Ownership/care of feral cats (and dogs)?
This has ticked me off since it happened and I need some counsel on it.
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Back during warmer weather, my brother took his dogs from the house.
Both dogs had ticks up the wazoo. He had moved from the property and when I began to 'care' for the dogs he blew up and took them because I bought them flea collars.
No problem, but the ticks and fleas were left behind. As the kitties learned there were no more dogs around they began to hang out and picked up the insects.
I began to water down the area, spread bleach and other stuff to kill off the infestation. I bought two more collars for Ms. Kittie and the Calico cats-who are ferals.
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Two days later they cats were back, sans collars. I did not tighten them up to choke the cats nor did I leave them loose enough for them to get hung up in their travels.
I don't care about the cost of the collars-it's the idea that someone would have taken them off.....as a sign of ownership? I understand they may have been removed by the neighbors-as I come and go I sometimes see the cats next door- they do parade back and forth. I know that by putting the collars on the cats I may have overstepped neighborly boundaries, but I still am a little ticked about this.
Anyway, Am I making too much of this?
:confused::eek::mad:
