FERAL CAT FRUSTRATION

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Dec 4th, 2008 06:51
Washington
nitromegalamb
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I live in a city where there is not a Trap/Neuter/Return program available to help control the population of feral cats. As a result, the quickest and most convenient route for people is to haul feral cats into the humane society for euthanasia. I feed a colony of ferals near my place of work, and the caretaker started to trap them and take them in one by one this morning. I feel absolutely sick about this but I don't have the resources available to do much about it. I've voiced my opinion to our executive director and I'm making efforts to at least save ONE of them, but it's very stressful for me. I don't know how I'll make it through work seeing these poor cats in traps, knowing where they are going at the end of the day. No-Kill shelters will not take ferals of course, and I'm having a hard time finding people willing to take them on as barn cats or mice catchers. This is so frustrating and sad for me, I feel like there is NO support available in my town, and as a result I'm feeling guilty. As if I should do more. I'm afraid to go to work tomorrow to find that my relatively tame, not feral but stray, has been trapped and taken in. I'm trying to get her on my own first, but what if he traps her before I can? I just needed to vent about all of this...
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Dec 4th, 2008 17:13
Maryland
ahtnamas
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Check online for private cat adoption agencies. Some of them also rescue feral cats & put them in controlled feral cat colonies, and adopt out the more amenable ones as barn cats.
   
They're usually privately funded & frequently run by an assortment of interested private individuals.
   
Google "cats adoption [your state or city or region or county]" and "cats feral associations [your state or city or region or county]"
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Dec 5th, 2008 01:10
Washington
nitromegalamb
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I will try that. Thank you very much. : )
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