Bonsai
Heidi's Mom
I have not been here for a while, at least not since the passing of my Totoro, but I come here yet again because I am at a complete loss of what to do with one of my pets - my cat, Sadie.
Sadie has always been the "wild child" and she's a force to be reckoned with. She can, and will, get her way whether you want her to or not. And what she wants more than anything is to get outside. She has actually started hiding and will dart for the door the moment it opens - I have tried everything possible to keep her inside. Were my yard secure and kitty-proofed to keep her from going outside the fence, I would have no problem with her going outside. But it is not and she roams. Luckily she is fixed, but I am growing very concerned and torn.
I live in a busy part of town, flooded with traffic twice a day through the week and tons of people drive at breakneck speed down the street. So obviously I'm concerned for her safety, I'm afraid she's going to be run over. I can't do anything to keep her inside and no one else in the house is on-board with keeping her inside. I have argued and argued with everyone to try and keep her in but they won't listen. I have even used the "How will you feel if she gets run over? Are you going to be okay with that, if you're the one who let her out?" argument and they bluntly told me "She won't be the first one to be run over", entirely immune to it.
I know I can't keep her inside and I've been trying really hard to do so, but because I have to stay up during the night hours to care for my grandpa, I can't be awake during the day to make sure she doesn't go out. It also doesn't help she keeps getting pink eye and she is impossible to administer medicine to, which may be why it keeps coming back. This cat, despite me raising her, is impossible to control in any way. It is not for my lack of trying or my lack of handling her - she just hit 5~6 months old and she's been like this ever since. So at this point, I don't know what I should do.
I am considering rehoming her as a mouser/barn cat for someone in the nearby area. Its off the beaten path, away from cars - and she gets to enjoy being outside since she apparently loves being outside. She's fixed so she won't be having kittens left and right; she got all her baby shots when she was a kitten so she at least has decent resistance to disease. I honestly don't know what else I can do; all cat shelters are at capacity and the ones who aren't don't accept cats. I just don't feel she's in the right home and I feel like if I dally much longer, something bad is going to happen to her. And it isn't because of me that she isn't in the right home, it is because of my family who do not care enough about the value of Sadie's life.
So I guess what I'm looking for is others' thoughts. I don't really have anyone to bounce the idea off of, but I'm fairly upset and I want to know what others would do if they found themselves in my shoes.
Sadie has always been the "wild child" and she's a force to be reckoned with. She can, and will, get her way whether you want her to or not. And what she wants more than anything is to get outside. She has actually started hiding and will dart for the door the moment it opens - I have tried everything possible to keep her inside. Were my yard secure and kitty-proofed to keep her from going outside the fence, I would have no problem with her going outside. But it is not and she roams. Luckily she is fixed, but I am growing very concerned and torn.
I live in a busy part of town, flooded with traffic twice a day through the week and tons of people drive at breakneck speed down the street. So obviously I'm concerned for her safety, I'm afraid she's going to be run over. I can't do anything to keep her inside and no one else in the house is on-board with keeping her inside. I have argued and argued with everyone to try and keep her in but they won't listen. I have even used the "How will you feel if she gets run over? Are you going to be okay with that, if you're the one who let her out?" argument and they bluntly told me "She won't be the first one to be run over", entirely immune to it.
I know I can't keep her inside and I've been trying really hard to do so, but because I have to stay up during the night hours to care for my grandpa, I can't be awake during the day to make sure she doesn't go out. It also doesn't help she keeps getting pink eye and she is impossible to administer medicine to, which may be why it keeps coming back. This cat, despite me raising her, is impossible to control in any way. It is not for my lack of trying or my lack of handling her - she just hit 5~6 months old and she's been like this ever since. So at this point, I don't know what I should do.
I am considering rehoming her as a mouser/barn cat for someone in the nearby area. Its off the beaten path, away from cars - and she gets to enjoy being outside since she apparently loves being outside. She's fixed so she won't be having kittens left and right; she got all her baby shots when she was a kitten so she at least has decent resistance to disease. I honestly don't know what else I can do; all cat shelters are at capacity and the ones who aren't don't accept cats. I just don't feel she's in the right home and I feel like if I dally much longer, something bad is going to happen to her. And it isn't because of me that she isn't in the right home, it is because of my family who do not care enough about the value of Sadie's life.
So I guess what I'm looking for is others' thoughts. I don't really have anyone to bounce the idea off of, but I'm fairly upset and I want to know what others would do if they found themselves in my shoes.