come to bother anyone. 4 are better than I found them due to modest efforts.
I haven't read all of this, but I hope someone has mentioned TNR (trap, neuter, release) programs? Probably available in your area; check online or with your local shelter.
Di you know that cats who once had a home yearn for one again, even if they are really scared to accept one? I worked on one for two years. When he finally could trust me, you should have seen how happy he was. Poor baby. That is a long time to be out there as sick as he was. :-(
Di you know that cats who once had a home yearn for one again, even if they are really scared to accept one? I worked on one for two years. When he finally could trust me, you should have seen how happy he was. Poor baby. That is a long time to be out there as sick as he was. :-(
I once adopted a cat that had been abandoned twice in the same town. She was well known to the residents. Mostly a Siamese, and just the best cat ever. She hated to be indoors during the day, but spent every day indoors for three months cuddling with me when I was recovering from brain surgery. I miss her.
I once adopted a cat that had been abandoned twice in the same town. She was well known to the residents. Mostly a Siamese, and just the best cat ever. She hated to be indoors during the day, but spent every day indoors for three months cuddling with me when I was recovering from brain surgery. I miss her.
I feed one feral at the back of my yard. She lives in the wide hedge and won't come near me, but she does wait for her evening meal every day if the weather is decent. I'm not ever trapping her because she would probably be euthanized, and she's already old and one-eyed. When it's her time to "go", she will, She doesn't hurt anything in my yard anyway. If she gets sick enough to let me catch her, I'll take her to the vet though. She's a pitiful old thing.
I have fed several strays (one of which was kicked out by the moron renters that live behind me.) That cat was sweet and turned out to have FIV. After I took him to the local shelter he went to a lifetime rescue (I transported him there, so I knew he was safe.) The second stray was just as sweet, obviously had been a house cat, also FIV+, and is still at the shelter with a URI. They have done a tremendous amount of treatments for her, and are trying to place her at the same rescue as the other stray cat with FIV. It's one of the few rescues that will take them.
People who abandon and/or neglect their cats in this manner make me absolutely livid.
That is so good of you. We've caught two ferals/semi-ferals and had them neutered and then we released them.
One mother (her three kits are teenagers now, running around playing and doing cat stuff; we caught one so far) we had great sympathy for disappeared for about nine days after we released her. She showed up last night, absolutely famished. She made good eye contact and let us get reasonably close to her. She's been hanging around our back yard for the better part of a year.
Another kitty who was obviously not of this tribe and who looked to be feeling the extreme cold more than the others is living in our garage now. She was very friendly and let me pet her immediately. In the morning she'd come galloping up to us for feeding time. She had no chip and didn't show up on lost and found.
She had round worms which have now been dealt with. We're letting her in gradually, as we have two older rescues who we've had for two years.
She's hissed at them despite that they're not a threat, and she needs to learn one does not claw the furniture. She's very friendly and we figure she was put out, someone moved or died or got sick, or something else. She's not talking.
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Originally Posted by otterhere
I haven't read all of this, but I hope someone has mentioned TNR (trap, neuter, release) programs? Probably available in your area; check online or with your local shelter.
Di you know that cats who once had a home yearn for one again, even if they are really scared to accept one? I worked on one for two years. When he finally could trust me, you should have seen how happy he was. Poor baby. That is a long time to be out there as sick as he was. :-(
I do know, as I have met such cats. There are very few things that make me sadder or more angry than the sight of a pet that has been betrayed in this way, by just dumping it. I try not to hate anyone, but it seems appropriate in this situation.
If one can be prosecuted to fullest extent for abandoning animals (ala' humans) then it should be so. I'm in favor of VERY strict sentencing guidelines for stray cats -- that can be proven to have been owned, neglected, abused, abandoned, etc.
This would deter more than just a current slap on the wrist. I bust my butt to help strays & spend inordinate $, & forego things I WANT -- & yet, there are morons out there getting away w/ just intentionally causing these animals to suffer.
Where in hell is the justice in this?
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