IS MICROCHIPPING KITTIES IMPORTANT AND GOOD AND OES IT CAUSE ANY DISEASES?
AND THE OTHER THINGS IS before 4 months we moved from a house there were cats there my sister use to feed them and 2 of them use to know us one of them use to come infront of the house asking for food and asking for love then we moved when we moved i took the cat that use to stand infront of the door so that i would release her infront of the new house it was cold out there so i left her in the box for a whole day she was meowing and screaming bt i didn't want to get her out of the box cause maybe she's sick and i don't want ivana to get sick then in the morning when my sister released her she ran away i never saw her from that day i really loved her we use to call her the friendly girl do you think that they and her will be okay? i am really worried about them and her?
That was a terrible plan! You don't just take cats to a new area and release them outside (and one day in a carrier is not enough to establish that that is their new home). I have no clue if the cat is o.k. She may have tried to go back to her familiar area, and got hit by a car, or she may be starving or freezing somewhere. She at least knew her old area, and had companions there. That was a horrible thing to move her like that. I get that you meant well, but you should have done some research first! It would have been better if you had just left her, if you weren't going to start with her inside. I would be worried too. In fact I feel really sad and upset for that cat after reading your post, and that's why I'm laying it out for you. You have internet access - do research before you make big, life and death interventions like that in animals' lives. Big mistake, possibly fatal for that cat.
And I'm not clear from your post but it sounds like you took the one and left the other one behind. I don't know if anyone is feeding the one you left behind. But if you did separate them, then you should understand that outdoor cats rely on each other for warmth and if it's really cold you may have doomed the both of them by separating them. Sometimes there's no choice and it's for the best to do a separation, but I don't see one good thing that came from what you did, if you separated them and didn't even do a proper relocation for the one you took. They'd both be in much worse shape, especially if the friendly one was the ambassador to get people to feed the two of them.
There's not much you can do now, except maybe go back to your old house to see if the kitty you let go may have traveled back there. Cats sometimes return to their old homes, after they have been moved. When you moved, how far is your new house from the old one?
Don't be too judgy please, guys, Sam lives in Jordan and really wants the best for the strays.
Sam, hopefully the cat you took in the box found her way back to the other one. If not, they had survived as best they could in the streets and will continue to do so.
I live in Florida in the US, and there are many stray cats here. In fact, my area is beginning a new program where they capture, neuter and release the cats back where they found them.
There are too many cats in the world, and the shelters here have so many cas that they put nearly all of them to sleep because there aren't enough people who want to adopt them.
You now know more than you did before; please don't feel guilty about what you couldn't control. I remember your saying that your mom would only let you take one of the cats, and these were street cats to begin with that you and your sister helped out for some time.
I have a feeling that you will be a cat lover and helper for a long time to come.
walking it would take 15 minutes bt between this house and the old house there's a high way? please should i go to the old house and wait there to see if she's there?
walking it would take 15 minutes bt between this house and the old house there's a high way? please should i go to the old house and wait there to see if she's there?
Do you plan to catch her? Take her home with you? Keep her indoors 24-hours a day? Take her to the vet, who will give her vaccinations? Unless you plan to do these things, then no, you should leave her alone. As long as she is a wild cat, she gets to choose where she lives. There are likely people in your old neighborhood who feed her, besides yourself. She likely knows other cats there that she wants to be with. Since it isn't so far away, she probably went back there, but I don't think you should follow her back. You must let her have her own life, and say goodbye. I know it's sad, but you must give her her freedom. In the meantime, you have Ivana to care for. Do your best for her. Have you seen any wild cats near your new house? One day, a new cat may come to your door, and ask for food.
walking it would take 15 minutes bt between this house and the old house there's a high way? please should i go to the old house and wait there to see if she's there?
If there wasn't a highway I'd guess your 'friendly girl' would have definitely gone home, fifteen minutes isn't a long distance for a semi-wild cat. But it's hard to tell if she'd try to cross the highway..
I second Irizary, you have this forum and you make use of it regularly to ask about vegan products - so please, please make sure you post here about *really important* decisions like the one about moving your 'friendly girl' from her home in future!!
