Boy. Sometimes! After getting all the cats returned, finally, except the cock headed female, I went to pick up the kittens being fixed tomorrow. I picked the two over near Petco first and low and behold, there's a green Dodge van parked along the curb with a missing driver's side window. The license plate number was close but no cigar. Really close. So I told SafeHaven about it, and they're going to drive by it, since the description was kind of vague as to the shade of green and year of the Dodge Van.
They sent me a photo of a lookalike of the one in their video of the cat dumper and the one over there I saw isn't even close to the same model.
Then I go to pick up the four kittens of the cock headed calico, now recuping from spay in my garage. The old man could find only one of the four. Despite a long search, the other three seemed to have vanished into thin air. The old man wanted to blame the cat killing neighbor, but that man is sick. He has cancer, the 33 Cat Trailer old lady said, and would not have the strength.
I think they were picked up by someone well meaning. When finally driving off, I glanced left, at the Felony Flat cottages and was sure I saw the little orange boy at the feet of someone sitting on their porch. I was so sure, I turned around and went back. The woman had gone inside. I asked neighbors out on their porch. They were evasive. Very evasive. I wanted to tell them "Look, I don't give a shit if you stole them. They want them gone anyhow. I just want to get them fixed." But I was kind of worn thin from this long evening of drama in catland.
The cats are all mad at me for adopting out Doc. I sure hope he makes it. It will be very tough on him to adjust. He was so happy here, but they all are happy here, except Sam, who is stressed and really needs a way out.
So I'm shy three kittens for tomorrow's appointments and I hate that. I tried calling the people with five, but despite the fact I called before 9:30, they did not answer. I left a message. Gosh I hate going all the way to the clinic for only three kittens when I had appointments for six.
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Goodbye Doc!
Doc, with Mops, when I trapped them.
Doc getting bath the next day, under anesthesia, at the Neuterscooter clinic.
I will miss you, Doc!
Doc was adopted by the cat lover from the South Coast. She came, interested in Sam or Matilda and instead, left with the lovable green-eyed boy from the 120 cat BS colony, whom I found, with his brother and sister, as kittens last fall. They were nearly starved to death. Henceforth, I referred to them as the Starvation Kids of Dead Car Field.
Matilda was bent out of shape because I'd had her confined to the bathroom, waiting for the adoption interest's arrival. And I'd cleaned her ears. Sam was bent out of shape solely because I had blocked the cats exit from the house into the cat yard and he wanted to play out in the cat yard.
I will miss Doc and Doc will miss Sam, but they all can't stay here forever and this was a good home opportunity for Doc. I hope it works out.
The only reason I'd gone out to the BS colony that day I found the Starvation Kids was to take out a photographer. Alley Cat Allies had contacted the Neuterscooter vet. They were hoping she'd know of a fixed eartipped cat colony in the Corvallis Albany area. They wanted ear tipped cat photos for their website.
The Neuterscooter vet told their photographer to contact me. I took him out to the BS colony because there are tons of eartipped cats out there and most are entirely tame, which means easier photo ops.
While he was shooting photos, I milled around, poking around the familiar area where I had already trapped and taken in over 100 cats to be fixed, and that is when I spotted the kittens in the field by the dead cars. I was back that night with traps. They were starved nearly to death. They went straight to the Neuterscooter clinic in Corvallis. Then they came home with me. I will miss Doc horribly. But then again, I am very happy to find a cat a home!
Waiting Again
I accidentally deleted the e-mail about when this adoptor would arrive today. She is interested in either Sam or Matilda and was going to come before the 4th, but had out of town holiday guests arrive early. I was really sure it was going to be this morning, between 10:30 and 11:30, but maybe it was 1:00 p.m. I can't raise her on her cell phone. Hope she did not get lost. I have Matilda in the bathroom so she can't do a disappearing act on me. Darn I should have saved that e-mail.
She's a really nice lady and must be on her way. I don't believe she would not be, without letting me know. I must have screwed up the time, or, she's been held up by maybe an accident on the freeway or some such thing. I hope she's ok. UPDATE: Just heard from her and she's almost here. Yay! I knew she'd let me know.
If you read my blog, you might get the impression I don't like the local shelters. I do like them and am glad they are there. I've fought with them over the years, both of them, over fixing pets prior to adopting them out. Heartland changed long ago and nothing goes out their doors unfixed. I still don't know if SafeHaven is fixing kittens and puppies first or not.
I'd get mad running into dogs and cats adopted out there, that had gone on to reproduce many litters. It's frustrating, made me feel like what is the point.
