Where I feed my feral cats, someone slashed every single Sharon Angle sign

[joeybee12]

I think that's just terrible! :evilgrin:

(No, it wasn't me, although I did think about it).

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Ha ha!

I have a 'feral' cat if you will. I've been feeding her a few years. If your feral cats are anything like my feral cat who btw is named "Cat" (looks like the cat in Breakfast at Tiffanys) - they sensed your displeasure and tore those signs up! :rofl:

[CatWoman]

2. I think it's even more awesome that you feed ferals

I have a colony of about 12 that I feed.

My neighbor and I trapped all but one of them and had them spayed/neutered.

One wily one keeps eluding us :)

[hlthe2b]

3. And, I'd nominate you both for Sainthood....

if you would get a group to help round them up to spay and neuter... I know that is tough to do, but that is why you'd earn the sainthood...;)

[Jackpine Radical]

7. OMG, herding cats?

Jeez, if you get good at that, I know a whole political party that ought to pay you big bucks as a consultant.

[66 dmhlt]

17. "This man right here is my great-grandfather ...

"He was the first cat-herder in our family."



This has got to be one of the best commercials of all time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk7yqlTMvp8

[joeybee12]

18. About two thirds are spayed and neutered...I trap them for the free clinics

where they get fixed and their shots and then they go back.

Saint Joeybee12????

[hlthe2b]

23. Awesome!

Paton saint of feral cats!

[Roon]

52. That's pretty much what my kitty sponser does..

she traps and fixes ferals all around denver.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. You're an awesome lady.

Hell, I already knew that, but it doesn't hurt to publicly take note of the fact every once in a while.

[lonestarnot]

5. I love you catwoman!

:hug:

[CatWoman]

15. awwwwww

thanks guys.

It breaks my heart to see cats go hungry and miserable.

My neighbors all laugh at me because when I come home from work, they hear my truck and they all come running out of nowhere, howling and demanding food :)

[joeybee12]

20. I'm up to about 50-series-ly...started with a mother and her two kittens and word got out...

I've fixed about 2/3 of them. A few I've been seeing for a couple years are eluding me...they disappare a few days before I trap and a few days after.

[CatWoman]

29. the word does indeed get out

they pass on the info where the "FREE FOOD" is :)

[joeybee12]

32. It's surrounded by a mobile home complex, lots of apartment complexes,

and when people abandon them, they start searching for food, and this actually probably isn't that far for them.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

6. A colony of feral cats has Angle signs?

It explains a lot.

[MinneapolisMatt]

11. ROFL!

DUZY!

[HCE SuiGeneris]

39. OMG!

Talk about kittywampus.

[FSogol]

8. Feral cats slashed those signs. They know it is in their best interest to vote for the Democrats.

I'm taking care of 5 in the woods behind my house. A couple are tame enough to come in and sleep in my sunny kitchen. They all have their ears clipped.

[freeplessinseattle]

35. ha, I was thinking the same thing! cats are smart

all my kits are formerly feral, now the sweetest cats ever, but they know to be wary and take their time trusting!

[Liberal_in_LA]

43. +5

[Liberal_in_LA]

44. I have a clipped eared formerly feral cat

[msongs]

9. hope yer feeding them birth control pills with their meow mix nt

[freeplessinseattle]

36. Ever heard of trap-neuter-return?

That is what feral caretakers do, so no pills needed:)

[mudplanet]

10. There isn't anything nobel or humane about feeding feral cats unless

you make the effort to catch them and have them spayed/neutered. The same goes for conservatives. The little old ladies in the expensive retirement home next door to me provide an endless supply of food to the feral cats and then every year I see a new crop of feral kittens, the majority of which are killed by the toms and varmints before they are more than a few weeks old.

[joeybee12]

19. I do do that...about 2/3 have already been fixed...n/t

[Cleita]

25. I used to feed feral cats when I lived in Texas because

they were starving and eating each others vomit. I couldn't get the owners of the place I worked at to neuter and spay them so it was what little I could do. Maybe it wasn't humane in your eyes, but neither was watching them starve IMHO.

[joeybee12]

31. I agree...ideally you feed and both TNR, but I'm not about to simply

let anything starve if i can help it.

[mudplanet]

47. Good motivation. Then you moved. And the cats, who had been able

to breed better and become more numerous because they were being fed, starved to death. They made good coyote food. I understand it made you feel better, but it isn't the humane thing to do. The humane thing to do in that situation is to go to the SPCA and get a live trap (they loan them out specifically for this), catch them one by one, and take them to the pound or shelter (or, if you can afford it and really love cats, have them fixed and then release them).

Simply leaving them alone is more humane that feeding them. I adopted one and now he's sleek as a seal and fat as a bear. But I guarantee you all his brothers and sister ARE DEAD. Starved to death and eaten before reaching 4 months of age.

You're entitled to your own opinion, but you might want to check out with the SPCA what is the most humane thing to do.

