hello!
I'm new to this forum, but not to cat rescue. For 2 years my neighbor and I have been doing TNR along with socializing kittens and bottle feeding many lil ones that have been abandoned.
We recently discovered that this one particular mother cat (one weve been trying to catch all summer) has had yet another litter. So we have been feeding her and her lil ones getting them used to seeing us etc. get the no kill trap out there and after a week were able to catch 2 of the 5 kittens at once!! We also the day before were able to catch a very prego mommy and yesterday morning caught a younger 8-10mo old kitty.
So here we are awaiting TNR for the 8-10mo old and another 2 cats(a male and female both caught within 24 hours). Have mama kitty, that we are awaiting kittens. and have 2 of the 5-6 week old kittens! (the neutering/spaying was scheduled for drop off sat afternoon)
Now my friend and I have our own cats and for safety, health reasons, etc, as many of you know, had to have the feral cats still in the no kill traps. The kittens had been with us for 2 days and were in a large enclosure, with food, water litter box. Mama was in another one.
My neighbor and I left to go to the store yesterday morning to purchase more litter, food etc. and when we got back, EVERY SINGLE CAT/KITTEN HAD BEEN RELEASED! Every door had been opened. The 2 with the litter boxes had had the litter and food removed from the enclosure.
Within about 30 minutes, we learn it was another neighbor, who claimed it was animal cruelty to keep cats locked up in cages. Thought is was wrong to catch "wild animals" (she was here referring to the kittens) and try to tame them. "Why not leave them in the woods with their mother, werent they happy there?"
My neighbor and I called the cops. They claimed they couldnt do anything. They said that she shouldnt have been on our properties, but that it was a civil matter (forget the tresspassing) and nothing could be done. The PSYCHO that let them out tried to get us charged with animal creulty. The officer was like, "I dont know why you didnt call animal control then rather then take matters into your own hands." My neighbor and I are so distraught. So much, time, energy, money. (food, litter, vets, etc.) and for nothing! We are worried about the kittens, cause in the last 2 days that we had caught them, mama had moved the others. We cant find them at all. We were given kinda good news last night though. the 8-10 mo old showed up under our porch and we were able to grab her again. but still thats 1 down our of oringinal group with all the other to catch that we hadnt yet.
The biggest thing is the woman that let them all out, was walking around on her porch holding HER black cat and petting it and just standing there while we are out till 2am looking for the kittens!!
This is wrong, There should be some laws out there for this that this woman broke! (in relation to the cats)
I'm new to this forum, but not to cat rescue. For 2 years my neighbor and I have been doing TNR along with socializing kittens and bottle feeding many lil ones that have been abandoned.
We recently discovered that this one particular mother cat (one weve been trying to catch all summer) has had yet another litter. So we have been feeding her and her lil ones getting them used to seeing us etc. get the no kill trap out there and after a week were able to catch 2 of the 5 kittens at once!! We also the day before were able to catch a very prego mommy and yesterday morning caught a younger 8-10mo old kitty.
So here we are awaiting TNR for the 8-10mo old and another 2 cats(a male and female both caught within 24 hours). Have mama kitty, that we are awaiting kittens. and have 2 of the 5-6 week old kittens! (the neutering/spaying was scheduled for drop off sat afternoon)
Now my friend and I have our own cats and for safety, health reasons, etc, as many of you know, had to have the feral cats still in the no kill traps. The kittens had been with us for 2 days and were in a large enclosure, with food, water litter box. Mama was in another one.
My neighbor and I left to go to the store yesterday morning to purchase more litter, food etc. and when we got back, EVERY SINGLE CAT/KITTEN HAD BEEN RELEASED! Every door had been opened. The 2 with the litter boxes had had the litter and food removed from the enclosure.
Within about 30 minutes, we learn it was another neighbor, who claimed it was animal cruelty to keep cats locked up in cages. Thought is was wrong to catch "wild animals" (she was here referring to the kittens) and try to tame them. "Why not leave them in the woods with their mother, werent they happy there?"
My neighbor and I called the cops. They claimed they couldnt do anything. They said that she shouldnt have been on our properties, but that it was a civil matter (forget the tresspassing) and nothing could be done. The PSYCHO that let them out tried to get us charged with animal creulty. The officer was like, "I dont know why you didnt call animal control then rather then take matters into your own hands." My neighbor and I are so distraught. So much, time, energy, money. (food, litter, vets, etc.) and for nothing! We are worried about the kittens, cause in the last 2 days that we had caught them, mama had moved the others. We cant find them at all. We were given kinda good news last night though. the 8-10 mo old showed up under our porch and we were able to grab her again. but still thats 1 down our of oringinal group with all the other to catch that we hadnt yet.
The biggest thing is the woman that let them all out, was walking around on her porch holding HER black cat and petting it and just standing there while we are out till 2am looking for the kittens!!
This is wrong, There should be some laws out there for this that this woman broke! (in relation to the cats)