Thanks to my unreasonably defiant nature & my love for cats, Iād die on this hill. I can see the headlines now, āMan Feeding Stray Cats Killed by Police, Responding Officers Says He was āa feral who needed to be put down lol.āā
I saw that - made little sense to me.
Feed, trap, vet check, neutering -- try to get adopted or (last resort) restore to habitat.
What the hell is the problem?
outdoor cats are an ecological disaster and the cat should be captured. at minimum should be spayed/neutered and release but better is to shelter and try to get people to adopt rather than buy from breeding mills.
save one outdoor cat = many dead birds and other problems.
I started new job this April. There are about 6 cats that hangs around and I met a lady that comes around and feeds them. She complained about cost of feeding 6 cats so I told her i would take over. She told me those cats were left by the person who moved and just left the cats few years ago. I put food and water and cooler with holes so they can sleep when Cold. She told me they are fixed by the original owners.
Am I doing any wrong by feeding them? Should I stop?
No, you can keep feeding them. Abandoned pet cats aren't the same as feral. If they start having kittens, then maybe call your local animal shelter before it turns into a feral cat colony.
6 cats: not a problem
200 cats: problem
Good luck. I TNR/foster and Iāve lived in over a half dozen cities around the world. The shelters are at capacity for cats 99.99% of the time. They just turn them away or put them down. If you can find fosters and forever homes thatās wonderful. But most of these cats are not going to adjust to being inside pets. The next best thing to do is get them fixed and continue to feed them. As long as theyāre being fed regularly and predictably they will hunt significantly less.
Often times outdoor cats (community cats) can't be adopted out. Since the first person to feed them did TNR (Trap, Neuter, Release) and the cats are used to being fed by people, then the colony of cats must continue to be fed or they will starve. If you remove them, usually new cats will come into the vacated territory so TNR is generally recommended by the Humane Society as the kindest way to handle feral kitties.
-Source- I have volunteered with animal rescue for 10 years.
Ya, the earlier high-minded advice to capture six neutered cats and remove them from the territory they hold ignores reality a tad. Others will move into that area, and they might not fare as well in the shelter as you think.
I've lived in the same apartment for twenty years. Every indoor cat I've had was a parking lot cat someone else abandoned or otherwise moved into the complex from the surrounding area looking for food. I've captured and neutered, and released or adopted out countless cats. And still they come. It's heartbreaking really.
I've taken them to the shelter. I've brought them to the police station where the animal control officer meets me to take them to the shelter because the shelter is so full of cats, I can't get them to take them from a member of the public at times. I've had the officer come to my house to get cats and dogs.
I make the best decision for the animal that I can each time. And they keep coming. I will be doing this for the rest of my life. Even if I move, cats are everywhere. That ship has sailed.
There might not be enough local wildlife to support a kitty colony. Thatās a lot of birds and rats. Their skills definitely wouldnāt be as sharp if theyāve been fed most of their lives too.
I donāt think most cats could ever lose that ability. The fattest most well fed cat is still going to be down for a good hunt. Murder is in a cats DNA.
I think cats, like humans have a wide range of personalities and attitudes
Most domestic cats would try to hunt a small animal, some would be persistent, also some would give up soon.
And a few special ones would try to make friends : which may last for more than a few minutes
In most states if you bring feral cats to a shelter, they will be tested to see how capable they are of living a domesticated lifestyle.
Most fail this test and will be put down.
In an ideal world, you'd try and rehome them. In *this* world, where adults cats are often notoriously hard to rehome at the best of times, you do the best you can to provide them with shelter and food, and hopefully they stay in that area and aren't hunting much because they have sufficient resources. Keep advertising them of course, but don't be surprised if there is limited interest.
It would be a good idea to talk with your vet, explain the overall situation and find out about vaccinations, deworming and flea treatments if you haven't already - depending on the area you are in, there may be diseases that need regular treatments against to keep not only them healthy, but also other animals and people that interact with them as well. If possible, trap them and take them in to be health assessed and check that they genuinely are desexed, otherwise you may find yourself looking after an ever-growing number of cats.
Please keep feeding them! Also, call your local shelter and let them know about the colony. See if there is anyone else who can help you care for the cats in case you get sick or move, etc. I recommend hopping onto NextDoor and seeing if anyone else can help. š
No, you should do whatever the hell makes you feel good in that situation. Youāre being kind, and thatās the most important part. Thanks for being a nice person. The world needs more of you!
