Helping Feral/Stray/Abandoned Cats

LadyEmeraude

LadyEmeraude

on vacation, back in September.
Ferals often live in vacant lots, dodge cars, and eat from trash cans; face infection, disease, and an endless cycle of pregnancy; and suffer extremes in treatment and weather. The life of these cars is often short, sometimes lasting for just two or three years.

In my neighborhood and over the years, I at one time helped trap Stray cats that were nearby.
At that time, I did not know much as needed to know, but I helped anyway in the process. I had
a good trap cage and some basic knowledge and trapped 5 cats, then brought them to our local
Humane Society for care. * don't think I would ever participate in trapping strays again, was a lot
of work and efforts.

How about you, have you helped strays/feral/abandoned cats situate to a new or different location?
 

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In my neighborhood there are two recent houses in which the owner declined
with their health and the other one passed. Each owner had about three to five
cats each. They were all outdoor and indoor cats, so now they are roaming and
looking for food and help. Neighborhood folks are trying to help and tend to the
situation..

The owner who has declined with their health can no longer tend to himself and
is already living in a Nursing Care Facility, he is hoping others might take in and
help his cats or get them to the Humane Society.
 
Yes, I feed a small established and fixed colony of 3 at my workplace. When I started working there, a woman was feeding them. She suddenly passed away, which I didn't find out about for a time. There was supposed to be someone in the network that took over but he stopped coming. So I took over.

I work part time but go over every day to feed them. In addition to the 3, a new one has showed up. When I say new, probably over a year. I have tried to trap him in a traditional trap with no luck. I am putting the trap out by where I feed him as instructed. But he is scared of it. I will talk to the woman associated through the local PAWS thrift to see if a drop trap might work better? If they don't have one, I'd be willing to purchase but it would probably be a two person endeavor.

He is getting used to me and has even rubbed against my legs but he intimidates the other cats and they run from him. These cats crunch into my budget, but I refuse to let them go hungry and no one else has offered to help.

I feel bad for all the homeless, feral, abandoned cats. That's why I donate to rescues also.
 
My way of helping stray and abandoned cats / kittens in Australia is by donating food .

The supermarket where we shop has 3 seperate med size bins the shape of our wheelie/ rubbish bins out the front of the store ( that’s in a mall ) and I’ll often buy and drop a bag of dry or canned food in one of the bins forthrightly .

When i have a linen press clean out …..i wash / dry and take all my often unused towels / pillowcases / sheets to the vets
as they also care for and treat Injured / neglected. stray animals
 
jlhog said:
I took in a feral cat a few years ago. She had her ear clipped and tattooed to show she was fixed. She has become part of our family since. She is so much better off here than on the streets. Luna is loved here.
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Luna is a beautiful cat, Torties are great ;)
 
This stray has been hanging around for a while. We and at least one other neighbor feed her. If she had a chunk of food she would take it away somewhere. Last week she showed up on the porch with 3, then 4 kittens. They seem to now live in the crawl space but come to the porch at times.
They split when I open the door. I will try to get a picture through the window.
A new teacher in the neighborhood has offered to help round up strays to get them neutered as a summer project. We can use the help.
The kittens appear to be close to adoptable age.
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We have 2 rescue cats...Ollie and Monkey.

Ollie wouldn't let us pet him for over 1 and a half years until he finally came around. They were both Barn cats and had a rough start to life. But neither has a mean bone...never bitten us, not even once. They are both now wonderful family pets. :)monkey and ollie.jpg
 
We have a courtyard behind our house. We've had a string of feral cats show up there because we have cats inside. Several of them we've brought inside to feed and provide shelter during winter. One tiny kitten we kept in a towel in our sink during winter. Our neighbor called Animal Control on her and another cat and I actually cried as I saw them being taken away.

We had one that we named Marvin that we used to let inside. He would snuggle with our other male cat but would never let us touch him. We wanted to take him to the vet but could never catch him. One night we trapped him in the laundry room and he jumped to the top of the cabinets where we couldn't reach him! I'm sad to say we had to give up on catching him. We let him back outside and I fixed up a litter box with towels to keep him warm. He never used it. He just disappeared.

We have a street drain in front of our house and we noticed cats coming and going from there. It apparently provides shelter for them and possibly a steady diet of mice.

BTW I donate to the SPCA every time I shop at Petsmart, which is often since our guys love to eat!
 
We have a cat that comes to our front door most nights….never actually seen it but it sets off our security system
that my hubby installed ( he’s licensed ) but only installed ours .

We monitor our system via our phone and it pops up if the camera (s) detects any movement
it also takes a photo …so we’ve seen the cat on the front camera but if we open the door it takes off
it appears to be a tabby .
Like you we have a big drain out the front of our home @seadoug and we’ve seen a few cats dash across the road on warm nites and go down the drain.

Its freezing here at the moment so they are seeking out shelter from the wild arctic winds we get right off the sea
 
No, there are a few living in the parking lot between our building and the house next door. No one bothers or feeds them, and they've been there for years. Sometimes they make it and have more kittens, sometimes they don't and usually there is a few cat and kitten corpses in the area. Sometimes they are peaceful and sometimes very aggressive for food. They lay around on peoples cars and mating season is loud and terrible, plus fighting with other animals. Around here they are just a nuisance.
 
I used to have this "cat" door where my pet cats could come and go. On super frigid night, I shut it, but I noticed this half frozen cat, meowing out in way below freezing wind. So, then I had two cats. Months later I was watching TV and I kept hearing meows- another stray was under the couch giving birth, then the other stray gave birth. I went from1 cat to 13. That's when I became a firm believer in neutering.
 
I have mixed feelings about this.

I have fed what appeared to be abandoned house pets but I believe that it is best to let ‘wild’ animals learn to fend for themselves and not make them dependent on humans who may or may not have their best interests at heart.

I guess that it’s like so many things in life, do what you feel is best in every situation even if it isn’t always logical or consistent.
 
I presently have a young cat with five kittens living in my garage. I was feeding the mother cat because she's so small, I didn't know she had kittens.

The Daughters of Discord (neighbors nearby) informed me she had two kittens, then she showed up a week or so later with five kittens. My heart is too soft to do nothing.

I know I'm just enabling more kittens and I know all five probably won't survive, but I'll do what I can for now.
 

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