So I'd get yelled at by shelter workers for hounding them on these points and I know I'm considered a problem person for being such a rabid advocate of fixing shelter animals prior to adoption. But I do appreciate the hard work both shelters do on behalf of animals.
Heartland has always been really nice to me--well mostly. I've had some shouting matches with former directors about spay/neuter. I used to tell them they were part of the problem, if they didn't fix the animals prior to adoption. This was way back, because Heartland's now been fixing all their animals prior to adoption for years.
But this earned me no popularity contests, especially me being who I am--a nobody. I mean, how dare I. Even worse than a nobody, I was considered a nutcase in Corvallis when in the mental health system, a label I've never lived down. When people can't think of any other way to insult me, they still resort to calling me a mental case, due to knowledge of my history in the mental health system.
I was never able to rally any support or volunteers. So I've tried to fall back on basic values: right and wrong, personal responsibility, sensibility and fairplay. These aren't really very popular values anymore either.
Sensibility dictates that you can help more cats with money available by fixing them. In other words, fix one cat instead of sheltering dozens of her offspring. Put money into spay neuter more than sheltering, or at least equal funds and labor into spay neuter. Then things will change.
But people cling to the fuzzy wuzzy sheltering concept because you can go to a shelter and literally hold and comfort the problem. People then see solving the issue as donating to a shelter, when shelters have very little to do with solving overpopulation. At least SafeHaven offers an affordable voucher program now to help people get their cats fixed.
The problem is far deeper, however, than a voucher program would ever touch. The problem often festers unseen in unsightly drug infested trailer parks and terrible neighborhoods where you could hand out all the vouchers in the world and such people would never use them to fix their cats. The problem is found in squalid rural run down shacks, meth houses and old farms where somebody wanted a mouser and got unfixed cats they never got fixed but they fed the breeding offspring anyhow. Or in areas where town people dump off their unwanteds along the roads by the score, hearing, from somebody else, that somebody out there might feed strays on a porch and where darkness and isolation will shield their evil act from the eyes of a kind human, who might report them, or run them down and beat the crap out of them.
Note: if you feed strays, get them fixed, and don't tell people.
The little pimply faced oily leech people have ears everywhere to such information.
To solve overpopulation you need laws that state your pets must be fixed by a certain age. That doesn't make people fix their pets. But, it does help people like myself, clawing through the problem door to door, often having to lick the feet of the most creepy irresponsible criminal people you could imagine, to beg them to let you get their cat fixed for free. YOu have some backing then, some threat for if they don't do it, on your side.
Otherwise, its just miserable abuse to take day in and day out, from the worst of society. The law doesn't get involved, not here at least, even in the worst of cases. They look the other way. I don't know why, probably too busy or something, or don't like cats themselves, I just don't know why. I gave up calling the law long ago.
You need a central number, that people can immediately call, if a stray shows up, so that stray, feral or tame, can immediately be fixed. Then it never gets out of hand.
This specialist who takes these calls should be paid (yes I want paid). Then you have a way to go after the problem that is coordinated.
The local shelters often do not refer people, calling who need spay/neuter solutions, to the solutions, i.e. the FCCO clinics, me, or the other area groups that help fix cats.
If you want the problem solved, you have that central line that also provides an address of the person who calls requesting spay neuter aid, so that, if need be, that specialist goes out to the address, if the person doesn't call back, to get that job done.
You need advertisement of that one number combined, in the ad campaign, as to why it is so very important to get that first stray fixed that shows up. Landlords need the number, law enforcement needs it. One number. And shelter workers can have it tattooed on their foreheads, if need be.
And of course you need the funds there to fix these cats immediately and a clinic or clinics willing to do it. No waiting. Immediate. A general fund for the area kept in a seperate account, so people could donate directly into it and not worry the funds would be squandered away in other pursuits.
But anyhow, off my grandstand. It's hard to see the solution clearly and to be a nobody, unlistened to, so that it is not implemented.
She's a really nice lady and must be on her way. I don't believe she would not be, without letting me know. I must have screwed up the time, or, she's been held up by maybe an accident on the freeway or some such thing. I hope she's ok. UPDATE: Just heard from her and she's almost here. Yay! I knew she'd let me know.
If you read my blog, you might get the impression I don't like the local shelters. I do like them and am glad they are there. I've fought with them over the years, both of them, over fixing pets prior to adopting them out. Heartland changed long ago and nothing goes out their doors unfixed. I still don't know if SafeHaven is fixing kittens and puppies first or not.
