This goes out to all of the fuckers that abandon their cats!! You have no idea what trauma these poor creatures go through because of your actions. There are many, many stories, but here’s just one:
You abandon your cat and leave it behind when you move. It was a female that hadn’t been spayed. So she gets pregnant, gives birth in an old shed, and only two of her kittens live. Now there are two kittens trying to make it on their own. Then that shed is torn down and they have no shelter at all.
I move into the neighbourhood and hear about their plight, and build a shelter for them. But by then they are over a year old, and are feral cats who trust no one.
Fast forward 6 years… one of the boys disappeared 3 years ago, and I assume he has died because the last time I saw him he had a terrible wound above his left eye. And now his brother has a broken leg and is hiding under my shed, terrified to come out. If I can’t rescue him, he may also die because of his injury.
I fucking HATE you, HATE you, HATE you!!! You are cruel and I wish someone would have abandoned your ass and left you to fend for yourself!! —I’m So Fucking Filled with Rage
This article appears in Mar 29 – Apr 4, 2012.
It is disgusting OP. My former room mate rescued a couple of kittens who were abandoned, kittens! Not even full blown cats. I don’t know how anyone could do something like that.
Another friend of mine took in a cat from the street. You can tell he had been domesticated, he was de-clawed and fixed and everything. It’s a crying shame.
http://canada.myletsadopt.com/wp-content/u…
Halifax has a TNR program (Trap, Neuter, Release) programme going: http://citykitties.org/find-help/feral-cat…
TNR is an effective programme, and my formerly feral cat, Alice is a graduate (as was her husband and children, who have passed away)
i can’t imagine doing to an animal. I love my cat so much i just want to put down the people that do this.
yeah op.. i’m totally with you on this one.
You CAN lure a feral.. it takes a lot of patience and loving coaxing but you can befriend them. I’ve done it.. it takes time though 🙂 Best time is winter when tempting treats and a steamy-warm house are bigger temptations than in the hot summer when strays are kings of the city.
Keep doing what you’re doing OP. I could never imagine leaving my three girls behind. They’re my best friends.
What is a real pisser is that these knuckle draggers will go out and get other pets, get bored with them and abandon them or abuse them. These fucktards can’t even look after themselves let alone a pet.
Both of my cats just showed up on my back door. Found out later one of them came from some batshit old hag up the street who was keeping 30 in her house. She took her ‘favourites’ and ran out on her rent, left the rest behind with an open kitchen window.
He has already been trapped, neutered, and released back here about 3 years ago. I have his trust, but he still doesn’t come too close after all of these years. His brother eventually did. After 2 years I was even able to pet him. I have been a volunteer with feral cat programs for years, so I know what I’m doing. 🙂
I’m just so angry and needed to vent!! My poor boy is injured and under my shed and I just wish I could scoop him up and bring him to the vet asap. I worry about him constantly and have gotten very liitle sleep in the past week. This story doesn’t end after he sees the vet. He’ll need a lot of help while he recovers. I have a lot of connections so I hope I can arrange for his care and he’ll come back from this ok.
Oh, and I love the photo link paingirl. Thanks!
I adopted an abandoned kitten. He was so traumatized from his experiences on his own (a few weeks, only, but he was found covered in transmission fluid under a car) that he was a HUGE ASSHOLE for the duration of his life.
When I moved from the valley, i brought him with me, but he was SOOOOOO upset being in a new place that I had to take him back to live with my dad. It was ok, though, and for the best because my dad was his “person” — he loved dad from the second he met him, and was a jerk to everyone else. He would bite me, stalk me, and basically be a jerk to me, but he would cuddle up to dad under the covers in bed and purr, and he would sit on dad’s shoulder and watch TV with him and he was basically a big sook for my dad. So I essentially gave him to my dad and they were both happier for it.
Just goes to show you that sometimes, a cat’s early life can really scar them.
For Molly, for instance — her mother died when she was a week old (if that). Ragamuffins are supposed to be with their mother for 16 weeks, instead of the normal 8 weeks because of the socialization issue. So when I adopted her (she picked me because she read the words ‘sucker’ right on my forehead) she kinda got the idea that I’m her real mommy. She treats me as such and for the first year of her life she would suck her tail. Even now she thinks I’m a cat like her and tries to wash me. And when I’m not in the same room she cries her face off.
Oscar’s from the same litter, but he’s kinda too dumb to realize his mommy died.
The exact same thing happened with our cat kitty. She latched onto my girlfriend when we got her and absolutely freaks if she leaves the room without her noticing
you’re welcome bwn, that was a new one for me. i got a whole passle of those types of images http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DmcPRw93q3c/TkBn…
If you could take them somewhere & drop them off for free, like a stir fry wok place..ok..ok..or even some place you cat freaks approve of. Then it probably wouldn’t be such a big deal. But I heard that the shelters charge you to drop off a cat, is this true ? If it is & yer hardup for cash no wonder they are abandoned.
When I was a kid & a batch of kittens came along that were unwanted, you either drowned them or twisted their little necks. In rural Antigonish where my clans from & I spent many a summer & Cape Breton where I’m from, we had cats out in the barn to keep down vermin & we fed them hard food, gave them some milk right from the cow, but they killed & ate mice & rats …but I don’t remember the cats being allowed in the house.
Animals may abandon their young because they are animals. For humans to abandon amimals, they are not human.
unempathetic…that is not a real word
i have said a gazillion times before, if you get an animal, make sure you can fucking care for it. yes, i know the anger and hate you feel, but sometimes better off abandoned, than to still be with a heartless fucking douchebag owner. some can fair quite well on their own, these ferel cats, come and go when and where they want to. the only problem is that they either become roadkill, or get pregnant, and have a whole new generation of semi wild cats.
And what has happened to both of my feral boys is also a problem…a very sad one, and a very common one. Only most people don’t know about what happens to feral cats.
BWN, good on you. You might have to trap the boy to get him to the vet’s…
I had a kitty once who was taken away too early. It would ‘nurse’ my neck while I was sleeping, and I’d wake up with little kitty hickies!
we have a calico runt, that would knead my hair all night. made for some great bed head
*had* she lived to be eighteen and is buried in my pet semetary