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Hi! New to this site and I'm amazed at the wealth of knowledge here. I would like to run something by you all and get some advice.
I started feeding some feral cats/kittens in my neighborhood about six months ago. So far, I have had four of them spayed and have another in a crate right now that I can hopefully have fixed next week. After that, I'll have two more to go, and maybe some stragglers after that. Several weeks ago (or maybe 3-4 weeks ago) a cat showed up that was wearing a flea collar. At first she wasn't very friendly, but after about a week and some canned food, she is now a love bug. She shows up around dusk and probably hangs around all night because she is there when I go out the next morning. I don't see her during the day though.
Well, it makes me so mad because as hard as I am trying to get the feral cats fixed so that we are not overrun with cats (at which point neighbors will probably start calling animal control or take it upon themselves to try to control the population), this cat that is so friendly is pregnant. I might have taken her to be spayed weeks ago, before I was sure she was pg, but since she obviously belonged to someone, I didn't want to do that. I am now worried about where she is going to have her kittens. I don't want her to have them at my house because I don't want to deal with them, but I don't want her to have them in the dirt somewhere and have those kittens also become feral. We have a little storage area, and I suggested putting her in there to my husband, but he's not having it. However, if she just somehow got in there and had her kittens, I'm sure he wouldn't kick them out.
I hope she will just go home and have them, but if she shows up one day un-pregnant, how do I find out where the kittens are? I guess that is my basic question. Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions.
I started feeding some feral cats/kittens in my neighborhood about six months ago. So far, I have had four of them spayed and have another in a crate right now that I can hopefully have fixed next week. After that, I'll have two more to go, and maybe some stragglers after that. Several weeks ago (or maybe 3-4 weeks ago) a cat showed up that was wearing a flea collar. At first she wasn't very friendly, but after about a week and some canned food, she is now a love bug. She shows up around dusk and probably hangs around all night because she is there when I go out the next morning. I don't see her during the day though.
Well, it makes me so mad because as hard as I am trying to get the feral cats fixed so that we are not overrun with cats (at which point neighbors will probably start calling animal control or take it upon themselves to try to control the population), this cat that is so friendly is pregnant. I might have taken her to be spayed weeks ago, before I was sure she was pg, but since she obviously belonged to someone, I didn't want to do that. I am now worried about where she is going to have her kittens. I don't want her to have them at my house because I don't want to deal with them, but I don't want her to have them in the dirt somewhere and have those kittens also become feral. We have a little storage area, and I suggested putting her in there to my husband, but he's not having it. However, if she just somehow got in there and had her kittens, I'm sure he wouldn't kick them out.
I hope she will just go home and have them, but if she shows up one day un-pregnant, how do I find out where the kittens are? I guess that is my basic question. Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions.
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