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I apologize for the long email and complaining. I pretty much know this situation is hopeless and there aren't any solutions to this, except for the obvious ones.
Because of a relative's illegal activity resulting in his arrest, we ended up taking in his 4 cats. We already have 4 of our own, so this completely sucks. The only alternative was to let animal control take them, they keep them for 72 hours and euthanize if they are not adopted in that time frame. Their shelter is up to their eyeballs in cats and kittens and these four are 5 and older, and one has diabetes, so they would not have had a chance.
We were hoping to privately re-home them, but that has been a complete flop. People are trying to give away cats, not adopt them. And the cat people we know have full houses already. No kill shelters in our area are completely full and not taking any more, they refer to animal control.
Doubling food, litter and vet expenses and having to buy insulin for the diabetic cat and shoot her every 12 hours is bad enough but now, a few months after taking them in, we have fighting resulting in bites. Most of this is instigated by our 13 year old male who hates having these intruders around.
The most recent fight resulted in a puncture that had to be treated by the vet and I am sick of this situation. We have an open floor plan and can't effectively separate everyone. We've tried the pheromone stuff you plug into your outlets, no effect. We've tried giving extra attention to everyone, no results.
So, we are trapped and since these kitties are not very old and still possible have years and years left, it does not look like things will improve for a long time.
I am sort of hoping someone here might have suggestions we haven't tried yet, but I am pretty sure there is nothing much we can do, except animal control and terrible guilt, or putting up with it indefinitely.
Because of a relative's illegal activity resulting in his arrest, we ended up taking in his 4 cats. We already have 4 of our own, so this completely sucks. The only alternative was to let animal control take them, they keep them for 72 hours and euthanize if they are not adopted in that time frame. Their shelter is up to their eyeballs in cats and kittens and these four are 5 and older, and one has diabetes, so they would not have had a chance.
We were hoping to privately re-home them, but that has been a complete flop. People are trying to give away cats, not adopt them. And the cat people we know have full houses already. No kill shelters in our area are completely full and not taking any more, they refer to animal control.
Doubling food, litter and vet expenses and having to buy insulin for the diabetic cat and shoot her every 12 hours is bad enough but now, a few months after taking them in, we have fighting resulting in bites. Most of this is instigated by our 13 year old male who hates having these intruders around.
The most recent fight resulted in a puncture that had to be treated by the vet and I am sick of this situation. We have an open floor plan and can't effectively separate everyone. We've tried the pheromone stuff you plug into your outlets, no effect. We've tried giving extra attention to everyone, no results.
So, we are trapped and since these kitties are not very old and still possible have years and years left, it does not look like things will improve for a long time.
I am sort of hoping someone here might have suggestions we haven't tried yet, but I am pretty sure there is nothing much we can do, except animal control and terrible guilt, or putting up with it indefinitely.