I'd get mad running into dogs and cats adopted out there, that had gone on to reproduce many litters. It's frustrating, made me feel like what is the point.
So I'd get yelled at by shelter workers for hounding them on these points and I know I'm considered a problem person for being such a rabid advocate of fixing shelter animals prior to adoption. But I do appreciate the hard work both shelters do on behalf of animals.
Heartland has always been really nice to me--well mostly. I've had some shouting matches with former directors about spay/neuter. I used to tell them they were part of the problem, if they didn't fix the animals prior to adoption. This was way back, because Heartland's now been fixing all their animals prior to adoption for years.
But this earned me no popularity contests, especially me being who I am--a nobody. I mean, how dare I. Even worse than a nobody, I was considered a nutcase in Corvallis when in the mental health system, a label I've never lived down. When people can't think of any other way to insult me, they still resort to calling me a mental case, due to knowledge of my history in the mental health system.
I was never able to rally any support or volunteers. So I've tried to fall back on basic values: right and wrong, personal responsibility, sensibility and fairplay. These aren't really very popular values anymore either.
Sensibility dictates that you can help more cats with money available by fixing them. In other words, fix one cat instead of sheltering dozens of her offspring. Put money into spay neuter more than sheltering, or at least equal funds and labor into spay neuter. Then things will change.
But people cling to the fuzzy wuzzy sheltering concept because you can go to a shelter and literally hold and comfort the problem. People then see solving the issue as donating to a shelter, when shelters have very little to do with solving overpopulation. At least SafeHaven offers an affordable voucher program now to help people get their cats fixed.
The problem is far deeper, however, than a voucher program would ever touch. The problem often festers unseen in unsightly drug infested trailer parks and terrible neighborhoods where you could hand out all the vouchers in the world and such people would never use them to fix their cats. The problem is found in squalid rural run down shacks, meth houses and old farms where somebody wanted a mouser and got unfixed cats they never got fixed but they fed the breeding offspring anyhow. Or in areas where town people dump off their unwanteds along the roads by the score, hearing, from somebody else, that somebody out there might feed strays on a porch and where darkness and isolation will shield their evil act from the eyes of a kind human, who might report them, or run them down and beat the crap out of them.
Note: if you feed strays, get them fixed, and don't tell people.
The little pimply faced oily leech people have ears everywhere to such information.
To solve overpopulation you need laws that state your pets must be fixed by a certain age. That doesn't make people fix their pets. But, it does help people like myself, clawing through the problem door to door, often having to lick the feet of the most creepy irresponsible criminal people you could imagine, to beg them to let you get their cat fixed for free. YOu have some backing then, some threat for if they don't do it, on your side.
Otherwise, its just miserable abuse to take day in and day out, from the worst of society. The law doesn't get involved, not here at least, even in the worst of cases. They look the other way. I don't know why, probably too busy or something, or don't like cats themselves, I just don't know why. I gave up calling the law long ago.
You need a central number, that people can immediately call, if a stray shows up, so that stray, feral or tame, can immediately be fixed. Then it never gets out of hand.
This specialist who takes these calls should be paid (yes I want paid). Then you have a way to go after the problem that is coordinated.
The local shelters often do not refer people, calling who need spay/neuter solutions, to the solutions, i.e. the FCCO clinics, me, or the other area groups that help fix cats.
If you want the problem solved, you have that central line that also provides an address of the person who calls requesting spay neuter aid, so that, if need be, that specialist goes out to the address, if the person doesn't call back, to get that job done.
You need advertisement of that one number combined, in the ad campaign, as to why it is so very important to get that first stray fixed that shows up. Landlords need the number, law enforcement needs it. One number. And shelter workers can have it tattooed on their foreheads, if need be.
And of course you need the funds there to fix these cats immediately and a clinic or clinics willing to do it. No waiting. Immediate. A general fund for the area kept in a seperate account, so people could donate directly into it and not worry the funds would be squandered away in other pursuits.
But anyhow, off my grandstand. It's hard to see the solution clearly and to be a nobody, unlistened to, so that it is not implemented.
Check Out This Story in the Register Guard. Now This Woman is Nuts!
Click post title to check out a story in the Eugene Register Guard. I had seen this on the news, but Larissa, out in West Fir, e-mailed me the story. She got this womans' cats fixed awhile back. The last two paragraphs of the story are totally outrageous. This woman is seriously nuts. I told Larissa we know all the craziest people, that we are blessed that way. I think Larissa is lucky she didn't get the glock shoved in her face. However, Larissa could have handled it.