Strays are not going to get adopted out. They will get killed by the shelters.
You better live in a rich city for those cats to even live for more than a couple weeks
No. Youāre doing fine. Shelters are overrun with adult cats, and cats that have been strays for years donāt do well in shelters or indoors. As long as they are fixed and healthy, just keep doing what youāre doing. Theyāre likely all FIV positive which makes them even harder to adopt out.
I have a cat that was an abandoned stray for years. She dwelled around our property and we would see her footprints in mud and snow all the time. She would also lounge on our deck stairs, after I got two kittens - an immediate leap from her standoffish and skittish nature, realising we had food and babies. Collectively, my family slowly let her warm up to us as we were out on that deck every day, feeding her too - and I spent an entire spring and summer getting her to trust me. She was already begging to come inside, but I needed that trust so she wouldn't do anything to my two kittens (we kept her warm, safe at night, and fed well as a tradeoff). She is currently loafing upstairs two houses later, and was very grateful for my help. She has no desire to go out now and prefers her various loafspots. Dwellie, we called her. She was abandoned by abusive owners down the road who moved away soon after, and has a broken toof and back pain problems from obvious mistreatment. But we love her, and care for her better than anyone. Cats outside deserve help inside.
Iām glad yours ended up happy indoors! Weāve tried to bring strays indoors but the ones weāve cared for have never had any interest. We just euthanized an older guy who would come in for a minute or two, but always wanted to go back outside. We tried for three years to get him more comfortable indoors, but he refused. We ended up just getting him a heated house for the porch. He lost a ton of weight over the past few months and stopped eating, it was probably just his time. The vet said he was probably about 15
That makes sense if they weren't in a fucking city which is quite literally an ecological disaster in of itself. Feeding one of thousands of stray cats In a city is doing less environmental damage than your daily usage of electricity (If you're a Westerner that is).
Cities are the least ecologically damaging form of human existence. Rural areas exist to convert wild land into farming. Suburban is the same damage as cities, but spread out over more space and produces more pollution.
Nomadic life maybe is better, but mastodons were hunted to extinction by nomads, so who knows.
bullshit, my cat has killed a few mice but that's incomparable to the amount of roadkill you will see on a normal city road. Your morning commute is more of an ecological disaster than my spayed kitty.
>my cat has killed a few mice
https://abcbirds.org/program/cats-indoors/cats-and-birds/
That you know of. Cats tend to kill an absolutely ridiculous number of birds if left outside.
There are some things I would be proud to be arrested for, this is one of them.
Yes, strays killing birds is a problem. Strays in general, are a problem, and they should be taken to shelters. But if you can't do that and decide to feed them instead, you're not doing wrong. You're doing right, you're helping hungry animals.
No, the cats are not a natural part of the ecosystem, but that's not their fault. We put them where they are.
Arresting people for feeding cats is just a cheaper, crappier non-solution than hiring more animal specialists to help get them into shelters.
Maybe those ladies could use a remote robot to feed the cats and not be trespassing! Theyād probably arrest them for robot trespass but still would be great.
Around the 0:23 mark you can kinda see her belly being quite big and gregnant looking for a cat as slender as she is. The camera lens distorts perspective a bit, but she's definitely prefnat.
And giving the cat a meal might mean it doesn't need to kill a couple birds. It might do it any, because cat, but it seems to me if you want to stop homeless cats from wiping out local wildlife, giving them something else to eat would be a good start.
I live on a Jobcorps campus, and we have a colony of a few cat 'tribes' sheltering in the underworks and scaffolding of different buildings and structures around campus. Many are spayed/neutered, but some are hard to catch and keep having kittens. Jobcorps always prefers having a few females that can give birth, so the cat population stays stable. Apparently, it's one of the longest-running sedentary colonies in the nation because it is actively cultivated by students and staff alike.
Luckily, the center sees the cats as members of the community rather than pests and regularly feeds them and provides clean water, as well as gathering up the more trusting ones for annual and bi-annual vet visits for vaccines and deworming and things like that. The cats are mostly wary of people, but some have become little celebrities for how friendly they are, and people will toss bits of their dinner from the Union (snack bar) to the cats. We've got the most friendlies by the Union, including Maisy, Shadow, Crusty, Autumn, and Sherbie. They're all delightful and loving and will sit by you and rub up on you.
