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Help me feed & fix the feral kitty’s ❤️

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I moved into my current home in Jan 2018 along with my aunt and her 2 kids. While viewing the rental home we noticed a lot of outdoor cats hanging around and was told the previous tenant fed stray cats for years here. In the beginning we had no intentions on feeding them nor did my aunt want anyone in our home to either. We were always told never to start feeding strays they if you do they won’t ever leave  never leave. Well after a couple months we found one of the cats dead on our porch from what looked to be starvation and winter cold. So my aunt told her son he could feed them but only by the neighbors barn so they wouldn’t be around our house. What started with him feeding 8 cats has now turned into my aunt doing 95% of the caretaking herself for over 20+ cats.  My cousin feed them for months on a somewhat of a regular schedule before they would even approach the food while he was around. Eventually they would be waiting  by our back door for food in the mornings when my aunt would let her yorkies out to potty and that’s how she got  involved in the caretaking of the cats lol.  She would have to take food out so they would move out of the way so the dogs could go out to use the bathroom. The yorkies we’re afraid of the feral cats and honestly so were we cuz my cousin had been feeding them for about 4-6 months and still couldn’t touch any of them, so at first my aunt wasn’t sure what to expect from them. She feed them dry food 3 times a day until she noticed 3 of the 8 were pregnant so my aunt started purchasing wet food for them as well because at that time it was still winter time and she wanted them to be healthy so none of the kittens suffered. She had my grampa build  4 cat houses so they had some shelter on the back porch cuz that’s pretty much where they would hangout waiting to get food. We also allow them access to the detached storage garage if they choose. The 3 moms gave birth to a total of 12 kittens this past April and have since have had another litter each a few months ago. We go thru so much food feeding the cats as it is right now and can not keep feeding more and more, these cats need spayed and neutered ASAP.  My aunt is disabled and we live on a fixed income we don’t have the financial ability to get 20+ cats fixed so they don’t keep breeding more and more. We are asking for donations to get the cats TNR and for help with the cost of  food and caretaking. Any assistance would be appreciated. Humane ohio will spay or neuter outdoor cats for $27 per cat that includes a rabies shot and ear tipping. We don’t have the financial ability to pay for it ourselves we have been providing their only source of food and shelter for almost 2 yrs and  were just tapped out. We have no choice we have to ask if anyone that cares for animals as we do for any kind of help to stop this Feral cat colony from getting out of control. My aunt take as good care of them as she can even though it’s not anymore our responsibility then it is anyone else’s but she loves animals and can’t watch them starve or suffer. Please help us out we just want to be able to provide them with the help they need they can’t do it themselves. Thanks

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Tracy Gish
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Bellevue, OH

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