I've never had much luck with our SPCA. Here's what I did with a neighbor. He has a great dog chained in the back yard. It had a nice warm house and everything, but they never spent any time with it. I rang their doorbell one day and asked if I could walk their dog. I yammered on about how I just loved dogs, blah blah blah. I kept all judgement out of my voice and I didn't say how sad it made me to see it chained up or anything like that. Well, they were surprised that a neighbor wanted to walk their dog but they said okay. So, I took it on a walk and played with it. I did this for about a week straight. One day, I noticed the owner taking the dog for a walk. I guess seeing me with the dog reactivated his interest. Sometimes we don't value something until we see that someone else does. Would you be interested in having this kitty over sometime? Or adopting it if the owner doesn't want it anymore?

Once I sent a friend a notecard. It had a kitty on the front. Inside, I wrote "Remember Me? Don't you love me anymore? All I want is to spend some time with you." They knew it was from me. It was a risk, but they did start spending more loving time with their cat.