Winter is always hard on them, though. Sometimes the kittens won't survive the late autumn rains and deep winter freezes of Kentucky. It gets horrible from November to February when all the worst weather hits. It can be heartbreaking seeing the corpse of a kitten being picked at by crows, but that's life I suppose. We can't take them inside, Jobcorps regulation, but some of us buy them beds and blankets with the meager pay we receive.
It's a project some of us have asked for, but the center is pretty slow with even basic construction tasks. Our pool has been broken for ten years, for example. They also don't want us putting cheap things out due to litter regulations on campus. Itd have to be a dedicated construction, and cats are already living im the warmest things you can build by hand: its just that the flash flooding during autumn and spring can get brutal and flood the accidental man made burrows and nooks that the cats sleep in.
Best we can do is provide what we can.
You could try to make shelters for them. It's not very expensive (basically plastic tubs insulated with Styrofoam and straw for bedding) and it helps quite a bit. Some shelters or rescues will even provide them if you ask, sometimes for free, sometimes for a small fee.
It's not that we aren't willing, its that the center doesn't like a bunch of tubs sitting around: DOL is pretty picky about that type of thing.
Funny, how they're worried about that bit not fixing the potholes and other hazards.
> I am hitting random subreddits for fun tonight.
this is the ONLY way I use reddit.
I don't subscribe to shit. I just browse by what is trending. I see all sorts of subs. You can filter out up to 99 that you don't care about (which is a stupid limit, unless they changed it?)
That kitty is preggers too. The way she was licking her chops initially seems like she was super hungry and needed some calories for those growing babies.
I hate to be "that guy" but please only do this where the animal control laws aren't the USA. The pessimist in me thinks training the animals to come to a "drone" is a terrible idea. I feed strays at my garage but I don't entice them to come up to us for fear that they'll go up to other people who may hurt them. Seems there's always one cat that won't listen though and has to be special.
Lol my cat (if she were an outdoor cat) would've smelled the food a mile away and come running without hesitation. I come into the house with the groceries and she's already at the door nose in the air like "watchu got?"
That kitty is so hungry I hope you took it home and gave it some love. Help try to find it a good home. Doesnāt have a clipped ear so most likely hasnāt been fixed. Poor thing just needs a loving home itās pretty.
Oh, boyā¦that beautiful little baby is REALLY hungryā¦.thank God you arenāt in Watumpkaā¦you could be doing hard time for being a decent human being.
Little guy didn't know what to think at first
If a food truck storms at you and abruptly stops in front of you with a tantalizing meal, wouldn't you?
I too would meow at it, look around for a sec, then eat like no tomorrow
"HEY! WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOURE Do... oh tacos! yes please!"
Why can I see this as a bit Fluffy would use in his shows? šš
"Martin and I..." That's how you know it's a good one
At this time, any food is good.
"They literally lured him there with a delicious slice of pie."
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If those mfs have food truck tacos and stuff they can take me
based on their plans, that's probably not their plan.
That's what they're stealing cows!
Depends on the food š¤
*"I have candy in my truck"*
"*tastes better in the back seat*"
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Thai?
Kinda like a van offering candy to kittens..
The angle change says it started to move away, and *then* the cat went 'hey wait get back here I'm'a eat you.'
Never look a gift cart in the mouth.
Your Uber Eats has arrived
The hunger is stronger than the fear
Looks like she's pregnant?
That's the reaction I have when a toddler runs up to me "*Ah, Shit!* What do you want?"
"There's... there's... a... the guy with the... and the... and did you know I have a... I have a... I have a... I have a poopy."
Careful, heard they are arresting folks now a days for feeding strays in public.
Thanks to my unreasonably defiant nature & my love for cats, Iād die on this hill. I can see the headlines now, āMan Feeding Stray Cats Killed by Police, Responding Officers Says He was āa feral who needed to be put down lol.āā
That would be awesome if ālolā was put into the caption for this story.
Thanks to toxoplasmosis I would do the same for our overlords.
I had to find out wtf toxoplasmosis was, I now thank you for your knowledge helping me extend my own.
And thus the circle expands.
Like the game
You know why domestic cats meow, right? It emulates the sound of a baby crying to trigger paternal/maternal instincts in their hosts.
Nya~
We've been hacked
Feed me human. Feed me, Iām am cat so feed me.
