Against all odds this cat is still alive. He just was at my porch eating dinner. I think it may end up OK.
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Against all odds this cat is still alive. He just was at my porch eating dinner. I think it may end up OK.
First, I supported a 100+ cat colony for several years...I stopped due to assholes that were not even affected by it coming and targeting the cats with poison (I have 3 dogs that go out in my yard plus a young child), shooting at my house (my french doors have BB dents in them that I believe was my neighbor and this morning we heard a ruckus prior to church and went out to see him in the road firing a BB gun down the street...he doesn't have a scope on it).
Cats are resilient, we had a large white cat that had half his face hanging off and bled for several day (I tried to capture/trap it for medical treatment but he wasn't having it).
I thought he died. I ran into him one night at a food station eating. His left eye was blind and his face mangled, but he was ok.
Almost no one is going to do major medical for a feral unless the bill is at least partially paid. Many do Trap/Spay-Neuter/Releases though, but the animal must be of decent health (they also usually will tip (cut part) of one ear off, this doesn't harm the animal really and just tells animal control the animal is not a problem).
Another cat I had (part of the reason I stopped the colony) would just stay on my front porch and at most follow me and my dog on our walk to the corner of the block prior to running back to the porch. She never left that porch otherwise except to pee/poop in the yard and did a great job burying it. On New Year's Eve I came home to find her smashed to pieces in my driveway. Someone killed her and wanted to send a message. There were two people at the time that made more or less threats about this, one was a new neighbor across the street and the other a renter next door that said the outdoor cats were stealing her outdoor cats food (her cats also were not fixed and she also insisted I should share my wireless with her since I was already paying for it).
Outside animals have higher immune systems and can fight off infections that an indoor cat would die from.
Seeking treatment is always best if possible.
In case anyone is curious, the cat is still hanging in there and fighting this!
It looks to me like it is healing a little bit.
This looks to be this cats 500'th fight.Wow....I cant believe how disgusting and cruel some people could be.
is there anywhere you can go to have the cat looked at?
First, I supported a 100+ cat colony for several years...
Why?
Unless by "support" you mean "trap and spay/neuter".
There was another neighbor who would shoot any cat that came on his property (mind you this was Delaware or New Jersey, not Texas)...one of our cats was one of em. Needless to say the PoS ended up blowing his own head off a few years down the line.
:hmm: No, not really. I'm not sure how one incident inevitably flows to the other....
Why?
Unless by "support" you mean "trap and spay/neuter".
Yeah cat "colonies" are never good.
My parents told me about some crazy cat lady that used to live down the street from them that would have 100+ cats in her yard, she'd feed all of them so naturally they kept coming back. Some of the cats would constantly walk along the fence-line steasing our Basenji. Needless to say a few of them would get knocked off after the dog would hit the fence and we'd have a couple of dead cats in our yard every few months.
There was another neighbor who would shoot any cat that came on his property (mind you this was Delaware or New Jersey, not Texas)...one of our cats was one of em. Needless to say the PoS ended up blowing his own head off a few years down the line.
Karma ?A guy in a suburb shoots and kills neighborhood cats that go into (we assume) his backyard. Said guy then ends up offing himself.
I could have explained it better from the start but I thought I got the point across that he was very unstable .