Do you plan to catch her? Take her home with you? Keep her indoors 24-hours a day? Take her to the vet, who will give her vaccinations? Unless you plan to do these things, then no, you should leave her alone. As long as she is a wild cat, she gets to choose where she lives. There are likely people in your old neighborhood who feed her, besides yourself. She likely knows other cats there that she wants to be with. Since it isn't so far away, she probably went back there, but I don't think you should follow her back. You must let her have her own life, and say goodbye. I know it's sad, but you must give her her freedom. In the meantime, you have Ivana to care for. Do your best for her. Have you seen any wild cats near your new house? One day, a new cat may come to your door, and ask for food.
guys tomorrow me and my mom we are going to take food and water and put it next to the old house and wait there and hope she comes if she comes i'll adopt her take her to the vet spay her and keep her home if i found her and adopted her do you think ivana will get use to it?
Good luck, Sam. I hope you find her. If you do. I know you'll give her a good home. She and Ivana I'm sure will adjust to each other. Would it be possible for you and your mother to sit by the front door, where the kitty can see you?
Good luck, Sam. I hope you find her. If you do. I know you'll give her a good home. She and Ivana I'm sure will adjust to each other. Would it be possible for you and your mother to sit by the front door, where the kitty can see you?
It would be best to talk to people in the old area as well, because if she is around there, she may not be there (at the old house, where presumably no one feeds) at the same moment that you are. So maybe someone else in the area has seen her, or feeds cats there. If you can (I don't know your situation), you may want to go back a couple times at least.
I honestly think it's pretty unlikely that she made it back, although I would want to check anyway.
You said that there is food out at your new place, and you haven't seen her since releasing her 5 months ago. So she is not in your immediate area.
But it is possible that she's in the wider area around your new house, so you may want to ask around in your new neighborhood - as far out as you can go, in every direction that you can - to see if anyone is feeding and if they have seen her.
It sounds as though Sam really cares, but Irizary is right that, when a life is at stake, it's best to inform oneself before taking an action that will put that life at risk. Also, threads like this serve an educational function for people other than the OP and the other participants in the thread.
All of Irizary's points are good ones.
When relocating a feral or other outdoor cat, that cat should be kept confined in the new area for a bare minimum of two weeks (4-6 weeks, or longer, is much better) before being released, to acclimate the cat to the idea that this is now her new territory. This is also true if you have an indoor/outdoor cat and you move; you should not let the cat out for at least that long. (I'm not a proponent of the idea of indoor/outdoor cats at all. There are just too many risks for cats outside.)
T/N/R (trap/neuter/release) efforts, by cat rescues, by caring individuals acting alone, and in some cases by local authorities, have been in used successfully in many areas in the U.S. for years to reduce the ongoing suffering of feral and other street cats. Spaying and neutering of not only family pets but also of as many feral and street cats as can be trapped is the most important way that the suffering of cats can be reduced.
edit - writing while Beautiful Joe's post was being made - same points -
Sam - Cats have a very strong connection to their known territory. Do some research on "relocating cats." It's very difficult to relocate an exclusively outdoor cat. I have done it, for feral cats, but it should be at least a month long process of caging (very large cage or pen). You can't just drop a cat off in a new outdoor environment and hope that they stay. She could have tried to find her way back (but there are a lot of dangers in that), or she may have run (she would have been disoriented and scared) and then stopped at some point if she found a food source. Ask around as much as possible to see if anyone has spotted her.
edit - writing while Beautiful Joe's post was being made - same points -
Sam - Cats have a very strong connection to their known territory. Do some research on "relocating cats." It's very difficult to relocate an exclusively outdoor cat. I have done it, for feral cats, but it should be at least a month long process of caging (very large cage or pen). You can't just drop a cat off in a new outdoor environment and hope that they stay. She could have tried to find her way back (but there are a lot of dangers in that), or she may have run (she would have been disoriented and scared) and then stopped at some point if she found a food source. Ask around as much as possible to see if anyone has spotted her.
what if they tell me about a cat that looks like her and there are so many stray cats where i live i live in jordan the middleast how would they know that that's her and is there any other way to find her or to know what happened to her?
what if they tell me about a cat that looks like her and there are so many stray cats where i live i live in jordan the middleast how would they know that that's her and is there any other way to find her or to know what happened to her?
You'd describe what she looks like, and, if they have contact with the cats, something about her personality. If there's agreement that it might be the same cat, you'd have to go and see for yourself, in any case. There is no other way that I know of (other than the things I have described: physically searching for her, and having other people be on the look-out for her) to find out what happened to her. You may never find out what happened to her.
But I'd still do everything I could to look, because it would feel bad not to.
That is definitely a highway. It looks like there's a bridge over the big road that she could walk over. Are there any roads that go under the highway?
That is definitely a highway. It looks like there's a bridge over the big road that she could walk over. Are there any roads that go under the highway?
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