05/09/2026
Exactly. Be the one that cares 🫶🏻
A post from " Memories" SIX years ago, let that sink in and it still needs repeating in 2026...
ORIGINALLY POSTED IN THE FERAL CAT ALLIANCE
“(These ferals) are not my problem and I shouldn’t have to fix them!”
How many times have we seen this comment from someone complaining about feral cats in their yard?
Raise your hands!! 👋👋
I want to ask these people one question...
“What makes you think WE have to fix them??”
I’ll be crystal clear here.
I NEVER wanted more than two indoor cats.
If you had told me six years ago that I’d be caring for FOURTEEN cats, I would have told you, “no way!”
Then this little Casanova brought his pregnant girlfriend to my yard.
And I honestly didn’t want to “deal with it”.
I had just lost my father. Everything in our house and my life was falling apart. My Penny’s diabetes was unregulated and my Weeny was dying of mast cell cancer.
I am JUST as “busy” as the next person.
But you know what?
SOMEBODY has to care.
These unfixed and unwanted cats and kittens are NO more MY fault than they are YOURS.
I’M not the one who failed to spay or neuter my cat. I have ALWAYS spayed and neutered every pet I’ve ever had as soon as they were old enough.
But someone needs to care.
“Those feral cats” didn’t ask to be turned out when their irresponsible owners moved away and left them behind.
“Those feral cats” didn’t ask to be born under a barn in the wild.
But somebody has to care enough to be a part of the SOLUTION.
So I stepped up.
And I promise you this, if I hadn’t stepped up to help them and break the endless cycle of unwanted kittens, the 14 cats I care for would have been HUNDREDS of cats by now.
If you can’t be a part of the solution, please stop complaining about the problem.
And stop laying blame on these cats and the people who spend THEIR TIME and THEIR MONEY to control the feral population and start placing the blame where it BELONGS...
With the irresponsible pet owners who don’t spay and neuter their pets and then dump the unwanted kittens back in the woods or in a known feral cat colony...
With the backyard breeders...
With the people who take a kitten because it’s cute, fail to fix it, and then “get rid of it” when the novelty wears off or when the cat goes in heat or urine marks...
With those who fail to fix their cats and then move away without their cat, leaving their cat to breed endlessly and fend for herself.
THESE are the people you need to harrass. NOT those who work endlessly and selflessly to fix the problem that SOMEBODY ELSE created.
Enough 🤚