Comments on: What to Do with a Stray Cat https://purrfectlove.net/what-to-do-with-a-stray-cat/ Cat Blog Mon, 13 Apr 2020 22:27:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 By: Purrfect Love https://purrfectlove.net/what-to-do-with-a-stray-cat/comment-page-1/#comment-4979 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 21:26:05 +0000 http://purrfectlove.net/?p=11367#comment-4979 In reply to Linda Green.

Thanks for your comment Linda Green. That is a horrible thing the people in your area are doing. I don’t know how people can ignore homeless pets so easily. I understand the stress of it all as well. I grew up across the street from a public park and people would drop kittens and cats there all the time. Since there is no one locally that can help, have you considered contacting a bigger organization online? There may be one close enough to where you live who will come and rescue these cats. Here is a listing of cat rescues around the US. Find one closest to your location and see if they can help: http://cat.rescueshelter.com/USA I know how difficult it can be to see animals suffering and not being able to help. I wish I could do more for you.

]]> By: Linda Green https://purrfectlove.net/what-to-do-with-a-stray-cat/comment-page-1/#comment-4978 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 20:56:53 +0000 http://purrfectlove.net/?p=11367#comment-4978 The cat situation has become an epidemic. In my neighborhood alone, there are approximately 20-25 strays. They’ve been left behind by people moving away. (It’s a trailer park.) I have 7 cats of my own, and have cared for them from 1 to 13 years, I’ve only been in this neighborhood for 5 years. Mine are spayed and neutered, different ages, of course. Two of my cats are outside cats who come in at night. My others have a rickety pen in my back yard. On any given morning, I feed approximately 10 strays who’ve come to my porch where there is a sliding glass door. They see me in my kitchen feeding my own. I feed them on the porch/deck. It seems every day that there is another 2 or 3 show up, looking like they’re ready to die, starving, cold and in winter snow-covered, wormy. Desperate. Of course, my family says I shouldn’t have fed them the first time. These cats have gone back to their place and found their family gone. They are abandoned. People say animals cannot be sorrowful. Yes, they can be sorrowful. I’ve had cats — usually not 7, however — all my life. I know that cats feel betrayed when they are abandoned. They see through the door when my cats are being fed, when they play with toys, in a warm, safe environment. Mine get medical care, and will always be taken care of properly.
There re no facilities here in this small country town. And in this neighborhood, no one cares what happens to these unhappy, starving, sickly pets. I am 71 years old, living on a small SS check. I don’t know how much longer I can do this.
I just want people to know. I just want people to understand what kind of burden they place on others. Nobody ever asks to be the “crazy cat lady.” No pet asks to be abandoned.

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