.....And the next foster cat is....?

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A 10- month old kitten.  Babies having babies.  She was part of a 10-cat surrender from an almost-hoarder.  If she has 3 kittens (which is what the shelter vet says she feels in the belly) this will bring my total of fosters from Oct-April to ****30.****  30 cats thru my house in 6 months.  And I live in a 10,000 person town.

Question:  Is there a low-cost spay/neutter clinic in your state?  Have you located and provided the info (in the form of posters, email, Craigslist Ad, dumb YA user) to your community?  If there isn't a low-cost S/N clinic in your area, how would you start one?  Which community organizers and politicians in your area will help you?  How can YOU help US make this nationwide/global?  How can YOU help US to reduce the number of unwanted litters here in the good old U.S.A. or in the good old E.A.R.T.H.?

Thx in advance.

(Put this in DOGS because most of my people are in DOGS- my CAT people are starred and will see it!)

ms manners · Accepted Answer

As far as I know, there is none in my area.  Neutering is quite expensive here.  Our shelter has a vet with whom they have a relationship, and who gives them a discount.

When I worked in the next county, I used to take my breed rescue fosters to work with me, because there was a county-subsidized program.

My ten pound JRT foster cost me all of ten dollars to neuter there. :o)

I really think some kind of subsidized program here would be helpful, but I have no idea where to start.
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Okay, good to know. :o)

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Why isn't an emergency spay being done?

There's a couple low cost s/n clinics in my area. I'm working on starting a TNR rescue for feral/stray cats in my area as I feel they're the ones killed most often. Tomorrow I'm going out to trap at least two feral cats, possibly more (as one is an older kitten. Not sure if the others in hte litter survived).

Kelly + Eternal Universal Energy · Answer

There isn't anything here, it really sucks. I fostered kittens for quite some time every year they get dropped off on the back roads all around where I live. All 6 of my cats are rescues.. 2 off the side of the road, one a stray in the city I lived in before, mother and kitten from the back door of the restaurant I worked at, and the last one was dropped off outside my friends parents farm, they took her in for a short while until she had kittens and then I took them for her because they couldn't get her spayed or find homes for them. I worked through a small rescue as a foster parent, well they aren't very organized I actually had to stop working with them because of their ineptitude. The woman running it is a little crazy, can't remember a thing you tell her and always acted like the kittens I brought in were somehow MY fault and that I was letting my cats breed.. I'm proud to say that I have never been responsible for allowing a single cat to breed and I have prevented many from breeding ever again. 

Unfortunately that rescue is the only one that takes cats anywhere within 100 miles of here, they have a low cost spay/neuter program but it's run by the city, there are a limited amount, you can only go to a certain vet and it's almost impossible to get them. You have to buy a pet license for a city you don't even live in to get one. 

I've given the information to contact this rescue to many people and they have all gotten mad at ME because of how the rescue treated them or ignored them. I called and called to get them to bring a live trap to get these barn cats spayed/neutered.. and they never came. Even though the people were willing to PAY for it even though these were not their cats. SO I had to keep bringing the kittens in again and again.. The people with the barn never got a cat others simply dropped them off on the road, they come in and being kind hearted they could not refuse to feed them. Their dogs constantly were finding kittens and dragging them out, sometimes killing them. The dogs are small and carry the kittens around not meaning to hurt them but they do. I had 3 litters from there that I saved and got adopted out through the rescue, I took some cats and kittens in from the rescue too but all of them were sick and they didn't give me any medication for them or anything at all. I got in touch with a vet who actually sent me free dewormer for all the kittens I had because I rescued them. They sent it by purolator to me because I live an hour away. 

But it's really bad here, I've done the best I could but I now have 6 cats of my own and that is all I can reasonably afford to care for and house. Two of them are to go to my Mom once they have been spayed. I've been trying for a year to get my hands on some of those low cost spay coupons with no luck. I've got a line of credit now so I am just going to use that to get them done. When I found them the mother and kitten were so starved it was just sad.. all her kittens had died but the one, and she was barely more than a kitten herself. The little one is now all grown up and it took me this long to tame the feral little thing, but now she loves affection. 

Sad to say but I cannot help anymore, I have neither the time, resources or space for it any longer. I wish people would just not breed them. . heck you don't even have to get them spayed, just don't let them outside! it's that simple. I don't understand how people can continue bringing more into the world it's a shame so many innocent lovely ones die because of that.. Honestly after all I've run into trying to help, and the way people in the business around here treat pet foster parents  I have given up.. Given up being blamed for cats I find, given up dealing with people who act like it's your fault they were born, given up dealing with the fanatics and the lying vets and the bull.. I'll never turn away from a stray on the road but I will simply be dropping it off at the rescue..

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