Thread:This is Mistress Kat/@comment-35145157-20180617230830/@comment-35243530-20181015102758

Yeah, I have a terrible time letting any of the kitties go too. But I sort of rationalize it this way - there are so many kitties in shelters that need homes. Mine have a home where they’re much loved, well fed, warm and safe. I’d rather see a kitty get out of a cage in a shelter than worry about my rescues finding another forever home. I’m slowly getting them all spayed and neutered, so births here are much on the decline. Many of my kitties here are pretty feral too. I’m thinking any that were just dumped in the country have a right not to trust humans too much. So those that want cuddles get them and those that don’t I encourage to trust me until I make a break through. (We found one under that back porch at New Years. She was so afraid of everything we had to trap her to get her inside anywhere.  Given that’s she was as terrified of other cats as humans, she ended up in the house where there are at least fewer cats.  It took me months to even touch her, but now she doesn’t like me to leave her side.  She’d been so abused!  Starving, cold, bedraggled and her tail at an odd angle - thankfully it healed!)  But I’m thinking that this can’t go on indefinitely as eventually we’d like to get an RV and head south in the winter. We won’t be able to take more than the house kitties, so I’m going to have to start letting any new kittens go. The place that does the spay/neuter for us will either let you pick them back up and let you release them back to where they’ve been living or will take them and find them homes. I figure this is a good compromise. The kittens are better socialized as I make a point of handling them from the very start when a litter is born. It’s funny. Some of the mothers get very tame and want attention from me when they’ve had a litter, then revert back after the kittens get big enough to start running around and eating on their own.

Love Yvette’s punk kitty! That’s what inspired me to get my own avatar. Well that and the only blonde avatar looked pretty insipid. LOL A few others on my FL have kitty avatars too, but what I suspect are pictures of their own little darlings.