Lizzie hasn’t been eating our food for about three days now.
I just checked with the potential adopter and he said he started feeding her yesterday. So, Ops Lizzie has been handed over to him now.
We will just put out a big bowl of water for her a few times a day.
Just as well, because I really cannot cope with so many, especially when Lizzie’s food has attracted almost five cats to our gate now, and believe me, I have no energy left to CNRM these five cats.
We just got to know when we have to stop and manage our existing ones; all 15 of them – Tabs, Riley, Ginger, Rey, Robin, Lynx, Smurfy, Minnie, Samantha, Kai, Akira, Indra and little Juno, plus Gerald and Creamy in the porch.
Lizzie – photo taken yesterday. For three days now, she merely sniffs at our roast chicken and doesn’t want to eat it. But she does drink a lot of water. Then, we ended up attracting cats to the food. Oh yes, the cats love the food. But we shouldn’t be feeding these cats when we cannot follow up by getting them neutered. I also don’t know if these cats come from the nearby rumah kucing. Maybe they have homes.
For example, I got Creamy neutered, but he actually has a home in the back road (I did not know then). Creamy was without a doubt unneutered because he’s male and it was clear that he wasn’t neutered yet.
This is Charlie. I don’t even know if she is male or female. But I hope she has a home somewhere because we are not feeding Lizzie anymore. The potential adopter will feed her now. We also don’t want to attract Lizzie or any of these cats to our area since Cmpl has sounded his displeasure about Lizzie, and previously, about “so many” cats.
It’s time I concentrate on taking care of our 15 cats.
This is why our funds are always prioritised for the CNRM of street animals. It is so much harder looking after street animals than the ones we have adopted. For street animals, so much effort is needed to catch them for neutering, then it’s long-term and lifelong management – they are subject to so many dangers outdoors, we don’t really know their medical history or what food they have eaten outside, or what illness they may have contracted and if they disappear for a few days, we won’t know what has happened and can only hope they will return (as Gerald did).
Looking after street animals is so much more challenging than adopted ones.
Our vet worries that I have to look after Juno now. She suggested that I either find Juno an adopter (but that itself is also a huge challenge – finding a good home) or worse come to worst, release Juno to be an outdoor cat when she is older. I explained that that is not an option because if I release Juno, I would still have to be responsible for her and looking after an outdoor animal is so much harder than an adopted one.
By the way, some good news: If you remember, when Gerald disappeared, a distant neighbour said her own cat had also disappeared for three days prior. Well, her cat finally returned, after 18 days, nicely bathed and looking clean and well. Definitely bathed! One wonders where her cat had been, right?