We cannot afford to help them anymore...

Well I have an interview Monday at McDonald's. It won't be a lot if I get the job but I should be able to get care credit to help with spay and neuter. We'll do all three of them and then pay off the care credit. Without a job we didn't want to even do that because we wouldn't have had a way to pay it back.

Congratulations on getting an interview!  I hope you get it.   I will send up a prayer for you!!

Congratulations!!!!  Good luck on the interview!!

Can you ride your bike to/from work or is it a long commute?
 

Great news!!!! GOOD LUCK on Monday!!!!!!!!!!!!

tjcarst said:

Congratulations!!!!  Good luck on the interview!!

Can you ride your bike to/from work or is it a long commute?
 

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I got a ride for today so I can keep my clothes looking nice. Otherwise it's about 3 miles round trip, which I haven't worked up to yet but I should be able to. The only issue is that there are no sidewalks for part of the way and I'm a bit nervous riding on the road. I do have a helmet and all that good stuff.

I just hope that I can get it, as I said I have had a rather unique history that has really prevented other places from hiring me. I just figure that if McDonald's doesn't hire me, who will?

Smile, be confident, you'l be just fine ;-)

I tried to be.

It was a complete fiasco. They wanted to know why a person 30 years old did not have any job experience. They asked me questions that I had no experience to answer.
 

Do you not want an employer to know about your past?  They only need to know that your parents did not wish you to work outside the home.  I would say a 30 year old is much more responsible than any teenager.

Do you know the manager?  If you trusted the manager to let you prove yourself, perhaps, offer to come on a trial basis, letting them decide after you've been there a short time?  I can't believe that they would not at least give you a chance.

I googled "questions asked at a McDonald's interview" and saw quite a few.  But, if a 16 year old can get hired, I see no reason why you could not.  A 16 year old does not have experience either.  They should not even consider your age at all.  There are many women who are stay at home mothers who likely have had little job experience before their children go to college (my mother-in-law did not have a job outside the home until she was 41 and then went to work at a factory).

Don't give up.  If you are persistent, you CAN make this work.  Where there's a will, there's a way.  Consider brushing up on your knowledge based upon the questions asked.  Ask for a second interview.
 

Yeah, I told them that until I was 27 I lived at home and my family did not wish me to work, and that I have been looking since then. (I have been, but my bike makes it possible for me look farther than before.) It was like they couldn't seem to believe that something like this still happens in the United States. They're not hurting for applicants either, she had just gotten done with an interview for someone else when I came in, and when I left someone else was coming in for an interview.

Some great advice on here!  Enjoyed reading them. 

Have you tried any of the hotels?  There are probably 10 of them between Walmart and your house.

A lady gave me some good advice about getting a job.  She was from Searcy too.  It took her months to get her present job, and she got it by calling every week after she had her original interview.  No kidding.  She said it took her 3 months to finally get the job at the bank, but she kept calling them 2-3 times every week, and she finally did get that job!  I would have thought the employer would have gotten mad, if someone had called them every week about a job....  But so be it!  It worked!

The Arkansas Democrat is free for a 3 day ad for your cat and kitty.  You can place your ad on their website.

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Plus Craigslist is a good way to find a home for your pets.  People are always looking for kittens on CL too.  Just have to keep relisting.  And not everybody is a bad home.  They are just so large, there are more horror stories to tell.

Good luck!

Have you spoken to your vet about setting up a fund for the spaying of the cats?  Perhaps people would be more inclined to send $$ to your vet if s/he was willing to hold it for you there?

Is your vet willing to offer a discount since you would be bringing in all of your cats at once?  This would help immensely with the cost.

Thank you for the suggestions, I will talk to them about that. We contacted them, they wanted $97 for Carly, our little 4 month old girl, and $57 each for the boys. I realize it is important to get Carly spayed, but if all we can do is prevent pregnancy at the moment by getting the little boys fixed, then we'll do that. We're trying to apply for care credit at the moment. The vet doesn't like to spay kittens younger than 6 months but will do it at an extra fee (which is why it was going to cost nearly $100) he has no problem neutering young boy kitties though.

For Binky, I set up the spay appointment (back in June) and got an organization to pay for her spay, they paid our vet directly so it certainly seems that they will accept funds into our account. Our vet does accept care credit.

This vet is expensive but I have read bad reviews about other vets in the area, or they had no reviews at all.
 

