carole
11-28-2005, 06:22 PM
This is a long post, be warned .
Well this weekend just gone was a harrowing time for us all, the weather was ghastly and my daughter Melissa had decided that it was time we rescued the kittens from next door,(some of you will know i have a terrible and irresponsible neighbour behind me who lets her cats continually breed feral cats and takes no responsibility for them whatsoever, she is the one who let one of them suffer terribly, and denied ownership when the SPCA tried to prosecute her)
Her cat who is named Victoria had five kittens, they are around five weeks old and were suffering eye infections, we managed to get one little boy on Friday, a white kitty with black splotches we named Specs, then on saturday which was the worst weather you can imagine , Victoria kept bringing out one kitten at a time on the back doorstep , so Melissa went and grabbed one at a time, getting bit by Miss fiesty the pretty and only calico girl, we named her Tori after her mother, and then the little jet black boy Midnight, and the little ginger boy Skittles, we were very fortunate Melissa's cat shelter she volunteers for agreed to take them all in, even though it is against policy because Mama is not spayed, they now all have a chance of getting tamed and good homes and getting their eye infections cleared up. I left a twenty dollar donation, not much but it all helps., and Melissa has specifically asked to be on duty the day they get adopted out, I forgot silly me to take pics, but will get some eventually., hopefully.
Now there is another set of kittens about three weeks old, I can get the shelter to take them if i can persuade this woman to agree to spaying the cats, Duchess her other cat, Victorias mother is due any day to have a litter, so all in all there are three cats needing spayed,there is also another one the brother or sister to the injured kitty, but it seems to have disappeared.
I know she will not pay for it, so I have to raise the money to get it done, I can get it done for fourty dollars each which is under half the normal price, and i want to get them de-flead and wormed for the first time ever in their life i imagine.I am thinking of holding a garage sale and getting my friends to donate items and raising it that way.Of course if she does not agree I am stumped, I legally cannot take them and do it., but lets hope it does not come to that.
I have been supplementing their food, as I know she only feeds them now and then, and we have a nursing mother, a pregnant one and the other thin mother from whom we took the kittens, today was awesome, i feed them through a hole in the fence further down as I do not want her to see me doing it, as she will probably not bother feeding them at all then, and i can only afford so much, but today I called and they came running and Victoria was eating as i was putting it in the bowl and i managed to pat her even though she hissed and spat at me, they are really semi-feral as only this woman can touch them no-one else, but it is a step in the right direction, they are beginning to trust me a little. I am going to call the other young kitty mother Zara, so she is no longer a no-name keeping in line with the naming of the kitties after the royal family lol, pity this woman did not treat her cats like royalty instead of just naming them after them.
This whole situation has been overwhelming for me and has taken its toll, and i still see no real solution here, but i will try my darnest, to help these kitties, and Donna thank you for being my friend through all of this and being that person i could confide in and lean on , it has been so appreciated.
I have to say I am very proud of my Melissa, she has sheer determination that girl of mine, she had made her mind up she was getting those kitties no matter what, standing out in the pouring rain and cold did not phase her, I think i see a kitty rescuer in the making. :)
Well this weekend just gone was a harrowing time for us all, the weather was ghastly and my daughter Melissa had decided that it was time we rescued the kittens from next door,(some of you will know i have a terrible and irresponsible neighbour behind me who lets her cats continually breed feral cats and takes no responsibility for them whatsoever, she is the one who let one of them suffer terribly, and denied ownership when the SPCA tried to prosecute her)
Her cat who is named Victoria had five kittens, they are around five weeks old and were suffering eye infections, we managed to get one little boy on Friday, a white kitty with black splotches we named Specs, then on saturday which was the worst weather you can imagine , Victoria kept bringing out one kitten at a time on the back doorstep , so Melissa went and grabbed one at a time, getting bit by Miss fiesty the pretty and only calico girl, we named her Tori after her mother, and then the little jet black boy Midnight, and the little ginger boy Skittles, we were very fortunate Melissa's cat shelter she volunteers for agreed to take them all in, even though it is against policy because Mama is not spayed, they now all have a chance of getting tamed and good homes and getting their eye infections cleared up. I left a twenty dollar donation, not much but it all helps., and Melissa has specifically asked to be on duty the day they get adopted out, I forgot silly me to take pics, but will get some eventually., hopefully.
Now there is another set of kittens about three weeks old, I can get the shelter to take them if i can persuade this woman to agree to spaying the cats, Duchess her other cat, Victorias mother is due any day to have a litter, so all in all there are three cats needing spayed,there is also another one the brother or sister to the injured kitty, but it seems to have disappeared.
I know she will not pay for it, so I have to raise the money to get it done, I can get it done for fourty dollars each which is under half the normal price, and i want to get them de-flead and wormed for the first time ever in their life i imagine.I am thinking of holding a garage sale and getting my friends to donate items and raising it that way.Of course if she does not agree I am stumped, I legally cannot take them and do it., but lets hope it does not come to that.
I have been supplementing their food, as I know she only feeds them now and then, and we have a nursing mother, a pregnant one and the other thin mother from whom we took the kittens, today was awesome, i feed them through a hole in the fence further down as I do not want her to see me doing it, as she will probably not bother feeding them at all then, and i can only afford so much, but today I called and they came running and Victoria was eating as i was putting it in the bowl and i managed to pat her even though she hissed and spat at me, they are really semi-feral as only this woman can touch them no-one else, but it is a step in the right direction, they are beginning to trust me a little. I am going to call the other young kitty mother Zara, so she is no longer a no-name keeping in line with the naming of the kitties after the royal family lol, pity this woman did not treat her cats like royalty instead of just naming them after them.
This whole situation has been overwhelming for me and has taken its toll, and i still see no real solution here, but i will try my darnest, to help these kitties, and Donna thank you for being my friend through all of this and being that person i could confide in and lean on , it has been so appreciated.
I have to say I am very proud of my Melissa, she has sheer determination that girl of mine, she had made her mind up she was getting those kitties no matter what, standing out in the pouring rain and cold did not phase her, I think i see a kitty rescuer in the making. :)