Back on Memorial Day
By ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (64169)
United States
June 7, 2017 8:33pm CST
I was doing my thing and there came a knock on my door.
I get up and there are these two ladies. They wanted to know if I needed help getting my cats fixed.
No, I told them, my cats are all inside and fixed, except... and I pointed at Gabby.
They then mentioned that the across the street neighbor said that I had a lot of cats and they thought maybe I was feeding the feral colony.
No, that's the lady next door, I told them.
I then told them about the ones I knew about.
They said they had seem them in her back yard.
I told them they won't come in my back yard because of the dogs.
I did tell them her name and her day off from work.
Well, today I went to put my last bag of trash out and I saw them with a cat trap, the one lady headed my way.
"I caught your girl," she told me.
They had already trapped 2 ginger cats, the one young male ginger and a ginger kitten. There were still at least two older ginger males and several kittens and, I assume, several queens (that's the term for a female cat like tom is for the male.)
She let Gabby go, and, before I could get her silly self inside, she disappeared. I'm going to guess they trap her at least one more time before they are done, hopefully I can get her inside...
Personally, I will be much happier with a fixed cat colony so I don't find more dead kittens.
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@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
11 Jul 17
No, a feral cat colony is better off if it is fixed and stable than if it isn't. Then the toms fight, get illnesses, give them to the females and their kittens, more cats move in to the vacancy with the loss of the sick cats and the cycle continues. If they are fixed, they aren't fighting, making kittens, getting sick, dying.
And they were trying to figure out who was feeding the colony to work with them to catch, fix and return the animals. The across the street neighbors know I have a lot of cats, since they are the ones that hang around outside, that's who they asked. They had rung on the neighbor who is feeding the cats' bell, but she was working. They were also offering to fix my cats, but mine are all fixed.
I had wanted to get together with the next door lady, but that happened just as my wife got so sick and ended up in the hospital/rehab for a month. Not a lot got done beyond what had to be done while she was there.
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@sumofalltears (3988)
• United States
1 Aug 17
I am a cat lover and bless you for caring for them all. I had three but my oldest passed away about four years ago she was 17.
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@Rollo1 (16676)
• Boston, Massachusetts
8 Jun 17
I am sure that fixing the ferals is the right thing to do. That's a hard life for a cat. But, if you think about it - by preventing them from reproducing, we are actually interfering with potential evolution of the cat species. Might be that in 100 years, feral cats would be a separate species from domestic cats. I am not against this, just musing. Everything Man does, whether he means it for good or evil, has long-reaching results.
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