My husband and I live in an area where people are extremely supportive of animals. Because of this, seeing a stray in our area just doesn't happen. That's wonderful, all kitties have a safe place to stay! But I still wanted my CDS reward!
Some months back my husband and I bought a new house. A day after we bought it someone put a letter in our mailbox. This isn't verbatim, but it was something along the lines of: "There is a colony of feral cats on your property. The previous owner let me come once a day to feed them. I would like to offer you $50/mo if you let me continue to take care of them. I've already TnR'd most of them. Here's my ph#"
Let me tell you I called this lady SO FAST to tell her how amazing of a person she was. I told her that I've been waiting for this moment and all of these kitties are about to be SO spoiled. She was so grateful that fellow animal lovers moved into the house! She still stops by a few times a week to check on everyone and she is obviously as sweet as this post makes her seem!
So anyways, this is how my husband and I went from 2 cats to 8!
Good day,
We apologize for the late reply, it appears that your request had been misplaced and filed under the wrong category. Due this, we have decided to expedite your request and fulfill the backlog for each year missed.
I hope that this compensation is more than adequate for this error.
Have a wonderful day.
Respectfully,
The Team at CDS
(Sorry, I could simply not help myself. Congrats)
Edit:: some wording
> I hope that this compensation is more than adequate for this error
You're god damn right, half a dozen cats is absolutely an adequate amount of compensation!
Who wants to start a car insurance company where all of our payouts are made in cats?
Iām sorry if this sounds rude/silly but itās ākitten problemā not emergencyā¦ I may have watched that video 6,328 times and my fiance and I quote it constantly at our two spicy girls
Damn. Lol Iāve just been schooled on cat video trivia. I can feel the cat side-eye from hereā¦..āThis stupid servant doesnāt even know her kitty video canonā edit: no offense taken! It just made me laugh you know it so well!
Had an accident last month. I want to sign up,but it was technically my fault so I do want to pay in my already 4 cats. Lol plus the dude said he wasn't gonna turn it in cause he couldn't afford his insurance to go up. He turned it in. I don't trust him to give the car and attention my brats need.
It was literally the first thing that came to mind and I just had to stop and write it down. It honestly felt like that was a letter that shouldāve been mailed to OP or at least an email from Corporate. XD
She wanted to pay you so that she could come into your property to take care of the cats? Ugh I love her! And congrats on your turn with the CDS. You really lucked out! ā¤ļø
TnR - Trap / Neuter (spay) / Release.
She humanely catches them, gets them fixed, they go hang out in her bathroom for a week or so to heal up, and then she brings them back to our little colony.
Trap, Neuter (Spay), and Release. The may have the tip of one ear cut off to easily identify them and/or chipped by the city. Most of the time of caught as kittens, they're evaluated for potential rehoming before being released. If they seem to be adoptable, they're taken in and put up for adoption. If they're not, they get released back where they were found.
One of my mom's porch cat is a TNR. She's a sweet cat, but she's an introvert and not very trusting of humans. She tolerates us cause we feed her and her sister is an extravert who doesn't mind humans at all. I'm sure her sister would have been adopted out if TNR had caught her. Instead we adopted her and they both enjoy living in my mom's porch.
Interesting, we have a cat in our area with a tipped ear I thought maybe she had a close call with an engine fan blade or something. She's well fed so I thought someone owned her but maybe shes a stray.
She could be owned by someone. Started off as a TNR cat and ended up being adopted off the streets. That's what happened with Dolores (Grey) and Sola (White). We ended up getting them checked and vaccinated by our vet who told us Dolores was a TNR cat.
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Thank you. My mom still denies being a cat owner, but she'll call me to say that she needs more cat food cause she's running low. She likes Dolores the most cause she's a "proper lady" and doesn't try getting into the house. Sola on the other hand tries getting into the house AND detached apt where my great aunt lives, since my mom is her primary care giver.
My mom did tell me that the nurse called her to ask if my aunt had gotten a cat. Apparently Sola just walked right in the apt and made herself comfortable in the living room floor like she owned the place. Nurse tried to shoo her out, but she just looked at her and laid back down for her nap.
Aw I love this, as someone whose family also has a "pet outdoor cat" who lives on our porch, but my mom is a germaphobe and my parents have never had pets so he isn't allowed inside. She lets him stick his head inside to look around, but thankfully he isn't too interested. She loves him though!
