Where CAN you actually re-home animals?!
I've been trying to find homes for kittens since June and I am at my wit's end. AdoptaPet, Nextdoor, Facebook, personally asking everyone I know; nothing has panned out. And many sites, including this subreddit, you can't even post animals up for adoption either.
I was just trying to do right by a feral colony in my neighborhood and it's all becoming completely overwhelming. Now I understand why the feral cat situation is so completely out of control in Phoenix.
It's always the same responses. A low res jpeg flyer telling you not to give away cats for free and an essay about how people feed them to snakes with a bunch of rescues listed, most not even in business or with a full vm mailbox. Some lady critiquing your rehoming fee or saying you're asking too much when you ask them a few follow up questions.
I know this sub doesn't allow rehoming posts; I'm not doing that. I just need to know where people actually have success with this, because I'm running out of options and honestly running out of patience. Local Facebook groups? A subreddit that actually allows it?
The best I've found is a rescue that takes surrenders, but I can't do that to these cats. They just learned to trust humans. I've put in countless hours domesticating them, teaching them that people are safe; only to throw them in a kennel next to 100 other cats? This was my first attempt at this, a complete passion project. Heidi's village told me to pound sand as well.
I was planning to go legit and had halfway completed my 501c application to create my own cat rescue. Now I'm having second thoughts about the whole thing. I'm starting to bond with these cats, but I already have 5 cats of my own. I've spent 4 months completely dead-ended with 8, not to mention getting them fixed, SNiP sent me home with a severely contagious URI infection that affected ALL 8, and vet fees on top of that, that they just recovered from two weeks ago. Not to mention I'm battling a slough of personal issues as well.
I wanted to rehome them while they were still small kittens. Now they're 6 months old and I'm no closer. Every day the odds get thinner. What options are even left? Please, tell me if you've had success anywhere.