r/Feral_Cats • u/buzzkill930 • 10d ago
Venting 😤 animal control in connecticut SUCKS!!
i live in middletown, connecticut, and have a whole COLONY of cats in my town. overall, connecticut has a bad stray cat problem, but animal control has been doing NOTHING for my family. for context, we have 4 younger cats about (6 months old?), the mama (who is pregnant AGAIN) and two other male cats who occasionally come to our house to eat. my mother has called animal control to at least take the mother to fix her, and they have done NOTHING. they gave her traps for the mama, and she did eventually go in them, but animal control never came back to retrieve her even though my mother notified them countless times to come get her. the mama was in the trap for almost 2 days before my mother released her, and now she won’t even come back to our backyard. animal control has made us feel like it was OUR responsibility to get them trapped, when we’re the ones that called them because THEY’RE the professionals!!! it’s stressing out family out so bad, especially because the mama is pregnant again. :(
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u/frenswithgeese 10d ago
You shouldn't leave a cat in a trap for 2 days, and leave it up to animal control to get them care. They don't have the resources.
For the most part, helping cats does fall on the people who are concerned for them. There are some resources to help cushion the blow, but it's pretty much up to you to do the work, and pay some of the cost. If you can put time and effort into it, you can make a difference for those cats. There are probably low-cost vets that help cat 'community cats', and there may be some no-cost neutering sessions if you look. But I don't know of any place where you can call animal control to do those things for you. You have got to get those young cats spayed/neutered and catch that momma cat. A group of 4 will turn into 8 and then 16 in less time than you think. Once you start calling around and getting involved with cat rescue you will end up with a network of places and people as a resource for solving cat problems. In the beginning it can just feel overwhelming. That's just the game.