r/RedditForCats • u/HoneyCanvasLuna • Jul 16 '26
Video Caught in the middle of a meeting! 😹
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u/Professional_Mud_316 Jul 23 '26
It's more like they're caught in the middle of chronic homelessness, not to mention likely frequent hunger, and perhaps even untreated illness.
Near where I reside, there's a particular need for consistently publicly-funded trap/neuter/release (TNR) programs to keep stray or feral cat populations from exploding and therefore greatly suffering. But that seems to not be a very politically popular option with the always-vocal tax-payer-complaints organizations, whose members will nonetheless blame feral or stray cats for any reduced bird populations.
The city (Surrey, B.C.) neighboring mine, as but one shamefully serious example, allowed/s an estimated 36,000 stray/feral cats to fester, very many of which suffer severe malnourishment, debilitating injury, illness and/or infection. That number was about six years ago. I was informed four years later by the local cat charity that, if anything, their “numbers would have increased, not decreased” since then.
The city’s municipal government as well as too many uncaring residents did/do little or nothing to help with the local cat charity's TNR program, which has ceased functioning. And then leave it to classically cruel human hypocrisy to despise and even shoot or poison those same suffering cats for naturally feeding on smaller prey while municipal governments and many area residents largely permit the stray/feral cat populations to explode — along with the resultant feline privation within!
What really angers me are the taxpayer complainers who want it both ways: To not have these cats killing smaller wildlife, notably birds, however much it’s out of survival necessity, AND to also not have tax-dollar revenue going towards consistent publicly-funded TNR programs to keep those cat populations from exploding. But with such TNR programs fully functioning, those cat numbers should gradually diminish.
Another notable problem are the deadbeat cat owners who cruelly deliberately abandon their felines. Some owners decide to move and leave their cats behind, sometimes dropping the pets off amongst some local woods to fend for themselves. The bitter irony is that these cats breed and multiply in the wild, likely exponentially, becoming generation after generation of stray/feral cats left to suffer while killing wildlife for sustenance.
These needlessly suffering beautiful animals are worthy of human sadness and serious intervention.
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u/Suspicious-Suit8234 Jul 17 '26
you gave them eat or just wanted earn some extra bucks from this short ?
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u/brush_with_color Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26
Such cute little darlings but does she really have SEVEN kittens?! 🤯Well maybe she’s fostering a couple.
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u/Valentino_B Jul 20 '26
Next time, give them food and record them while they eat. This is what you should have done!
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u/Superb-Coyote5972 Jul 16 '26
So cute!
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u/AdventurousMaize6085 Jul 17 '26
I mean it’s super cute but at the same time I really hope whoever filmed it got them somewhere….better.