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Question - will your landlord allow you to foster one or two at a time?
If you can foster, a rescue will be significantly more willing to sponsor you (pay for essentials) and help with adoption placement.
Your landlord may agree to a long term plan like this, especially if you can get the first few adopted in a timely manner as a show of good faith.
You could start with those that are already friendly. Then, work on socializing the others while you foster - lots of us here can help you with that!
And find them homes one-by-one.
Those that don’t socialize well can perhaps find placement in the sanctuary.
As far as the other neighbor who wants the cats to stay - tough titties! She doesn’t own them. Either she needs to take adequate responsibility for all of them (food, shelter, TNR, vet care, etc), or she needs to allow you to find homes or rescue placement for most of them.
Do you know which ones are “hers”? Would it be possible to avoid her “favorites” and work on fostering and placing the others? Ideally, you could have a conversation about this, but it seems like communication is strained right now if I understand correctly?
You might be able to call around to rescues to request an advocate to help you speak to them about this and convince her to agree or otherwise find a compromise.
Barring that - like I said - she doesn’t own them. You can foster or take them to the sanctuary if you want. You do not need her permission to do this. Just try your best to avoid the ones that were originally “hers” as to reduce conflict.
Also, she is sending you empty legal threats. Unless there is more to the story you aren’t sharing, she’s got nothing.Don’t pay them any mind.
You are doing right by these cats, and TCS is here for support and encouragement anytime you need it.
If you can foster, a rescue will be significantly more willing to sponsor you (pay for essentials) and help with adoption placement.
Your landlord may agree to a long term plan like this, especially if you can get the first few adopted in a timely manner as a show of good faith.
You could start with those that are already friendly. Then, work on socializing the others while you foster - lots of us here can help you with that!
And find them homes one-by-one.
Those that don’t socialize well can perhaps find placement in the sanctuary.
As far as the other neighbor who wants the cats to stay - tough titties! She doesn’t own them. Either she needs to take adequate responsibility for all of them (food, shelter, TNR, vet care, etc), or she needs to allow you to find homes or rescue placement for most of them.
Do you know which ones are “hers”? Would it be possible to avoid her “favorites” and work on fostering and placing the others? Ideally, you could have a conversation about this, but it seems like communication is strained right now if I understand correctly?
You might be able to call around to rescues to request an advocate to help you speak to them about this and convince her to agree or otherwise find a compromise.
Barring that - like I said - she doesn’t own them. You can foster or take them to the sanctuary if you want. You do not need her permission to do this. Just try your best to avoid the ones that were originally “hers” as to reduce conflict.
Also, she is sending you empty legal threats. Unless there is more to the story you aren’t sharing, she’s got nothing.Don’t pay them any mind.
You are doing right by these cats, and TCS is here for support and encouragement anytime you need it.