Earlier this year, I moved into my first apartment with my boyfriend. My first ever place to call my own. When I arrived, there was a friendly neighborhood stray. He's an older male. A very hefty guy, so we called him Big Hoss. Later, a young cat came up. Maybe a little over a year old, she had feral kittens in the woods but she was sweet. I started feeding her and at some point I stopped seeing her kittens and her milk has just dried up. She's started sleeping on my patio chair and has made my porch her home. The neighbors cat, who also has kittens, comes to eat as well. Occasionally there's a black Tom cat that chases everyone else off to eat, but he's a rare site. So the neighbor. She's my upstairs neighbor, my only neighbor, actually. Once I was feeding mommy cat, she was on her balcony on the phone, loudly complaining about "the bitch downstairs feeding the cats" because she knew I could hear. I ignored it and we haven't had a problem since until today. My boyfriend and I walked out to go shopping and she was outside hysterical. "These ****ing cats gotta go, they're in my ****ing car, all over the place" mumbling to herself. She goes up to her apartment and I can hear her screeching the whole way up. The cat under her car, the neighbor's cat, scurried off. She comes down and splashes a bowl of water on her car and starts spraying bug spray all around her car while screeching hysterically. I just left because...what? I called the police non emergency line and made a report just to have it on file in case something were to happen in the future. You can never be too safe. I was informed that "while my heart is in the right place", the city has an ordinance against feeding stray cats and I could be fined up to $220. So something has to happen, so that these cats aren't harmed by the crazy lady upstairs and so I don't continue breaking the law. Big Hoss is no problem, other neighbors feed him and he's a real friendly fat guy. The neighbor's cat nor the mean black Tom are of any interest to me. It's Mommy cat I worry about. The low cost spay clinic nearby closed down. So if I were to pay full price to have her spayed, after that investment I'd make her my own. Problem is, I already have two cats in this small apartment. I would hate to upset my girls by bringing a new cat in, and my boyfriend hates the idea, but I don't really know what else to do. Do you guys have any idea?