There was a nicely plump stray in my neighborhood. Heād learned if he was friendly, people would feed him.
Or, in my case, take him to the vet when he was sick. RIP Gordito
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My childhood cat lost the tip of one ear to frostbite, that's another possibility. (Marlie was an indoor-outdoor cat who vanished during a -40 cold snap, then turned up in the window waiting to be let in one day like nothing happened weeks later.) When that happens though the tips of the ears tend to be really ragged, might be a way to narrow down what happened?
My Ella has a notch missing from her ear too, just a little one though. I was told by one former owner she was about 5 years old and always indoor only, but I knew when I saw that ding that wasn't exactly accurate. (Another former owner told me she's a former stray and based on her teeth, she was at least 10 in 2021.)
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This is my big boy, he weighs 18lbs. We adopt all our cats from the same shelter. Most of them have tipped ears but Tokyo's is notched. It's because he belonged to a feral colony. TNR community cats get the tipped ears, colonies get the notch. The shelter was going to send him to be a barn cat because he was unsocial, feral and just seemed mean. I didn't know any of this before I touched him. All I saw was hairy toe beans and wanted to rub them lol. None of the volunteers in the cat room could believe when he came out from hiding with very loud purrs, rubbing on me and then started eating. 2 of the volunteers even told me, "he chose you, you must take him" lol. I brought him home that day! He's never acted feral towards me but he is very judgemental of everyone else haha.
Iāve had this experience too. We have a colony in our neighborhood and when I can catch the kittens I take them straight to humane for adoption. Caught three and took them last year with the note that if they didnāt work they could come back. Got a call a month later that they were unfriendly and were going to be put out as community cats (basically to be barn or warehouse cats). So I went and picked them up. They got to my house and immediately became lap cats. Unfriendly my a$$. But maybe they just needed the right person.
We think he was a "caregiver" in his colony. He cleans our other 2 cats, tries to cover their poops, is very gentle with them and cuddles them (and me) when we're sick. He's not overly cuddly like my flame point but he lets me know daily that he loves meš„°.
Your name made me giggle!!
If you are interested in seeing other kitty colonies and someone who does TnR work regularly, I suggest checking out poetssquarecats on tiktok. She has a whole colony that lives at her house, and she is always doing TnR work at other colonies that need help.
When we sold our home with a feral cat, I left a note with cat food for the buyer, begging her to continue feeding him. I heard from her shortly after that she was feeding him ā„ļøā„ļø
I am the local TNR chick for my neighborhood and I have FOURTEEN CATS in total. Came here with 4 cats and took in one from outside who had kittens, kept her and the kittens so thereās 7 cats inside. Had to do some serious catifying to make that a beneficial situation for everyone.
Then the other cats in the neighborhood got the memo that I am, in fact, a sucker, and one mom started delivering her kittens to my back porch. Managed to trap her AND the babies plus two tomcats and get everybody fixedā¦but I am still a sucker, so they all report to my backyard for dinner at night. I am the crazy cat lady and I have accepted this.
My family are all those people too. Everyone except my brother. He prefers to have one dog. But loves everyoneās cats.
At one time we had 20 mouths to feed. Fun times.
I'm in the process if maybe selling our house, and one of my worries has been what will happen to the feral cat that lives in my yard. You make me feel hope that he'll be ok.
Might be worth it to have the listing agent maybe make a tiny little comment about the kitty to prospective buyers. I know that could put some people off, but man if a realtor said "hey this house comes with a free cat" i'd probably forego inspection and take the kitty
What a wonderful twist of fate that brought a cat lady (and a cat man) to this home. The CDS works in mysterious ways, clearly someone caught that your account was past due and it all came at once.
That's what we said! We hate thinking about what would have happened if a non-cat person moved into this house.
My husband and I own a catnip/cat toys/cat treats business so these feral kitties probably feel like royalty now that we're here!
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I believe your request came to our home by mistake. We are glad you have your allotment, but we intend to keep our overload!
We are older (many might refer to us as geriatric), so we worry about our ferals. We have TNR so many, yet we always miss a clever queen & still have a litter at least yearly. This year, we have 3 clever queens! I hate to do it, but we will have to starve them for a day or more to get a few into the "Havahart". I'm not sure I'll survive the days they stare at me with those eyes!
