Date: 2011-05-11 11:11 am (UTC)
ext_3328: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead (Default)
I have limited time before Alex wakes up, so I will also bullet point my responses

- you did do the right thing, feel good about that

- the even more right thing to do would be to keep the cats together until the kittens can be safely weaned

- if you do that nobody is going to take the cats from you, you will have to be strict with yourself about giving them away to a shelter as soon as shelters have the room, or spending more time and money intensely advertising to get rid of them to private owners on your own. but just the basic lesson on human nature, you took them in, they are "your problem now". If Americans didn't generally think like this en masse, people wouldn't be rioting to the idea of Obamacare. But they do, and these are homeless kittens in hard economic times. Even shelters are going to give you shit if you try to give them away after having claimed them. :-(

- spay or neuter all of those cats as soon as biologically possible
- yell at both of your coworkers L and K for this problem and force them to contribute monetarily for the expenses you put out already. Or at least buy you lunch for a few days. Especially K for giving L "false hope" with a joke. I mean for serious. Money and food is the least they can do for you.

- don't spend too much time enjoying the kittens or you will have a hard time giving them away. spend time enjoying them if you can get down with the fact that you might end up keeping them. make sure if you do the latter that your own cats are down with that idea, too. oh, and Jeff, heh heh.

- HUGS! you did do the right thing, and yes, it does actually make you a better person than everyone else.

Personally I would be pretty pissed off at the shelters for not giving you even the offer of a free appointment for free spaying and neutering, once you told them the situation. I mean, it would be helping themselves out, but it sounds like every place you called shafted you. WTH, the cat population problem won't go away if the places medically equipped to combat it don't do their jobs. Press them harder, I would say, with threats to report them to animal cruelty places if possible. Or look at PETA or some other wingy organization like that for help, resources, and cat fostering or adoption resources.

Also vent to divka, she understands caring for abandoned cats very well.
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