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Best of luck!

Why are you trying to get rid of them

We're planning to move and I can't take them. We have 2 other cats as it is, and we were only supposed to be fostering them for a short time, unfortunately. They really are great cats, I wish we could keep them.

Never a fan of this type of situation.

If the cats are great why are you moving without worrying about whether you can take them?

Also, picking up animals with the intention of only "fostering them for a short while" seems, to me, like it's always kind of dishonest. If you pick up and home an animal you should be accepting that you are now responsible for that animal, and not just until you're tired of them. Trying to excuse yourself from that responsibility makes me question how much what you say should be trusted.

The other option to not taking them in would have been to leave the estimated 6 month old kitten out in the cold where she was abandoned to begin with. And she would've still had her litter shortly after, leading to 5 more street cats to likely die outside. We tried to find someone to take them when we rescued her, and had no luck. Shelters have been packed for months, I didnt want to just drop her off at one. I'm just trying to do my best to find them a loving home as I can't be that for them much longer. I've been trying to find a way to keep them with us when we move, it's been hard enough finding affordable housing that will let us bring any cats, let alone 5 when we bring in a roommate to afford rent. I feel awful trying to rehome them, but I really don't have other options.

>Trying to excuse yourself from that responsibility makes me question how much what you say should be trusted.

EDIT: strong replies from people who think that deciding to bring home an animal you can't keep is somehow an involuntary choice. I get that the situation sucks for OP, and that it's hard to walk by suffering, but we all gotta try and make good decisions. Ignoring the issues with taking home an animal you can't keep isn't going to be good for the pets that end up in this situation.

Wow, do you have any idea just how unpetfriendly landlords are in the Springfield area? Getting up on your high horse because someone is being forced to choose between housing and animals that they care for is not only unfair but completely heartless. Someone's asking for help, don't use that as an excuse to turn your nose up.

(Edit) Look, you're probs a decent dude. But have you never had to rehome an animal? The whole process sucks. Just try to approach from a place of understanding before judgment. Life is hard right now for most of us out there with everything going on, let's try to be on each other's side?

Lmao you're fuckin stupid

No one is ignoring the issues, did you not read that OP found homes for a majority of the litter? Would you propose calling animal control, or just leaving the animal there? For a lot of people those alternatives might as well leave them with an involuntary choice. Also, things happen, people might take home an animal fully believing that they're going to keep it, simply for life to get in the way and leave them with hard choices. Again, they don't need judgment in those cases, they need help.

While I also totally hate people that say “our new apartment doesn’t accept pets, so we’re abandoning our animals that won’t understand what’s happening”, it’s kind of different than saving one from freezing to death and then trying to find a home for it.

Okay so they were just supposed to leave it in the street and let it die during the heat wave last summer? Bad take