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Those of us in cat rescue circles know that the worst situations are, nine times out of ten, people feeding cats without fixing them. Weve had a situation in our neighborhood for years. Without getting into too many identifying details, we had a really large house where two old people hoarded stuff and cats. They were in the habit of feeding cats on their porch then snatching them up and bringing them in. Ive been working with them for four years now, getting them to turn over cats in their house to be fixedsometimes they were agreeable to us keeping them and adopting them out, sometimes they insisted on having the cats back. Meanwhile we did a lot of trapping and fixing the outside cats.
Now one of the couple has died, the other has worsening dementia, and the relative in charge (who I think will inherit the house) is desperate to get rid of the remaining cats. We have three out so far and are hoping for the rest this week, providing the relative can catch them. Were providing a trap and trapping lessons, but cant go into the house ourselves because hoarding.
We still dont know how many cats there are. Of the three we got out so far, two had serious health issues and all were filthy with fleas, but they were all three ear tipped.