Hello!
I came home from work Friday to find that Animal Welfare had left a courtesy notice on my door claiming that "Caller reports 14+ cats here not being cared for" and instructions to call back (I have, and left voice messages, and still have not been able to make contact yet). This is an egregious lie and I'm not sure what to do about it. My disabled mother and I care for three community cats who we successfully did a TNR on last summer. I provide food for them twice a day in Styrofoam bowls, leave water out at all times, and our garage has been converted into a safe haven for them. They are incredibly spoiled, even being ferals, and are all three healthy and chubby from the food we provide. I am utterly at a loss as to who would have made this report.
We do have our own, 100% indoor cats, and in researching this report I found out that we do have over the legal limit for our area (still certainly not 14+!), which has me extremely nervous that AC is going to barge in and take them away even though they are healthy, spoiled, and very well cared for with plenty of space - since it's just us 2, we converted our other 2 bedrooms into cat rooms filled with toys, cat trees, extra litter boxes, etc. That being said, I don't know how anyone could know how many indoor cats we have, and again they are most certainly not neglected - our saying is always that their needs come before our own. Whenever Animal Welfare gets back with me, I am prepared to provide my vet's office and information about the TNR done on the ferals, but beyond that I am not sure what to do. I really wish I could know who has done this, because they have robbed me of my sanity the last few days and I have not even been able to sleep.
In my googling attempts I found out a lot about mean-spirited individuals making false claims about dogs, but not as many on cats. If anyone has any experience or advice, I would dearly appreciate it. Right now my biggest concern is I don't know what to do if AC asks how many indoor cats we have - I don't want to lie, but I don't want to tell the truth if it means they will come take our babies away. Sorry for such a long post - thank you for your time.
I came home from work Friday to find that Animal Welfare had left a courtesy notice on my door claiming that "Caller reports 14+ cats here not being cared for" and instructions to call back (I have, and left voice messages, and still have not been able to make contact yet). This is an egregious lie and I'm not sure what to do about it. My disabled mother and I care for three community cats who we successfully did a TNR on last summer. I provide food for them twice a day in Styrofoam bowls, leave water out at all times, and our garage has been converted into a safe haven for them. They are incredibly spoiled, even being ferals, and are all three healthy and chubby from the food we provide. I am utterly at a loss as to who would have made this report.
We do have our own, 100% indoor cats, and in researching this report I found out that we do have over the legal limit for our area (still certainly not 14+!), which has me extremely nervous that AC is going to barge in and take them away even though they are healthy, spoiled, and very well cared for with plenty of space - since it's just us 2, we converted our other 2 bedrooms into cat rooms filled with toys, cat trees, extra litter boxes, etc. That being said, I don't know how anyone could know how many indoor cats we have, and again they are most certainly not neglected - our saying is always that their needs come before our own. Whenever Animal Welfare gets back with me, I am prepared to provide my vet's office and information about the TNR done on the ferals, but beyond that I am not sure what to do. I really wish I could know who has done this, because they have robbed me of my sanity the last few days and I have not even been able to sleep.
In my googling attempts I found out a lot about mean-spirited individuals making false claims about dogs, but not as many on cats. If anyone has any experience or advice, I would dearly appreciate it. Right now my biggest concern is I don't know what to do if AC asks how many indoor cats we have - I don't want to lie, but I don't want to tell the truth if it means they will come take our babies away. Sorry for such a long post - thank you for your time.