Hey, everybody. Figured since everyone posts here about kitten care, they'd have some sort of answer when I ask...
How do you find homes for kittens?
This feral outside, she's approximately eleven months old right now, and recently had four kittens in a feral cat box on our deck. You'll see another post about them in the thread titled, "What are the chances?" Her mom also has some kittens. (Yeah, yeah, they have TNR arrangements.)
Seeing as these kittens have gone three days and are still squirming and growing (a good sign, for ferals), it's likely that at least two will survive to adulthood. While that may not seem like much, we simply dislike the idea of more cats. No, no, not because we hate them or something, we all love cats, but there's nowhere to PUT them!
I want to know, if there's a way to find good homes for kittens WITHOUT putting them in a shelter. See, we have Two full time cats, two in-and-out tame ferals, and two three-week-old kittens that also may need homes. Can we put up ads, find fosters, anything?
We CAN let them live outside, which is the backup plan, but subjecting two more cats to life outside of what could have been a warm, loving home just doesn't seem right, even though the ferals don't exactly look UNHAPPY.
The thing about shelters, we just don't feel comfortable with them. The thought of these kittens being euthanized makes us all feel sick, and no-kill shelters are a good option, but we don't know how long they'd be there, and to have them cooped up in cages...I don't know, we just dislike them.
We certainly are NOT going to become animal hoarders, and the cats we have already are more than enough maintainance to keep healthy, happy, and clean (No one's complaining!). If space and budget permitted, we'd happily keep them all, but...we can't.
Okay, so here's the question question. How can you find good homes for cats, from your own home? How can you get good people to take your kittens without sticking them in shelters? There's a total of Six kittens that would most likely need homes.
Thank you, in advance!
How do you find homes for kittens?
This feral outside, she's approximately eleven months old right now, and recently had four kittens in a feral cat box on our deck. You'll see another post about them in the thread titled, "What are the chances?" Her mom also has some kittens. (Yeah, yeah, they have TNR arrangements.)
Seeing as these kittens have gone three days and are still squirming and growing (a good sign, for ferals), it's likely that at least two will survive to adulthood. While that may not seem like much, we simply dislike the idea of more cats. No, no, not because we hate them or something, we all love cats, but there's nowhere to PUT them!
I want to know, if there's a way to find good homes for kittens WITHOUT putting them in a shelter. See, we have Two full time cats, two in-and-out tame ferals, and two three-week-old kittens that also may need homes. Can we put up ads, find fosters, anything?
We CAN let them live outside, which is the backup plan, but subjecting two more cats to life outside of what could have been a warm, loving home just doesn't seem right, even though the ferals don't exactly look UNHAPPY.
The thing about shelters, we just don't feel comfortable with them. The thought of these kittens being euthanized makes us all feel sick, and no-kill shelters are a good option, but we don't know how long they'd be there, and to have them cooped up in cages...I don't know, we just dislike them.
We certainly are NOT going to become animal hoarders, and the cats we have already are more than enough maintainance to keep healthy, happy, and clean (No one's complaining!). If space and budget permitted, we'd happily keep them all, but...we can't.
Okay, so here's the question question. How can you find good homes for cats, from your own home? How can you get good people to take your kittens without sticking them in shelters? There's a total of Six kittens that would most likely need homes.
Thank you, in advance!
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