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It feels like every other day I see a post of someone finding lost kittens outside somewhere. How? How does that even happen? I never see tiny lost fluffballs outside! Only ever bigger fluffballs who act like they own the place...
My last kitty came up on my porch outta nowhere and meowed at me till I loved her. That neighborhood had a feral cat thing going on though.
The last time I had kittens their mom (a neighborhood stray) stashed them under my car. Getting the sharp, squirming lil tykes out of the engine block in Texas summer heat was a memorable experience.
It is rare! These rescues came to us through a friend of a friend in the southern USA (Los Angeles, i think), and wended their way over here in BC Canada. I think in warmer climates you'll see it more.
yeah, i'm by San Francisco and part of my daily leisure bikeride is stopping to take photos of the kittens at the cat colonies
Just gotta live close to a cat colony.
Sometimes your house turns into a cat colony. We had five.
We were up to 7 at one point. It's way too many
Five was the perfect number. More entertaining than cable tv.
my neighbors had 3. who they were desperately trying to fix, but they had a vet that didn't do kitty abortions. i get it. but like, it was first their cat and two strays. momma was pregnant. vet said bring her and the kittens back 2 months after she gives birth. neighbor brought all 7 cats in now. momma and one of the littles were pregnant (by an outside cat. i don't know why they didn't keep them inside. maybe she did?). so they got working on finding homes but now momma and her daughter gave another couple litters. We took one of those to try to help out but at that point four of the cats were pregnant when she took them in. The doctor just gave her a really serious look and did the spayings.
i know she said she was trying. but she had 19 kittens. that's toooooo many kittens to be able to think. and she started the year with 3.
Does your area have catch, spay/neuter, and release programs for strays?
Usually you get surprise kittens when either someone's unfixed animal gets out and gets pregnant/gets another cat pregnant, or when kittens are dumped because some people aren't good, or unfixed strays get pregnant and have babies.
Some areas may have predators that would deter cats (humans, coyotes, large snakes, alligators, crocodiles, puma/mountain lions etc). Some areas aren't hospitable (weather wise) to strays.
I've never paid a penny for a cat. They just show up, and won't leave. It doesn't matter if you feed them, give them a name, a box to sleep in, with a blanket, and some toys, then you let them in your house, and they start sleeping on your lap and purring, then they're sleeping in your bed and purring, etc.
No matter what you do, they just won't leave.
Oh no, what a terrible predicament you're in! Well I'm gonna be very mean right here and say that I hope it doesn't get better. I hope they never leave. Muahahaha >:3