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CRAZY CAT LADY!

We have a major cat problem on our street. This woman keeps her garage door cracked open, keeps food and water inside and lets the cats roam the streets. They're strays, they're not her cats.

They crawl under our house, they poop in our yard, sleep on our car, they keep having more and more kittens.... it's out of control. 

Is there someone I can call so this woman will stop?! We've tried talking to her, but she says "she can't just stop feeding them. They'll starve." Ugh. 

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  • If they are strays, then you should contact a no-kill shelter that would humanely trap the cats and spay/neuter them. I'm not sure who that would be, but you could call around.

    I get frustrated with the people in my neighborhood that have cats that roam. They have homes, but they are allowed to roam and we live near a very busy street. I just don't understand it.

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  • If they are still operating Free to Live would be a good one.  I think that is where H got our cat.
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  • Yeah, I've called those places before when I found stray dogs. It seems like they're always full and can't help me.
  • imagetavia_martin:

    We have a major cat problem on our street. This woman keeps her garage door cracked open, keeps food and water inside and lets the cats roam the streets. They're strays, they're not her cats.

    They crawl under our house, they poop in our yard, sleep on our car, they keep having more and more kittens.... it's out of control. 

    Is there someone I can call so this woman will stop?! We've tried talking to her, but she says "she can't just stop feeding them. They'll starve." Ugh. 

    My mom does this too--a stray comes onto her back porch (thank goodness she found homes for all but one of them, and she is now my mom's cat) but whenever they came around she would get them spayed/neutered at the vet, tested for disease, and then treat them all with heartworm and flea meds. Tavia, you should totally spend this month's savings hacking off the balls of all of the cats on your street. ;) totally kidding...I don't know what I would do.
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  • OMG, your mom is an angel. I was just going to get it all over with and set out some anti-freeze.

    kidding. 

     

     

  • We have a neighbor who lets their one cat roam...  I get super pissed when I find cat turds in my flower bed.  I would see if you can find some sort of a rescue (I know nothing about cat rescues) and see if they can bring out some traps.  At the minimum they would speuter them so there wouldn't be any more kittens. 
  • we had tons and tons of cats in our old neighborhood that didn't belong to anyone but everyone fed them so they didn't go anywhere.  I called some places, but no one would do anything except put them down which I didn't want.

    There was a place that would spay/neuter them for like $35 or something, but we weren't paying for all those cats to get fixed.

    It totally sucks and I don't think there is anything you can do about it.  Sorry, sister!

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  • imageShansBride:

    we had tons and tons of cats in our old neighborhood that didn't belong to anyone but everyone fed them so they didn't go anywhere.  I called some places, but no one would do anything except put them down which I didn't want.

    There was a place that would spay/neuter them for like $35 or something, but we weren't paying for all those cats to get fixed.

    It totally sucks and I don't think there is anything you can do about it.  Sorry, sister!

    Just another reason to move, huh? ..... Stick out tongue

  • imagetavia_martin:
    imageShansBride:

    we had tons and tons of cats in our old neighborhood that didn't belong to anyone but everyone fed them so they didn't go anywhere.  I called some places, but no one would do anything except put them down which I didn't want.

    There was a place that would spay/neuter them for like $35 or something, but we weren't paying for all those cats to get fixed.

    It totally sucks and I don't think there is anything you can do about it.  Sorry, sister!

    Just another reason to move, huh? ..... Stick out tongue

    yep :)  just make sure you check out your new neighbors and make sure none of them like cats!

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