I feed stray cats in a small town in southern Chile where there are a lot of homeless, hungry & sick cats. Most people don't spay or neuter so a lot of them run wild without food, shelter, medical care or anything else. When they show up at my house I feed them, doctor their injuries if they'll let me & take them to the vet if I can when they really need help. I treat a lot of injuries, abscesses, mange & earmites myself. I've got a few strays who have come for years, who started out feral & have learned to trust me plus a lot of others who come, eat & leave. I keep bowls of dry food & fresh water out for them & hear little people eating but many times if I open the door or they see me, they take off out of fear. Sometimes all I get is a little glimpse of a tail. Right now among the strays I care for I've got my 3 old timers, 1 male tuxedo who lives in the back yard plus 2 more just like him who are feral & only come to eat. In the front I have 2 spayed females & various little ferals who are too frightened to stay around for longer than it takes to grab a few bites of food & run. Among the front yard group I've caught glimpses of a few all white ones, 2 calicos & 2 or 3 more tuxedos. I don't really know for sure how many come to eat but the neighbors tell me there are "many".I've found homes for a lot of abandoned or rescued kittens & keep the babies nobody wants or who have special needs. I've got 6 of my own now, one of which was left in my mailbox as an orphaned new born, a few deaf ones who couldn't survive on the street, a FELV+ little guy & another recent arrival who is FIV+ & came here as a beat up little teenager who doesn't know how to defend himself from the bigger Toms.
I also feed a group of strays who live beside the school where I work & a large family at the nearby cemetary plus I always carry a bag of crunchies in my purse for others I see, usually starving & desperate on the street or digging in piles of garbage.
I try to build up trust so they'll let me help them & do everything I can for them. When they show up here if they're in the back they sit on my fence & watch, they see me putting down food & finally build up confidence to jump down to join the others who have come. Some learn it's safe here, they can get help & love here & stay for a long time, others come then simply disappear. The ones who come to the front yard fight traffic on a busy street & people who throw rocks at them or chase them away. I do my best to feed all of them but I don't earn enough to feed them so I ask for help from donations. I need help to buy antibiotic cream, iodine, bleach, mange soap, ringworm treatment, laundry detergent for washing blankets & towels, plus the on going daily expense of food & cat litter for mine plus any sick or injured ones I have in my spare room. Without donations it's not even possible to feed them all, let alone buy the supplies I use.
There are no shelters or humane societies here, there's no where for these strays to go, all they can do is fight to survive on their own & it's a hard, cold life for them.
If you'd be able to help me, to contribute a small amount it would be so much help & I would be so grateful. Nothing that comes in goes for anything but feeding & caring for the cats,I'm not asking anything for my own gain. Please help if you can.
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And thank you for caring.
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