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Will my brother have to suffer the consequences?
My brother has two roommates (our sister and her boyfriend). They are absolute slobs. They never clean, they never bathe, they have 7 or 8 cats that they don't take care of. They provide food and water but nothing else. My brother is a really nice, long suffering individual, but he's coming to the end of his rope. He told them close to a year ago that they had to cut down to 1 cat. Since then two of their cats have had kittens and they haven't gotten rid of any of them. The roommates never clean the litter boxes, the cats have never had their shots, a couple of them have infections in their eyes, they all have fleas really bad (whenever either of them get in my truck they leave at least 12 or 13 of the damn things behind). I want to help my brother out and call the SPCA to help get these animals out of his house and get them the care they need. But I want to make sure that my brother won't get in trouble since it's his house. He works two jobs and goes to school, but whenever he has a free day, he spends it cleaning up after these two lazy slobs. But within a day or two (after he goes back to work) the house is just as bad as it was before he spent the day cleaning. Will the SPCA take into consideration that they aren't his cats and he cleans when he can? I don't want him to get in trouble for something that's not really his fault. He's tried talking, reasoning, threatening to kick them out, everything. But it's not working. They just can't be bothered to act like adults. I think this might be the only way to get them to wake up and realize they need to get their act together. Any advice? Suggestions?
I know this is really long, thank you for reading it.
I don't live there. My brother owns the house. I have my own place. I just hate to see my brother being taken advantage of that way.
Very General - As much as I love my brother and want to help him, he and I don't share air well when we live together. We get along fine when we live separately, but not under the same roof. Apart from that, I have three kids (all under 5) and a husband. I could not dream of bringing that kind of stress into my bachelor brother's home. But I will talk to him about what options he has available to him. He recently bought another (smaller) house at a real estate auction that he wants to move into, but it needs a hefty amount of work before that happens. Maybe we can check out that front while he's working toward reclaiming his home from our sister.
8 Answers
- ?Lv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
The only thing I would add to the fine advice already given is to have your brother tell the renters they have x number of days to get down to one cat or he will take them to animal control and then evict them.
Is there any chance you could temporarily move in with your brother to help with the expenses? Either that or start finding potential roommates? It would make it easier for him to evict if he has some one else ready to move in.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
The cats are not the problem, the humans are. I have 8 cats -- they're all cared for. If the roommates are slobs in general, that's a huge part of the problem.
Your brother needs to evict the humans, not get the cats killed.
He needs to put into writing that they have X days to either clean up the place and start maintaining it, take all the cats to the vet for spay/neuter and vaccination, or get out..... and have it delivered to them certified.... with their signature required.... preferably with the receipt being returned to some alternative address (yours?) so that they can't destroy it.
He could also contact a rescue group to help find decent homes for the cats -- they're in his house without permission, IMO that makes them his property -- that doesn't mean he should hand them over to animal control and get them killed -- just that he has a right to find homes for them and have them out of his house.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
So apparently your brother is renting? Whose name is on the lease? Obviously the big picture answer is for him to kick them out or leave himself. He needs to focus on the problem and stop focusing on the symptoms as he has been doing.
Other than that you or your brother should call the SPCA and arrange to gather up the cats and take them to the shelter yourselves, to be adopted or destroyed at the shelter's discretion. Your brother could decide to fix one, have it brought up to date on the shots and meds to bring back to the apartment as a peace offering, or he could just say "too bad, deal with it". But still the big picture is he needs to lose the room mates not the cats.
Good luck.
Edit: If he owns he is completely liable for all code violations concerning the cats and the state of the property. He must round up the cats and take them to the shelter- not a maybe anymore- he has to. Then he needs to find the strength to boot the freeloaders out of his house. They might straighten up once they see the cats are gone, but don't count on it- they need to hit the road.
- 1 decade ago
I would tell your brother to man up and take all the cats to the shelter. You can help him round them up, cuz it sounds like some will be feral. This is not bad for only the cats, but for the people living there too. Diseases, and smelling the urine can cause breathing problems. I would wait till the others are out of the house, then take as many as you can to the shelter. If you tell them they are strays, he wont be in trouble.
- OcimomLv 71 decade ago
I would have a talk with your brother before you do anything for him. It has to be his decision - not yours. Ask him if he wants you to help him get rid of all the cats. Then if he ok's it, start taking them to the shelter and surrendering them.
Its up to your brother to enforce the rules about pets since its his house. If it continues, then call Animal Control and explain the problem letting them know its not your brother's pets but the sister and bf.
- 1 decade ago
He could get in trouble because he owns the house and lives there. He needs to cowboy up and evict the lot of them. Or at the very least, call the humane society, himself to rescue those poor animals. It is his responsibility in the eyes of the law.
- 5 years ago
Wow, it really is an exceedingly demanding question. How might want to i recognize for a reality there is not any thanks to remedy them or there is not any threat they're going to pop out of it. i am hoping I by no ability face that type of determination i do not recognize what i might want to do. conserving them round to make me sense extra functional sounds selfish in the experience that they are in an exceedingly good kind of discomfort. yet terminating my personal relations aint some thing i'm up for. Now, if it became a brother that attempted to thieve my spouse hrmm... lol
