I've resorted to asking strangers for help. Help for me in finding homes for 1000 Cats! Okay, not 1000 i'm an exaggerator by nature - but lots & lots of cats. I posted this ad on Craigslist & I am adding a photo slide show here as well.......
Help the Cats!!!!
I am knee deep in Cats and I’m not even a Cat Person. I am begging someone – anyone to PLEASE help. Help ME & Help the Cats!!!
Let me tell you my cat story….
I’m a dog person and my cat story starts with a dog. Not just any dog – but the world’s coolest dog. As my great dane /lab mix wonderful dog hit his older years we moved to a house with a few acres. Not long after our arrival came this cat. This one stray cat. This one stray cat took a liking to my dog. I never really considered the cat ours – but none the less I started putting out food for her. (as I would any animal) She became more and more attached to my dog. She showed up more and more and would track my dog until he just gave up and let her lay on top of him. We thought it was funny. She had a litter of kittens – we gave them away. A year or so later she had another – again, same deal. I’m not sure what happened but last year we didn’t get the litter given away and suddenly I was feeding 3 cats. Then two more cats showed up out of no where. 5 cats. Still – NOT MY CATS. But still I put out feed and by now they were living 80% of the time in my garage.
My angel of a dog passed away right before Christmas and I decided to keep putting the money I was spending on his monthly upkeep towards other animals maybe I’d adopt a shelter, but I soon realized I was spending that money on cat food. One of the kittens had now had a kitten – again gave the kitten away.
No real concern until I began to notice through this spring that every cat on the place looked preggos… each day they were a little fatter and a little hungrier!!! Until one day I had a barn had 3 kittens in it. Then a month or 2 later I found a drawer w/ 5 kittens in my garage and this past weekend my company found an old barrel in my tack room with ANOTHER 5 kittens and then yesterday I came home and found at least three newbies in a box in the garage and then today the old original momma cat has given birth again to God knows how many.
I know that if I’m going to take responsibility enough to feed 1 I should get it fixed but I just never even thought of it as anything other than feeding a stray. Now I’m buying cat food in 40lb bags and my garage is a giant litter box!!!!
HELP! I'll be glad to answer questions or give details or meet you with a box of cats!!!
Friday, May 29, 2009
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OMG ---- Sorry that I cannot help.... not a cat person either... but you must get MOMMA CAT fixed-- immediately. The cat population can get out of hand expoientially overnight. You need to find a person with a barn full of feed and who needs barn cats. Where I am, coyotes take care of most of the extra cats (ugh!)I resist feeding... but do keep water out year round for critters.... have a fox that drinks out of my fish pond...... Keep on keeping on and get rid of most of the cats.... harden your heart... (and I say that knowing that neither one of us is able to do that when a kid or an animal is involved!) BJ
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