I hope I can help these babies.

I get the Freecycle posts sent to my email. So, while searching them, I noticed that a woman and her husband were trying to give away 4 3-week old kittens. Apparently, their neighbor had trapped the mama cat and taken her to "the pound". Then the husband had found the babies under their house and brought them in. They can't take care of them so I immediately sent them an email telling them to contact me when they could, I could help them out. The husband emailed me back saying that someone was supposed to pick them up, and came by while they weren't home, but he hasn't heard from them since so here's hoping that I can help them.

Troy would not be pleased but I can't just sit here and think, "Man, I wonder if they're still alive." and stuff. I don't think the landlord would care.

Man, I hope I can help.

UPDATE: Sadly, it's a no go. The couple didn't even bother replying this time. They just sent another Freecycle message. They just had people come and pick up kittens and that was the end of it. Hopefully they've gone to homes where they know how to take care of a kitten that young and will be loved as a kitty should.

Sadly, again, Troy knows a lady who did not spay and neuter her cats. Well, her white manx got pregnant and had four kittens (one grey male, two grey females, and a blonde female-all manx) last year. Her mom took the blonde female and she said she waited too late to get the others altered. Well, the mama and two grey females all got pregnant. I guess the two young ones didn't take care of their kittens so they died. THEN they got outside and got pregnant again and she has something like nine baby kittens. She asked us to help her find homes for them. I told her I would try all I could. I am going to tell her about the spay/neuter programs here and help her get those babies to good homes. Hopefully, we can foster.

That's so nice of you to contact them about the kittens...and that they end up with you afterall. Keep us posted.

How sad for the kittens. I hope they are getting the care they need. It was very nice of you to offer to help.

Could the mom be rescued so she can nurse her babies? How sad!!!!

That's so sad :( Babies that young still need their mommycat. Wherever they are, prayers are being prayed that the babies will be well cared for and loved as every kitty should be.

Have you heard anything back? :)

Do you get as upset as me when you see the pets listed on freecycle? Of course, I guess I ought to be happy that they are advertising there, rather than sending the to the pound, but I get so upset and want to lecture every one of them! :mad:

Good luck with these babies. I hope you can work it out and save their precious lives.

Logan

I have not heard anything back from the lady who keeps letting her cats breed, unfortunately. She is a nice lady and everything just not very bright.

I do, indeed, get upset with those folks, Logan. I even emailed some ladies who were looking for labs and dobes to breed and gave them a good lecture!

Angelique - copy and paste this and email it to those breeding people....


http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthread.php?t=111111

AMEN Catty, they really need to see that!

I get the Freecycle, and I don't like it when they put pets on there either.
They are not merchandise.

What will we see next? Children?
Curbside alert?

In Calgary, there is a Pets Calgary as a Yahoo group, and pet posts are NOT permitted on Freecycle here (though some supplies might be). There is a link to Pets Calgary on the Freecycle site.

Maybe if there is a pets group in your area, you can notify your Freecycle moderator and ask them to put the link on there.

If there ISN'T one - well, what do you do in your spare time? :D
(Yeah, I have tons of it too)