We have a few super sweet feral rescue kitties at our barn. A month ago we agreed to take an abused cat as a barn cat. She was un-adoptable, aggressive toward people and would have been killed at the shelter. We were told she wanted nothing to do with people. We were fine with her going off to live in an outbuilding and just coming to eat at night in the barn. It was that or the the rescue person taking her back to the shelter.
We didn’t see her for a few weeks and then suddenly she shows up and decides she owns the barn. She attacks the other sweet kitties both at the food dishes and all over the property. She comes up to us and rubs on us like she’s desperate for attention, but if you pet her, she strikes. I have dread that a visitor or child will try to pet her and get scratched.
Now two of our barn kitties disappeared and we’re afraid its becuz of the aggressive cat. If I take her to the shelter she’ll be killed. She’s clearly un-adoptable and a menace (though I feel bad for her becuz of previous abuse).
Tell me what the wise thing to do is. Thanks!