I'm so terribly worried. As all animal help organizations are closed, we will have absolutely no support. We were having a good rhythm in getting the friendly strays into Org T for adoption. And we were in contact with few organizations to get help with TNR (trap neuter return). Now everything stopped.
What makes is even harder is that the mating season is ongoing. We already saw some pregnant cats. We also saw the males being more aggressive and the young females more scared.
Last week we took to be spayed Lizzy, Petra and one from outdoors. Lizzy, we took in when she was very very pregnant, she is the mom of Anthracite, Brave Heart, Bennie, Peaches and Little Lizzy. It's a long story. I'll tell you now shortly, that she wasn't friendly enough to enjoy to be touched, but she also wasn't making any trouble in the house and she seemed very happy in the house. We haven't taken her earlier to be spayed because there is no unfixed male around the house to get her pregnant and we didn't want to stress her with the surgery. But then she got in heat, and she was very vocal and we were afraid that the neighbors will eventual complain. The good think about that in heat period was that she was friendlier, so I was able to pet her and hold her.
Petra is the sister of my first baby kitten saved, Maya. And there is one more sister, Mimi, that we got in with her baby Tzompi, during the winter. We always wanted to adopt the whole Mayas family, but it finally happened because Mimi had the baby, after having another litter that hasn't make it.
One from outdoor was Cookie, she is a beautiful black brown with a little white long hair one. We suspected she was a little pregnant. All the animal care organization spay the pregnant cats, even the very pregnant ones. We are against spaying the very pregnant ones, but we agree with spaying the ones that don't really show much belly. Cookie was friendly outdoor but we couldn't put her in a carrier. We had to trap her.
One from outdoor was Cookie, she is a beautiful black brown with a little white long hair one. We suspected she was a little pregnant. All the animal care organization spay the pregnant cats, even the very pregnant ones. We are against spaying the very pregnant ones, but we agree with spaying the ones that don't really show much belly. Cookie was friendly outdoor but we couldn't put her in a carrier. We had to trap her.
I don't know how to handle the recovery from spay/ neuter surgery for unfriendly cats in an apartment. I mean I don't have the space. The truly feral ones should be kept in the trap as they recover and they eat and pee and poo there. I understand people use their garages, but we don't have one.
Cookie, I was sure I can handle in the house for few days, I put her in the empty room. The plan was to see if she is friendly enough for adoption. And I was prepared to put her back if she was not... Lizzy, took more then a year to get friendlish, I don't even think they are ready now for adoption. Mimi seams to be the same, she was very protective of her daughter Tzompi. Petra meanwhile had no worries but to allow us to spoil her. Anyway I cannot keep more cats for months in the house to maybe... acclimatize. I want to have that room (and closet) to help others. But, Cookie is friendly, so she is in, please don't count how many I have in... now I really need the shelters to open to take some off my hands.
My husband wanted to bring one of the pregnant ones that was very friendly, home, I said OK, I still have a closet empty. But he couldn't get her. It seems that as they get closer of the due date they get more cautious. And then, she wasn't pregnant anymore. And...we had some usually cold days for this time of the year to "help" the kittens.
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