Unfortunately, they didn’t do it soon enough, and she gave birth to a second litter. After her first litter, they decided to get her spayed. A kitten herself, she gave birth to four kittens, two of which live with us. In their eyes, she wasn’t their cat, but they also didn’t want to see her go hungry.
Our own two kittens were the result of someone feeding a stray without spaying or vaccinating her. I don’t like to see any animal die, but I also don’t like seeing people willfully contribute to the problem instead of being part of the solution. I wasn’t aware that humane euthanasia, as awful as it may sound, was so horrible in comparison to adding to the population of intact, unvaccinated homeless cats. 1 reason people give me when they feed these stray/feral cats is that they don’t want to see them go to the shelter because they "know what will happen there.” A few cats attract a few more, and the offspring of these strays are considered feral. Many of these cats end up as strays, scavenging for food and reproducing if they are able. Many people think it’s OK to let cats just roam around the neighborhood, intact or not. They start with someone letting their intact cat roam and produce kittens. Most of them were too wild and/or sick to ever be put up for adoption.Ĭolonies aren’t random. Finally, under threat of citations, the woman consented to having the colony removed by animal control. The colony was reported several times, but the woman would destroy or tamper with the traps that animal control set out. They were also anemic from being severely infested with fleas.
Without proper vetting, they were sickly and diseased and at risk for contracting and transmitting rabies. The limited gene pool resulted in kittens with missing eyes, ears, and limbs. To give the woman credit, she did trap and neuter a couple of them, but the rest continued to add to the population.
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