Emerald Green posted:
Hi Rebecca, I've put together a list of shelters in your area and how many miles away each one is from your town. The first two seem the most promising. The Rainbow Animal Refuge and the Butler County Humane Society, which I called and got some information. It was just an outgoing message and it has the same info that is on their website but it could be a solution. It appears that they will take a litter of 2 or more kittens into their shelter for a total fee of 100.00. I know you said that you have 5 kids and already have 5 adult cats that you have rescued (which I think is wonderful of you by the way!) so I'd like to offer to help by donating something towards this and hope that maybe some others on PT might help too?

There might be some other options as well via the shelters that I will list below that may not have any cost associated with surrendering kittens. We just need to start calling them. I'd be happy to call a few of them.
Right now I'm trying to look up spay and neuter options and their costs as well for your adult cats and maybe we could help you with that instead if we can find a shelter that will take the kittens at no cost. I'll keep searching.
Here is the list of shelters:
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Thanks so much for your help Emerald Green. I called rainbow refuge a couple weeks ago. She is willing to put the kittens on her website. She said that she would give my phone number out and I could interview the people and choose homes for the kittens. I am hoping that the people that go to rainbow are people that really want kittens and not people that will use the kittens for all of the wrong purposes. I was telling someone on the board the other day that my last litter of kittens, some man wanted my kitten to be a barn cat and chase mice. I said no to him. I like my kittens to be house cats. It keeps them safe. I have lost too many cats to cars. I live on a very busy street. One day my kitten went out the back door. We tryed to catch him. In one second he jumped off the balcony. In three minuetes he was hit by a car. It is hard for me to have all of these cats when I live in the city, but you would not believe how many homeless cats are outside my house. I leave a big bowl of cat food outside and some water. Every day it is gone. I used to buy my catfood at five pounds. Now I think I buy it at 20 pounds a few times a month. I have a few strays that are spraying my house now because I have all of these females. As far as the shelters go, they want 50 dollars for kittens and 100 for adults. I don't even think this is the right solution. I heard that the humane shelters in my area were taking their cats to Tiger Ranch. I hate to see my kittens sitting in a cage for who knows how long. I have found really good homes for my kittens in the past. I have had people wait three weeks to get their kitten and they tell me about the food and the toys and how they are taking them to the vets. They have normally been couples with kids that have taken my kittens. If they have very young kids I won't let them take them because I feel that younger children can be very mean to kittens. I have first hand knowledge of this because when my son was five he sprayed the kittens with lysol. I was so mad that someone in my family left lysol down in the first place. I had to take the kittens and put them under the faucet. They all survived, but it taught me a very big lesson. Don't let small children around your kittens. As far as the list goes of all of the places that you gave me to call, here is the problem. I do not have a car and I don't have anyone that has cars or is willing to take me to pittsburgh. It is an hour away. I found a vet 4 miles away. That would probably cost 10 dollars to take a taxi. If I have to do that it is fine with me. My solution to this problem is to get great homes for the six kittens and get all five adults fixed. I really think some are pregnant now. Do I let them have the kittens or do I get abortions. I am not sure because I have never been in this position. Alls I know is that I want so despartely to take care of this problem and I promise everyone and God that I will never get into this situation again. If I get a stray I will immediately try to find a way to get it fixed. I guess I just never realized how serious this problem can become. Thanks so much for all of your letters and concern. God Bless! Rebecca