That's true, but aside from the adopted part do we have any idea about long-term success?
This I didn't know about, I thought they still produced milk after being spayed so would basically hang around as normal.
Maze was in that 6 week or so window when I found her.
I don't disagree with this on its face. That's probably the biggest reason I picked up Maze since we put poison out in accordance with city ordinance outside our warehouse, we're next to a busy highway and have even bigger predators like coyotes out here, not to mention just the obvious threat of getting run over by an employees' car or one of our semi's.
I guess again my biggest worry is the foster and what kind of family they can find. Obviously only the foster and organization really knows and I don't think people willing to foster ever have bad intentions and there's obviously going to be a skill level involved where some are newer than others, others are better because they can put more time into it whatever, I just don't know if many people would actually hold onto a kitten that was feral if the foster wasn't able to really work that out before adoption. Clearly there's middle grounds, maybe the cat could be a farm cat and I know some businesses have kept cats for pest control and while that wouldn't be legal in my city in the US I don't know what it'd be like for Chile, so there's options for cats that are in that middle ground between feral and sociable. And given patient adopters that work with a kitten just spending a day with a foster can be overcome so it's not hopeless. I guess what I'm worrying about is what's the odds that the kittens just get thrown out for being a jerks and die outside anyways just out of the posters sight and is that better where as at least where they are, dangerous as it is if the poster was willing they could have food?
I guess it's just the idea of the foster saying they'd only hold onto them a day or two, just kinda rubs me the wrong way, you know. Obviously I can't know the situation but I usually approach things from an if you're going to do something see it through mindset and I think under normal conditions most fosters would probably also really commit to their animals like that, take them back if things weren't working out, give them the time they need before adopting them out but the post makes it sound like the situation down there's real bad so I worry if people further up the chain actually aren't going to commit if it's still really better to intervene anyways. And that's not even meant to be a knock on the people doing the work, everyone in the field's probably doing a numbers game and trying to save as many animals as they can
I bring my cat Maze up because at 6 weeks or so, having to be quarantined from my other cat for another 2 while the tests were being done and then really trying to integrate her more into a domesticated setting, it was a lot of work. If I had sent her to a family the next day the chances are high she would have been brought back to me or just abandoned because she was a little shit. She's still kind of a little shit, lol, both my cats are. 1 that was surrendered because she hates litter so pees around the house and Maze that's insane. But long story short I put in the work with Maze and she's now sociable and at least understands me when I break up her fights with the other cat. I also really think Maze was on her own a lot sooner than she should have been because she's terrible around other cats and with play despite me never playing with my body but these kittens at least being together will probably have a better base to build from than my Maze did in that regard.
'Course several days have past since I last replied here and it seems
Serpens007 has also been putting in work too so they may be in a much better spot now if they were caught than, say, if they had been caught and immediately adopted out the next day from the first post.