Baby the cat is about to lose her happy home, and I cannot take her because my lease forbids pets, and I am still tied to this lease until next June, lest I want to still pay $610 a month to break it just to get a place to have her and pay extra every month and have to deal with what she does.
Baby is technically a feral cat who has never become domesticated. She was a wild kitten our neighbor found. She was sweet as a baby, but grew up to be a monster. She's evil, truly evil. But I love my kitty. We "adopted" her at a few weeks old, she's now 9.
We were bad pet owners. My parents never bothered to get her fixed or declawed when she was younger. I couldn't take her at either apartment I've had. My parents never let me take her to be fixed or declawed because they didn't want to get nailed for not having her licensed.
She has, for a while, been spraying when she goes into heat. She also has ripped apart and torn up furniture and started really going after one of their china hutches lately.
Friday was the last straw. She peed on the kitchen table and my parents found a real nice war wound on the china hutch. (She used to tear apart at the wood on the sliding door, but found the hutch to be more fun, I guess).
This morning they gave me a choice. I have until Friday to decide if I can find her a new home (with a friend or coworker), surrender her to the animal shelter, or let her live outside. They are "highly recommending" that I let her live outside, because they let her live outside at our old house.
That was a different place. That was a very cat friendly place, and we lived right in town. There was a feedmill where all the local cats lived.
My parents live right on the edge of town by a wooded area. This is also a town where cats have been shot and ran over just for fun.
But I don't want to lose her forever. I love my cat, too much to give her to a shelter that might just euthanize her if she isn't adopted in so much time. I don't know if it's "no kill" around here or not. I know they'd fix her and give her all the shots she needs, but who would take her? I don't want strangers to have my cat. I've raised her since she was so little she ate out of an eyedropper laying in the palm of my hand and my dad had to give her nightly flea baths.
I'm so sad and torn right now, I don't know what to do.
Baby is technically a feral cat who has never become domesticated. She was a wild kitten our neighbor found. She was sweet as a baby, but grew up to be a monster. She's evil, truly evil. But I love my kitty. We "adopted" her at a few weeks old, she's now 9.
We were bad pet owners. My parents never bothered to get her fixed or declawed when she was younger. I couldn't take her at either apartment I've had. My parents never let me take her to be fixed or declawed because they didn't want to get nailed for not having her licensed.
She has, for a while, been spraying when she goes into heat. She also has ripped apart and torn up furniture and started really going after one of their china hutches lately.
Friday was the last straw. She peed on the kitchen table and my parents found a real nice war wound on the china hutch. (She used to tear apart at the wood on the sliding door, but found the hutch to be more fun, I guess).
This morning they gave me a choice. I have until Friday to decide if I can find her a new home (with a friend or coworker), surrender her to the animal shelter, or let her live outside. They are "highly recommending" that I let her live outside, because they let her live outside at our old house.
That was a different place. That was a very cat friendly place, and we lived right in town. There was a feedmill where all the local cats lived.
My parents live right on the edge of town by a wooded area. This is also a town where cats have been shot and ran over just for fun.
But I don't want to lose her forever. I love my cat, too much to give her to a shelter that might just euthanize her if she isn't adopted in so much time. I don't know if it's "no kill" around here or not. I know they'd fix her and give her all the shots she needs, but who would take her? I don't want strangers to have my cat. I've raised her since she was so little she ate out of an eyedropper laying in the palm of my hand and my dad had to give her nightly flea baths.
I'm so sad and torn right now, I don't know what to do.
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