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submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

You can just lure them inside with wet food!

We saw this absolutely SCRUNGLY little thing with a paw on our back door, but she bolted when she saw us. I lured her out of hiding with some wet food and a bowl, giving her small amounts at a time and gradually moving it closer to our back porch. She was entirely too young and hungry to be outside (she ate 2 whole cans of wet food at once. Even our fattest of cats are satisfied with one), so we made a plan to trap her. The trap turned out to not be necessary as she got bold after a week and let me sit with her and even pet her a bit! She did get startled and slash me up a little bit (rabies shots are ASS) but she is a sweetheart. Since she kept coming to the door we decided to quarantine our other cats and open it and lure her in with food. It eventually worked and we have her quarantined in the bathroom for now. Sadly we already have 5 cats and their politics are already complicated enough, but we found her a forever home with someone who will spoil her rotten.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

The Cat Distribution System

That's just assholes intentionally neglecting to spay or neuter their pets. It's something we should feel terrible about

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

I feel like this is something between a woosh and an overreaction. ๐Ÿ˜…

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Eh, it's a bit of an overreaction, but I hate people being cutesy over something that's really pretty terrible for the animals

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

That I can totally see, it's a shame that it happens at all. great they adopted the cat though, warms my heart โ˜€๏ธ

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Absolutely. Great individual action in a pretty shit situation.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I know about that dude. Someone abandoned them at the front of my house.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe it's more like recycling, though? ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿฝโ€โ™‚๏ธ

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