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TOPIC: I don't usually take ferrel cats
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I don't usually take ferrel cats 1 Year, 7 Months ago
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One of our site readers is having a hard time posting, so I am posting this for them:<br /><br />I have a cat rescue organization. I take in homeless cats and kittens that come from the result of people not taking the responsibility to spay/nueter. I take care of the medical tx for them including of course spay/nueter then I adopt them out to loving responsible owners. I have spaces for them in 3 different pet stores in town. All of them have been sweet kitties and easily adoptable. A few weeks ago a woman called me to take a moma cat and her 2 female kitties about 6 mths old. She said that she has lived in her house about 2 months and didn't feed them, she tried to shoo them away but they wouldn't leave. She also said that the moma scratched her daughter, and the two young ones wouldn't let you get close. I thought about a week as I don't usually take ferrel cats into the program. I couldn't stand the thought of them not being fed so I went over and they would come very close for food because they were so hungry. I trapped them and had them all 3 spayed. T. I wanted<br />to tame them but after 2 weeks they seemed so depressed and seemed to only get more scarred as days passed, they would scratch and bite when I tried to touch them. I wanted to do the best thing for them so I searched my area for people who had horse barns and found what I felt was the perfect place for them (with permission from the owner), a horse stables on a dirt road surrounded by other horse barns. So I made the dicsion to let them go there in a stable with lots of cat food and water. I left the door cracked. The moma darted out of the stable right away ran down the dirt road a little ways and stopped and looked back. The two 6 mth olds stayed in the stable and peaked out several times. It was nice just to see them come alive again after sitting in a corner scarred to death. But when I went back later that day they were gone. Do you think that they will stay around there? or they will associate it with a bad experience?. Will they try to find their way back to the<br />awful place they came from (30 miles away)? I pray every day for their safety and that they have food and water. I'm worried to tears that I did the wrong thing releasing them to a strange place. Please, Please give me your thoughts. I know it's done now, but I can't stop thinking where and how are they?
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