Hello,
My main concern is really for one beautiful kitty that shows up at my house for dinner everyday. I recently posted about whether I should try to take him to the vet. He's between 6 and 10 and has an ear infection. Yesterday, he let me pet him before I even distracted him with food. I feed him both dry and canned everyday. He gotten pretty used to me and his free dinner.
There are also at least two other precious lives that show up each day, both are only about a year. Both I think are siblings to the feral we adopted from outside in December, and both are really afraid of people.
They live in the woods behind my house since its county land, with a creek and a few old barns. I know they've lived out there a long time and I only moved in in August 05.
When I catch him to take him to the vet, should I give him to the Lawrence Humane Society? (http://www.lawrencehumane.org/) They are a no kill shelter that keeps them until they are adopted (unless they are too sick). I almost took another feral there (we kept him instead) but they said if it did come to worse they would call me so I could come get him instead. They have another cat thats 12-13 years old that I call to check on all the time. [ I would love to take her in too. But then I'd have five cats (three plus her and the above mentioned feral) and my husband would probably divorce me. ]
We will be moving across the country in about three months. No one else feeds these cats and no one else is available to feed them. It breaks my heart that he would come looking for food and there wouldnt be any there for him. At the shelter, they could cure his ear mites, give him yummy food, and find him a forever inside home where he could be a lap cat.
What would you do?
My main concern is really for one beautiful kitty that shows up at my house for dinner everyday. I recently posted about whether I should try to take him to the vet. He's between 6 and 10 and has an ear infection. Yesterday, he let me pet him before I even distracted him with food. I feed him both dry and canned everyday. He gotten pretty used to me and his free dinner.
There are also at least two other precious lives that show up each day, both are only about a year. Both I think are siblings to the feral we adopted from outside in December, and both are really afraid of people.
They live in the woods behind my house since its county land, with a creek and a few old barns. I know they've lived out there a long time and I only moved in in August 05.
When I catch him to take him to the vet, should I give him to the Lawrence Humane Society? (http://www.lawrencehumane.org/) They are a no kill shelter that keeps them until they are adopted (unless they are too sick). I almost took another feral there (we kept him instead) but they said if it did come to worse they would call me so I could come get him instead. They have another cat thats 12-13 years old that I call to check on all the time. [ I would love to take her in too. But then I'd have five cats (three plus her and the above mentioned feral) and my husband would probably divorce me. ]
We will be moving across the country in about three months. No one else feeds these cats and no one else is available to feed them. It breaks my heart that he would come looking for food and there wouldnt be any there for him. At the shelter, they could cure his ear mites, give him yummy food, and find him a forever inside home where he could be a lap cat.
What would you do?
