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This is long I apologize.
Ok my mother lives way WAY out in the middle of nowhere. Which makes it a guarantee for dropoffs. The problem is she is completely physically disabled. She has days she can get down her stairs but for the most part she is unable to care for any animals outside.
A few months ago she called me freaking out because someone had dropped 20+ cats and kittens (last decent count I got was 23) off at her barn (old non-working barn). They looked half starved and she couldn't get out to buy food or walk across the bridge to the barn feed them. She was throwing biscuits out of her kitchen window hoping they would eat. Which they did abundantly. My mother was literally in her kitchen making homemade biscuits with bacon fat for hours throwing them out to the cats as they cooled (and she is a self-proclaimed animal hater lol)
I went and bought two giant bags of cat food and 2 bails of hay and head over to her house. They would not come anywhere near me but I set up food/water stations all around the barn and blocked off some bigger holes with plywood to keep them warm at night as well as piled as much hay as I could inside.
Once they were vet checked (that got expensive very fast) and putting on weight I started trying to find homes for them around here. BIG MISTAKE. I had someone contact me who wanted two males. Then someone who wanted two females and someone who wanted 2 and so on. Then I realized they all had the same phone number. Come to find out it is a well-known dog fighter who wanted them as bait.
NOPE. And reported to the police.
My mom can no longer keep them around since her landlord is threatening her. Our local shelter is rated as one of the highest rated kill shelters in the country especially when it comes to cats. She and I do not want them to go there. I definitely can't afford to have 20+ cats spayed/neutered and they don't offer a discount of any kind at either vet in my area. It would literally be over $2500 for me to have them all fixed. That kind of money is a dream to me right now. New job short cashflow.
I've contacted countless rescues who most of the time don't even answer me on whether they can help or can point me in a direction.
These cats are super sweet now and don't deserve to be just dumped off somewhere or taken to a place that almost guarantee's their death. My aunt took the two runts who seem to have physical deformities. And I have a few trustworthy friends/family who are planning to take a few in the next few weeks. But that's all I've been able to do. I even offered to drive up to 2 states away to help them find homes.
Does anyone have any advice for this situation? If I still lived in my old house they could come right home with me. But the house I live at now is small and I live directly beside a busy road. So that's not possible.
Ok my mother lives way WAY out in the middle of nowhere. Which makes it a guarantee for dropoffs. The problem is she is completely physically disabled. She has days she can get down her stairs but for the most part she is unable to care for any animals outside.
A few months ago she called me freaking out because someone had dropped 20+ cats and kittens (last decent count I got was 23) off at her barn (old non-working barn). They looked half starved and she couldn't get out to buy food or walk across the bridge to the barn feed them. She was throwing biscuits out of her kitchen window hoping they would eat. Which they did abundantly. My mother was literally in her kitchen making homemade biscuits with bacon fat for hours throwing them out to the cats as they cooled (and she is a self-proclaimed animal hater lol)
I went and bought two giant bags of cat food and 2 bails of hay and head over to her house. They would not come anywhere near me but I set up food/water stations all around the barn and blocked off some bigger holes with plywood to keep them warm at night as well as piled as much hay as I could inside.
Once they were vet checked (that got expensive very fast) and putting on weight I started trying to find homes for them around here. BIG MISTAKE. I had someone contact me who wanted two males. Then someone who wanted two females and someone who wanted 2 and so on. Then I realized they all had the same phone number. Come to find out it is a well-known dog fighter who wanted them as bait.
NOPE. And reported to the police.
My mom can no longer keep them around since her landlord is threatening her. Our local shelter is rated as one of the highest rated kill shelters in the country especially when it comes to cats. She and I do not want them to go there. I definitely can't afford to have 20+ cats spayed/neutered and they don't offer a discount of any kind at either vet in my area. It would literally be over $2500 for me to have them all fixed. That kind of money is a dream to me right now. New job short cashflow.
I've contacted countless rescues who most of the time don't even answer me on whether they can help or can point me in a direction.
These cats are super sweet now and don't deserve to be just dumped off somewhere or taken to a place that almost guarantee's their death. My aunt took the two runts who seem to have physical deformities. And I have a few trustworthy friends/family who are planning to take a few in the next few weeks. But that's all I've been able to do. I even offered to drive up to 2 states away to help them find homes.
Does anyone have any advice for this situation? If I still lived in my old house they could come right home with me. But the house I live at now is small and I live directly beside a busy road. So that's not possible.
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