How kind of you
19 Aug 2019 03:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wayfaringwordhack Did you automatically read that subject line with a sarcastic tone? You should have.
Last year, I was on the look out for a kitten or cat or adopt to help deal with the rodent invasion we were having, an invasion that had been brought into our house. I could not sleep because of the scrabbling in the walls and ceiling of our bedroom, and traps were just not cutting it. I finally got a handle on things though and stopped asking around.
Well, just after Christmas, some kind soul decided to dump three cats out in our little hamlet of three houses. Aside from our three-legged rescue cat from Mayotte, there are no cats here. No one at the other two farms wants cats around, and because a) I had wanted a cat to help with rodents, b) I don't like to think of abandoned animals trying to fend for themselves, we set out food.
Yes, I would have been happy to have a cat or two; on a farm they can be really useful. It would have been nice had they not been feral and if we would have been ASKED first.
So, one of the three is completely wild, a big black tom, and we hardly catch a glimpse of him, thinking he has disappeared only to see him again. The second is a young male, who with lots of coaxing has finally become friendly enough that we will be able to take him and get him fixed (gotta call the vet!). The third was a pregnant female! And of course she is still wild and fearful and will not let us near her. We were planning on catching her and fixing her, too, but now she is pregnant AGAIN.
So now we have Bengali, the nice male, and three little kittens who have been abandoned so the mom (Grisou) can eat for her next litter. Oy oy oy. Naturally, since Grisou is afraid of us, her kittens are little wild things, too. :(
We cannot financially see to castrating and spaying all of them, even if we can catch them. I have no idea what we are going to do. :-/
Here is a crappy phone photo of them that I was able to get before they realized I was there and fled to the four corners of the hamlet:
The mom is the gray and white blob on the left with a black kitten hiding her face, then two black and white kittens, far right, with Bengali almost front and center.
Last year, I was on the look out for a kitten or cat or adopt to help deal with the rodent invasion we were having, an invasion that had been brought into our house. I could not sleep because of the scrabbling in the walls and ceiling of our bedroom, and traps were just not cutting it. I finally got a handle on things though and stopped asking around.
Well, just after Christmas, some kind soul decided to dump three cats out in our little hamlet of three houses. Aside from our three-legged rescue cat from Mayotte, there are no cats here. No one at the other two farms wants cats around, and because a) I had wanted a cat to help with rodents, b) I don't like to think of abandoned animals trying to fend for themselves, we set out food.
Yes, I would have been happy to have a cat or two; on a farm they can be really useful. It would have been nice had they not been feral and if we would have been ASKED first.
So, one of the three is completely wild, a big black tom, and we hardly catch a glimpse of him, thinking he has disappeared only to see him again. The second is a young male, who with lots of coaxing has finally become friendly enough that we will be able to take him and get him fixed (gotta call the vet!). The third was a pregnant female! And of course she is still wild and fearful and will not let us near her. We were planning on catching her and fixing her, too, but now she is pregnant AGAIN.
So now we have Bengali, the nice male, and three little kittens who have been abandoned so the mom (Grisou) can eat for her next litter. Oy oy oy. Naturally, since Grisou is afraid of us, her kittens are little wild things, too. :(
We cannot financially see to castrating and spaying all of them, even if we can catch them. I have no idea what we are going to do. :-/
Here is a crappy phone photo of them that I was able to get before they realized I was there and fled to the four corners of the hamlet:
The mom is the gray and white blob on the left with a black kitten hiding her face, then two black and white kittens, far right, with Bengali almost front and center.
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Date: 19 Aug 2019 02:25 pm (UTC)I hate people who dump animals!
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Date: 22 Aug 2019 06:39 pm (UTC)