Last fall one of our neighbors released her 5 little kittens and then refused to let them return to their home for food, water or shelter. The neighbors tried to catch them but kittens are fast. Out of the five only three survived.
One of the kittens had reached mating age and kept getting beat up daily. So my husband and I decided we would trap and pay for him to be neutered. From the looks of this skinny, dirty and beat up kitty we thought that he may have Feline Leukemia or Feline Immunodeficiency Disease. The sooner we trapped him the better.
It took me ten days to get him dependent on us feeding him. And once he felt safe with us we were successful in trapping him.
He was negative in cat disease, he was neutered, given shots and a dose of revolution for mites in his ears, and infestation of fleas and ticks. They also gave him a bath and he is recuperating at the veterinarian over the weekend.
We will pick him up on Monday and after a few more days of rest we will pursue responsible cat adopters.
I am not sure why people release their kittens like this but do think that there should be a law to prevent this type of abandonment.
