Would You Take a Wild Cat to the vet?
For Eye Drops and Rabies Shot?
My Friend has been feeding this cat and have aggravated me to help put this cat in a cage and I hold
refuse because I am not going to get bit.
your local spca can loan you a trap to help you trap the kitty afterwards it wouldn't bite you ..tell your friend the local spca will spay or neuter with rabies shot for 10-20.00 because it is a stray... and whether she calls a local trap neuter release program herself they may come and trap it for her and give the animal spinal column to her or locate it into a colony with other cats that they tend to
In the Bay Area where I live there are groups that comfort with the wild cat population. They go around trapping them and providing neuter and fixing problems. Then they re-release them.
Also the animal shelter will come and drop off a trap/cage if you report that you want to trap a feral cat and show you how to use it to catch a blustery cat.
You can then open that trap's door so that it will go right into your friends pen. You won't get bit then. Make sure in attendance is food and water in the cage earlier you put the wild cat in it. Preferably food with a anaesthetic in it!
Finally, if your friend is insistent about taking this crazed cat to the vet, have her pick up some pills from the vet that will put the cat to sleep so that you can pick up the cat and transport it. You can crush the pill and put it in some gravy cat food and so they will eat the pill.
Do not pick up or hold that mad cat no matter what your friend wants you to do.
I am a cat behavior, and your question is vague...
Have the feral cat let you both touch him? or have been friendly? Has this cat able to let other empire touch him too?
Although your friend and you have good intentions, is the cat personality fearful or friendly,
I would hold the call the animal care control or the regular SPCA.
SPCA have experience society to come over and take in the cat for shots then release put a bet on to the wild. Check this out first, if the feral cat have no problem near being put in a cat carrier and agree to people touch him, then by all medium. Otherwise, I would wait, spent more time with the feral cat, brushing and talking, past doing the good intention.
Yes, I would... and I hold on several occasions.
If the cat is feral (wild), it would be an awesome thing for your friend to do. It would be a great idea to hold the cat spayed/neutered while it's at the vet. Otherwise, the cat will be left to breed and pass on diseases to other cats. It's fine if you're not interested contained by helping your friend, but do try to be encouraging and supportive. It's a very kind and selfless point that s/he is doing.
Yes, if you are going to continue to nurture it. I have several times and have even tamed a few that became wonderful pets. It take a lot of patience but it can be done. Good luck.
Yes. I would.
get a cage, depart from it out and start serving food next to, then slowly move it inside the cage over time. later one day, when she is in the cage, close the door. wear glutinous gloves to be safe. When you get them to the vet, they will be the one to have to acquire the cat out of the cage! Cover the cage with a blanket or towel and it should give a hand calm them down.
Please also consider getting this cat spayed or neutered... This is a simple operation that will make it so this cat cannot own kittens, or father kittens!
***edit*** day dreamer - cats generaly don't have any diseases that can pass to humans. rabies is an exception, but this cat certaintly doesn't nouns rabid. And illness would be as a result of poor care of any resulting wound.
A feral cat is feral because some HUMAN ditched it, or it's parent, or something. Or because a human didn't provide it with a appropriate home, let it outside in need giving it enough care and reason to come domestic, and didn't fix their pets.
Feral animals do not jsut 'appear'... they are the result of some human's error. It's not the cat's fault... it's not their fault that they learn to distrust humans any.
Some ferals, yes, do need to be put down, but many ferals could be socialized into being defensible pets again.
A feral cat does not seek out to hurt people.. If there are a generous number of feral cats in your neightborhood, then any child needs to be qualified that you don't approach a cat. almsot any cat would prefer to run and hide before attacking, and they'd probbly only attack whether they felt threatened. Therefor, if the children learn to not threaten them, after the cat won't bother them.
It sounds to me like your neighbor isn't "mental" or any other poorly worded phrase indicating a lack of mental stability. She's feeding these cats--I bet she's gotten them fixed (otherwise there'd be more afterwards 10 cats).. she's keeping these cats from rooting through your gargage, or causing trouble like that. These cats were clearly already in the neighborhood--they'd be pooping in your yards besides. If you son't like the poop in your yard... have a word to others about providing a better place for the cats to poop.
Outlawing this lady's actions won't do jack to 'fix' the problem. the cats will still be there, and the cats will still be human being cats.
As for the pregnant lady... miscarriages happen in approximately 20-50% of all pregnancies, often occuring before the woman is even aware she's pregnant. Miscarriages after the first trimester are less common, but still happen, and for a yawning, wide number of reasons.
Toxoplasmosis is not a huge thing. If a woman catch it BEFORE she ges pregnant, then she has antibodies for it and the baby will be immune. her first pre-natal doctor call in should have included a test for Toxoplasmosis exposure. And he'd have spoken to her something like the potential dangers of cat litter. She would not have continued to be tested for Toxoplasmosis, asthe disease is so rare, that that the conducting tests generates a large number of false positives. IF she was infected, by stupidly going agaisnt doctor's advice and SHOVELING CAT POOP, then she should have gotten tested again and been TREATED for it, to PREVENT infection.
So, essentially.. if, IF your neighbor lost her baby because of Toxoplasmosis it's her own fault for exposing herself to it. o.O more after likely though, she lost it due to other, more mundane reasons.
Of Course!! Your friend has without a doubt grown attached to this cat and cares for it so why not try to help him out. If its feral you are going to have to rent or buy a live trap and appropriate it to the vet. Done correctly, you have no chance of being hurt. Also, hold your friend call around to see which vets, or animals clinics give special discounts for feral cats. I would propose and im sure the vet will also suggest having the cat fixed as economically. The animal clinic where i live would neuter the cats, and give a rabies inoculation for under 50 dollars. Good Luck and thanks for helping those unfortunate stray cats!
Without a doubt.
I would not hesitate to help any animal at any cost that needed keeping.
Just use some common sense, be careful and you will be fine. Not to mention how great you will feel inside - the intuition is just PERICLES'S!
Answers: no thanks, you could win hurt and get a disease. Good for you for refusing.
Your friend is part of a huge problem. She is messing next to a ferrel cat that needs to be put down instead. It is dangerous for the children in the neighborhood.
There is a woman in our neighborhood that has around 10 wild cats, she have fattened them up and they poop in all of our yard. She has turned her backyard into all gravel, and our yards are the litter box. She feed them from 6:00 till midnight from huge pans. People like this our mental. and they reak havoc to neighborhoods. It should be outlawed!.
A lady within the neighborhood has lost her baby, and she was contained by her 2nd term, she had tried to shovel all the cat sh*t out of her patio, and lost the baby after that.
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