Five Cats Being Fixed Today
Five cats are up being fixed today. Three are from one location in Albany. These folks have an unfixed male. They then took in two cats left behind by a neighbor when they moved. So all three are up being fixed. They also saw kittens over off Ellingson Road. They said they were very weak and they caught them, but had no place to keep them. So they put them back and left food and water. They asked if I could take them and I can't. Apparently they were dumped out there and are slowly dying of starvation and dehydration. I asked a Lebanon woman who works in Corvallis if she might know someone who could take them and she's working on it.
This couple had tried SafeHaven, who said they were full, both for these kittens and for the left behind pair of cats. Then they tried Heartland who told them they no longer take in Linn County cats. So, there were just no other option they could think of and they can't take them in where they live, due to landlord restrictions. For now, they feed the two abandoned cats outside their place. They've very tame and sweet.
Another cat being fixed today is another female from that Lacomb situation. She has four orange tabby kittens about six weeks old, two boys and two girls. She also has severe earmites, so before I return her this evening, I will clean out her ears. When I was up there to pick her up last night, I passed a field labeled "Free Berries". The farmer had already harvested the strawberries, then left the fields open for Gleanors. Last night, I gleaned three gallons of fresh strawberries from those fields. They are delicious! I got home and ate two big bowls full. I will freeze most of them.
The fifth cat up being fixed is the cock headed calico from the Salem Road trailer park. I asked the vet to check her ears, on the outside chance her cockheadedness is an ear infection rather than, as the old man claims, an old broken neck vertebra from abuse. The old man is nice, but he will talk you into a corner and never stop to take a breath.
He told me he was an alcoholic for fifty years and one day the doctor made this little comment "You're in pretty good shape, but...you might want to cut out the morning beers." The old man would get a six pack and drink it for breakfast. He said, "That got me to thinking, so I just cut out all beer and I feel like a million bucks, outside of falling down all the time and breaking bones."
He found some hapless angry lazy woman at the homeless shelter who just moved in with him quite some time ago. He claims she is the laziest person you will ever meet in your life, that you have to wait on her hand and foot and give her money so she can buy her booze, cigarettes and drugs, when she asks for it or there's hell to pay. He says she won't clean up after herself or do a single chore. I said, "If she's taking advantage of you, you should kick her out." He said, "Well, nobody else can stand her or put with her lazy angry ways, so I figure I'm doing the world a favor." I think he likes the sex.
The cock headed calico female, being fixed today.
The owned Albany male being fixed today.
The abandoned Albany male.
The abandoned Albany female.
Lacomb torti female, mother of the four orange tabby kittens, still up there.
In the next couple of days, I will be taking in 14 Albany kittens, from various places, to be fixed. Two are from North Albany and both are male kittens. Their mother also will be fixed on Thursday, plus an adult male there. Four of the kittens who will be fixed are the kittens of the cock headed calico from the Albany trailer park. Wish I had somewhere they could go, but at least they will be fixed. Five more will come from the Albany location from which I just took in three adult females to be fixed. And two more will be from another Albany household. Their female, in heat again, was fixed last week, along with their neighbors female, who was also in heat, but wisely kept inside.
This couple had tried SafeHaven, who said they were full, both for these kittens and for the left behind pair of cats. Then they tried Heartland who told them they no longer take in Linn County cats. So, there were just no other option they could think of and they can't take them in where they live, due to landlord restrictions. For now, they feed the two abandoned cats outside their place. They've very tame and sweet.
Another cat being fixed today is another female from that Lacomb situation. She has four orange tabby kittens about six weeks old, two boys and two girls. She also has severe earmites, so before I return her this evening, I will clean out her ears. When I was up there to pick her up last night, I passed a field labeled "Free Berries". The farmer had already harvested the strawberries, then left the fields open for Gleanors. Last night, I gleaned three gallons of fresh strawberries from those fields. They are delicious! I got home and ate two big bowls full. I will freeze most of them.
The fifth cat up being fixed is the cock headed calico from the Salem Road trailer park. I asked the vet to check her ears, on the outside chance her cockheadedness is an ear infection rather than, as the old man claims, an old broken neck vertebra from abuse. The old man is nice, but he will talk you into a corner and never stop to take a breath.
He told me he was an alcoholic for fifty years and one day the doctor made this little comment "You're in pretty good shape, but...you might want to cut out the morning beers." The old man would get a six pack and drink it for breakfast. He said, "That got me to thinking, so I just cut out all beer and I feel like a million bucks, outside of falling down all the time and breaking bones."
