Pet Lovers---Question About a Cat! HELP needed!
Ok one of my many situations is I have 1dog & 3 male cats. My dog is great. My oldest & youngest cats are fine. These 2 cats are neutered & housebroken. PROBLEM is that my middle cat has a murmur & is NOT neutered. Because of this he poops & sprays everywhere. I can't get him fixed because vets want expensive exams on his heart before they even decided to fix him. As for now he's in a cage during the night & outside during the day. With a new baby on the way, I need to get rid of my cat 
. But no one wants an owner surrender. I've called one place but they don't/can't take him. They took owner surrenders but guess my cat didn't qualify. OK...
My question is does anyone know what I can do to get my cat to a no-kill shelter?? No friends or family want him either. What do I do to get my cat the help he needs??? I'm in Illinois by the Chicago area. Thanks.... I need it.
. But no one wants an owner surrender. I've called one place but they don't/can't take him. They took owner surrenders but guess my cat didn't qualify. OK...My question is does anyone know what I can do to get my cat to a no-kill shelter?? No friends or family want him either. What do I do to get my cat the help he needs??? I'm in Illinois by the Chicago area. Thanks.... I need it.
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Good luck finding a home for your cat.
Try Craigs List, if you live by any farms maybe you can find one that will take him as a barn cat.
Also, local rescues not apart of shelters might consider taking him. It will be hard to place him because no one wants a cat that sprays and marks the house so you would have to advertise him as an outdoor cat only. And some people prefer that.
I'm not for that method, I have seen/heard stories of what happens when people use that method when they do not know what they are doing.
But if you BF has experience (which the majority of those who work on farms do. I have family that have farms and take care of a lot of "vet" work themselves because it is apart of their lives and daily business) it is fine, but to tell someone who doesn't... isn't a good suggestion.
@SaraS yes I've contacted them but they don't take owner surrender. Seems like if I was abusing the cat they'd take him then. Ugh its gettin hard to deal with places who are full & can't take & help my cat.
@LittleFae not always true my eldest cat wasn't fixed for a while. He'd do the same as this one....spray, poop where he pleases. He'd also escape the house. He had gone missing for 4 months. Thought id never seehim again. That's when me & the middle cat bonded. So from Feb to june the oldest was gone. But june he came back....sickly, skinny& I fed himto health & tookhim to a vet. But the oddest thing was he came home neutered!! With a piece of his ear clipped off. Animal cruelty picked him up & fixed him & released him!! He came home. They do that to strays but he wasn't really a stray just lost for a while. Now he's the bestest cat ever! No pooping!! No spraying!! Uses the box regularly. So. A cat can get fixed after spraying & never spray again
@ashthurs i did take him to anti-cruelty to get the low cost neuter that's how we found the murmur. They wouldn't do the neuter due to liability.
@lil_buggie_3 I appreciate your info. I guess I will need to.lie. I was thinking of the stray lie. Should I go to a shelter? Or call first? I was thinking of saying he's been friendly & lurking around but the other strays are mean to him & he looks sickly to me. Which he does because he's skinny. I've already called places & searched websites. So basically lying is the best policy in this situation. I'm afraid ill cry when we drop him off though.
@Rissalee7 yes because without testing the murmur he can go into a coma or die if they gave him too much anesthesia or whatnot