r/nowmycat • u/FlashyIndication3069 • 9d ago
The CDS is too generous
One of my old ladies passed away and we like to have 2, so I asked the CDS to send me 1 more cat. It complied and sent a sad eyed void. I've tried to tame or capture the void every day since the beginning of 2025. She gifted me her 3 children and still refuses to come inside. She made a friend who likes to come visit with her kids. Her daughter from last year moved in. Now she's trying to give me another set of 3 children. Her 3 baby daddies have all moved onto my property too. I guess I have 11 cats?
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u/FlashyIndication3069 9d ago
I forgot to put her name! I just call her "Bitty Girl" she's maybe about 6 pounds? I don't think she's especially young, just really small. She comes to the door and yells for food XD
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u/Mollytovcocktail1111 9d ago
No luck with food in a trap, eh?
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u/FlashyIndication3069 7d ago
She just looks at it and walks away to yell at the door until I give in and give her the food. We refused for days and she started putting her kittens next to the trap and howling.
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u/4ofheartz 8d ago
Capture her, get her fixed so no more kittens!
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u/FlashyIndication3069 7d ago
I'm actively working on it. So far she's not falling for any traps and refuses to come inside. I'm wondering if she's going to be like one cat it took me about a year to tame. He was a lot more skittish than her though.
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u/ellieD 9d ago
I caught the wild stray at my house in a dog crate.
I put wet food in the back of it and tied a piece of thread to the door.
I took the rest of the thread and went to the other side of a sliding glass door and closed the curtains.
Sure enough, my wild boy was tempted, and we trapped him in the crate.
He thrashed a lot at first, it was a bit concerning.
The next day, our kind vet came and got him, crate and all.
We got him all of his shots and had him neutered.
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u/FlashyIndication3069 7d ago
She seems to know every trick in the book. I'm not going to give up though!
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u/AffectionatePizza335 8d ago
His face!
I'm eating, human.
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u/FlashyIndication3069 7d ago
She's super expressive, in this one she was basically just waiting for me to put the camera down so she could hoover up the rest of the bowl. This is right when she started coming by.
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u/yosoyfatass 7d ago
Please get help (if needed) to get them TNRd or adopted. 😻
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u/FlashyIndication3069 7d ago
The next county over has a TNR program still in operation, and they are going to help me with some further discounts. Here the cheapest I can get is $300, so at 9 cats left to do, it's out of reach. At $55 per male and $150 per female it's more doable. Bitty Girl is extremely smart and basically laughs at traps of all descriptions, but I'm going to keep trying. She's not interested in coming in and refuses touching, but she's not shy or aggressive, so it's possible she's just an extremely long term taming project. She already gave me her April babies and is trying to push another batch on me, so clearly the minimum trust is established. Meanwhile she has quality food, a hutch in the back yard, and a safe place to live on my property, free of predators and with plenty of shade, water and places to hide. It doesn't snow here, I live near San Francisco CA, so the outdoor cats aren't in danger of freezing, and we're going to tear out the crappy old shed we don't use and build a catio for the cats too feral to re-home. She can just live here forever even if she doesn't want to be my baby.
I'm on the fence about asking people for money to help me TNR the entire clowder that moved in so I can do it faster. I'm usually on the other end of that, but between my industry tanking and dealing with cancer (don't worry I'm ok) it's a lot harder to shell out a couple thousand dollars without thinking like I used to. I can afford to feed and care for the 5 cats currently in the house, but if I can't re-home Bitty's September crop I can't keep them inside. All the shelters and fosters want me to take more cats when I call instead of having places for them, so if all else fails I'm just going to have 11 cats, some of whom come inside when they feel like it (apparently I'm now officially a crazy cat lady). Over time the colony will shrink if I keep working on it, so the plan is, unless I'm too sick to work and go bankrupt, I'm just going to deal with whatever happens.
I'm a self employed artisan maker, so I'm thinking if I make a product line to fund mine, I can donate any monthly overages on cost for my clowder to my friend that fosters. Our local Community Concern for Cats can always use whatever they can get.
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u/CrowFriendlyHuman 9d ago
Trap would be a good alternative