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We live in a mobile home park. Me and my mother are caring for several ferals and I was doing TNR as a means of population control and ensuring roaming ferals were vaccinated. Most of my own cats were ferals I socialized and are near impossible to keep indoors. One of my mother's cats can cover the distance - about 20' in a split second to sneak out her door. We do keep a close eye on them and if I don't see them I go looking for them, they are all inside at night.
The home next to my parents was vacated a few months ago. The previous neighbors left the place in such disrepair and were utter slobs. They must have been throwing months worth of trash under the home to avoid paying for garbage.Two garbage cans they left behind sat full for over a month before someone took them. The home has been sold since to someone that claims he is going to do repairs but now claims it's his winter project. The place should've honestly been condemned. It's obviously unfit for occupancy, a fire and safety/health risk. We don't trust they are going to perform repairs. Despite knowing what condition the place is in the landlord rented the lot, I suppose the home isn't her responsibility but somehow I feel she could be held liable being aware of the condition of this place. But that's besides the point and not the reason I'm posting. The guy that is doing repairs on the place for his daughter is not a cat person.
I overheard this guy talking with a neighbor. Admitted he is going to place rat poison under the home and admits he is doing so because of the cats. Because he doesn't want to clean the garbage and secure the skirting so cats can't get under the home. He's going to leave the mounds of garbage under the home and place rat poison under there as a deterrent. We went to the landlord to inform her. She won't do anything, claims they can because it's their property. It sounds legally questionable to me. There are laws in place now to protect animals. Imho there is really no difference in leaving poison sitting around with the intent of deterring or "taking care" of the cat problem from feeding them poisoned food etc.. There are cats roaming around that belong to other tenants including our own besides the ferals and children out playing. What if the cats got poisoned or if a child got into it and was poisoned? This should be illegal and I'm sure it is. Landlord was shocked when I said we would involve the police if poison was placed under the home. Don't they know nowadays there's animal welfare laws in place to protect them besides poison being accessible to children that might get into it? Do we have any recourse, can we get law enforcement involved and will they do anything? If they want to put rat poison inside the home to address a mouse problem that's their prerogative. However they can't leave poison around where it's easily accessible with the risk neighborhood animals and small children can get into it. Considering their intent of laying poison I think it's open and shut but want to be sure I have recourse to prevent them from doing this. Landlord needs to be convinced to ensure other tenants aren't laying poison under their homes.
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Contacting our SPCA is futile. I'm running into nothing but problems with them. I am going to be doing a boycott on social media of our local shelter to bring to light their discriminatory and unfair treatment. The local shelter appears to be biased against cats, showing favoritism and preferential treatment of canines. This is making it difficult for those of us trying to address the feral cat issue making TNR operations much more expensive and time consuming. They went from stringing me along with tardiness in scheduling appointments, borderline callousness to being passive-aggressive and blatantly disregarding me through refusal to acknowledge and respond to me. I felt as if I was being singled out (probably was), they don't care to hear from me much less assist me in any way. I'm not sure what other options I have at hand besides involving law enforcement.
Thanks.
The home next to my parents was vacated a few months ago. The previous neighbors left the place in such disrepair and were utter slobs. They must have been throwing months worth of trash under the home to avoid paying for garbage.Two garbage cans they left behind sat full for over a month before someone took them. The home has been sold since to someone that claims he is going to do repairs but now claims it's his winter project. The place should've honestly been condemned. It's obviously unfit for occupancy, a fire and safety/health risk. We don't trust they are going to perform repairs. Despite knowing what condition the place is in the landlord rented the lot, I suppose the home isn't her responsibility but somehow I feel she could be held liable being aware of the condition of this place. But that's besides the point and not the reason I'm posting. The guy that is doing repairs on the place for his daughter is not a cat person.
I overheard this guy talking with a neighbor. Admitted he is going to place rat poison under the home and admits he is doing so because of the cats. Because he doesn't want to clean the garbage and secure the skirting so cats can't get under the home. He's going to leave the mounds of garbage under the home and place rat poison under there as a deterrent. We went to the landlord to inform her. She won't do anything, claims they can because it's their property. It sounds legally questionable to me. There are laws in place now to protect animals. Imho there is really no difference in leaving poison sitting around with the intent of deterring or "taking care" of the cat problem from feeding them poisoned food etc.. There are cats roaming around that belong to other tenants including our own besides the ferals and children out playing. What if the cats got poisoned or if a child got into it and was poisoned? This should be illegal and I'm sure it is. Landlord was shocked when I said we would involve the police if poison was placed under the home. Don't they know nowadays there's animal welfare laws in place to protect them besides poison being accessible to children that might get into it? Do we have any recourse, can we get law enforcement involved and will they do anything? If they want to put rat poison inside the home to address a mouse problem that's their prerogative. However they can't leave poison around where it's easily accessible with the risk neighborhood animals and small children can get into it. Considering their intent of laying poison I think it's open and shut but want to be sure I have recourse to prevent them from doing this. Landlord needs to be convinced to ensure other tenants aren't laying poison under their homes.
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Contacting our SPCA is futile. I'm running into nothing but problems with them. I am going to be doing a boycott on social media of our local shelter to bring to light their discriminatory and unfair treatment. The local shelter appears to be biased against cats, showing favoritism and preferential treatment of canines. This is making it difficult for those of us trying to address the feral cat issue making TNR operations much more expensive and time consuming. They went from stringing me along with tardiness in scheduling appointments, borderline callousness to being passive-aggressive and blatantly disregarding me through refusal to acknowledge and respond to me. I felt as if I was being singled out (probably was), they don't care to hear from me much less assist me in any way. I'm not sure what other options I have at hand besides involving law enforcement.
Thanks.