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Hello everyone, I'm not sure if this is the right channel to post this in, I don't usually participate in forums, but I wanted to ask for help with a cat problem in my apartment complex.
I moved into this apartment 2 years ago, it is in the same city as my university, but I wanted to live in it because it's in a quieter neighborhood so I can keep to myself, study, and work a part-time job, and come home to peace. However, since last summer, it hasn't been all that "peaceful" anymore.
There have always been cats. Maybe 3 or 4 at most, stray cats are common where I live, as are the free going owned cats. I don't have a cat, I don't want a cat, but I feel like I have a whole horde of them now because they have decided to live in my apartment complex. The children living downstairs put food out last summer so they can play with them, and now, they're everywhere. Before, I would occasionally see a cat in the parking lot, or hear them fighting at night, but it never bothered me. I don't mind cats, I'm not allergic nor do I have a dislike against them, but it's the excessiveness of cats that is problematic.
They meow at 4am. Every, single, morning, at 4am, there's one meowing at the main door because it wants to be let in, or they fight right outside the apartment. Someone lets them in, and there's 2 or 3 every morning in the stairwell. I wouldn't be bothered by them, if they didn't sit on the steps and swat and scratch at people going up or down the steps. There's also cat waste more often than not in the stairwell, laundry room, hallway, etc. The landlord knows about this, every residence has gotten a letter saying along the lines of "don't leave your cats in the hallway", but he sent this a month ago and there are still cats in the hallway, and I'm sure there will be more since spring is on the way in a few months and cats reproduce. In total there's at least 7 or 8, some I can't tell if it's one cat or 2 identical ones.
The obvious solution would be to round them up and drop them off at a shelter, which I would love to do, if there was a no-kill shelter in the area. Morally, I would rather be woken up and scratched by them than bring them to their possible death. I'm not really sure what else to do, I would like for them to relocate but they don't seem to be going anywhere anytime soon.
Not all are aggressive, these 2 behaved normally last I saw them.
And then there's this lovely specimen.
Any advice on how to humanely relocate them would be appreciated, or if not, at least anything on how to stop the aggression and chaotic behavior.
I moved into this apartment 2 years ago, it is in the same city as my university, but I wanted to live in it because it's in a quieter neighborhood so I can keep to myself, study, and work a part-time job, and come home to peace. However, since last summer, it hasn't been all that "peaceful" anymore.
There have always been cats. Maybe 3 or 4 at most, stray cats are common where I live, as are the free going owned cats. I don't have a cat, I don't want a cat, but I feel like I have a whole horde of them now because they have decided to live in my apartment complex. The children living downstairs put food out last summer so they can play with them, and now, they're everywhere. Before, I would occasionally see a cat in the parking lot, or hear them fighting at night, but it never bothered me. I don't mind cats, I'm not allergic nor do I have a dislike against them, but it's the excessiveness of cats that is problematic.
They meow at 4am. Every, single, morning, at 4am, there's one meowing at the main door because it wants to be let in, or they fight right outside the apartment. Someone lets them in, and there's 2 or 3 every morning in the stairwell. I wouldn't be bothered by them, if they didn't sit on the steps and swat and scratch at people going up or down the steps. There's also cat waste more often than not in the stairwell, laundry room, hallway, etc. The landlord knows about this, every residence has gotten a letter saying along the lines of "don't leave your cats in the hallway", but he sent this a month ago and there are still cats in the hallway, and I'm sure there will be more since spring is on the way in a few months and cats reproduce. In total there's at least 7 or 8, some I can't tell if it's one cat or 2 identical ones.
The obvious solution would be to round them up and drop them off at a shelter, which I would love to do, if there was a no-kill shelter in the area. Morally, I would rather be woken up and scratched by them than bring them to their possible death. I'm not really sure what else to do, I would like for them to relocate but they don't seem to be going anywhere anytime soon.
Not all are aggressive, these 2 behaved normally last I saw them.


And then there's this lovely specimen.

Any advice on how to humanely relocate them would be appreciated, or if not, at least anything on how to stop the aggression and chaotic behavior.