There's this cat that's been hanging around the dorms as of late and some of my friends brought her in just because we really shouldn't! Well yesterday morning(like around 6am) the cat jumped through my window(or someone put her in the window) and I fed her and watered her and groomed her. I was gone all day but left the window open for her. I didn't see her until this afternoon just appearing from under the parked car next to the college dorms. So I picked her up and snucked her into my window lol and fed her and gave her water.
Next week school will be out and I'll be getting an apt. that doesn't accept pets so should I:
Let her loose or give her to the humane society?
2007-05-02 09:38:06 · 22 answers · asked by Butterfly 1 in Pets ➔ Cats
In case you don't know already we aren't supposed to have animals in the dorms lol.
2007-05-02 09:38:30 · update #1
Neither. Try and find her a home. The lesser of two evils is to let her loose. She may even belong to someone that allows her outside.
If you take her to a kill shelter they will euthanize her. There are way TOO MANY kittens born this time of year for her to have any chance of being adopted.
2007-05-02 09:45:20 · answer #1 · answered by chicki 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Here is another take...I had a sweet little kitty show up. She ran in my house like she lived here. Since she was a stray??? I put her back out. She was so skinny I fed and watered her. Next thing I know she is in my back yard which has a 7' wood fence. She just would not leave. I couldn't find any one to claim her. She was finally taken to the Humane Society because I have 2 indoor kitties already. (They would all fight through the glass doors so I knew she couldn't stay.) The Humane Society found a micro chip on her. She was a very long way from her owners. They have been reunited. I vote for the Humane Society. Some of them never euthanize animals
2007-05-02 12:38:18 · answer #2 · answered by MsHeart 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try to find a no kill shelter for them. You can look at www.petfinder.com. You can look under shelters and type in your zip code, then take the cat there.
College students buy cats and then let them lose at the end of the year. Cats stay there because of food dumped out and such. The university by my house has the largest feral cat population in town - the humane society comes to spay/neuter and then lets them go. They sadly don't have the space to accommodate all the cats, so they just make sure they can't reproduce.
2007-05-02 10:23:37 · answer #3 · answered by rainy_creek_blazer 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The humane society is defiently your best choice. Most stray animals dont last more than a few months in the wild as they are domestic and forget how to hunt.
If you feel fine letting the cat into the wild, urban or suburban then you have a much harder heart than I. Because there is no way I would never be able to pull that off >.>
2007-05-02 09:48:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If she seems to be actively seeking out the company of humans, your best bet is to find her a home (if you have time) or bring her to a no-kill shelter. A stray animal will generally want to be around people. If she were truly feral, she probably wouldn't want anything to do with you. Stray animals need people to take care of them. Though they can eke out an existance without human help, she'll be much better off if she has a home and someone to love her.
2007-05-02 10:13:09 · answer #5 · answered by Demon 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No matter what, make sure she's spayed. Most vets will give a voucher for a discount/free spaying. If you can't find a home for her yourself, then only give her to a no kill shelter. There's nothing more awful than a perfectly healthy, sweet cat being killed just because someone felt obligated to take her to a shelter.
2007-05-02 09:47:28 · answer #6 · answered by rachaelisme 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-14 09:18:56 · answer #7 · answered by doloris 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She might have a home near by. I'd take her to the humane society. That way if her family is missing her they can go get her. And if she is a stray, then they'll help her find a new family.
2007-05-02 10:17:47 · answer #8 · answered by nokhada5 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Let's look at it this way.
You could either find her a home or let the Humane Society do it or you could let her loose to possibly get hit by a car, be tortured or killed by dogs.
Which do you think would be the more responsible thing to do for this baby?
2007-05-02 10:12:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Humane Society...give her the chance to find a loving family
2007-05-02 09:45:56 · answer #10 · answered by mary2148 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