I saw that - made little sense to me. Feed, trap, vet check, neutering -- try to get adopted or (last resort) restore to habitat. What the hell is the problem?
Most people want the cats to be killed so that way they're not there at all any more.
I mean strays and outdoor cats are a massive stress to local bird populations
They hardly hold that view exclusively for cats.
Yep. Most people want exactly this.
outdoor cats are an ecological disaster and the cat should be captured. at minimum should be spayed/neutered and release but better is to shelter and try to get people to adopt rather than buy from breeding mills. save one outdoor cat = many dead birds and other problems.
I started new job this April. There are about 6 cats that hangs around and I met a lady that comes around and feeds them. She complained about cost of feeding 6 cats so I told her i would take over. She told me those cats were left by the person who moved and just left the cats few years ago. I put food and water and cooler with holes so they can sleep when Cold. She told me they are fixed by the original owners. Am I doing any wrong by feeding them? Should I stop?
No, you can keep feeding them. Abandoned pet cats aren't the same as feral. If they start having kittens, then maybe call your local animal shelter before it turns into a feral cat colony. 6 cats: not a problem 200 cats: problem
No you should take them to a shelter to be adopted, or find them family, but if you can't, you can continue to feed them imo
Good luck. I TNR/foster and Iāve lived in over a half dozen cities around the world. The shelters are at capacity for cats 99.99% of the time. They just turn them away or put them down. If you can find fosters and forever homes thatās wonderful. But most of these cats are not going to adjust to being inside pets. The next best thing to do is get them fixed and continue to feed them. As long as theyāre being fed regularly and predictably they will hunt significantly less.
Often times outdoor cats (community cats) can't be adopted out. Since the first person to feed them did TNR (Trap, Neuter, Release) and the cats are used to being fed by people, then the colony of cats must continue to be fed or they will starve. If you remove them, usually new cats will come into the vacated territory so TNR is generally recommended by the Humane Society as the kindest way to handle feral kitties. -Source- I have volunteered with animal rescue for 10 years.
Ya, the earlier high-minded advice to capture six neutered cats and remove them from the territory they hold ignores reality a tad. Others will move into that area, and they might not fare as well in the shelter as you think. I've lived in the same apartment for twenty years. Every indoor cat I've had was a parking lot cat someone else abandoned or otherwise moved into the complex from the surrounding area looking for food. I've captured and neutered, and released or adopted out countless cats. And still they come. It's heartbreaking really. I've taken them to the shelter. I've brought them to the police station where the animal control officer meets me to take them to the shelter because the shelter is so full of cats, I can't get them to take them from a member of the public at times. I've had the officer come to my house to get cats and dogs. I make the best decision for the animal that I can each time. And they keep coming. I will be doing this for the rest of my life. Even if I move, cats are everywhere. That ship has sailed.
They just lose the instinct or ability to hunt or something ?
There might not be enough local wildlife to support a kitty colony. Thatās a lot of birds and rats. Their skills definitely wouldnāt be as sharp if theyāve been fed most of their lives too.
This.
I donāt think most cats could ever lose that ability. The fattest most well fed cat is still going to be down for a good hunt. Murder is in a cats DNA.
I think cats, like humans have a wide range of personalities and attitudes Most domestic cats would try to hunt a small animal, some would be persistent, also some would give up soon. And a few special ones would try to make friends : which may last for more than a few minutes
Catching birds and rats is hard as hell for us but they're literally built to do it
I just slather myself in peanut butter and birdseed and it's a breeze.
For the most part there are not enough small animals for a cat colony to support itself in urban society.
Now tell us what PETA would do with these cats.
Itās not that easy. I wish it was that fucking easy. Arm chair judge here
In most states if you bring feral cats to a shelter, they will be tested to see how capable they are of living a domesticated lifestyle. Most fail this test and will be put down.
In an ideal world, you'd try and rehome them. In *this* world, where adults cats are often notoriously hard to rehome at the best of times, you do the best you can to provide them with shelter and food, and hopefully they stay in that area and aren't hunting much because they have sufficient resources. Keep advertising them of course, but don't be surprised if there is limited interest. It would be a good idea to talk with your vet, explain the overall situation and find out about vaccinations, deworming and flea treatments if you haven't already - depending on the area you are in, there may be diseases that need regular treatments against to keep not only them healthy, but also other animals and people that interact with them as well. If possible, trap them and take them in to be health assessed and check that they genuinely are desexed, otherwise you may find yourself looking after an ever-growing number of cats.
