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I Need Extra Cash &&& I Was Thinking About Babysitting. Where Do I Start Or Is Thier Any Websites For Babysitters. Help Me. Any Ideas ! (link)
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if you go to www.care.com it is a site where you set up your profile and can view local listings of babysitting positions around your area. by setting up your profile you can find jobs and people can find you. you can babysit and there is also petsitting on the site. im a member, its a really cool site. check it out
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I have a very good friend who lives at home with his mother, his 18 year old sister,and his 35 year old sister and her daughter. This woman (the 35 year old) is crazy. Among other problems she causes for this family, she has 15+ cats and two very aggressive dogs living in their garage.
Personally, I've only been in their garage once- they don't like me in there. The conditions are horrible. It's filthy, there's garbage everywhere, and the litterboxes go uncleaned. The woman puts out a few dishes of food, but it's hardly enough for all the cats, and that's assuming that the given food is divided equally between all of them. (obviously not happening.)
Only a few of the male cats are neutered, and none of the females are spayed. I am sure that none of them are up to date on their vaccines. My friend had told me that many of the cats have eye infections that have been going untreated for a while now.
My problem is, what can I do? I know I am capable of helping. I have a lot of experience with animals, particularly cats, and I am a student of vet medicine. But I can't get involved personally, because the woman would not allow me. She truly believes she's taking care of the cats properly, and gets very violent if you try to tell her otherwise. My friend knows that there are problems, and has tried to talk to her himself, but to no avail.
I am thinking about calling someone to go look at the situation, like a local shelter or animal control. My problem with this is that I am very close with everyone else in the house, and I feel that an experience like that could really distress them. One of my concerns, is that the family also has 4 house cats (properly taken care of) that they love dearly. Would animal control take them away too?
The whole situation bothers me deeply. I feel I really need to protect the cats being neglected, but I can't bear to cause disturbance in my friend's home.. Besides that, his sister will hold a personal grudge against me. I know it's the right thing to do, but it's a tricky situation. Can anyone help? (link)
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You need to call animal control. When you call them it is anonomyous so they wont know you called specifically. They may play the name blame, but they will have no hard evidence that you called.
This next example isnt about animals, but its close to your situation.
My best childhood friend had a baby at an early age. She started leaving her baby home alone and going out at night clubbing, partying, etc. I would try my best to go over when she went out to watch the baby, but it started getting really bad. I sacrificed our relationship for her baby. I would never forgive myself if anything were to happen to that baby while she was out being an irresponsible mother. I didn't call CPS, but i told her sons father and also her parents about what was going on. Yes it compeletley destroyed our friendship, but believe me that baby was never neglected again like that.
You just have to think of the animals and how much they would appreciate to be taken out of that horrible situation.
there are three options for you. you can either try and talk to your neighbor and inform them how horrible the living enviornment is for them and how they could get into serious trouble if they dont get rid of all the animals. or you could call animal control and let them take care of it or you could ignore it and always feel really bad about not doing anything about it. its your decision. but best thing to do is call animal control.
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