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Gather, children, for the drama du jour....
Here's the abridged summation of a summary of the cliffnotes of some context:
In March of 2021, my mother received a diagnosis of S4 lung cancer. Only a week later, my partner received a diagnosis of S4 lung cancer. Almost an exact year later, March 3rd, 2022, my mother died. She left my sister, BIL, and their child in my care, all of whom are developmentally delayed. Only a month later, BIL was diagnosed with two different forms of lymphoma. Only a month after that, my partner's license was revoked due to a diagnosis of narcolepsy. Then she went blind due to a combination of retinitis pigmentosa and a detached retina.
At that point I was taking care of my sister- a sociopath with an IQ under 70, her husband- who is a little more tolerable, their child- an unpotty trained 5yo who still is not speaking in complete sentences, my partner of 12y- a blind, narcoleptic cancer patient with lupus, WPWS, POTs, pernicious anemia, lumbar spinal stenosis, fibro, IBS, Von Willebrand's, and EDS (which is destroying her teeth and we can't afford to fix them because the American healthcare system doesn't think teeth are important and NO dental colleges will touch her because she's a cancer patient and it has at points gotten bad enough that she has resorted to pulling out her own teeth), ten cats (I have one cat, my sister dumped her cat on me, my mother left me two when she died, and my partner has six), and a house big enough to home this shitshow. The ONLY reason I didn't end up destitute in the streets at that point is because my stepfather generously allowed us to stay in his house so long as we pulled our weight and kept the house clean.
October first of 2022, my sister removed herself, her husband, and her child from my care. At that point, I suggested to my stepfather that we downsize. He agreed. We cleaned up the house, put it on the market, and it hadn't even been on the market a full day when we got a bite. Family came to look and pulled an ABRUPT U-turn due to cat smell. They had no other complaints and would have given us full asking price. So basically, the cats cost my stepfather a day-zero full-asking sale of his house.
Needless to say, he is pissed. We have a month to rehome at least half of the cats or GTFO.
A few problems:
(1) I've spent hours on the phone and every single damn shelter I've called is either full up, doesn't take cats, or "we'll get back to you" and then they don't.
(2) My partner agreed to rehome one cat because, and only because, Princess is happier as the only cat in a household. She will not rehome her other cats. Period. And she is giving me holy hell for opting to give up the cats my mother left me. So I can find some way to work around this or I can call animal control and have them forcibly removed which she would never forgive me for.
(3) Release them into the wilds? They're cats. They'll be fine. Yeah.... no. Several of them are frail, problematic, and/or elderly. Also, we have coyotes in this area.
(4) I have to stay in NY for the affordable healthcare and benefits my partner receives. The only places I can afford in NY are either terrible or VERY far away up north. But even if we were to move up there, all we're doing is transferring the problem up north. It's still too many cats.
(5) Almost no one will rent to us because we have so many cats. Only places we could find are 5k/mo or more. "Well, just lie and don't mention the cats." KINDA HARD TO HIDE TEN CATS. Not like you can just casually tuck one under the boob when the landlord shows up.
(6) Neither I nor my partner know a single, solitary person within driving range who can and will take any of our cats.
(7) I cannot keep up with ten cats, my very ill partner, the house, AND my job. I'm a shit-tier freelancer. I'm not exactly rolling in cash.
(8) "Just stash your partner in a trailer until your dad sells his house." It could take weeks to get the smell out, maybe longer, and moreover, I'd have to buy a trailer. In the Ulster area, I have enough to afford literally half a shack... like.... not even a whole shack. I can afford a fucking outhouse. Trailers become more affordable the further north you go but, (a) trailers depreciate sharply, (b) they're hard to resell, and © my stepfather convinced me to sell my Kia because we had three cars and we no longer needed em. He'll let me borrow the Jeep but not keep it so at some point, I'd also have to buy a car.
I'm just so exhausted thinking about this.
I'd start a cat sanctuary myself if I had the money. Alas..... I dunno. How do you think a Kickstarter for a cat sanctuary would go?
