You read my mind, I was thinking that while working at the humane society today.
Would a donation to MECATS help them? If they need help, the cost of sending her overseas may be enough to help them relieve their financial pressures.
You read my mind, I was thinking that while working at the humane society today.
Would a donation to MECATS help them? If they need help, the cost of sending her overseas may be enough to help them relieve their financial pressures.
I don't know how much effect that would have, if there are over 200 cats, that share living quarters which each other, it would probably require quite major funding to get enough help so that they could build condos and separated areas for cats, maybe even find new location with more space. Every little helps of course to keep things at current level, but what image I have got from what Banana has wrote, only major funding would help enough to change biggest issues which I believe are limited space limited possibilities of privacy for individual cats and lack of separation of cats that have less medication / treatments done / health.Would a donation to MECATS help them? If they need help, the cost of sending her overseas may be enough to help them relieve their financial pressures.
I completely agree it would be extremely difficult to do BUT the fact that you even offered and thought of this just warmed my heart. :grphug:I'm a bit concerned about sending her so far away, I am in CA.
That is one LONG trip, and I have no idea how it works.
I hesitate because of this, I suppose if I actually saw the conditions of where she is currently it might prompt me to go for it................it seems awfully stressful to put her through unless it's absolutely necessary.
As mentioned before I recently imported two cats to the UAE one from Russia which is roughly a 5 hour flight and the other one from the UK which was roughly 8 hours. I was concerned about my 12 year old coming from the UK on a long flight because she is old and very timid but surprisingly she arrived in perfect shape.
I'm a bit concerned about sending her so far away, I am in CA.
That is one LONG trip, and I have no idea how it works.
I hesitate because of this, I suppose if I actually saw the conditions of where she is currently it might prompt me to go for it................it seems awfully stressful to put her through unless it's absolutely necessary.
For sure donations to Mecats would help. The cost of taking care of so many animals is extremely high and as I mentioned previously they are really struggling. But what would help them more is finding homes for the cats to reduce the financial burden on the rescue organisation.
Would a donation to MECATS help them? If they need help, the cost of sending her overseas may be enough to help them relieve their financial pressures.
At the moment the cats are confined to indoors only. If over two hundred cats were allowed to roam the neighbouring villas or even the grounds of the premises which acts as a shelter, the neighbours would complain and the municipality would shut them down for sure.If there are over 200 cats, that share living quarters which each other, it would probably require quite major funding to get enough help so that they could build condos and separated areas for cats, maybe even find new location with more space. Every little helps of course to keep things at current level, but what image I have got from what Banana has wrote, only major funding would help enough to change biggest issues which I believe are limited space limited possibilities of privacy for individual cats and lack of separation of cats that have less medication / treatments done / health.
But at least cat litter costs should be minimal in UAE, if one has backyard, just dig a little and there is sand, but I don't know how much cat food costs there.
Sadly I have no funds or much of room for more cats so it is perhaps not realistically possible for me to help with relocating cat here, however if I hear someone needing a cat, I make sure to mention about this possibility to them.
One of mine that I have not seen long time ago was also very feral, she was 4-5 years old according to vet when I took her indoors, had lived wild before that, she did run straight up to vertical wall at the beginning, it took months until I saw her after first days, despite sharing living space (well, she had own room back then with door closed and cat flap on door so she could access my side when wanted), but I got to point that she tolerated some petting when she was at her bed, she even learned to come back in after visiting outdoors, but one day she did not returned, it was warm summer then, I know she did spend good part of summer at one nearby farm, but when I went to trap her she had begone and haven't seen her or heard from her since.Some ferals are indeed meant to remain outdoors, and would be too greatly stressed to be kept indoors. There's nothing wrong with being a caregiver to an outdoor feral cat. As long as ferals have someone to feed them and some sort of shelter for cold weather, many ferals can live long, happy lives outdoors. Most people who TNR ferals release them back outside instead of trying to keep them inside.
In my case, I've socialized 2 ferals to live indoors--one was 3-4 months old when I took him in, and I successfully and completely domesticated him in 5 weeks. He already was familiar with me because his father cat used to bring him to my porch to get fed, so I was not a stranger. The other was a 10-12 month old female who somebody had shot when she was young. She cannot jump very high or run very fast, so once I trapped and spayed her and took her inside, she has never had a desire to be outside again. She is socialized to the point of being semi-feral--she tolerates some petting, but doesn't tolerate being picked up or held. The feral I take care of outdoors is a true feral who enjoys my care for him, but has no desire to come inside--for him, being kept captive inside would be stressful and depressing.
The point is that most ferals can at least be socialized to be cared for by a human caregiver, whether indoors or outside, but it takes lots of time and patience.