It has to happen. SHe has no nails, one dislocated toe, she is thin as a rail, I can't tail if there is tooth infection or not, she won't let me examine her. Fleas will be here anytime. I told Mom it is nice to offer food and for now, I will give her a handful but just dang it. I shoveled up about 30 piles of cat crap from around their porch to get rid of the flies. Why do you think her eyes are like that? I doubt she can even see correctly to add to the rest of her old problems. I don't talk to the owner next door, it is that if you have nothing good to say kind of thing. Everytime she comes home and says HELLO VICTORIA KITTY I want so badly to unleash my mouth but it would do no good. Better the cat just goes in a box and to the vet. I hate having to be the one to do it. SHe wants to come down and hang out with me while I paint, and if it wasn't for the cardinals sitting on another nest in my grapefruit tree a few feet away (something I enjoy tremendously seeing) I would let her. But then she would start pooping on my porch, and garden. So there is an imaginary line on the sidewalk. I feed her across that line and tell her to go back to it and she does. I feel mean and I don't like feeling like that. She's lonely, and sweet, and deserves so much better. I figure her age is anything elderly, it is really hard to tell with her being in such crappy shape. I figure we will take it day by day. Euthing someone else's animal is a tricky situation. Especially someone who is already hostile and not open to common sense. SHe would never know, I gave the cat to another home once. The son said Oh I thought you were dead when she came back. I have to get Neccy back for the final of her vetting which is more than I bargained for too. One man told me about some cat rescue, I am going to talk to him too. She has an area of about 30 feet she stays in. WHich is why I wonder if she really can't see well or if it is total fear of not being able to protect herself. She slammed her paws all over Pepper one morning. Pepper just stood there and in amazement. My dogs could have killed her a hundred times over. ONe day the wrong dog is going to come through here and that is no way to die either. I am so very weary of the way animals are treated here I cannot begin to put it into words. AT least she has stopped attacking the dogs as we come out the door. I only have one door we can go out.
Thank you for caring Taq. ((((HUGS)))
oh and Victor got up there on that by himself, not bad for an old man of 8.
What do you think you're going to do with the kitty? If she needs to be vetted (or if euthanizing is the best option) let me know, I can help with costs. She's very pretty.