He found some hapless angry lazy woman at the homeless shelter who just moved in with him quite some time ago. He claims she is the laziest person you will ever meet in your life, that you have to wait on her hand and foot and give her money so she can buy her booze, cigarettes and drugs, when she asks for it or there's hell to pay. He says she won't clean up after herself or do a single chore. I said, "If she's taking advantage of you, you should kick her out." He said, "Well, nobody else can stand her or put with her lazy angry ways, so I figure I'm doing the world a favor." I think he likes the sex.
The cock headed calico female, being fixed today.
The owned Albany male being fixed today.
The abandoned Albany male.
The abandoned Albany female.
Lacomb torti female, mother of the four orange tabby kittens, still up there.In the next couple of days, I will be taking in 14 Albany kittens, from various places, to be fixed. Two are from North Albany and both are male kittens. Their mother also will be fixed on Thursday, plus an adult male there. Four of the kittens who will be fixed are the kittens of the cock headed calico from the Albany trailer park. Wish I had somewhere they could go, but at least they will be fixed. Five more will come from the Albany location from which I just took in three adult females to be fixed. And two more will be from another Albany household. Their female, in heat again, was fixed last week, along with their neighbors female, who was also in heat, but wisely kept inside.
That Colony I Got Called About in Alsea---In Crime Section of Paper
A couple weeks ago, an Alsea woman called me about this colony. She wanted me to rehome them all. She was the old woman's caretaker and only knew about me because she used to live at Lancaster Bridge apartments in Corvallis. I got called about fixing cats there. Many were owned and the rest were offspring of tenant abandoned cats. Even the manager's cat there was free roaming and unfixed. I was promised by the owners of that complex, Corvallis Neighborhood Housing, I would be reimbursed for my expenses there. That was a lie. I never was and in the end, when picking up another cat a tenant called, wanting fixed, the manager called the police, and accused me of stealing cats. The cop told me, sarsactically, "Well that's what you get for volunteering" and told me I shouldn't volunteer. The drama out there was ridiculous. Anyhow, this woman said the old woman began feeding two abandoned or dumped off pregnant females and never got them fixed or any of the resulting cats fixed. She wanted me to rehome all the cats. I said I couldn't and to either get them fixed and I could help with that, or call animal control.
The result is evident below, in the report. Darn old woman should have gotten those first cats fixed, because now, there are a zillion and they will die. Should be a good lesson to others with relatives that feed strays. Get them fixed, before there are 40, and then they all end up dead. If you feed cats and don't get them fixed, you're doing the cats no favors. You're signing their death warrants.
FERAL CAT COLONY: 11:55 a.m., 300 block East Alder Street. A resident requested help removing a feral cat colony from her mother’s property in Alsea. There were an estimated 40 wild cats living there. No information was available on how authorities responded.
The result is evident below, in the report. Darn old woman should have gotten those first cats fixed, because now, there are a zillion and they will die. Should be a good lesson to others with relatives that feed strays. Get them fixed, before there are 40, and then they all end up dead. If you feed cats and don't get them fixed, you're doing the cats no favors. You're signing their death warrants.
FERAL CAT COLONY: 11:55 a.m., 300 block East Alder Street. A resident requested help removing a feral cat colony from her mother’s property in Alsea. There were an estimated 40 wild cats living there. No information was available on how authorities responded.
Monday, July 06, 2009
You know, I might be going over the edge
I don't know if I can handle doing this anymore. I go back to that trailer park on Salem road because an old man is feeding a cat with four kittens. He wanted me to take the kittens but I can't take them. This is the same trailer park where the old lady had 33 cats on her porch.
So he tells me his neighbor, who now is sick he says, for a long time trapped cats and would take them and dump them out across the river somewhere or into the river. Someone who was briefly interested in adopting a kitten told me there is a whole family, Munsons or some last name close to that, who trap people's cats for sport and take them out and dump them or worse. They used to manage some apartments on College Park Drive, he said, and one of the clan still lives out there and may be still doing that to other people's cats, he thought.
This town is full of really messed up people. I'm becoming one of them, I'm afraid. I can't even go out anymore, without running into outright animal neglect or abuse or stories of it. So I don't go out anymore, unless I have to.
I caught the calico mom of those four doomed kittens. She was kicked or hit with something when she was young, and now has to look at you with her head cocked out sideways and wierd. The old man says someone broke her neck trying to kill her but she lived and that lots of people there still want to kill her, for no reason at all.
