Re: OT:PLS help for two things..

[Julie Johnson]

Dear Hideyo,

 

I am so sorry to hear that you are having problems regarding your kitties; it sounds like a bureaucratic nightmare!  I wish you strength to do whatever it takes to get the rules modified so that your kitties are safe and nobody else has to endure such a trial.

 

Best wishes and a big hug to Hannibal; the ferals are so close to my heart.  Can you medicate him at all?  The vitamin-iron supplements like Hi-Vite or Pet-Tinic sometimes give me trouble because the volume of the dosage is kind of high and despite the manufacturer claims, I've never met a kitty whod eat it willingly!  I've used pediatric iron drops (Fer-In-Sol; you can buy it in the infant's section of most any drugstore) with better luck because it's more concentrated and you only need a small amount which you can hide more easily in food.  I hope this helps and I send you good wishes and lots of hugs for you and the kitties!

 

Love, Julie

Hideyo Yamamoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi, my dear friends on the list,

 

I am so sorry that I have not been posting or responding to your postings – but please know that all of your babies who are having a difficult time right now are in my thoughts and prayer.

 

I am facing a very difficult situation for my cats and I am trying to fight back and I could use your help – If you know anything about your city ordinance regarding having multiple animals in the residential area or if you could look into it and email it to me, I would be very grateful.  The city may try to take all my furry babies away from me due to the stupid ordinance which exist right now in my city (which only allow 10% of your premise size as a defined area where you can have animals, then each animal (if less than 30lb) will require 75 sq – so for example, let’s say, I have 4,000 sq in my premise, they only consider 400 sq as a limitation of the space where could be used for animal site – so if I divide 400 by 75, I could only have 4 or 5 animals, which anyone can have (the number of animals one can have in my city without permit is 4 anyway and will become 6 with new ordinace this fall) – this is a stupid law, because it was originally written for hobby breeders where they keep animals in kennels and cages, and they just apply to multiple permit as well, but it does not make sense –

 

So I am working with a city councilor to revise this information so that anyone in my situation won’t have to deal with it – but I would like to know what other cities may have as there might be something that I could learn –

 

In the meantime, please pray that they all will be able to stay with me – as the city takes them, you know what’s going to happen – the officers already inspected my house a couple of times, and they are very fine with it ---- all animals are well taken care of.. they have a very good life - - just the stupid ordinance.. if they don’t grant me a permit, I was advised to request a hearing, which I will do for sure.. but I am hoping that I won’t have to as I don’t want that much visibility in this matter.

 

PS: also my Hannibal is not eating well – he is CRF kitty, and my vet suggest that he may have FIV due to high globulin value, but I do not agree – I have so many other cats with higher globulin value – but he is becoming anemic, I think it’s due to CRF – please send a prayer for Hannibal that he gets better very very soon!  He is my very first feral boy!

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to protection by man from the cruelty of man. "

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by the way its animals are treated."

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