[Cleita]

51. When I moved the family who replaced me said they

would feed them and try to cull the kittens, tame them and find homes for them like I did. Yes, many of them did get taken as prey by predators and worse, many of them died of cat fever. My husband buried the little bodies. I don't know what you know about feral cats but they breed whether they are starving or not and the kittens suffer even more being born to a starving mother. Unfortunately, the people I worked for liked the feral cats around to take care of snakes and rodents, but they didn't want to do what even the poorest rancher does for his barn cats and that is to inoculate them for diseases (you can buy the serums at feed stores in rural areas), neuter most of them and give them at least one dried food meal a day and there were no laws there in that county demanding this. I still live in a rural area in California, but there are laws protecting the barn animals and we have a feral rescue organization that neuters, inoculates and feeds the feral cats as well as taming the kittens and putting them up for adoption. Yes, many of them still fall to predators, mostly coyotes but that's the ever present terror of living in wild and rural areas.

btw antiquated ideas like this in dealing with domestic animals, who are through no fault of their own, forced to live wild, are why I don't donate to the SPCA.

[joeybee12]

53. FYI, the SPCA doesn't really deal with ferals...

you need to go with the Humane Society or some local group...they just don't probably ahve the manpower when they're dealing with people dropping off household pets they no longer want.

[freeplessinseattle]

37. did you learn nothing from Saturdays rally?

You're talking to a DUer, don't you think they'd be inclined to do the noble thing?

[joeybee12]

38. Previously I've posted rants about TNR and how it's the only

way to control feral populations...guess I really made an impression, huh?

[Nevernose]

40. In Las Vegas, one is legally required to register feral cat colonies

Then the county works with a volunteer group, usually Heaven Can Wait Animal Sanctuary. The group comes out, captures the cats, puts down the sickest ones if necessary, and spays/neuters the rest. They are visibly tagged on the ear so that anyone can tell from a distance that they are "legal."

If you absolutely don't want the cats, you can rent feral cat traps from the county, but it's "your dime and your time." Your neighborhood must also be cleared through Heaven Can Wait. The county will not do anything about feral cats, and the animal shelter you have to bring them to is really as good as they come for a city this size, but there are just so many strays that most are euthanized within a month.

I actually communicated with them YESTERDAY on this exact same situation. I'm on the board of an HOA in Las Vegas and we have feral cats that one woman is feeding without permission. The HOA overwhelmingly voted, with full support of the residents, to remove the cats and not register the colony. Since some of the neighbors are already discussing shooting and poisoning them, it's probably for the best, but it still sucks.

People: spay and/or neuter your pets. In this modern society we live in, it is cruelty not to.

[joeybee12]

42. Tell your HOa if they shoot or poison them, they will have criminal animal cruelty charges

filed against them.

[Nevernose]

45. I told them

And I'm actually on the HOA. It's not the HOA -- and even the "yes" votes were reluctant about it -- but it's at least a couple of residents. The problem is proving that someone ever hurt an animal -- dead of night, no witnesses except defenseless animals. And someone would have to get the police to actually care about a crime that's difficult to prove and not very dramatic.

I'm going to look into no-kill shelters after work today, and suggest in the Board's private meeting that we could catch the cats ourselves, for free, and use the budgetary allocation for "feline removal services" to pay for their upkeep.

[joeybee12]

46. Yeah, had to deal with a poisioned cat once...there's really no way to prove

mainly because of the cost to investigate...contact C5...they trap them and will see if anyone can relocate them to another colony...good luck.

[JanetLovesObama]

12. Was Angle's photo on the signs?

If so, it was most likely the cats that ripped up the signs. The old witch scared them. LOL

[joeybee12]

21. No...and I should say there were at least 100 of them...all over the fence

it was nauseating.

[DavidDvorkin]

13. I do think it's terrible

In 2008, my Obama signs were vandalized repeatedly. This is no different and just as reprehensible.

[madmax]

14. meow.. hissss hisss - scratch scratch. nt

[tigereye]

16. that woman is scary!

:scared: I really hope Reid hangs on, for all the complaints about him, he's much saner than she is!

[rocktivity]

22. Maybe the cats did it

Because Angle is part of a political party that advocates bartering chickens.

:headbang:
rocktivity

[Hawkowl]

24. The kitties did it!!!

You should do a little CSI and match the claws with the slash marks! (And you have my vote for Sainthood! Save the kitties!)

[joeybee12]

26. Well, one did throw up a hairball this morning and there was some cardboard in it!

Is that enough to make an arrest?

[AnArmyVeteran]

28. A furrball is more intelligent than Angle. And the hair looks better than Sharron's too!

[joeybee12]

30. Abos-phucking-lutely!!! nt

[Hawkowl]

34. No DNA in cardboard

The kitty skates!

[AnArmyVeteran]

27. LOL! Quick, get rid of the knife! ( What a 'coincidence! )

[DainBramaged]

33. I feed 12 ferals by me now. They sit (for the most part) in shifts

outside my place at night waiting for me to come home. When I do one will run back to where the feeding station is and by the time I get back outside, 6 0r 8 are waiting to escort me back to their little pine grove. where there is a shelter and feeding station. They are becoming more comfortable with me now after nearly a full year of feeding them and talking to them. A couple even come over for a quick pet.


Pictures soon. But no political signs, especially for Angle (R-Area 51)

[CatWoman]

49. Nearly all mine let me pet them and pick them up

:)

[DainBramaged]

54. I'm getting there, I'm just happy they are surviving

:hi:

[bobbolink]

41. I'm terribo.... my first reaction to your subject line was celebratory.

:evilgrin:

[deaniac21]

48. How's that bird population doing?

[mstinamotorcity]

50. Okay if

you say so wink wink:evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:

[laughingliberal]

55. K & R nt

[A Cooper]

56. I feel so bad for her

Not!