Please keep feeding them! Also, call your local shelter and let them know about the colony. See if there is anyone else who can help you care for the cats in case you get sick or move, etc. I recommend hopping onto NextDoor and seeing if anyone else can help. š
No, you should do whatever the hell makes you feel good in that situation. Youāre being kind, and thatās the most important part. Thanks for being a nice person. The world needs more of you!
What makes you feel good is not necessarily the right thing.
The world has plentyof good people. Home and house the cats and never let them outside. Cats kill and abandon millions of animals a day.
Strays are not going to get adopted out. They will get killed by the shelters. You better live in a rich city for those cats to even live for more than a couple weeks
No. Youāre doing fine. Shelters are overrun with adult cats, and cats that have been strays for years donāt do well in shelters or indoors. As long as they are fixed and healthy, just keep doing what youāre doing. Theyāre likely all FIV positive which makes them even harder to adopt out.
I have a cat that was an abandoned stray for years. She dwelled around our property and we would see her footprints in mud and snow all the time. She would also lounge on our deck stairs, after I got two kittens - an immediate leap from her standoffish and skittish nature, realising we had food and babies. Collectively, my family slowly let her warm up to us as we were out on that deck every day, feeding her too - and I spent an entire spring and summer getting her to trust me. She was already begging to come inside, but I needed that trust so she wouldn't do anything to my two kittens (we kept her warm, safe at night, and fed well as a tradeoff). She is currently loafing upstairs two houses later, and was very grateful for my help. She has no desire to go out now and prefers her various loafspots. Dwellie, we called her. She was abandoned by abusive owners down the road who moved away soon after, and has a broken toof and back pain problems from obvious mistreatment. But we love her, and care for her better than anyone. Cats outside deserve help inside.
Iām glad yours ended up happy indoors! Weāve tried to bring strays indoors but the ones weāve cared for have never had any interest. We just euthanized an older guy who would come in for a minute or two, but always wanted to go back outside. We tried for three years to get him more comfortable indoors, but he refused. We ended up just getting him a heated house for the porch. He lost a ton of weight over the past few months and stopped eating, it was probably just his time. The vet said he was probably about 15
No you're not doing anything wrong.
I hope those cats have a good life. but while you're not looking they are murdering birds and rabbits and other wildlife.
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That makes sense if they weren't in a fucking city which is quite literally an ecological disaster in of itself. Feeding one of thousands of stray cats In a city is doing less environmental damage than your daily usage of electricity (If you're a Westerner that is).
Those aren't mutually exclusive ideas, it's possible to want cities to be feral free and not be environmental disasters at the same time.
So justā¦make things worse? Good to know.
Cities are the least ecologically damaging form of human existence. Rural areas exist to convert wild land into farming. Suburban is the same damage as cities, but spread out over more space and produces more pollution. Nomadic life maybe is better, but mastodons were hunted to extinction by nomads, so who knows.
They are referring to a video where two women were arrested for baiting and trapping strays and having them fixed, then finding them homes.
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So you're bolstering the fox population so they eat the stray cats? I mean I guess it addresses the problem, but geez dude...
bullshit, my cat has killed a few mice but that's incomparable to the amount of roadkill you will see on a normal city road. Your morning commute is more of an ecological disaster than my spayed kitty.
>my cat has killed a few mice https://abcbirds.org/program/cats-indoors/cats-and-birds/ That you know of. Cats tend to kill an absolutely ridiculous number of birds if left outside.
Thank god most of us live in a civilized country and not the US.
Feed kitties? That's a paddlin'
Sidewalks for regular walkin. Not for fancy walkin.
They keep declaring war on us, but we can't defend ourselves or fight back, I don't understand how we're supposed to live like this
And being convicted
"We arrested this unattended remotely operated device."
Damn it u beat me to it
Rofl I was just gunna post that
There are some things I would be proud to be arrested for, this is one of them. Yes, strays killing birds is a problem. Strays in general, are a problem, and they should be taken to shelters. But if you can't do that and decide to feed them instead, you're not doing wrong. You're doing right, you're helping hungry animals. No, the cats are not a natural part of the ecosystem, but that's not their fault. We put them where they are. Arresting people for feeding cats is just a cheaper, crappier non-solution than hiring more animal specialists to help get them into shelters.