So he tells me his neighbor, who now is sick he says, for a long time trapped cats and would take them and dump them out across the river somewhere or into the river. Someone who was briefly interested in adopting a kitten told me there is a whole family, Munsons or some last name close to that, who trap people's cats for sport and take them out and dump them or worse. They used to manage some apartments on College Park Drive, he said, and one of the clan still lives out there and may be still doing that to other people's cats, he thought.
This town is full of really messed up people. I'm becoming one of them, I'm afraid. I can't even go out anymore, without running into outright animal neglect or abuse or stories of it. So I don't go out anymore, unless I have to.
I caught the calico mom of those four doomed kittens. She was kicked or hit with something when she was young, and now has to look at you with her head cocked out sideways and wierd. The old man says someone broke her neck trying to kill her but she lived and that lots of people there still want to kill her, for no reason at all.
Sunday, July 05, 2009
I renamed the Tortis and then found.....
I renamed the torti kittens Willow and Twilight, only to find that I'd gotten responses from people interested in adopting the girls. But they'd been hussled into spam, by yahoo. I dug them out and called them back. One family is headed over right now. They want Willow. And someone else will come tomorrow and hopefully will take home Twilight. They may all have homes now.
The situation with Yoyo isn't good. He's traumatized and may have problems fitting in here again. Finding him a home is going to be tough. He's a sweetheart, but finding any adult a home isn't easy these days. I left a message for the woman in Jefferson who originally asked me to get involved in taking in the four cats from that house that was to be demolished. A disabled woman lived there.
The situation with Yoyo isn't good. He's traumatized and may have problems fitting in here again. Finding him a home is going to be tough. He's a sweetheart, but finding any adult a home isn't easy these days. I left a message for the woman in Jefferson who originally asked me to get involved in taking in the four cats from that house that was to be demolished. A disabled woman lived there.
Lowlife Craigslist Post
Here is an example of a highly irresponsible pet owner, who allowed his cat to get pregnant and have kittens, who she defends from their dogs, and now he's threatening to "take her to the shelter" implying she'll be killed there due to Heartland's overload of cats, if someone doesn't take her. Emotional Blackmail. Lowlife pet owner who doesn't give a shit.
Free Cat (Corvallis/Albany)
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Reply to: comm-dqtrr-1254544375@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
Date: 2009-07-05, 12:09PM PDT
Free 1 and a half year old cat. She had a kitten and now constantly attacks our dogs. We need to find her a home otherwise she is going to the humane society first thing tomorrow morning. We have two pomeranians and they mean the world to us. The Kitten is eating dry food now so no longer needs the mom. However mom does need spayed.
Please call Josh 541-230-1587
Free Cat (Corvallis/Albany)
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Reply to: comm-dqtrr-1254544375@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
Date: 2009-07-05, 12:09PM PDT
Free 1 and a half year old cat. She had a kitten and now constantly attacks our dogs. We need to find her a home otherwise she is going to the humane society first thing tomorrow morning. We have two pomeranians and they mean the world to us. The Kitten is eating dry food now so no longer needs the mom. However mom does need spayed.
Please call Josh 541-230-1587
Yoyo is Coming Back
So the guy stops by who adopted Yoyo, quite awhile ago, wants to bring him back. Yoyo's always getting out, he said, and unhappy, lonely, because the guy's never home. I told the guy he'd be lonely when he adopted him if someone wasn't there. He claimed his daughter was there all the time. His daughter is early teen or preteen. Now, months later, I'm getting an adult cat with issues back. Pisses me off royal. I told him he could bring him back and then pretty much slammed the door in his face. I hate being lied to. I really really hate being lied to.
What will I do with yet another unwanted adult Albany cat?
So he came back, with Yoyo in a closed up canvas duffle bag. The cat, when I could get him out of it, was open mouth breathing, stressed and hot. The man claims he brought some stuff, but its his trash, really, open tiny partially used bags of Atta Cat, the cheapest cat food out there, and his dirty litterbox.
I told him I didn't want it, tossed his duffle bag death trap out the door and shut it. But he wouldn't take no for an answer, and knocked again. I was in the bathroom trying to comfort the stressed overheated Yoyo and ignored the knocks until he finally took his shit and left. Guess his daughter is now living with ex wife or something.
I'm not bringing the Lacomb orange kittens here, when I pick up their mom to be fixed. I'll get them fixed, but they're her problem to adopt out. She said, so helpfully, "Well, I'll foster this mom cat and the kittens until you find them homes." I told her "I'll get them fixed and you can find them homes." That's how it will be and I'm taking the two torti girls back also. It's their responsibility. They bred them. I won't take Jade back because she'll be killed on that road because of the pisser speed freaks who drive it.
