Ok, I need to vent a little. (I apologize ahead of time for all the !! and CAPS)
We have these neighbors who I've always thought were just OK. They were a little insensative at times, and my main complaint is that their cats roam around outside without any name-tags. Mind you I live in the not-so-safe-even-for-people metropolis of LA.
Well, several months ago they got a young kitten and have recently started letting her out ALL the time, she can't be much more than 6 months old. Like their older cats she is sans collar and nametag. I assumed everything else was ok.
YESTERDAY I was chatting with another like-minded neighbor about my foster kittens, and she told me that their kitten was unspayed!!! And that the mother said that "the boys" wanted her to have a litter!!!
"The boys" are her three children who are something like 6, 8 and 11 years old!!! They should HARDLY be in control here!!!
The kitten is going to get pregnant WAY to young since they let her out ALL THE TIME.
They have massive money problems that we heard them SCREAMING at each other about the other night. Even IF they are completely irresponsible and don't get the kitten's kittens vaccinated etc it is still QUITE expensive for litter, food, etc and there may be problems!
I feel so angry!
The shelter I foster for has 150 kittens in foster care right now! We don't need more kittens in LA! We have kittens!
I don't really know what to do. I'm sure the neighbor that told me about this let her feelings (which are absolutely the same as mine) be known to them. But the mother has a habit of not listening even during normal conversations and the father cowtows to her mainly. Maybe I can bring the boys in to see my kittens sometime and tell them about WHY I foster. But I'm not sure what else I can do.
Sorry for the long vent. I needed to get it out.
We have these neighbors who I've always thought were just OK. They were a little insensative at times, and my main complaint is that their cats roam around outside without any name-tags. Mind you I live in the not-so-safe-even-for-people metropolis of LA.
Well, several months ago they got a young kitten and have recently started letting her out ALL the time, she can't be much more than 6 months old. Like their older cats she is sans collar and nametag. I assumed everything else was ok.
YESTERDAY I was chatting with another like-minded neighbor about my foster kittens, and she told me that their kitten was unspayed!!! And that the mother said that "the boys" wanted her to have a litter!!!
"The boys" are her three children who are something like 6, 8 and 11 years old!!! They should HARDLY be in control here!!!
The kitten is going to get pregnant WAY to young since they let her out ALL THE TIME.
They have massive money problems that we heard them SCREAMING at each other about the other night. Even IF they are completely irresponsible and don't get the kitten's kittens vaccinated etc it is still QUITE expensive for litter, food, etc and there may be problems!
I feel so angry!
I don't really know what to do. I'm sure the neighbor that told me about this let her feelings (which are absolutely the same as mine) be known to them. But the mother has a habit of not listening even during normal conversations and the father cowtows to her mainly. Maybe I can bring the boys in to see my kittens sometime and tell them about WHY I foster. But I'm not sure what else I can do.
Sorry for the long vent. I needed to get it out.