Abandoned cats, need help

They knew the rules when they went to live there, so they get caught and now they're just going to let the cats starve? Why aren't their asses figuring out a way to help the cats? Only one woman is stepping up to the plate?

Thank you for posting this story, and alerting people to the cats' plight. I would also post it here:  http://forums.portland.craigslist.org/?forumID=26

There are a lot of knowledgeable people on the forum who live in that area and might have some good ideas...

Cats are very useful to farmers. They love cats. They'll probably take a whole bunch of 'em. You could put up signs at tractor dealerships or farm supply type stores.

Watch out for little kids. They lie and tell you that it's OK with their parents and then the parents bring them back and they're really pissed off about it.

I've got two female cats that are always pregnant and I've managed to find homes for about forty kittens over the years.

Basically it's an advertising job.

The suggestions above are not the best. I was holding off to see if someone offered better advice than mine, but I don't see it.

Never give an animal away for free--she could end up as bait or in a lab. Barn cats do not usually receive the best care. And to the reader whose cat is perpetually pregnant, it is YOUR responsibility to have her spayed. An unspayed cat, if her offspring also remains unspayed, can create more than 400,000 beautiful animals in 7 years--animals that will suffer aboandonment and neglect if they are unwanted. Please stop adding to the suffering. Take responsibility for the animal in your care.

If you love the animals, you're going to have to take charge. Yes, no kill shelters are full, and they sometimes charge to take animals.

I adopted 5 cats at one time, so it is possible. Enlist the support of your local animal rights groups if possible. They may be able to give you money for S/N or they may be able to announce the need to their membership. And they can give you advice on how to properly advertise cats for adoption or fostering. If necessary, try to get people to foster them in pairs--you only need five people to do so.

Place them in a room until they become adapted to their location (no less than two weeks). Best wishes, and tell everyone that caring for an animal without S/N is an act of cruelty.

> Why aren't their asses figuring out a way to help the cats?

I don't know -- and probably never will since the people who were evicted are either in motels or living out of their cars, and talking to any of them who abandoned their cats seems unlikely. They left their cats behind for others to deal with, not wanting the cats to be gased at the animal impound they probably should have taken them to.

It's all so unfair. So very fucking, wrenchingly unfire. To the people who were living there, paying their taxes, paying rent to the owner who never told them the place wasn't zoned for long-term residency, and unfair to the cats who had no choice but had to accept either two weeks left to live before being gased or abandonment and likely slow starvation and freezing weather as winter takes hold.

They were evicted because of money, not because they were in violation of the 21-day-maximum rules. The property is valuable so the people living there -- some for 7 years -- were dragged out onto the street -- in Winter -- without homes and no way to acquire a down payment for renting elsewhere.

I talked with the USFS office in Glendora, California, whom I hope to hear from again soon. The individual I talked with indicated no knowledge of anything being planned to rescue or otherwise exterminate the cats.

The only reasons I'm trying to _DO_FUCKING_SOMETHING_ is because I spend a lot of time in those mountains in all kinds of weather and I hate the thought of what this snow season is going to mean to domestic cats that'll all be starving to death to begin with.

So fucking unfair. Humans are so cruel. And the people who care can't financially afford to take on cats; in this recession with record poverty and near-record unemployment in the past 50 years, nobody's got the resources to adopt 11 or more cats.

Thanks for helping to spread the word.