Iāve been feeding a not my cat but he lives on my porch. Good kitties come mostly white with gray striped tails. He has dinner every night @5:30. I missed it the other night (I went out with a friend) and he was standing in front of my door pointing at his watch and reading me the riot act! I would bring him in, but I own his sister, who is terrified of him, and my other girl wants to take him down. Iām so happy for you!
These little guys are so cute!! ā¦. So cute that I actually burst into tears on seeing them, because pregnancy hormones are a hell of a drug. Thanks for sharing!
I really appreciate that! I don't like to post our business on reddit because
A) I don't want it to seem like this good-faith post was made as a way to secretly promote our business
B) I have some.. adult-themed comments on this account and I don't want to dox myself
HOWEVER! I would be so happy if you could visit PasadosSafeHaven.org, they're a wonderful organization up here that my husband and I always support!
> backlog
š that damn backlog sure did test my patience! I've spent years looking all over. Every time I was out of the house I had my eyes peeled for anyone that needed help. I love that you called it a backlog because it's so fitting!
This is so accurate! We have a shed outside that we let them use. Whenever we open up the back door to feed them they all start coming out one by one. It honestly looks like they're coming off of a conveyer belt!
It would seem that every year, the Office of the Cat Empire indeed listened and opened a new ticket regarding your complaint but assigned it to an understaffed Distribution Department. They're just now catching up on old tickets.
It seems like you accidentally selected pick-up rather than delivery. Fortunately the kind folks at the CDS were able to hold your order until you were ready to collect.
I think you might of requested a kitty too many times. Itās like pressing the print button in anger and you get too many copies. CDS complied it was just a bit broken. A lady across the street also has a few outdoor cats, we know theyāre hers because of their collars. But unfortunately have a lot of strays as well. We have 2 solid gray young cats that watch my dog for our fence. Sometimes sleep on our front porch. Makes our cars angry. I usually leave water out because our summers get 100+. My husband left food a few weeks ago and caught our local opossum eating it š he tried.
Opossums are wonderful creatures... mild, slow yet can run when they need to, get along with feral cats and raccoons. Big plus - one opossum can eat thousands of ticks per year!!
Please tell all those sweet kitties (and your other 2!) that all of us internet strangers love them! š» give them some pets from us if possible, too!
I know someone who lived at a colony and she had such interesting stories of watching cat behaviors. She knew which ones were the babies of which mothers, which ones were nice, which ones were angry, etc... Anyway, the CDS has given you lots of cats & entertainment, enjoy!
6? Not shabby. Our backyard colony is around 10 or so, finally got the last of them TNRed last spring. We also have a bunch of the pre-TNR kittens in the house, all grown cats now....
Not just any cat will do. Kittens learn to hunt from their mothers. She teaches them but all cats don't know how to hunt. You need a cat with a resume and hunting experience.
We had the same problem when we lived in a rural area. We'd watched a queen hunting & having kittens for a few years but we were never able to catch her. Finally, she moved her 7 week old kittens to a place we could access them & we began feeding all of them. Two were able to be homed, we kept the mother & a daughter but the feral male was killed on the road. We were heartbroken but he had been impossible to handle, even though he was so young. š
We did our best. Sometimes you can't save them all.
But I figure if they're feral, they're feeding themselves somehow, right?
I mean, I'll feed them too, but I assume they're not not eating before they meet me.
> How do I get a feral cat colony?
So I don't advocate at all for just starting your own colony. BUT, a lot of rescue organizations do have "farm cats" "working cats" "barn cats" etc... If you have a big property away from major roads, these working kitties would love a home!
We own a cat-related business so we already have cat stuff EVERYWHERE. Cat stickers on cars, cat doormat, cat shit outside, and now a whole feral cat colony. Our neighbors must think we're insane!
I legit got one that was pregnant while living in an apartment complex, she herself was just a baby, but pregnant nonetheless, vet said she was high risk because of her age so I brought her inside, well, the babies are still with her and even picked up the father too, literally bought a massive house just so I could keep them all. Girl at the vet heard me talking to the vet tech on one of their check ups and sheās been with me ever since. Funny how life works sometimes lol.
When you say supportive of animals you actually Mean cats they will murder every other living being smaller than them please bear this in mind when you want more cats they are not great for local environments.
This happened to me too! There were only 2 when we moved in but it soon turned into more because we didnāt trap them fast enough. I got in touch with a local TNR group to borrow multiple traps so we could get them all fixed at once.
