I came accross a feeder through reddit who stays in my city (mumbai). He feeds 20-30 cats a day. I empathize with the work he does, and that of other feeders. But some of them never take care of Medical needs of the animals nor do they get them sterilized. This person usually asks an NGO (WSD India) to pick up strays/communtiy animals with Medical needs and acts entitled about it too. He claims that - They collects funds from people, therefore they owe it to him and society. When the NGO stopped assisting him, he came to me with a case of a cat with a severe eye injury. (1st slide)

I started Animal rescue work, operate a shelter and have always used my personal earnings for the same. I am on a break from it and dont take new cases anymore due to structural issues, leakages with my Shelter and sparsity of funds. Even having told him so, he blackmailed me for a week, saying nobody wants to help the cat, and kept sending pictures of it's deteriorating condition every few days. He didn't take the cat to a single vet for a week, and let it's condition get worse till the eye popped out (2nd slide), her liver started failing due to infection and she had also stopped eating as well. Because I didn't want it on my conscience, I took her in, did its surgery for eye removal at my own cost and have been fostering, getting follow-ups done as well. The guy never showed up during the surgery, and only showed up for one of the 12 post-op follow-ups to the vet. The cat is still in post-op care, at my shelter. Moreover the guy started reaching me about another case requiring dental surgery too, again claiming nobody was willing to help him. At this point I stopped entertaining his calls and messages and ignored him. After 30-40 missed calls and a dozen ignored messages, I got fed up, angry and had to tell him to Fuck off and start taking proper care of his animals, their medical needs and neutering instead of chasing numbers by just feeding them. I told him the cat is adopted (by me) and taken care of too.

This isn't the first time this has happened and I have encountered Feeders who ignore basic medical needs of their animals. Feeding is only one aspect to caring for them, and far from the end of it. I hope some feeders would stop chasing numbers and realize its better to take care of a few, but do it properly. NGOs and rescuers are doing their work out their own efforts and many times, at their own expenditure and operating at losses too. It's not fair to my other animals who's time and care is also distributed and they can't get the attention they individually need if the shelter is over populated beyond capacity or lacks resources. I feel like I was too rude and arogant, I have mixed feelings about my actions and words I used, but at the same time I had to put a stop to it. 

Had to tell a Feeder to fuck off and stop freeloading from me, my shelter and rescue work. AITA