hello! thanks for reading! so my problem is this: In the last year or two, my neighbourhood has been growing a stray cat population.All our neighbours feed them and they live at our house. All started out as kittens but two, and they have grown, and now there's a new momma with kittens. Their eyes are open, but they're pretty small, as is the momma. I'd like to catch them and domesticate them, or even just spay them. any ideas that work as to how to catch them without hurting them? we don't mind them, and don't want them put down, but these ones would make good pets. thanks soooo much! please hurry!
2007-09-18 18:37:31 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Cats
Guru doesn't understand the reality of stray cats and the lives they live.
Yes, catch the cats - the humane society usually has rental live traps, you put down a deposit, take the trap, catch the cat in it and when you return the trap to them you get your deposit back so it's 'free'. Our humane society said $50 was the down payment, which basically is the cost of buying a new trap if someone doesn't return it. They use raccoon traps because they're long enough so the cats don't get their tails crushed when the door comes down. The traps cost between $40 and $50 at the farm supply stores.
Get the cats in to be spayed and neutered. Your humane society may even have a FREE TNR (trap neuter spay release) program that can do it for you. If they do, they usually also deworm, de-flea, microchip and give a checkup to every one of the cats when they have them there, so they're good to go.
Most outdoor cats in a city don't live past 2 years unless they're very lucky. Getting them off the street and into a home is a good idea. Putting food and a water bowl out is good too. I feed the strays here and I go through an $8 bag of cat food (18 pounds) a month. And I use a heated water bowl in winter, and two regular ones in summer. It helps them so much to have a reliable food supply available.
2007-09-19 12:36:58 · answer #1 · answered by Elaine M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stray cats and house cats are totally different. Stray cats don't have an owner so they don't know better. They can content rabies from animals. You don't get effected from a house cat's hair if it goes in your mouth. I've done that a lot. Nothing happened. Just make sure the cat doesn't have rabies, or has a disease.
2016-05-18 02:50:37 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So what if their population grows? I live in an apartment and have a single cat. I regret not having two and also regret not giving the poor girl a chance to ever be a mother. Its too late since my cat is now a senior cat and is still aggressive in protecting her territory. Here's what I do. I leave a bowl full of cat chow in the backyard of my inlaws house. Some of the strays from the neighborhood frequent there and I am glad that I am able to atleast provide them a meal if nothing more. There are people that will tell you what not to do. But the truth is one has to only follow their heart. Remember that you are not the one that decides whether or not to put them down. If God gave them birth, they will be provided for. You should only strive to do your part in helping to raise them and nothing more. We should not be the ones dictating their life. Since they are already born, they will fend for themselves. Just enjoy the beauty of life. Afterall they do control the mice population in the neighborhood and are sort of like unsung heroes who don't get credit for the same.
2007-09-18 19:17:34 · answer #3 · answered by GURU S 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Tiffany, please please ignore everything that "Guru S" has said because they obviously do not have a clue about the wild and homeless cat population problem. Please do your best to catch these cats and kittens, like with a humane trap, and get them spayed asap. You are doing the right thing. I work at a homeless cat shelter and in my city alone (which is not even a very big city) we have to put down 15,000 cats a year. Yes, Guru S, fifteen thousand and God and nobody else "provides" for these animals. They are cold, starving and unwanted. Anyone that is trying to do a good thing and save anymore unwanted kittens is a star in my book.
2007-09-18 21:37:19 · answer #4 · answered by garty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
See if you can borrow a humane trap from the local shelter. Where I live they will loan them out.
2007-09-18 18:47:24 · answer #5 · answered by wherewhenwhatwhywho 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
set food out
2007-09-18 18:43:08 · answer #6 · answered by ♥FANCYS_MAMMA♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