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Stray cats (pics)

Kalmah

Kalmah

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I'm trying to decide what to do with them. The lady that lived above me that has been feeding them for the last 2 years moved about a week ago. She left the cats. Now they are clawing at our screened porch and jumping on me every time I walk outside.. Meowing very loud because they are hungry.

I've been feeding them about every 3 days.. hoping that they find some other source of food on their own. (without starving them)

I guess my choices are:

Call the landlord..
Call humane society
Keep feeding them

I don't plan on living here for more than another year at most. So when I leave, if I choose to just feed them, somebody else is going to be left with the same problem.

They're so cute I don't want to send them away to be put down.


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As long as you keep feeding them, they're not going to look for different sources of food.

Just take them to the shelter. Sounds kind of heartless, but it's better to put them down than have them running wild and adding more unwanted kittens to the world. Hopefully they will all find good homes before it comes to euthanizing them, though.
 
As much as I hate to say it, you're either gonna have to have some form of animal control deal with them, or they are just gonna multiply.
 
Howard said:
How exactly do you propose an animal control deal with animals?
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I use the term generically. You can either call your local Animal Control, or you can physically take the animals to a shelter, but if you have no desire to feed them they will likely die in the wild.

edit: and I mean hopefully find homes, but feral don't always adapt well.
 
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ivan2 said:
they look so clean, u sure they are not just someone else's outdoor cat?
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Somehow, they are cleaner than my indoor cat that gets a bath once a month.

There are 4 rentals in our condo.. 3 people have moved out recently. (landlord was about to go into foreclosure so everybody got scared) There is nobody else here now. The lady from upstairs left the food dishes out on the steps when she left. The cats never go anywhere, they have always slept leaning up against our screened porch.

Still, I have no idea how they remain so clean. They are obviously hungry every day now since their behavior has changed drastically. (climbing up our screen.. meowing constantly.. following me everywhere) The acted afraid of me before everybody moved out, always scattering when I walked out of the porch.
 
Feed them for a while, but try to find a more permanent place for them to live. All else fails, take one or two in permanently and put a newspaper ad out for the rest.
 
x-alki said:
I doubt they are ferals. As others have said they look to clean. Look for a no-kill shelter around you.
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aka bullsh*t feel good shelters that exist off the back of the shelters that have to deal with reality.

anyways leaving them to reproduce just means more will die.
 
0roo0roo said:
aka bullsh*t feel good shelters that exist off the back of the shelters that have to deal with reality.

anyways leaving them to reproduce just means more will die.
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No kill shelters are a way for folks to do what they can to save some animals' lives. The folks know it doesn't solve the overpopulation problem and are well aware that animals will die in other shelters. People, knowing they can't save the world, decide to save a small piece. Claiming they "exist off the back" of kill shelters is bullshit.

Spay/neuter and responsible pet owners are the only real solution to overpopulation.
 
IronWing said:
No kill shelters are a way for folks to do what they can to save some animals' lives. The folks know it doesn't solve the overpopulation problem and are well aware that animals will die in other shelters. People, knowing they can't save the world, decide to save a small piece. Claiming they "exist off the back" of kill shelters is bullshit.

Spay/neuter and responsible pet owners are the only real solution to overpopulation.
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actually all they do is siphon resources/donations from real shelters which make their bullsh*t possible. housing a few cats and calling yourself "no kill" to get false moral high ground while other shelters have to deal with the reality and get their hands dirty is simply shady stick your head in the ground nonsense.
 
0roo0roo said:
actually all they do is siphon resources/donations from real shelters which make their bullsh*t possible. housing a few cats and calling yourself "no kill" to get false moral high ground while other shelters have to deal with the reality and get their hands dirty is simply shady stick your head in the ground nonsense.
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Your assumption is that kill shelters would otherwise get the donations that go to no kill shelters. Many folks simply will not donate to shelters that kill animals, regardless of the existence of no kill shelters. To claim that no kill shelters aren't "real" shelters because they don't kill heaps of animals is retarded.
 
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