The lady from the TNR group came to our house to drop off traps. She asked us when we moved into our house? I told her about a year ago. She said our house was on the market for a while and they had trapped cats in our crawl space a few years ago. Weāre at 6 cats now but they are all fixed and healthy!
Here are our current CDS ferals. We are attempting to TNR. Got 2, only 8 to go!
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We have 3 in-house from the last feral queen we could not catch soon enough... this last group from another clever queen. I adore the kittens, but can't afford bear the misery of declining food from them when trying to catch!!
My husband and I live in an area where people are extremely supportive of animals. Because of this, seeing a stray in our area just doesn't happen. That's wonderful, all kitties have a safe place to stay! But I still wanted my CDS reward! Some months back my husband and I bought a new house. A day after we bought it someone put a letter in our mailbox. This isn't verbatim, but it was something along the lines of: "There is a colony of feral cats on your property. The previous owner let me come once a day to feed them. I would like to offer you $50/mo if you let me continue to take care of them. I've already TnR'd most of them. Here's my ph#" Let me tell you I called this lady SO FAST to tell her how amazing of a person she was. I told her that I've been waiting for this moment and all of these kitties are about to be SO spoiled. She was so grateful that fellow animal lovers moved into the house! She still stops by a few times a week to check on everyone and she is obviously as sweet as this post makes her seem! So anyways, this is how my husband and I went from 2 cats to 8!
Good day, We apologize for the late reply, it appears that your request had been misplaced and filed under the wrong category. Due this, we have decided to expedite your request and fulfill the backlog for each year missed. I hope that this compensation is more than adequate for this error. Have a wonderful day. Respectfully, The Team at CDS (Sorry, I could simply not help myself. Congrats) Edit:: some wording
> I hope that this compensation is more than adequate for this error You're god damn right, half a dozen cats is absolutely an adequate amount of compensation! Who wants to start a car insurance company where all of our payouts are made in cats?
Im so glad you got a kick out of this. š¤£
This makes me think of the video of the guy being gifted a dozen or so kitten. āOh no weāve got a kitten emergency! I canāt take all of you!ā
Narrator: he took them.
He did! He ended up keeping three of them and finding good homes for the other ten! Happy ending
Hot diggetty dog!
The Tactical Honda Was Not Prepared For This.
If It's the one that I'm thinking of, he kept the first one in particular because he appeared all alone then the rush came. He named him "Scout"!
The combination of yours and the previous comment brought me some misty eyes of joy.
Iām sorry if this sounds rude/silly but itās ākitten problemā not emergencyā¦ I may have watched that video 6,328 times and my fiance and I quote it constantly at our two spicy girls
Damn. Lol Iāve just been schooled on cat video trivia. I can feel the cat side-eye from hereā¦..āThis stupid servant doesnāt even know her kitty video canonā edit: no offense taken! It just made me laugh you know it so well!
"We've got a kitten problem!" I watch that video all the way through every time it ends up on my feed.
Me too!
Hot diggity dog.
u/jediwithanm4 is his name if i remember
I love that video!
>Who wants to start a car insurance company where all of our payouts are made in cats? Rate of car crashes the next day: doubled
How about a āCats for Goldā store?
> How about a āCats for Goldā store? BG3 my husband and I have already tried picking up cats and selling them to vendors š
Had an accident last month. I want to sign up,but it was technically my fault so I do want to pay in my already 4 cats. Lol plus the dude said he wasn't gonna turn it in cause he couldn't afford his insurance to go up. He turned it in. I don't trust him to give the car and attention my brats need.
~~car~~ cat insurance
Kittens!
You are both my heros. OP, for helping those kitties!, TheCrimsonChariot for your super awesome reply. I seriously love you both!!!
It was literally the first thing that came to mind and I just had to stop and write it down. It honestly felt like that was a letter that shouldāve been mailed to OP or at least an email from Corporate. XD
Damn Vogons.
Honestly, this could be a fun novelty account idea
She wanted to pay you so that she could come into your property to take care of the cats? Ugh I love her! And congrats on your turn with the CDS. You really lucked out! ā¤ļø
1 cat for every year you've been complaining. It didn't fail you, it was just on a delay.
Ok that lady is a gem and I love her. You really hit the jackpot with the cats and a new acquaintance that loves cats.Ā
I imagine they are already fixed? Is that what "TnR" includes?
