I'm having an issue with my next door neighbor. She is a really nice person, good neighbor and we've gotten along well for years, except for when it comes to this one thing. She's a cat lover. She has 6 of them that live in her house. It would be too many for me, but that's just me. I prefer dogs, but don't mind cats. Have had cats in the past, just don't want to have any now. That said, here's the rest of the story:
There's another lady in our neighborhood, right across the street from me. She is also a cat lover. To the extreme. There are approximately 30 cats living in her yard at the present time. They are not her cats, are just wild cats that stay there because she puts out food and water for them. They don't belong to anyone, are feral, wild as can be. If they stayed there all the time it wouldn't be bad, but they don't. They roam the neighborhood, mating, peeing and pooing (all along the foundation of our house in the soft earth) and eating small squirrels and birds, climbing all over our cars and sneaking into our garage, getting into our trash...well, you get the picture.
The last few litters of kittens have had some severe deformities and eye problems, so you know they are inbreeding and during the hot muggy weather that we had a week ago a few of them just died in someone's yard. eeewww!
Anyway, my next door neighbor is trying to get some of us to trap them and take them to be spayed and neutered and "then they can come back." I said to her, "I would trap them and take them to be euthanized, I see no sense in bringing them back to remain homeless in our neighborhood."
She went berserk, ranting about the fact that I am a "cat-killer" and a sicko and several other things. She referred to "maybe someone should have your dog euthanised!" My dog is kept in our own yard, totally fenced, or in the house, never roams or defacates or anything else in anyone's yard but ours. And we are the ones who clean it up. I started to say that no one suggested taking anyone's pets, only the straggly homeless cats that are creating a nuisance in the neighborhood. (which she must agree with, as she's the one who came up with this plan) Before I could even get it out she went stomping to her own house, muttering and ranting all the way and got out her lawn mower and has been running it back and forth along the edge of my driveway ever since. She must be still ranting because when I looked out the window I could see her mouth moving like crazy as she mowed.
Here's my question....Am I so out of line by suggesting that the cats should be euthanised humanely rather than brought right back here to continue with being nuisances? I can't believe that what I said warrants such a tirade
There's another lady in our neighborhood, right across the street from me. She is also a cat lover. To the extreme. There are approximately 30 cats living in her yard at the present time. They are not her cats, are just wild cats that stay there because she puts out food and water for them. They don't belong to anyone, are feral, wild as can be. If they stayed there all the time it wouldn't be bad, but they don't. They roam the neighborhood, mating, peeing and pooing (all along the foundation of our house in the soft earth) and eating small squirrels and birds, climbing all over our cars and sneaking into our garage, getting into our trash...well, you get the picture.
The last few litters of kittens have had some severe deformities and eye problems, so you know they are inbreeding and during the hot muggy weather that we had a week ago a few of them just died in someone's yard. eeewww!
Anyway, my next door neighbor is trying to get some of us to trap them and take them to be spayed and neutered and "then they can come back." I said to her, "I would trap them and take them to be euthanized, I see no sense in bringing them back to remain homeless in our neighborhood."
She went berserk, ranting about the fact that I am a "cat-killer" and a sicko and several other things. She referred to "maybe someone should have your dog euthanised!" My dog is kept in our own yard, totally fenced, or in the house, never roams or defacates or anything else in anyone's yard but ours. And we are the ones who clean it up. I started to say that no one suggested taking anyone's pets, only the straggly homeless cats that are creating a nuisance in the neighborhood. (which she must agree with, as she's the one who came up with this plan) Before I could even get it out she went stomping to her own house, muttering and ranting all the way and got out her lawn mower and has been running it back and forth along the edge of my driveway ever since. She must be still ranting because when I looked out the window I could see her mouth moving like crazy as she mowed.
Here's my question....Am I so out of line by suggesting that the cats should be euthanised humanely rather than brought right back here to continue with being nuisances? I can't believe that what I said warrants such a tirade
