Hi everyone!
I'm looking forward to moderating this forum. If anyone has any questions about feral cats, colonies or anything else, or has a topic they'd like to discuss, please feel free.
I am a volunteer with a rescue organization (as is Sandie) and have had alot of experience with feral cats. I've trapped them, had them spayed/neutered and released them. I have also socialized and placed them in good homes. I've had to deal with distemper in kittens that were only 4 days old. I tell you it's a very emotional. There are times when you want to give up but there is a part of you that just keeps going. Until I joined rescue, I never realized how many lonely, unwanted cats there are out there. Now everytime I see a cat wandering around, I want to scoop it up and find it a good home.
You cry, you laugh, you wonder if it's all worth it. Believe me, it is. But you have to keep one thing in mind. You can't save the world. And that is what it feels like sometimes.
To the people who are feeding those cats, I commend you and urge you to keep doing it. They didn't ask to be abandoned. And the trust that they lack is purely because of humans.
I'm looking forward to moderating this forum. If anyone has any questions about feral cats, colonies or anything else, or has a topic they'd like to discuss, please feel free.
I am a volunteer with a rescue organization (as is Sandie) and have had alot of experience with feral cats. I've trapped them, had them spayed/neutered and released them. I have also socialized and placed them in good homes. I've had to deal with distemper in kittens that were only 4 days old. I tell you it's a very emotional. There are times when you want to give up but there is a part of you that just keeps going. Until I joined rescue, I never realized how many lonely, unwanted cats there are out there. Now everytime I see a cat wandering around, I want to scoop it up and find it a good home.
You cry, you laugh, you wonder if it's all worth it. Believe me, it is. But you have to keep one thing in mind. You can't save the world. And that is what it feels like sometimes.
To the people who are feeding those cats, I commend you and urge you to keep doing it. They didn't ask to be abandoned. And the trust that they lack is purely because of humans.