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Paula Cole// I don't want to wait
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OMG!! I just saw a Russian blue beauty, I can't believe my eyes. She literally (he?) was the sweetest most beautiful cat I've seen in my life.
The weird thing is, I've lived here for a few months yet these new ones keep appearing. You think you know them all...
They're so exotic!!! One of them got adopted into a mansion. They named him the prince.
This is a feral colony...this is where they live.
It is really sad, and there's also an old stash of insulation which they sit on. No one thought of bringing this to the garbage.
Strangely, this house has sat on the market for a long time. It was a former florist and formerly a doggie day care or vet. Yet these cats live her in the backyard. Two offers went through, or fell through or they bought the house and didn't move in. No one knows. The cats have taken over.
Over the months, I have been fascinated by these cats. New ones appear, they're all the same colony.
The question is TNR. What to do?
Lucy, it seems, has had kittens three years in a row now, if not more, if no one knew by word. What do to?
I do not think TNR is ethical. If she didn’t want to procreate, she’d leave the colony. If I trap her, which I COULD, she is very close with me*, I would be KILLING HER COLONY! Why should humans think they can get involved? If she didn’t want to continue on the new generations, she would just run away! It’s not right.
But on the other hand, the kittens get left behind… And she left one in the fence once, to be found and adopted by someone. So in that way, I don’t know.
I don’t think Lucy is so stupid as if to be gang raped over and over, like I saw. She was surrounded by six broods…all grey and black cats, they all watched, and on one ominous day, I walked back to the backyard, and there she was. Surrounded. One mate chose her. But man, he is a good one. He follows her wherever she goes.
She’s very playful. I always see her romping around and her mate (relatively...named Desi, I guess) following her like a guardian shadow.)
But on the day after she gave birth to these kittens, a few weeks ago, she walked up to me, with these tired eyes, eyes so sullen and senstive I will never forget. I didn’t have any food to give her, I didn’t know I had to, or I would have. She eyed me for one instant, because she knew she had to get back to the kittens, who had just been birthed the night before. I didn’t have a chance to get food, she had no time, and ran off.
It was morning, and her eyes looked SO TIRED. I was so empathetic. Her tits were out in a row, obviously used and wet, and her stomach went sorrow and flat. She looked so tired.
This was the only video I got of her, from May 2, she gave birth about 3-4 weeks later. The night before she ran through, I heard this wrrrr meowrrr meroror meorrr but there was nothing I could do. I heard it, it sounded strange and unusual, never heard it before. I knew something was up. I looked around under porches, but couldn’t find it.
Maybe it’s pathetic, people have nothing better to do, but I don’t know. It’s like being on an exotic safari.
It’s not pathetic. I had a dream with Lucy, about a week or two before she had the kittens, I saw her in a book shelf or it was on a walkway in a cruise boat, she had the kittens, and there was this big fluffy brown black blob.
I say no to TNR, these are a colony who are meant to be. But I don’t know. I was trying to get an assembly; a panel to debate it.
I could easily trap her, she knows me and walks close to me which as a feral cat, isn’t really so particular. She trusts me. But I feel like if I trapped her (humanely with a tuna can) then released her, I would be robbing her of something.
They do their thing, I don’t think anyone should get involved.
If I trapped her and snipped her, returned her, I don’t think that’s right. She will stop making her babies when she wants. Before these kittens were born, I was pacing the room like I was in a maternity ward.
I just can’t trap Lucy, I literally can’t. I would do anything and everything to alleviate animal suffering, but it would be too cruel to stop her.
But on the other hand, I don’t know!? She has had three years of litters, maybe even more if I haven’t talked with the right people. I was worried sick she would have problems giving birth and die.
I don’t know. I would only TNR her if a bonafied animal psychic talked to her.
She is the cutest little calico cat I have ever known. Her white paws…so distinct.
She has captured my heart. Since February.
This cat, in the dream, looked just like this video someone took a year ago of one of the kittens of Lucy. A black furry blob. But in the dream, it was big, like maybe I was seeing the entire litter. It was the size of a log, and I think it was the same size or bigger than Lucy. Lucy is actually a tiny cat, like a teenager. It was a brown and black blob, like in a cartoon the cat goes spatz. Or maybe it was one kitten, I don't know. Why Lucy decided to dream with me, or I decided to dream with her? I don't know. No one has found the nest yet. It's like the entire neighborhood is on a watch. Everyone's feeding the cats, and looking in briars and vines. The street should have a sign, KITTEN WATCH. :)
