Continuation of free kittens in Butler

[Catty1]

Rebecca - now that you have flea and worm control going, I thought this pic from ICHC might give you a smile:

[Emeraldgreen]

LOL! That's funny!

[cristy]

Rebecca...I didn't send the Advantage that I have here because I looked at the expiration date and they are way past. Does anyone know how far past they stay good?? If they are ok, I will still send them, but I didn't want you to give them to the cats and have them not work. The date is 2005.........

[MoonandBean]

From my experience with HUMAN medicine, I would venture to say that at worst, the expired advantage may be a little less effective than it would be otherwise but should be fine to use (no risks) and will probably be just as effective as ever. Companies are required to put expiration dates on "meds" that are way sooner than they actually expire. Most drugs never expire or lose their potency but the FDA requires expiration dates.

[rebeccahowes]

I took some pics of the kittens. One kitten was born without a tail. It is the oddest thing. I hope someone will still want to take him. I have two females and two males.

[MoonandBean]

Oh No! Cuteness overload!!

[Anikaca77]

Hi, I've been following this thread and I have to say it's just amazing and oh my the one kitten that is almost all white with a little tiger in it is just beautiful.

Too bad I have 7 already.

You have a done a great job at taking care of these babies.

Melissa

[Medusa]

I wish I could take the tailless one. It makes me miss my RB Peeka who had to have her tail cut off due to torture from kids. I'm just maxed out and cannot take any more cats. They're all so cute, though, that you probably won't have any trouble placing them.

[rebeccahowes]

All of you are so kind. Thank you so much. Without your support, I would have never gotten this far. It was only months ago when almost everyone disagreed with me putting "free kittens in Butler". I have learned so much since then. I put ads in a few spots today for my final four kittens. My headline was "kittens need homes in Butler". I left out free. There is another lady who uses the same source as I do. She has six kittens. I have competition now. I wrote her and told her that if I get homes for all of my kittens that I will send people to her so she can get good homes for hers. I asked her to do the same for me. Hopefully, we will both get great homes for our kitties. I am happy that my journey is almost over, but sad at the same time. I am going to miss all the little kittens running around my house. The great thing is that my seven adult cats are awesome and I am really glad that they have been spayed and dewormed and defleaded. (I don't know if that is a word.)I want to continue reading and posting to PT. I hope that I can help someone, someday. I will never forget the help that my animals and I recieved at PT. It sometimes is overwhelming because I cannot believe that people are so caring at PT. I truly believed that I was going to become the next Tiger Ranch. I was so scared and did not have any clue to what I was going to do. I just prayed and prayed and prayed some more. All of a sudden you guys were here. You guys were the hands of God reaching out to me. Feel very proud of the part that you played in my animals lives. One of my cats had at least seven litters of kittens. Everytime I turned around, she was pregnant. She was always a good mom and I felt so bad for her, but I could not help. I had seven cats and only one was neutered. It took me a long time to get the money for him. I thought that if I took care of him, it would help reduce the kitten population in my house. My females ran outside and got pregnant anyways. It seems like everytime I put money into my budget to get a cat spayed, my children always needed shoes, clothes, etc. I gave up hope for my cats. My cat over population was so bad that I had a mom cat and her babies; plus, three other cats go to Tiger Ranch last year. I was just getting ready to take five more to Tiger Ranch when I heard the news. I was shocked and scared. I am only supposed to have two cats. Thank God my landlord never comes by. My worse problem is my neighbors. They despise cats and try to kill them. It is going to be a long summer. They escape outside and poop in my neighbors yard. My neighbors have scraped up the poop and put it on my porch. They have called the police on me. The police have told me that I can't feed strays or they become mine. I put a big bowl of catfood outside everyday for all of the strays. Even the birds are eating the catfood and I have bird poop all over my porch. Nothing will deter me from feeding the strays. It is so amazing to see so many animal lovers in one place. Most people hate animals and don't want to bother with them. Landlords don't allow pets and this is why there are so many homeless pets. At least we can all make a difference together.

[Medusa]

Landlords don't allow pets and this is why there are so many homeless pets. At least we can all make a difference together.

There are so many homeless pets because too many people don't spay and neuter their animals. Landlords sometimes don't allow pets, not because they're not animal lovers, but because, left unchecked, animals multiply rapidly and then next thing you know, there's urine and feces and fleas everywhere and they roam the neighborhood and neighbors complain, etc. It's a real problem. Real estate is expensive both to purchase and to maintain and landlords don't want to see their investment get ruined and who can blame them?

It's good to see that you have the animal population under control and that they've been altered and defleaed. I should tell you, though, that if you feed the birds that close to your home and have them come up on the porch, you're going to attract more cats and that's going to cause more problems w/your neighbors, not to mention that having bird droppings on your porch is both unsightly and unhealthy. If it's the cat food that the birds are going after, try moving the cat food farther away from your house. Good luck.

[Medusa]

Most people hate animals and don't want to bother with them.

Please refrain from making a generalized statement like that. It just is not true. Some people, perhaps, but not most.