meatlesslizzy
April 27th, 2009, 11:56 AM
Goodmorning everyone!
My mom lives in a very rural area in California. Many people do not take care of their animals in this area, and many make their way to my parents house, where they in turn take care of the animals, spay, neuter, give them medical care, and adopt them out if possible. There is a large feral cat population up there, in part due to one person encouraging the breeding of these cats for "mousers". My mom talked with the man, and convinced him to allow her to spay them (40 adult cats in all). She got him a food supply, and he promised to feed the cats on a regular basis. Well, unfortunately, this was not the case, and many of the cats went off in search of food, only to be eaten or mangled by wild animals. There are several left, and several just showed up with their entire back ends "limp", as if they have either been shot or attacked by other wild animals.
We don't know what to do. We obviously financially cannot continue to take on these animals, but also don't feel we can call Animal Control on the man, as we were told they would just put the animals to sleep because they are feral. I really need advice or other reccommendations here if possible. We love animals, and I even took a kitten from the feral group that had a seizure disorder (due to inbreeding we believe), only to have her pass away after the seizures grew worse (we did literally EVERYTHING medically possible for her). Is there any way to help these cats and have them live in the end? Thank you so much for any advice :)
My mom lives in a very rural area in California. Many people do not take care of their animals in this area, and many make their way to my parents house, where they in turn take care of the animals, spay, neuter, give them medical care, and adopt them out if possible. There is a large feral cat population up there, in part due to one person encouraging the breeding of these cats for "mousers". My mom talked with the man, and convinced him to allow her to spay them (40 adult cats in all). She got him a food supply, and he promised to feed the cats on a regular basis. Well, unfortunately, this was not the case, and many of the cats went off in search of food, only to be eaten or mangled by wild animals. There are several left, and several just showed up with their entire back ends "limp", as if they have either been shot or attacked by other wild animals.
We don't know what to do. We obviously financially cannot continue to take on these animals, but also don't feel we can call Animal Control on the man, as we were told they would just put the animals to sleep because they are feral. I really need advice or other reccommendations here if possible. We love animals, and I even took a kitten from the feral group that had a seizure disorder (due to inbreeding we believe), only to have her pass away after the seizures grew worse (we did literally EVERYTHING medically possible for her). Is there any way to help these cats and have them live in the end? Thank you so much for any advice :)