I just talked to the rescue an hour away about possibly instead of going to their low cost clinic seeing if they will work with my local vet. They had recently brought up that idea. I'll keep you posted.

Some vets also offer discounted prices (as much as half) when the cat is a rescue kitty.  Worth asking.

Not sure why prices for vet services differs so much, but when I adopted my last kitty, the vet in Tulsa wanted $235 to spay her.  Ouch!  My vet was under $100, so I brought her home intact and had her spayed by my vet.

Just lovely. The email address for the rescue group bounced back my email saying it couldn't be delivered. :/

The good news however is we were approved for $500 on care credit. So we should be able to get everyone fixed on that and shots and stuff.

Oh hun, thank you so much for not giving up!

Revenwyn said:

Just lovely. The email address for the rescue group bounced back my email saying it couldn't be delivered. :/

The good news however is we were approved for $500 on care credit. So we should be able to get everyone fixed on that and shots and stuff.

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Since you spoke to the rescue group on the phone today, call them tomorrow and ask for the correct email address, or give them all of your information for your vet and your cats, not to mention your phone number.  Sometimes email addresses change, but not everyone gets the new info.  If it could cut your vet bill down, it is worth a phone call ;-)

And, I'd still ask your vet for any type of discount s/he is willing to offer.  Every little bit you save can be used for your own needs or future needs for your kitties.

No I spoke to them on their facebook. They told me to use the email address on their facebook. That is what I did. I double checked, I typed it exactly as they have it.

The best way to get a group to take them is to walk in to the shelter (or petco or Petsmart if u have one, groups do adoptions there around noon on saturdays and sundays) with the kitties, crying, and tell them you will foster them and help out as possible until cage space is available. I have worked in rescue for 12+ years and nobody will take a stray over the phone but everybody will take a cat in person if you cry hard enough and do what u are doing to meet them halfway, ie making their overhead less and helping as able.

I did not read carefully, are they very socialized or not? If they will always hide In an adoptive home it would not be best to put them in a shelter.

You are great to hang in there with them, remember the small foster groups love animals and even if they do not, most people will respond to u crying. Good luck!

My husband is autistic and has major depression and giving them up will be the LAST resort. He needs the cats. Our landlord is a psychologist, and while he has never allowed pets in this apartment he gave in for my husband and did not even charge us a pet deposit. (My husband is seen at the clinic where he works, though he is not his patient, our landlord is aware he goes there.)

They are really socialized only to us, as they freaked out if we took them outside the house for any reason (even to walk fifteen steps onto the porch of the coffee house next door and be petted by college students.) They were all born feral, and Binky came to us when she was six months old and it took us eight months to gain her trust enough to stay inside permanently. Binky was in heat for a little bit before we got her spayed and even then she did not even think to leave the house, and it would be very easy for them to do as we only have our bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, and the door to our house leads directly into the living room (where they hang out the most.)

Also, we do not have a petco or petsmart anywhere near us. We have a place called Petsense but I do not believe they do adoptions. They occasionally have a rabies vaccine clinic but that's it.

There was a group who was trying to start a no-kill shelter but their email addy seems to be shut down. Not many people here support the idea of no-kill.   And people here don't often spay or neuter their cats because it's too expensive and kittens are cute. Kitten grows up? Dump it outside, get another a few months later. Probably even the offspring of the kitten you had last year.  It's really sad.

An update:

My computer died so I won't be able to post very often. We haven't been able to get a ride to the vet yet; our primary ride was visiting his daughter and son in law for the past few weeks. Also, the vet will only discount if we're with an actual rescue group, otherwise he would have to lower spay/neuter fees for everyone.  :-/

Regardless, we're going to try to get them all fixed ASAP and get their basic shots.

Things have been quite lean for us but we found out a neighbor whom we hardly ever see works for a cat food company (not sure if it's a local brand or national; Special Kitty) and he gets more free food than his cats can eat before it goes stale. I know a dry kibble diet is not ideal but it's free food every other week.

As far as my issues are concerned, my mother is trying to get some health insurance for me so that we can try to get my issues checked out. I have been having 80% of the symptoms of MS for the last year and have had a major sleep disorder since childhood. If I can get a diagnosis, I can also receive SSI, which would nearly double our income. I want to try to work but when your sleep schedule is never the same no matter what you try, and it tends to scatter around the clock making it impossible to keep to any set work schedule, it makes it very much impossible.

Anyway I'm writing this from the campus library (my husband is still a student) on his account, and someone else needs the computer, so I'm going to get off.