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Ted Davis wrote:
(snip) Try some other group - all you'll find here are cat people, especially people who have rescued many cats already and continue to rescue them, mostly successfully. Do you think all feral cats should be living in human households? "but everyone who is aware of the situation in the neighborhood thinks something is wrong, -- as in there is more going on here then is apparent. e.g., the motivations of the persons who took them might not be as noble as you people are assuming" We know nothing about that person's motives, We can deduce her motives. All the woman has to do is allow the OP to see the cats and check out where and how they are living. What if the cats are housed in carriers within the trailer? What if she is using the female as a breeder? (Lots of people are obsessed with orange kittens, you know.) What if she feeds her cats nothing but tablescraps or keeps them as unfed mousers? The simple fact that she is not willing to let the OP know any details about the cats is reason enough to be suspect. and so can make no assumptions other than that the cat and kitten may have found a home with someone who wants them Apparently your years of experience in cat rescue have not taught you any lessons about the frequency of animal abuse, neglect and animal hoarding. What makes you think that trading the certainty of food and shelter offered by the OP for "may have found a home", a home of unknown quality, is a good deal for the cats? A home is not necessarily a good home. I recently rescued seven old tomcats from a woman's trailer. They were kept in carriers for extended periods of time, their fur was matted with their own feces and their skin was burnt from urine. They were walking skeletons. None of them weighed over 6 pounds and one weighed just 4 pounds. Their muscle tone was so compromised that five of them required surgery after developing hernias from just walking around my cat room. Two were untreated diabetics now on daily insulin injections. All of them have kidney problems as a consequnce of poor quality food. They were infested with fleas, tapeworms and earmites. The few teeth they still had among them needed to be cleaned. The critical point of this man's dilemma is why isn't he permitted to see the cats and their surroundings? He doesn't seem unreasonable to me. I think if he was assured about the cats' quality of care, he would be happily relieved. , but there is definitely something wrong in what we do know, and that's about you. I can easily understand why the neighbor is unwilling to give you the sister's address - in a situation such as you have described, I would want to get the cat and kitten out of it as quickly as possible What had he done to the cats that would warrant this? He was providing food and shelter, more than most people do for stray cats. I have to doubt your claim of years of rescue experience if you are going to act shocked if someone doesn't jump right on the T/N/R express. and not to let you find out where they went. Do you feed feral and/or stray cats? Would you accept their disappearance so easily? If so, I suggest you are unfit for feral cat management. While there might be something nefarious going on, it seems more likely that the neighbor is acting in the interests of the cats Why? Nothing in their behavior would indicate this. and being cautious toward you to protect the sister and the cats from you. Crikey! The guy was feeding and sheltering a stray cat and kitten! Why are you acting as if he mistreated them? |
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