Look at these euthanasia rates in CA. It's terrible! Half a million dogs and cats were killed last year alone in just the reporting shelters in CA. Over 3/4 million dogs and cats entered shelters in 2008 in CA. Nearly half a million of them were killed. How do you turn around such stupendously huge numbers? CA cities are attempting to pass spay neuter laws, where every cat and dog must be fixed by four months of age. The cost of euthanizing and holding so many animals is staggering to taxpayers. The responsiblity and costs somehow needs turned back onto irresponsible owners and breeders.
I can't make things better for cats in CA. But, we can all make things different wherever we live. Fix your pets. Make sure your neighbors fix theirs. Turn in collectors, report abuse, work to fix ferals and strays, be intolerant of those who don't fix their pets.
"According to the CDPH, in the last 5 years the total yearly number of dogs and cats entering California municipal shelters increased from 729,238 to 788,446, an 8% statewide increase. The total number of dogs and cats euthanized in those shelters also rose, from 378,445 in 2004 to 432,576, a 14% statewide increase."
What will I do with yet another unwanted adult Albany cat?
So he came back, with Yoyo in a closed up canvas duffle bag. The cat, when I could get him out of it, was open mouth breathing, stressed and hot. The man claims he brought some stuff, but its his trash, really, open tiny partially used bags of Atta Cat, the cheapest cat food out there, and his dirty litterbox.
I told him I didn't want it, tossed his duffle bag death trap out the door and shut it. But he wouldn't take no for an answer, and knocked again. I was in the bathroom trying to comfort the stressed overheated Yoyo and ignored the knocks until he finally took his shit and left. Guess his daughter is now living with ex wife or something.
I'm not bringing the Lacomb orange kittens here, when I pick up their mom to be fixed. I'll get them fixed, but they're her problem to adopt out. She said, so helpfully, "Well, I'll foster this mom cat and the kittens until you find them homes." I told her "I'll get them fixed and you can find them homes." That's how it will be and I'm taking the two torti girls back also. It's their responsibility. They bred them. I won't take Jade back because she'll be killed on that road because of the pisser speed freaks who drive it.
Look at these euthanasia rates in CA. It's terrible! Half a million dogs and cats were killed last year alone in just the reporting shelters in CA. Over 3/4 million dogs and cats entered shelters in 2008 in CA. Nearly half a million of them were killed. How do you turn around such stupendously huge numbers? CA cities are attempting to pass spay neuter laws, where every cat and dog must be fixed by four months of age. The cost of euthanizing and holding so many animals is staggering to taxpayers. The responsiblity and costs somehow needs turned back onto irresponsible owners and breeders.
I can't make things better for cats in CA. But, we can all make things different wherever we live. Fix your pets. Make sure your neighbors fix theirs. Turn in collectors, report abuse, work to fix ferals and strays, be intolerant of those who don't fix their pets.
"According to the CDPH, in the last 5 years the total yearly number of dogs and cats entering California municipal shelters increased from 729,238 to 788,446, an 8% statewide increase. The total number of dogs and cats euthanized in those shelters also rose, from 378,445 in 2004 to 432,576, a 14% statewide increase."
Cat Photos
Below are photos of the three female cats fixed last Friday. All three are from the same Albany location, tame and owned. They also have five unfixed kittens of various ages. Some time ago, these folks e-mailed me and wanted me to take the Siamese female and the newborn kittens she would not care for. I asked them, when I stumbled onto them again, this time to get their cats fixed, what happened to those kittens of the Siamese female. They said some vet tech took them, and they ended up at Heartland.
This Tabby on White female was preg at spay last Friday.
Lynx Point Siamese female, fixed last Friday.
Brown tabby female, in heat at spay. I was told she had a broken rear leg that is healing on its own.
Jade, the garage kittens' mom. She's full of character!
Little Farrah, Jade's girl, atop my neighbor boy volunteer, doing his favorite duty--laying down on the job. The kid is nice and likes cats but not work.
I need new names for the two torti girl kittens. Suggestions?
This Tabby on White female was preg at spay last Friday.
Lynx Point Siamese female, fixed last Friday.
Brown tabby female, in heat at spay. I was told she had a broken rear leg that is healing on its own.
Jade, the garage kittens' mom. She's full of character!