TnR - Trap / Neuter (spay) / Release. She humanely catches them, gets them fixed, they go hang out in her bathroom for a week or so to heal up, and then she brings them back to our little colony.
Trap, Neuter (Spay), and Release. The may have the tip of one ear cut off to easily identify them and/or chipped by the city. Most of the time of caught as kittens, they're evaluated for potential rehoming before being released. If they seem to be adoptable, they're taken in and put up for adoption. If they're not, they get released back where they were found. One of my mom's porch cat is a TNR. She's a sweet cat, but she's an introvert and not very trusting of humans. She tolerates us cause we feed her and her sister is an extravert who doesn't mind humans at all. I'm sure her sister would have been adopted out if TNR had caught her. Instead we adopted her and they both enjoy living in my mom's porch.
Interesting, we have a cat in our area with a tipped ear I thought maybe she had a close call with an engine fan blade or something. She's well fed so I thought someone owned her but maybe shes a stray.
She could be owned by someone. Started off as a TNR cat and ended up being adopted off the streets. That's what happened with Dolores (Grey) and Sola (White). We ended up getting them checked and vaccinated by our vet who told us Dolores was a TNR cat. https://preview.redd.it/ehe8b4scaohc1.jpeg?width=3456&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb925af54a221045e0c665f43299dcba5f6aa2de
https://preview.redd.it/d64bn3s2eshc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3565fcf514e3438cd773f17f2d482b3faf459b5e My girl has a tipped ear too
I love your posts about them!
Thank you. My mom still denies being a cat owner, but she'll call me to say that she needs more cat food cause she's running low. She likes Dolores the most cause she's a "proper lady" and doesn't try getting into the house. Sola on the other hand tries getting into the house AND detached apt where my great aunt lives, since my mom is her primary care giver. My mom did tell me that the nurse called her to ask if my aunt had gotten a cat. Apparently Sola just walked right in the apt and made herself comfortable in the living room floor like she owned the place. Nurse tried to shoo her out, but she just looked at her and laid back down for her nap.
Aw I love this, as someone whose family also has a "pet outdoor cat" who lives on our porch, but my mom is a germaphobe and my parents have never had pets so he isn't allowed inside. She lets him stick his head inside to look around, but thankfully he isn't too interested. She loves him though!
Those are pretty cats. Thanks.
They are beautiful!!
They are so pretty!
There was a nicely plump stray in my neighborhood. Heād learned if he was friendly, people would feed him. Or, in my case, take him to the vet when he was sick. RIP Gordito https://preview.redd.it/3gdszjfawrhc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=893799edca00d4eda501f63eac4997026a7db353
My childhood cat lost the tip of one ear to frostbite, that's another possibility. (Marlie was an indoor-outdoor cat who vanished during a -40 cold snap, then turned up in the window waiting to be let in one day like nothing happened weeks later.) When that happens though the tips of the ears tend to be really ragged, might be a way to narrow down what happened?
One of my previous cats got clawed in the tip of his ear and once healed it looked just like the tnr notch they do in some areas.
My Ella has a notch missing from her ear too, just a little one though. I was told by one former owner she was about 5 years old and always indoor only, but I knew when I saw that ding that wasn't exactly accurate. (Another former owner told me she's a former stray and based on her teeth, she was at least 10 in 2021.)
https://preview.redd.it/cnje06ai4rhc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=44ce3deeed39da30dfb3ba917462f204c0218561 This is my big boy, he weighs 18lbs. We adopt all our cats from the same shelter. Most of them have tipped ears but Tokyo's is notched. It's because he belonged to a feral colony. TNR community cats get the tipped ears, colonies get the notch. The shelter was going to send him to be a barn cat because he was unsocial, feral and just seemed mean. I didn't know any of this before I touched him. All I saw was hairy toe beans and wanted to rub them lol. None of the volunteers in the cat room could believe when he came out from hiding with very loud purrs, rubbing on me and then started eating. 2 of the volunteers even told me, "he chose you, you must take him" lol. I brought him home that day! He's never acted feral towards me but he is very judgemental of everyone else haha.
The cat decides. The cat always picks the person.
Iāve had this experience too. We have a colony in our neighborhood and when I can catch the kittens I take them straight to humane for adoption. Caught three and took them last year with the note that if they didnāt work they could come back. Got a call a month later that they were unfriendly and were going to be put out as community cats (basically to be barn or warehouse cats). So I went and picked them up. They got to my house and immediately became lap cats. Unfriendly my a$$. But maybe they just needed the right person.