Here's the abridged summation of a summary of the cliffnotes of some context:
In March of 2021, my mother received a diagnosis of S4 lung cancer. Only a week later, my partner received a diagnosis of S4 lung cancer. Almost an exact year later, March 3rd, 2022, my mother died. She left my sister, BIL, and their child in my care, all of whom are developmentally delayed. Only a month later, BIL was diagnosed with two different forms of lymphoma. Only a month after that, my partner's license was revoked due to a diagnosis of narcolepsy. Then she went blind due to a combination of retinitis pigmentosa and a detached retina.
At that point I was taking care of my sister- a sociopath with an IQ under 70, her husband- who is a little more tolerable, their child- an unpotty trained 5yo who still is not speaking in complete sentences, my partner of 12y- a blind, narcoleptic cancer patient with lupus, WPWS, POTs, pernicious anemia, lumbar spinal stenosis, fibro, IBS, Von Willebrand's, and EDS (which is destroying her teeth and we can't afford to fix them because the American healthcare system doesn't think teeth are important and NO dental colleges will touch her because she's a cancer patient and it has at points gotten bad enough that she has resorted to pulling out her own teeth), ten cats (I have one cat, my sister dumped her cat on me, my mother left me two when she died, and my partner has six), and a house big enough to home this shitshow. The ONLY reason I didn't end up destitute in the streets at that point is because my stepfather generously allowed us to stay in his house so long as we pulled our weight and kept the house clean.
October first of 2022, my sister removed herself, her husband, and her child from my care. At that point, I suggested to my stepfather that we downsize. He agreed. We cleaned up the house, put it on the market, and it hadn't even been on the market a full day when we got a bite. Family came to look and pulled an ABRUPT U-turn due to cat smell. They had no other complaints and would have given us full asking price. So basically, the cats cost my stepfather a day-zero full-asking sale of his house.
Needless to say, he is pissed. We have a month to rehome at least half of the cats or GTFO.
A few problems:
(1) I've spent hours on the phone and every single damn shelter I've called is either full up, doesn't take cats, or "we'll get back to you" and then they don't.
(2) My partner agreed to rehome one cat because, and only because, Princess is happier as the only cat in a household. She will not rehome her other cats. Period. And she is giving me holy hell for opting to give up the cats my mother left me. So I can find some way to work around this or I can call animal control and have them forcibly removed which she would never forgive me for.
(3) Release them into the wilds? They're cats. They'll be fine. Yeah.... no. Several of them are frail, problematic, and/or elderly. Also, we have coyotes in this area.
(4) I have to stay in NY for the affordable healthcare and benefits my partner receives. The only places I can afford in NY are either terrible or VERY far away up north. But even if we were to move up there, all we're doing is transferring the problem up north. It's still too many cats.
(5) Almost no one will rent to us because we have so many cats. Only places we could find are 5k/mo or more. "Well, just lie and don't mention the cats." KINDA HARD TO HIDE TEN CATS. Not like you can just casually tuck one under the boob when the landlord shows up.
(6) Neither I nor my partner know a single, solitary person within driving range who can and will take any of our cats.
(7) I cannot keep up with ten cats, my very ill partner, the house, AND my job. I'm a shit-tier freelancer. I'm not exactly rolling in cash.
(8) "Just stash your partner in a trailer until your dad sells his house." It could take weeks to get the smell out, maybe longer, and moreover, I'd have to buy a trailer. In the Ulster area, I have enough to afford literally half a shack... like.... not even a whole shack. I can afford a fucking outhouse. Trailers become more affordable the further north you go but, (a) trailers depreciate sharply, (b) they're hard to resell, and © my stepfather convinced me to sell my Kia because we had three cars and we no longer needed em. He'll let me borrow the Jeep but not keep it so at some point, I'd also have to buy a car.
I'm just so exhausted thinking about this.
I'd start a cat sanctuary myself if I had the money. Alas..... I dunno. How do you think a Kickstarter for a cat sanctuary would go?
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