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spinbaby

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Sat Jan 20, 2024, 06:21 PM Jan 2024

Wish us luck this week [View all]

Those of us in cat rescue circles know that the worst situations are, nine times out of ten, people feeding cats without fixing them. We’ve 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. I’ve been working with them for four years now, getting them to turn over cats in their house to be fixed—sometimes 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. We’re providing a trap and trapping lessons, but can’t go into the house ourselves because hoarding.

We still don’t 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.

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Wish us luck this week [View all] spinbaby Jan 2024 OP
What a difficult situation! I hope the others can be trapped brer cat Jan 2024 #1
Good luck. Demovictory9 Jan 2024 #2
You are wonderful! zuul Jan 2024 #3
Good luck! 2naSalit Jan 2024 #4
An update spinbaby Jan 2024 #5
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