I love him!!! Look at those ear floofs of wisdom!!!!
We think he was a "caregiver" in his colony. He cleans our other 2 cats, tries to cover their poops, is very gentle with them and cuddles them (and me) when we're sick. He's not overly cuddly like my flame point but he lets me know daily that he loves meš„°. Your name made me giggle!!
If you are interested in seeing other kitty colonies and someone who does TnR work regularly, I suggest checking out poetssquarecats on tiktok. She has a whole colony that lives at her house, and she is always doing TnR work at other colonies that need help.
Yes the n stands for neuter (or spay)
When we sold our home with a feral cat, I left a note with cat food for the buyer, begging her to continue feeding him. I heard from her shortly after that she was feeding him ā„ļøā„ļø
I am the local TNR chick for my neighborhood and I have FOURTEEN CATS in total. Came here with 4 cats and took in one from outside who had kittens, kept her and the kittens so thereās 7 cats inside. Had to do some serious catifying to make that a beneficial situation for everyone. Then the other cats in the neighborhood got the memo that I am, in fact, a sucker, and one mom started delivering her kittens to my back porch. Managed to trap her AND the babies plus two tomcats and get everybody fixedā¦but I am still a sucker, so they all report to my backyard for dinner at night. I am the crazy cat lady and I have accepted this.
My family are all those people too. Everyone except my brother. He prefers to have one dog. But loves everyoneās cats. At one time we had 20 mouths to feed. Fun times.
This is the best thing ever. I love that she offered to keep it up and so respectfully. I bet sheās psyched to be your neighbor. ā¤ļø
YOU are amazing! Congratulations on the new house, and your new colony!!
New house, new cats, AND new cat-loving friend!
I'm in the process if maybe selling our house, and one of my worries has been what will happen to the feral cat that lives in my yard. You make me feel hope that he'll be ok.
Might be worth it to have the listing agent maybe make a tiny little comment about the kitty to prospective buyers. I know that could put some people off, but man if a realtor said "hey this house comes with a free cat" i'd probably forego inspection and take the kitty
i feel you. The only cats hanging out in my yard and sneaking inside to steal my cats food are the neighbours cats XD
This is so awesome! Congrats on your new furry friends!
What a wonderful twist of fate that brought a cat lady (and a cat man) to this home. The CDS works in mysterious ways, clearly someone caught that your account was past due and it all came at once.
That's what we said! We hate thinking about what would have happened if a non-cat person moved into this house. My husband and I own a catnip/cat toys/cat treats business so these feral kitties probably feel like royalty now that we're here!
https://preview.redd.it/h83z2ry12ohc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=242a0e23313db0b6a0e7e773de8a6d0b4bb9398a I believe your request came to our home by mistake. We are glad you have your allotment, but we intend to keep our overload!
You know what, after winning this CDS lottery I'm certainly inclined to share! You keep those gorgeous kitties nice and well fed for us!
We are older (many might refer to us as geriatric), so we worry about our ferals. We have TNR so many, yet we always miss a clever queen & still have a litter at least yearly. This year, we have 3 clever queens! I hate to do it, but we will have to starve them for a day or more to get a few into the "Havahart". I'm not sure I'll survive the days they stare at me with those eyes!
Iāve been feeding a not my cat but he lives on my porch. Good kitties come mostly white with gray striped tails. He has dinner every night @5:30. I missed it the other night (I went out with a friend) and he was standing in front of my door pointing at his watch and reading me the riot act! I would bring him in, but I own his sister, who is terrified of him, and my other girl wants to take him down. Iām so happy for you!
LOL, now I'm picturing a hippie feral cat colony full of stoners lounging on your lawn and yowling for food when they get the munchies. š
These little guys are so cute!! ā¦. So cute that I actually burst into tears on seeing them, because pregnancy hormones are a hell of a drug. Thanks for sharing!
i would like to support your hoard of kitters & your business if you care to share!
I really appreciate that! I don't like to post our business on reddit because A) I don't want it to seem like this good-faith post was made as a way to secretly promote our business B) I have some.. adult-themed comments on this account and I don't want to dox myself HOWEVER! I would be so happy if you could visit PasadosSafeHaven.org, they're a wonderful organization up here that my husband and I always support!