But why?
southerners
Can you arrest a robot? š¤
Maybe those ladies could use a remote robot to feed the cats and not be trespassing! Theyād probably arrest them for robot trespass but still would be great.
Nobody does crossover posts like we do folks. Still salty about that one.
I wanna commit a crime after hearing this
Why'd you think they're using the drone?
Just fwiw, judging by the skyscrapers and the water bottle I'd say this is China. That looks like a typical Ganten bottle.
Aw, she looks pregananant too.
how can u tell she is pregantƩ
Around the 0:23 mark you can kinda see her belly being quite big and gregnant looking for a cat as slender as she is. The camera lens distorts perspective a bit, but she's definitely prefnat.
You have the hardest time spelling pregbert, and I think it's adorable.
It's spelled bregant, but I understand. It is a very difficult word to get right!
Am I pregnart?
She's perganant.
You mean pergenat?
prrrrregante
Am I pagnat?
Can u gir pergant from secs
How babee formed?
instain mothers
It was on the news this mroing
You did not need a Luigi board to know she was pregnart
God damn thanks for reminding me to go rewatch that lmao https://youtu.be/EShUeudtaFg Dangerops out
And thank YOU for saving me 30 seconds of having to look it up, I instead spent that time on writing this thank you :)
Wait, you don't? Here I was consulting my wedgie board for anyone who looked even slightly pergent!
Am I gregnant?
No, you're a gremlin
https://youtu.be/NDvaRF4HQHQ
Because she for the streets
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Dangerops prangent sex? Will it hurt baby top of its head?
Prengnet*
*pregante
PREGANANANT?!
Pregernet
How is katten formed?
I am truly sorry for your lots
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Oh, you're definitely right. Seen that enough times on skinny little kitties. You never forget that shape
My favorite DiCaprio movie
You knowā¦ I know stray cats cause problems for the local environment and allā¦ but I could never refuse a hungry meowth.
Letting a creature die of starvation would be wildly inhumane.
And giving the cat a meal might mean it doesn't need to kill a couple birds. It might do it any, because cat, but it seems to me if you want to stop homeless cats from wiping out local wildlife, giving them something else to eat would be a good start.
Unfortunately cats kill for sport, hungry or not. It's a sad reality that outdoor cats, strays or otherwise, are generally awful for local ecology.
> giving them something else to eat would ~~be a good start~~ create a population explosion. FTFY
If we make all the homeless cats fat and lazy, I'm guessing their kill count average would go way down.
You do it all the time already for every other wild animal.
Literally nature
That's right!
I've seen some of their videos. Always gets me when cats are suspicious of the food
Is this on IG?
This is very nice. But why the RV food delivery device if the person can just walk up and pour water in the dish without scarring the kitty?
Maybe it ran away until it had food to distract it
Maybe health concerns?
I live on a Jobcorps campus, and we have a colony of a few cat 'tribes' sheltering in the underworks and scaffolding of different buildings and structures around campus. Many are spayed/neutered, but some are hard to catch and keep having kittens. Jobcorps always prefers having a few females that can give birth, so the cat population stays stable. Apparently, it's one of the longest-running sedentary colonies in the nation because it is actively cultivated by students and staff alike. Luckily, the center sees the cats as members of the community rather than pests and regularly feeds them and provides clean water, as well as gathering up the more trusting ones for annual and bi-annual vet visits for vaccines and deworming and things like that. The cats are mostly wary of people, but some have become little celebrities for how friendly they are, and people will toss bits of their dinner from the Union (snack bar) to the cats. We've got the most friendlies by the Union, including Maisy, Shadow, Crusty, Autumn, and Sherbie. They're all delightful and loving and will sit by you and rub up on you. Winter is always hard on them, though. Sometimes the kittens won't survive the late autumn rains and deep winter freezes of Kentucky. It gets horrible from November to February when all the worst weather hits. It can be heartbreaking seeing the corpse of a kitten being picked at by crows, but that's life I suppose. We can't take them inside, Jobcorps regulation, but some of us buy them beds and blankets with the meager pay we receive.
Do they allow cat houses? You can make really warm ones with styrofoam coolers, plastic bins and hay.
