Ted Davis wrote:

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 16:33:15 GMT, frlpwr wrote:

Cat Protector wrote:

By this post I have to wonder if you are going to track the person down,
beat the crap out of them and then take the cats to a shelter that may be
no-kill only to have them put down. I think you really need to get a grip
here because you obviously have an issue with anger and control.

Anyone that snatches cats, won't say exactly where they are and refuses
to allow an interested party to see the cats is behaving _very_
suspiciously. I'm beginning to think the cats are dead.

Or, thinks that the cats and/or the person who actually has them are
at risk from the person to whom he/she is refusing to give
information.

Huh?

If the OP is as hostile in person as here, I would
refuse to give out any information at all, not even the time of day.

He's more calm than I would be in the same situation.

Why are you criticizing the OP for caring about the welfare of these two
cats?

There is more evidence that the OP is a control freak than that he has
any real feelings for the cats.

I don't see it.

Note that most of the people
objecting to the OP mostly have years of experience rescuing cats ...
and dealing with people on the fringes of the rescue efforts.

I've been involved in feral cat rescue for over 17 years. This includes
daily management of 100+ cats in outdoor colonies in San Francisco and
San Mateo counties, trapping and altering more cats over the years than
I can count, socializing and rehoming feral kittens, rehabilitating and
rehoming strays, nursing sick kittens rejected by local shelters.
Today, I'll be shlepping 8 socialized, former feral kittens to an
adoption fair and I would not dream of letting a kitten go to any person
who refused to tell me where (s)he lived or would refuse a request to
visit the cat.

It sounds like the orange tabby's outdoor life (provided she is spayed),
as described, is preferrable to an indoor life crowded into a small
trailer with two humans and four cats.

I'm not the type of feral cat rescuer who believes all feral cats have
"short, miserable lives filled with suffering and pain". I don't
believe it because it's not true.

Oh, my user name of "frlpwr" stands for Feralpower!