Over this past weekend, John took me to a hospital close to where he used to live on Long Island. He wanted to show me where he found a colony of cats a couple of years ago.
So we went there. The grounds this hospital is on is huge. He found the smattering of low-lying bushes where he first met these cats. And sure enough, if you looked hard enough you could see white and gray cats. All healthy looking yet not friendly. Feral cats? I guess you could call them that.
They get fed by what we assume are the hospital staff. There were foil pans near the building, hidden in the bushes filled with dry food and containers of water. They also took boxes, put straw in them, put a black garbage bag around them to create a wind-proof shelters.
These cats were beautiful.
John told me the first time he went there, there were kittens. Tons of kittens and as soon as he walked out of his car towards the building they all came running to see him. He picked them and they licked him and purred as their parents watched from beneath the bushes.
He's thinking of going this year when they have kittens and maybe take two of them. I am not sure I could take them away from their parents, but I also wonder if we did would it be better for them?
Any thoughts?
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I think it might be better to go to a local shelter and adopt kittens from there. With the ferals, you don't know what diaseses they may have and you could get stuck with HUGE problems.
That is very true. I told John that and I hope he will see that too and realize it would be cheaper in the end to get kittens from a shelter. They have their shots and usually have a deal for spaying. :)
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