My 20-year-old TNR colony has been under threat for the last couple of months. My cat-hating next-door neighbor suddenly decided she didn't want the cats around anymore and hired a rogue Wildlife lady to trap the colony cats and take them to the County Animal Shelter to be euthanized. I didn't learn what was going on until another neighbor's pet cat got swept up in the trapping.
8 of the younger cats got trapped since I only trap with a drop trap and the Wildlife person was using a regular humane trap that my cats knew nothing about. At first, the County Animal Shelter wasn't helping but eventually, they remembered my Colony and began helping.
All the cats trapped are now home, but another neighbor, emboldened by the first neighbor, started trapping and sending them to the SPCA. Since the SPCA doesn't cover our area, it takes time for these cats to get sent back to the correct county shelter. (These poor cats!! I feel so sad about them going through all of this!) And then back home to me.
This ordeal was responsible for me losing my job with Walmart (a job I had for almost 4 years which I had to care for the cats).
I have set up a GoFundMe website to get help until I can find another job. If you can help, I will be so grateful. And, so will the cats!! There is more information on my GoFundMe site about what happened and why and pictures of some colony cats. Here is the link to the GoFundMe site:
Click here to support Neighbors Want to Kill These Cats organized by Sally Dwyer
If it is easier, you can also send cat food, preferably Friskies wet or dry which has been the cats' main food source since the start of the colony.
Please PM me if you could send food and I will let you know my address.
If you can help me and the colony, it will be just wonderful.So much time and effort has gone into this colony over the past 20 years, it is hard to cope with this attack which came out of nowhere. Nothing has changed in the 20 years except for 2 neighbors who took action against the cats because they hate them and think they have no place on this earth.
8 of the younger cats got trapped since I only trap with a drop trap and the Wildlife person was using a regular humane trap that my cats knew nothing about. At first, the County Animal Shelter wasn't helping but eventually, they remembered my Colony and began helping.
All the cats trapped are now home, but another neighbor, emboldened by the first neighbor, started trapping and sending them to the SPCA. Since the SPCA doesn't cover our area, it takes time for these cats to get sent back to the correct county shelter. (These poor cats!! I feel so sad about them going through all of this!) And then back home to me.
This ordeal was responsible for me losing my job with Walmart (a job I had for almost 4 years which I had to care for the cats).
I have set up a GoFundMe website to get help until I can find another job. If you can help, I will be so grateful. And, so will the cats!! There is more information on my GoFundMe site about what happened and why and pictures of some colony cats. Here is the link to the GoFundMe site:
Click here to support Neighbors Want to Kill These Cats organized by Sally Dwyer
If it is easier, you can also send cat food, preferably Friskies wet or dry which has been the cats' main food source since the start of the colony.
Please PM me if you could send food and I will let you know my address.
If you can help me and the colony, it will be just wonderful.So much time and effort has gone into this colony over the past 20 years, it is hard to cope with this attack which came out of nowhere. Nothing has changed in the 20 years except for 2 neighbors who took action against the cats because they hate them and think they have no place on this earth.
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