Neighbor demands kittens from stray cat I feed
Neighbors who refuse to contribute to a stray animal's care often demand kittens or claim ownership after you have done all the work. This puts you in a difficult position of shouldering all responsibility while managing entitled demands for the offspring, leaving you unsure of your actual obligations.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Keeping the cat indoors
- 2Setting up an outdoor shelter
- 3Finding other people to rehome the kittens to
- 4Tapering off dry food and encouraging them to go home
- 5Talking to the owners
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“And today I got a message from her saying and I quote "oh yeah im gonna need 1 kitten no actually 2 i've got people who want them".”source ↗
“I don't know if it's OK to just sort of... Let them coexist with us? As what point do I have a responsibility to care for them more? It feels a bit like they chose us.”source ↗
Where this came up
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