Please help! Must find homes immediately for four cats! UPDATE

**doolittleky** · 03-09-2007, 06:04 PM

here is another lists of places that you can ask if they take cats or not. I don't know if you have already done this yet or not so if you have I am sorry I am repeating
Melissa

**catmandu** · 03-09-2007, 06:13 PM

Would It Help If Your Vet Sent A Letter Saying That Your Cats Had All Thier Shots And Were Being Well Loved After.
I Am So Sorry For Those Poor Cats And You, I Dont Know What I Would Have Done If The City Had Told Me To Get Rid Of 4 Found Cats.
That Would Have Killed Me.
We Are Praying That You Can Find A Safe Haven For Those Wonderful Cats.i Think That The City Shoud Be Looking After The Neglected Cats Not Cats Who Have A Great Furr Ever Home!!

**Prairie Purrs** · 03-09-2007, 06:32 PM

I'm going to start calling various shelters in the morning, but there's not a lot of space available in no-kill shelters around here. Katie and maybe Hagrid might attract some interest from adopters, but Angel and Bob are so skittish that if I have to put them in shelters, they'll probably never leave.

That's why I'm hoping that I can find a miracle here at PT.

**Prairie Purrs** · 03-09-2007, 06:37 PM

Originally Posted by catmandu

Would It Help If Your Vet Sent A Letter Saying That Your Cats Had All Thier Shots And Were Being Well Loved After.
I Am So Sorry For Those Poor Cats And You, I Dont Know What I Would Have Done If The City Had Told Me To Get Rid Of 4 Found Cats.
That Would Have Killed Me.
We Are Praying That You Can Find A Safe Haven For Those Wonderful Cats.i Think That The City Shoud Be Looking After The Neglected Cats Not Cats Who Have A Great Furr Ever Home!!

Nothing will help, I'm afraid. The city is entirely inflexible about this. They even told me that jail is a possible penalty for animal control violations. They won't even give me a couple of months to leave town with the cats. And I can't even bring myself to think about the neighborhood feral cats--the city plans to loan a trap to my evil neighbors and then kill any cats they trap.

I'm entirely soured on Denver as a place for pet lovers to live. I'm going to have to ask Karen to change my PT name once I'm out of here.

**doolittleky** · 03-09-2007, 06:41 PM

How would you get one of your cats to a person if they wanted to help out? Two weeks is a very short amount of time to arrange that kind of thing. I just feel so bad for you. It si funny that you should say Angel wouldn't leave a shelter. Out of your pics that is the one that caught my eye the most.
good luck with the shelters
Melissa

**doolittleky** · 03-09-2007, 06:46 PM

how about contacting the mayor or some other city official and explain the situation and that you will be moviing and taking your cats with you etc. Maybe that would help. I googled it and found this page. One elected offical has her picture with her cat and dog. I would think she would be sympathic to your situation and might know how to help you.
http://www.denvergov.org/ElectedOffi...ed%20Officials
Melissa

**Prairie Purrs** · 03-09-2007, 06:55 PM

Originally Posted by doolittleky

how about contacting the mayor or some other city official and explain the situation and that you will be moviing and taking your cats with you etc. Maybe that would help.
Melissa

I've had animal rescue people speaking to city officials on my behalf, but it hasn't done any good. I've tried to get a message through to the head of Animal Control, and I'll try again Monday, but underlings intercept the messages and won't forward them.

At this point, I'm worried that if I antagonize the Animal Control people too much, they'll find an excuse to remove all of my cats. As it is, they're making up the rules as they go along--the ordinance that I was ordered to comply with doesn't have anything to do with indoor cats, and they're insisting that they can perform a warrantless search of my house in connection with a criminal matter, which is blatantly unconstitutional. But I'm nobody with no political leverage, so I don't have many options.

**Prairie Purrs** · 03-09-2007, 06:47 PM

Originally Posted by doolittleky

How would you get one of your cats to a person if they wanted to help out? Two weeks is a very short amount of time to arrange that kind of thing. I just feel so bad for you. It si funny that you should say Angel wouldn't leave a shelter. Out of your pics that is the one that caught my eye the most.
good luck with the shelters
Melissa

I'd rent a car and drive them where they needed to go. If I can find a home for them, I'll find a way to get them there.