Barn Cat?

[ovrszd]

Normally in TBN threads it's the "Safety Police" that come out. Here it's the "Health Police".

In the couple posts that MountainGuardian has contributed to this thread and the 5 total posts he's contributed to TBN it's amazing that there are those that know his situation better than he. From his description it appears his cat situation is successful and accomplishes it's intent. Who am I to suggest that he's doing it wrong?? :confused3:

 

[/pine]

Around here 40 cats on a property without vaccines or veterinary care would be a criminal animal hoarding case.

I would term that a "shooting gallery"

 

[MountainGuardian]

Nothing to do with animal hording, has to do with everyone thinking you are great people drop cats off on, and when you say no you still wind up with cats.... go figure.... Same goes for dogs and vehicles and other misc junk people like to collect... Everyone seems to think that if you have 200 acres you won't mind having all this stuff hanging around your place. When we sold the place I had 22 vehicles hauled to the salvage yard, of which we owned like 4.... I had people showing up with entire trailer loads of junk from their houses wanting to store it, sister in laws storing one household of stuff after another out there. It nuts how people take advantage of someone with acreage. I learned my lesson though, I have not and will not allow any of that here at the new farm.

 

[deerseeker001]

[22 vehicles that would have got you a check of over 2.000 dollars here for sure. QUOTE=MountainGuardian;3994813]Nothing to do with animal hording, has to do with everyone thinking you are great people drop cats off on, and when you say no you still wind up with cats.... go figure.... Same goes fdogs and vehicles and other misc junk people like to collect... Everyone seems to think that if you have 200 acres you won't mind having all this stuff hanging around your place. When we sold the place I had 22 vehicles hauled to the salvage yard, of which we owned like 4.... I had people showing up with entire trailer loads of junk from their houses wanting to store it, sister in laws storing one household of stuff after another out there. It nuts how people take advantage of someone with acreage. I learned my lesson though, I have not and will not allow any of that here at the new farm.[/QUOTE]

 

[ovrszd]

For a while I was the dump off place for dogs. Had 5 dumped on me within 18 months. I kept them all. Only one is left. Dumping stopped. Nothing I did, just stopped.

 

[KiotiKowboy]

MountainGuardian, I don't want to be see as piling on or just giving you pointless grief. Believe me, I am more than a little familiar with abandoned animals. I'm just asking/suggesting you do the humane thing. If you have decided to keep any of them, at least provide the minimal basics of care. That would be spay or neuter and vaccinate for lukemia, FIV and rabies. Doing anything less only prolongs their misery. These animals have already endured the hardship of neglect from one or more low-life ignoramuses. Please be the steward you were meant to be. It actually feels good to know you've done what you can to give these unfortunate animals a better life.

 

[SPIKER]

MountainGuardian, I don't want to be see as piling on or just giving you pointless grief. Believe me, I am more than a little familiar with abandoned animals. I'm just asking/suggesting you do the humane thing. If you have decided to keep any of them, at least provide the minimal basics of care. That would be spay or neuter and vaccinate for lukemia, FIV and rabies. Doing anything less only prolongs their misery. These animals have already endured the hardship of neglect from one or more low-life ignoramuses. Please be the steward you were meant to be. It actually feels good to know you've done what you can to give these unfortunate animals a better life.

Kind of funny that for hundreds, well heck tens of thousands years we as HUMANS never spayed, neutered, gave shots to or provided only food sources to the animals we kept... The real fact is that for the most part isolated cases spring up & go away pop up elsewhere & go away....

Some critters die early but in the long run it is the Doctors/veterinarians and pharmaceutical industries who push all these "NEEDS" onto people (and Pets) attempting to get people to blindly follow their directions of taking hundreds of pills, shots etc... Again even in my lifetime the pet care industry has gone from a few million bucks a year to hundreds of billions of dollars spent per year. People in other countries think USA is full of crack pots and idiots (well from some posts here I tend to agree with them) critters are critters they will survive & live within their needs. Everything living will die some sooner under a tire, old age or from getting sick, simple nature...

M

 

[FTG-05]

It's funny how people keep saying don't feed them or they won't hunt.

My experience is that in just a few days of making it so my four shop cats could go in and out as they please: They're eating less cat food (even though its gotten colder here) and they've gained weight! It appears their supplementing their income via extensive night hunting. Good for them!

 

[FTG-05]

inadvertent double post - ignore.

 

[Country Geek]

MountainGuardian, I don't want to be see as piling on or just giving you pointless grief. Believe me, I am more than a little familiar with abandoned animals. I'm just asking/suggesting you do the humane thing. If you have decided to keep any of them, at least provide the minimal basics of care. That would be spay or neuter and vaccinate for lukemia, FIV and rabies. Doing anything less only prolongs their misery. These animals have already endured the hardship of neglect from one or more low-life ignoramuses. Please be the steward you were meant to be. It actually feels good to know you've done what you can to give these unfortunate animals a better life.

Even if he is deaf to that appeal he should at the very least get them vaccinated for rabies. That can be done pretty cheaply, you can buy the rabies vaxes from farm supply catalogs. If not for the good of the animals, for his own safety. Rabies ain't something to mess with.