Stray Kitties: The Rehoming

[lavendertook]

Starting the end of October, something that's been taking up quite a bit of my time and energy has been the rehoming to a rural area of Oestra and Brigit, the semi-feral bonded kitties I had been feeding and socializing at the New Carrollton Metro garage the past 3 years. Click on pics to embiggin these pretties.


OESTRA KNOWZ WHUT U DID THAIR!!!


BRIGIT: A STUDY IN FLUFF ON CONCRETE

You can find past posts on the girls here, here, here, and here.

The saga has been kind of a roller coaster, and I will catch you up on it bit by bit. But today was a hard one because a truck hit a little calico near where I last saw them, and I had to check out the body a neighbor there kindly showed me. It thankfully wasn't Oestra, but it was still a dear little cat, and damn if it didn't look a lot like her. It was a long, cold, trip home. I wasn't completely sure it wasn't her until I got home, went through all my pictures of her, and could, without doubt, note the different markings on the ears and face. Thankfully, it was not Oestra. Still, poor pretty little stray.

I now have Saki and Tuxie cuddling on either side of me, and yay for the happy indoorness of my homecrew! And Moo and Tuxie most definitively chose this indoor lifestyle themselves without any coercion from me; i.e., they moved in with never a by-your-leave, bless them. (-: I never wanted to have to worry about outdoor cats ever, but Oestra and Brigit are not yet able to be otherwise, still being too feral, so life happens. In a better world, every cat would have a soft cushion to curl up on, in the sun by day and beside a fireplace by night. *hugs to you all*

Comments

[romeny.livejournal.com]

I'm a little confused. Do you mean you re-homed O & B in another area with another family to look after them? How'd you manage that & why do you think it's a better place for them?

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

They were never living with a family--they were living in and around the New Carrollton parking garage by the Metro Station. A,. who works with cat rescue organizations, and I brought the strays to a guy recommended by rescue workers who said he would take the kitties to live at his horse stables in Warwick, MD--I will tell more about this in detail in other posts. It hasn't worked out as well as I had hoped.

I ask myself that last question daily. There were people at the parking garage who did not like the cats sitting and walking on their cars, were complaining to the management, and were taking active measures against them by stealing and throwing away the food bowls we would leave for them, and there's no telling if they would rachet up their acts against the cats.

The new place is better in having a lower concentration of mean or crazy people who might want to hurt them, though I'm sure there'll be some, and a lower concentration of traffic, though the traffic in the new place is still plenty dangerous, as the dead cat I saw yesterday is not the only dead cat I've seen on the roads around there, and the strays have chosen a territory that crosses a busier road than the one on which that cat was killed. But it is worse in some other respects I will post about later. I've been working as a kitty ambassador and social worker of sorts in the new neighborhood in hopes of making their situation better to a point where there are good people looking after them and they don't have to revert to living completely ferally, a lifestyle that is harder and short.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Also I love your siamese kitty icon. (-: