Kittens and cats....

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I have so many kittens and feral cats running loose in the neighborhood. I live just across this lady that hoards them and usually the animal control comes to.....well you know.

Well there's been a batch of kittens so far...and they're so sweet. Is there anything I can do to keep them from being put under the gas?

I can't adopt anymore cats btw...I wish I could but I'm unable to afford it or have the room. The situation is getting out of hand and I wish there was something I could do that didn't require the ethics of having them be put down.....

This lady really needs to get her head fixed!! Note...if you're really love a cat, then you'll have them fixed so they don't bare kittens who are just put into this world to be killed.

Ethics? The ethical thing to do is to have them put down peacefully, or you could release them and have them get attacked by dogs or sick kids who are looking for victims to practice their future serial killer techniques on.

Thanks but I was looking for an answere that didn't involve having them be put down.

Give them away to people for free?

That's what I thought of...not sure how.

Go door to door and advertise?

You could put signs up in your neighborhood and have people come to your house to look at them, or go around offering door to door. In doing both you would have to endure the terrible experience of interacting with NT's..

Going catty topic

MC, could you find out if there is a nearby cat rescue? Theses are no-kill groups dedicated to rescuing cats and kittens. In Canada, we have some rescue groups in which the animals are received, vet checked, neutered, fed and good homes are then found for them.

Make signs for the pet stores (those that don't sell cats), veterinarians, and pet groomers in your area too- most are happy to put such ads up. And if possible, don't forget ot ask friends or family members.

Best of luck.

NEVER place a "free to a good home" ad unless you want the animal to end up being tortured in laboratory, or worse.

See The Perils of "Free To A Good Home" Ads, via pet-abuse.com.

My best advice is to call the police, or the district attorney and pressure them to file animal cruelty charges against this repeat offender.

I would LOVE to take at least one of them as I really want more cats but my husband says no as he think we live in a too small appartment for more than one cat

Isnt there any catshelter around that can take them on?

"or worse" = training prey for fighting dogs. this is more and more common in many places. theyre usually small dogs, but you never know. i guess anything w a fight in it will do

I hope this isn't a serious reply. I suppose in response you could say that there are as many people as there are pigeons. Killing a few won't matter ....

Better to give your young cats to people you know rather than people you don't. That way, you know they will be going to a good home

Yeah....but it's overcrowded and they do put unwanted animals down. I contacted the closest one near me where I got my cat. The lady there was very nice and she told me they have a lot of volunteers who come in and take some of the animals in the shelter who look well enough to be sold in pet stores and no kill places like petco and petsmart.

Here's the trouble, the kittens here are pretty fond of me but they're feral. The bigger they get, the more the harder it is for them to become house pets. Feral cats.....the ones that are too wild are usually the first to be put down. This is at least what the lady carefully hinted to me. She did however tell that the problem wasn't the cats in general but the overpopulation thus diseases. The only 2 good things I heard from her is to either have the feral cat trapped and fixed.

Interestingly I know another lady who said she did the same thing. Not all places are quick to put a feral cat down once they've had their shots and are neutured and spayed. The good thing about it is, it prevents them from making more kittens just to be put in a trivial life. The down side is....well the cost of money and whether or not you're willing to have a feral cat fixed who is practically living in the outdoors where anything can happen.

The second thing she told me, is there are people willing to foster but again it costs money $$$...I'm not doing good financially but have tried to live a life where material didn't get in the way of living arrangements and of course my pets. I'm animal lover....what can I say? I'm not sure on how to go about this because I live in an area where it's too spaced out. It's very hard even for me to get around.

These particular feral cats aren't too wild b/c they've been socialized by some of the people in my trailer park. It's these very people that are hoarding them...by that I mean they keep feeding them but aren't willling to have them fixed, give them their shots and so on. That's part of the reason why there's too many of them. They're being fed but they're not being cared for or fixed. If they're not fixed, they keep having babies and cats reproduce very quickly and in abudance. The trouble with this is diseases and people worrying about their own pet cats contacting the diseases from these cats aside from other issues.

This is a very hard situation because the kittens here have kind of taken to me. Sometimes I'll go out and play with them using a string. I really hate to see or imagine them being caught by Animal Control just to be put down. They aren't as feral as most cats I've seen out here. So they're not as likely to run away from humans or go into defense mode if a person were to pick them up. But they're also getting bigger as they grow....and they'll have more kittens if nothing is done. Usually when they're fully grown, it isn't easy to mold them as pets depending on how they've been surviving. If they're fed, they're not going to be able to fend for themselves as well as other cats. So I'm thinking that may be they could be potential pets right now but there's no time.

We constantly have animal control out here....because in our road where you're suppose to speed below 40 miles, we get ones that speed passed 50 and yep....a dead cat or dog. We even had a kid killed here but that's a different story. So these are the consequences and why they don't want animals loose. Ironically I keep seeing two dogs loose in the neighborhood and brought it up with the office I live across. The owners of the dogs....have been warned and just today, I saw them loose again.

If there's anything I learned from some of these disturbing facts it's this, people if you decide to get a pet, take care of your pet. So many people here that either treat them as trophy pets or they just think they're so cute and neglect them....

Strangely....they're almost like taking care of toddlers....

I know how you feel. Three of my cats are cats that I had to rescue from an abusive home (Bribing works wonders, I tell you). Sadly, I'm not really sure what you can do in the situation.

Is there any possibility of you being able to care for the cats? I've been caring for a feral cat, by putting food outside for him and gradually gaining his trust. I don't know whether or not your situation would allow it, but it is just a suggestion. You could try and find homes for them too, although again that depends on your situation.


Pity you don't live near me, otherwise I would have taken them home myself.

What?

I wish...if only it were that simple.

UPDATE: My neighbor's going to set out traps for them tommorow...