Sep 19, 2012

Siamese

Feral Kitten
This feral kitten looks so much like a traditional Siamese cat. It's a beautiful kitty and I feel so sorry for it because the feral life is often difficult and short, even when you have a caretaker.

I've captured a few young ones lately and I could possibly catch this one, too. But I don't think I have it in me: The vet bills from the previous three captures have wiped me out, for one thing - and even after all of this I never know if they're going to have homes are just end up back in the feral colony. That's sad.

In fact, there's a lot of this rescue work that is just sad. We've lost a blog star to coyotes recently - but I can't talk about it. It's just too hard for me. There are always losses.  And with this one, I've officially reached my breaking point. ...I do what I can and it's never enough. When they get captured and tamed but nobody adopts them so they end up back with the ferals - it's the worst.

I can't keep doing that; it's killing me. This baby is adorable but I would try to capture only if there was someone else who could foster and cover the vet bills and guarantee a home. Otherwise, the emotional pain is just too much.Then again, it might not even be alive, tomorrow.

That's just the way life is....

2 comments:

  1. I've got one of these in a family colony of black cats. They are just all too cute!, but too old now to tame except for a vey experienced tamer....
    I am hoping to moe the small colony to a safer location, but I am sure you know the odds of that!

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  2. Yes, its somewhere between extremely difficult and impossible.

    As for taming... well, I've been pretty good with that but after so many who were tamed but then didn't get homes, I am starting to lose hope. It seems cruel to tame a kitty only to end up leaving it in a feral colony. And that has happened to me all too often.

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