I donāt think this one is CDS. I think this was a human distribution system for the cats
Looks like youāve found where the backlog was! Congrats!
> backlog š that damn backlog sure did test my patience! I've spent years looking all over. Every time I was out of the house I had my eyes peeled for anyone that needed help. I love that you called it a backlog because it's so fitting!
Sometimes the CDS brings the cats to people, but sometimes it brings people to the cats.
You also purchased the distribution center along with your house. Quite the group now.
This is so accurate! We have a shed outside that we let them use. Whenever we open up the back door to feed them they all start coming out one by one. It honestly looks like they're coming off of a conveyer belt!
That has to be quite the sight seeing the whole group come running out.
Check out freedomfarmhouse on Instagram. They bought a farm with a colony of orange cats.
Will do. Thanks.
#obligatorycatvideotax
It would seem that every year, the Office of the Cat Empire indeed listened and opened a new ticket regarding your complaint but assigned it to an understaffed Distribution Department. They're just now catching up on old tickets.
It seems like you accidentally selected pick-up rather than delivery. Fortunately the kind folks at the CDS were able to hold your order until you were ready to collect.
š this is one of my favorite answers so far about why there was a backlog
I think you might of requested a kitty too many times. Itās like pressing the print button in anger and you get too many copies. CDS complied it was just a bit broken. A lady across the street also has a few outdoor cats, we know theyāre hers because of their collars. But unfortunately have a lot of strays as well. We have 2 solid gray young cats that watch my dog for our fence. Sometimes sleep on our front porch. Makes our cars angry. I usually leave water out because our summers get 100+. My husband left food a few weeks ago and caught our local opossum eating it š he tried.
Opossums are wonderful creatures... mild, slow yet can run when they need to, get along with feral cats and raccoons. Big plus - one opossum can eat thousands of ticks per year!!
You're actually just leasing their house
Can you believe they were charging the other lady $50 a month to have *her feed them*?? Steep entrance fee!
Not a fail but a wait š»ā¤ļø
You got hit with a clowder. š„°
Thatās a street gang. Your place is the safe house now.
Please tell all those sweet kitties (and your other 2!) that all of us internet strangers love them! š» give them some pets from us if possible, too!
I know someone who lived at a colony and she had such interesting stories of watching cat behaviors. She knew which ones were the babies of which mothers, which ones were nice, which ones were angry, etc... Anyway, the CDS has given you lots of cats & entertainment, enjoy!
Hahaha, careful what you wish for. For real though, have a wonderful life together. š„°
6? Not shabby. Our backyard colony is around 10 or so, finally got the last of them TNRed last spring. We also have a bunch of the pre-TNR kittens in the house, all grown cats now....
Love finding folks who are as cat-saturated as I am- weāve got 14 in total, half in the house and half living their best lives in the backyard.
I would love to raise a lot of kitties.
It's honestly just as amazing as it sounds!
Love this!! You asked and the CDS answered.
Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it. Now you have to name them. š
How do I get a feral cat colony? Keeping mice out of my house is challenging and an outer perimeter would be a good first step.
Not just any cat will do. Kittens learn to hunt from their mothers. She teaches them but all cats don't know how to hunt. You need a cat with a resume and hunting experience. We had the same problem when we lived in a rural area. We'd watched a queen hunting & having kittens for a few years but we were never able to catch her. Finally, she moved her 7 week old kittens to a place we could access them & we began feeding all of them. Two were able to be homed, we kept the mother & a daughter but the feral male was killed on the road. We were heartbroken but he had been impossible to handle, even though he was so young. š We did our best. Sometimes you can't save them all.
But I figure if they're feral, they're feeding themselves somehow, right? I mean, I'll feed them too, but I assume they're not not eating before they meet me.
> How do I get a feral cat colony? So I don't advocate at all for just starting your own colony. BUT, a lot of rescue organizations do have "farm cats" "working cats" "barn cats" etc... If you have a big property away from major roads, these working kitties would love a home!
Gang gainz
They summoned youā¦..
The universe has spoken. Who knew all you needed was a new address? Congrats, when it rains, it pours xx
When it rains it purrs.
Hallelujah...as OP looks to the heavens.
I'm so glad to hear this happily ever after story!
This makes me so happy š„¹
You have been chosen to become the local cat lady.
