I am new to reddit and I don't know where to post. But my heart is breaking in half because I have a very difficult desicion to make and I can't get any real assistance with all the vets and shelters I have called all day. I will elaborate later, but I have to rehome my cat. I feel like a faluire and a pos. But my cat has attacked my baby twice. Really bad last night when I wasin't home. Now I know its not the cats fault. I tried to teach my baby, as best as you could, to be gentle and nice. My baby still loves his kittys even after what happened. He gets very excited but he doesnt hit. He is very high energy happy and excited. The past two months this aggression from my one cat, has stemmed from an event with the other cat in the house. Now my sweet cat comes out to assert herself randomly when she is not sleeping on her favorite pillow. She can pop up underfoot searching to intimidate the other cat she has tolerated for years. She attacks and does not let go, wheras she used to just ignore and move away from the other cat,or maybe once in a while the one cat would hiss and she would stare at her and leave forget about it. It simply isn't safe. We live in a small place. I was not home at the time this happened either to be monitoring. I really tried all day from various places to get a straight awnswer. Noone wants to take the cat in, its against the law to declaw in my state. I know that is not the awnswer, but it passed our minds. I realized with much regret that it might be most humane to have my old cat put down in peace. Instead of letting her be terrified in a shelter with a slim chance of adoption for months, and then get euthanized anyway. Craigslist is a crapshoot and people do nasty things on there. I cried coming to this realization, and cried all night. But now after being on the phone today vets refuse to eurhanize.They keep telling me its against the law, and that there are these wonderful foster programs. That shelters never ever euthanize. But they are lying! There are no foster programs, and these shelters run you in circles and they don't have any room, and they euthanize! They try to sell you a behavior session for 400 dollars! If I had a bigger place, I could set up a room or area, but I don't. If I had alot of money, I could get those claw covers applied every six weeks, set up weekly theapys, and psych meds, but I don't have that kind of money. I don't know what to do. I love my cat, I have to protect my baby, and I don't want my cat to suffer and anything worse or further to happen. She hated the shelter when I rescued her, was hissing, had been there for months, and I don't want to put her back there, chances are she won't get adopted. I don't want my baby to dislike animals either. I spend alot of time mediating and supervising the cats and the baby and I simply cant always prevent an attack 24/7. But I wish I could. What hurts the most is that she does actually love the baby and the baby loves her. I wish I knew someone to take her who would love her! But I don't.
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