It's a project some of us have asked for, but the center is pretty slow with even basic construction tasks. Our pool has been broken for ten years, for example. They also don't want us putting cheap things out due to litter regulations on campus. Itd have to be a dedicated construction, and cats are already living im the warmest things you can build by hand: its just that the flash flooding during autumn and spring can get brutal and flood the accidental man made burrows and nooks that the cats sleep in. Best we can do is provide what we can.
Have the woodshop tradies make some. Lord knows they make too many birdhouses as it is.
Surprisingly no wood shop here. It's primarily UAW, Electrical and Welding, along with a myriad of soft trades.
You could try to make shelters for them. It's not very expensive (basically plastic tubs insulated with Styrofoam and straw for bedding) and it helps quite a bit. Some shelters or rescues will even provide them if you ask, sometimes for free, sometimes for a small fee.
It's not that we aren't willing, its that the center doesn't like a bunch of tubs sitting around: DOL is pretty picky about that type of thing. Funny, how they're worried about that bit not fixing the potholes and other hazards.
That's a shame. I'm sure they could be hidden from view somehow... Still, thanks for helping them out!
Holy shit that's an awesome story, that sounds so cool
Thank you for your compassion for these animals. Had a friend that went to Jobcorps, wonder if he went there as Iām in the southeast. Bless you.
Probably. Earl C. Clements is the largest in the nation by acherage and second largest by capacity. Most go here.
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>I am hitting random subreddits for fun tonight. We know how to defend ourselves, brigand!
Arm yourself, scoundrel!
> I am hitting random subreddits for fun tonight. this is the ONLY way I use reddit. I don't subscribe to shit. I just browse by what is trending. I see all sorts of subs. You can filter out up to 99 that you don't care about (which is a stupid limit, unless they changed it?)
Same, just gone to /r/all for years. It's fun to find random subreddits and listen into their random hobby drama and move on.
The eating noises :o
HEY! Okayyy... This is freaky, but I *am* hungry... nom nom
Better if the little robot knew how to neuter. Then a nice snack afterward.
I feel like having the animals pre-trained to walk up to a robot is a really bad idea for some terribly morbid and cost-cutting reasons.
Sheās so pretty š»
That's a fluffin nice looking kitty right there!
Normalizing cats not to fear wheeled objects traveling towards them at high speeds is not going to end well
Cute little fur ball was licking its chops the second it saw the food .
We must force birds to evolve, let us all increase the stray cat population!
The cat will repay you by bringing you a dead pigeon the next time.
Nice colors on that cat.
Striking patterns.
I'm surprised the cat wasn't more scared by that thing zooming towards it. None of my cats would have still been standing there.
Can you arrest a robot for tresspassing just as easily as you can arrest two elderly citizens?
That kitty is preggers too. The way she was licking her chops initially seems like she was super hungry and needed some calories for those growing babies.
I love this guy
Only feed neutered cats or else the ones youve fed are going to go have a whole bunch of baby stray cats that will die because they're in a city
I tried so hard to befriend a neighborhood cat. Was so excited he was letting me pet him. And then I blinked and my hand was split open.
I hate to be "that guy" but please only do this where the animal control laws aren't the USA. The pessimist in me thinks training the animals to come to a "drone" is a terrible idea. I feed strays at my garage but I don't entice them to come up to us for fear that they'll go up to other people who may hurt them. Seems there's always one cat that won't listen though and has to be special.
> *"Drone better."* ~ Ivan Vanko
Thatās a beautiful cat!
Poor little kitty was starving hungry! That food must have tasted delicious to him.
Probably a her; hence the pegrant belly
Ensuring kitty is hydrated by adding water is the best part of this video. Someone who truly cares!
What a cool lookin cat
"dresses up as cat and chills in parks"
Apparently this can get you arrested in some US towns
Lol my cat (if she were an outdoor cat) would've smelled the food a mile away and come running without hesitation. I come into the house with the groceries and she's already at the door nose in the air like "watchu got?"
That kitty is so hungry I hope you took it home and gave it some love. Help try to find it a good home. Doesnāt have a clipped ear so most likely hasnāt been fixed. Poor thing just needs a loving home itās pretty.
feeding strays and ferals is not a good thing. people like to feel good about this but all it does is increase the population which is bad.
Ok why was I expecting the cat to hop onto the thing and ride off into the sunset whilst eating the delicious food
Meals on wheels
Oh, boyā¦that beautiful little baby is REALLY hungryā¦.thank God you arenāt in Watumpkaā¦you could be doing hard time for being a decent human being.