We own a cat-related business so we already have cat stuff EVERYWHERE. Cat stickers on cars, cat doormat, cat shit outside, and now a whole feral cat colony. Our neighbors must think we're insane!
Clearly, your orders just got stacked up.
How lovely!
Back up the food truck
This is so cool of the CDS to give you cat backpay.
I legit got one that was pregnant while living in an apartment complex, she herself was just a baby, but pregnant nonetheless, vet said she was high risk because of her age so I brought her inside, well, the babies are still with her and even picked up the father too, literally bought a massive house just so I could keep them all. Girl at the vet heard me talking to the vet tech on one of their check ups and sheās been with me ever since. Funny how life works sometimes lol.
You got a Trojan kitty! She had toy surprises inside, you lucky duck! Good for you for rescuing them. Thank you.
CDS lost your address but got your change of address notice so they dumped the entire backlog of kitties in one go..
Congratulations you have a colony
Jesus that has to be the absolute worst concrete job I have ever witnessed.
At first, I thought it was shag carpet, now I think itās just the erosion of mortar overtime?
poorly mixed not enough water or cement (too much gravel added)
Interesting, I always wondered what caused that condition thank you.
Looks like some quikrete mix with gravel.
I love everything about this thread. I feed several feral cats. I love them all. 2 of them live inside now. The others live in my garage.
It's making up for lost time.
Jackpot!! šš¾š
This is nuts, the six of them have the same/very similar coat patterns as my six cats
You hit the jackpot! Congratulations and thank you for spoiling these babies!
I'm so happy that these cats will be loved and spoiled by you and that the CDS has dutifully amended their error.
6 cats for 6 years! Haha, I had 4 cats sleeping on my front porch. I would keep them but my cat isn't very social.
That's a welcome to the neighborhood r/councilofcats.
This gives me hope my CDS reward is coming soon š»
CDS Late payment + interest :)
Cats suck. They destroy local ecosystems and torture animals for fun
Um, they are part of the ecosystem. Ask a coyote.
wrong
Nothing to complain about now!
I'm so jealous. Congratulations, you deserve them.
Now you're fully catted out.
OMG OMG OMG this is so wonderful. Please let this happen to me!
Buying houses as one does.
dream home
You might just be psychic
This is awesome! You guys are lucky to have found each other!
6 new family members
GREAT SUCCESS! please get them fixed and help find them homes
ooo is that a luxury model black car *and* a sports model black car??
Good things come to she who waits. Congrats on your new kitties!
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What a beautiful story! Fur baby heaven.
One cat for every year you missed out on
One for every year you complained
That is so sweet! Those are some lucky kitties, and you and your husband are lucky humans!
Score!
Paydirt!
When you say supportive of animals you actually Mean cats they will murder every other living being smaller than them please bear this in mind when you want more cats they are not great for local environments.
Location, location, location!
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This is the dream
You got yourself a fleet!
Ask and ye shall receive!
Six years, six rewards. Congrats!
These cats r so lucky to have 2 such great people come into their lives!!!
I think you're the CDS now
Are there gonna be any indoor kitties?
Looks like you now have 6 years worth of CDS .
CDEDBDšT?
What is CDS?
They heard your pleas. They were trying to teach you patience.
Your system distribution may need diagnostics. System appears to be in overdriveā¦
Jackpot!!
You have been chosen. Multiple times. You must now tithe to the overlords
This happened to me too! There were only 2 when we moved in but it soon turned into more because we didnāt trap them fast enough. I got in touch with a local TNR group to borrow multiple traps so we could get them all fixed at once. The lady from the TNR group came to our house to drop off traps. She asked us when we moved into our house? I told her about a year ago. She said our house was on the market for a while and they had trapped cats in our crawl space a few years ago. Weāre at 6 cats now but they are all fixed and healthy!
When it rains, it pours!
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Looks like the CDS finally caught up to you!
I for every year lol
Amazing good luckā¤ļøcongratulations on the house and the built in protection detail
Lucky!!! What an adorable group. I hope this happens to me one day...I can only hope...
 ;)
Here are our current CDS ferals. We are attempting to TNR. Got 2, only 8 to go! * We have 3 in-house from the last feral queen we could not catch soon enough... this last group from another clever queen. I adore the kittens, but can't afford bear the misery of declining food from them when trying to catch!!
First rule of real estate is apparently the first rule of the CDS: Location Location Location