My girlfriend lives in a neighbourhood with some people who feed stray cats. There is a population explosion of stray cats every year with some cats having as many as three litters. I think some winter under houses because I see some of the same cats year after year.
I don't see any as roadkill so I figure something is eating them or someone is turning them in to the animal shelter. I want to just consider them as vermin and not to worry about what happens to them but I get so mad about the situation.
Why do people feed them just so they can be gassed or eaten by raccoons? I don't care about the cat deaths as much as their suffering to be honest. Those kittens are so cute and harmless that it just drives me crazy to see people perpetuating the cycle that causes such bad things to happen to such cute creatures.
We have live capture traps for the adults but the neighbours have given us grief for sending cats to the pound before and it does very little because new cats just show up.
Recently a pregnant cat (named grandma) gave birth to a cute little orange tabby who was born without eyeballs. His/her name is Blindie. Half of me wants to protect this poor misbegotten creature and the other half wants me to give it the mercy of a clean death.
I don't know why his birth defect makes me feel so conflicted but it does. I kill mice and kill roaches because they transmit disease but I will capture flys and spiders to release them outside. I don't have a problem with killing an animal if it can endanger a person but I don't like it. (I only mention this so no one thinks I'm some deluded animal lover who thinks critters are better than people.)
I am not trolling and am kinda tore up over this situation. I don't know what to do. Can anyone offer some advice to me?
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spiders, sure, spiders are cool, flies are assholes though
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aren't cats eyes closed for like the first few weeks of their life
are you sure its eyes aren't just
you know
not open?
Yeah don't be like my cousin who buried his son's dead hamster only to find out weeks later it was hibernating.
Kill them all.
wise fwom your gwaves
yeah we gave it time and all it's sibblings have opened their eyes. Once that happened we gave it a week and then forced open the eyelids to see. I thought it might just have veils over it's eyes but there is nothing like an eyeball in there. I didn't want to be too invasive and have just been waiting to see what happens.
Today it was a backyard away from it's mother and siblings and needed to be returned. I think it's mother is finally rejecting it or she would have come and got it, right?
Mowgli likes giving head
it is bad luck to kill spiders and I'll kill a fly if it annoys me but if I can catch it I release it.
Humans are the real pests, we shouldn't allow them to breed because all they do is suffer and complain.
I know this doesn't help you with the kitten at all, but most people don't know much about feral cats at all.
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Now this kitten is your problem.
It's not blind, sometimes eyes take different amounts of time to open.
Why couldn't you just let it be if you weren't prepared to look after it yourself should something have gone wrong, which it seems to.
They cast a shadow like a sundial in the morning light. It was half past 10.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yYEX9dV34I
Indeed.
Then I remembered who Foolproof is and it all made sense.
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What I want to know is why the news keeps reporting him dead after that hostage situation in Maryland
I'd rather kill the people who don't take care of animals. Its bad enough that we pay taxes to warehouse and poison strays but why would people encourage their reproduction?
I'd almost rather terminate an animals life myself instead of just giving it to the pound. It feels like a total cop out to hand them off to the state shelter when I know it is there death. I hate people who can't find the strength to do there own dirty work.
I know no one is going to adopt a stray cat when people are always giving away kittens. People who don't spay their cats flood the "market" so shelter cats basically are on death row without hope.
I can usually put my concerns out of mind and leave it to nature to decide but this poor little blind cat has triggered something in me and I can't just let it starve or be eaten.
I wish I had your address and some dead cats from the shelter. I'd make sure you got your fair share.
foolproof when you are king who will be first against the wall?
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spill the beans
I want to know what's going on here
the pound =/= death
stop watching 90s cartoons
I wish I had your address and some dead people from the morgue.
Kill the T.V.
It usually does if they are feral cats.
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I know that more cats will just filter in from the farms around town and that keeping the niches full of non-reproducing cats is probably the best method but how to do that? I'd castrate the toms on capture but it is really the females that need to be sterilized or one male will do the job of thirty.
oh he just crazied up some science thread a while ago with his bizarre beliefs.
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dis
a
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i thought people were getting better about going to shelters and pounds to get animals
feral cats aren't even put up for adoption. They're considered wild and not fit to be placed in a home. In the same way that some dogs (particularly ones that come from fighting backgrounds) are considered too aggressive to be adopted and are put down.
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Or why don't we tax pet related goods and services.
WHAT
maaaaaaaan
and also maaaaaaaaaan aren't fighting dogs usually some of the sweetest? They're not trained to fight people, after all
and I'm not sure if this is true, but:
wasn't a traditional "prize" for a fighting dog that it got to be with the family+kids for a while?
You get deported to Japan.
Not as fun as you would think. Beware the roaming bands of rapist squid.
Hell, the only shelter in town here euthanizes animals like crazy because they get no fucking funding and can't afford to take care of the animals for very long
Or why don't we tax pet related goods and services.
Cat food is full of cat and dog meat btw.
Edit: sorry for the double post.
Back in the day some were treated like this.
Now it's illegal and attracts a not so nice crowd.