I have some neighbors who have a little black cat named Shadow. She started eating with my feral cats in 2012. These people are nice people but Shadow does not like them and she eats over here twice a day.
Back in March she started to lose weight and I started feeding her Wellness canned as I heard it is higher in fat. Fast forward to today, she is so thin and nothing but bones. She also has some kind of growth the size of a golf ball on her side.
I do not have money to take her to see a vet so I went to talk to the people who own her on Tuesday. I told them that I would even try and get her in my cats crate and bring her over to them. They sounded like this was a good idea and told me they would get back to me on Wednesday after they made an appointment with the vet.
Today is Friday and I have heard nothing from them. I wrote a note today letting them know that she has pretty much stopped eating and really needs to see a vet.
I have been crying all day and have a hard time seeing Shadow slowly starve to death. I have never seen a cat so thin before and it breaks my heart that these people won't take her to see a vet. If nothing else they could take her in and have her put to sleep.
My question is after talking to them twice what should I do next? These people never see her or pay attention to her so they claim they never even knew she was losing weight. They now know and still they don't seem to care.
I can't afford to take Shadow in as I feed 5 feral cats and have my own inside cat who has medical issues of her own.
Just need advice on what the next step should be.
Back in March she started to lose weight and I started feeding her Wellness canned as I heard it is higher in fat. Fast forward to today, she is so thin and nothing but bones. She also has some kind of growth the size of a golf ball on her side.
I do not have money to take her to see a vet so I went to talk to the people who own her on Tuesday. I told them that I would even try and get her in my cats crate and bring her over to them. They sounded like this was a good idea and told me they would get back to me on Wednesday after they made an appointment with the vet.
Today is Friday and I have heard nothing from them. I wrote a note today letting them know that she has pretty much stopped eating and really needs to see a vet.
I have been crying all day and have a hard time seeing Shadow slowly starve to death. I have never seen a cat so thin before and it breaks my heart that these people won't take her to see a vet. If nothing else they could take her in and have her put to sleep.
My question is after talking to them twice what should I do next? These people never see her or pay attention to her so they claim they never even knew she was losing weight. They now know and still they don't seem to care.
I can't afford to take Shadow in as I feed 5 feral cats and have my own inside cat who has medical issues of her own.
Just need advice on what the next step should be.