Little Farrah, Jade's girl, atop my neighbor boy volunteer, doing his favorite duty--laying down on the job. The kid is nice and likes cats but not work.
I need new names for the two torti girl kittens. Suggestions?
Saturday, July 04, 2009
Dancing!
I went over to Corvallis. I was going to the feed store, but I diverted to the River Front. It was like I was not in control of my own feet.
I ended up at the Red, White and Blues Festival. There was not much of a crowd and the crowd present was quiet. I think it takes beer drinkers to create a loud enthusiastic crowd maybe.
However, that did not stop me from dancing my legs out. My knees out, actually. I finally had to take my leave, before I collapsed!
I ran into a few people I'd known awhile ago. They looked well, and happy. I got a ride on the Pedicab, which was very cool!
I had a GREAT time. My knees now have ice bags strapped to them. Worth it!
What was fun, also, and maybe this is an older person thing, watching the kids and families play in the fountain and dance. I like to watch happy people. Makes me feel happy.
I ended up at the Red, White and Blues Festival. There was not much of a crowd and the crowd present was quiet. I think it takes beer drinkers to create a loud enthusiastic crowd maybe.
However, that did not stop me from dancing my legs out. My knees out, actually. I finally had to take my leave, before I collapsed!
I ran into a few people I'd known awhile ago. They looked well, and happy. I got a ride on the Pedicab, which was very cool!
I had a GREAT time. My knees now have ice bags strapped to them. Worth it!
What was fun, also, and maybe this is an older person thing, watching the kids and families play in the fountain and dance. I like to watch happy people. Makes me feel happy.
Local Paper Runs Bizarre Cat Hating Article
Click post title to go to latest stupid article from bird lovers/cat haters. Yes, coyotes kill lots of cats so the the bird lovers/cat haters say that means TNR is inhumane, creating a broad generalization from one teensy study. Advocating that cats be killed, rather than face the dangers coyotes pose, is akin to saying something stupid like "since some kids get molested, by strangers or family members, let's kill the kids because it's much more humane."
Killing healthy cats is cruel and inhumane, as the bird lovers advocate to do instead. And the article does not mention it might be terribly inhumane and cruel to kill them, because this is a study done to promote the killing of cats. They don't give a shit about cats. Coyotes kill birds too! And they kill dogs.
And the Democrat Herald faithfully prints the article, with investigating another side or questioning, like drones, and questions if Linn County should be putting money into TNR. No other side is investigated at all, just this one tiny study and we're talking TINY! Think about how many cats would be out there, in Linn County, if it weren't for practioners of TNR in Linn County.
The county put up a grant of $25,000 for cat fixing and this year $12,000. For gosh sakes, they have no shelter for cats in Linn County at all! They put almost nothing into animal control compared to every other county. This might be the only county in Oregon without a shelter or real animal control.
Population control rests upon the worn out shoulders of unpaid put down abused and screamed at volunteers. The paper is ultra conservative and they ran that article most likely in hopes the feable miserable amount of grant money given out for spay neuter, in leui of having a real shelter, might get pulled and put into something like, oh maybe, creating a mud wrestling county park. Can you tell I'm kind of fed up right now?
I am actually tired of the crap going on in this county. I am tired of a relentlessly bent to the right local paper, too. Why not support volunteers, I wonder, instead of tirelessly impeding and putting down their efforts.
It sucks to love cats and live in Linn County and be a volunteer.
Write letters to the editor of the Democrat Herald please. Ask them to actually do their jobs and investigate both sides of an issue. I don't want to be the only one responding again. I feel totally alone sometimes here, in defense of cats, and as a diehard volunteer. Please, write the letters.
This issue also begs a solution, a possibly money making solution. How to stop cats from going after birds? An implant of some sort, that would emit a frequency, when triggered by a specific muscle involved in the spring, that would alert and frighten off a bird? Or would it deliver a distracting small shock to the cat? Needs to be something simple and cheaply made and could be mandatorily imbedded at the spay of feral or owned cats. And, what about how to make cats inocuous to a coyote? Same type of high frequency emitting embed thing, or, maybe a collar or harness that shoots out pepper spray or ammonia, if grabbed?
There are solutions. They just need thought up, implemented and marketed. Damn those cat hating bird people and their desire to kill cats. They love to mask their hatred of cats by claiming how much they care, i.e. the coyote study, advocating instead to kill the cats, because they care so much. Hahahahahahaha. Some things are so funny, just makes the snarfling start.
You high tech inventive wizards out there, get to work on those solutions. Just do it.
Killing healthy cats is cruel and inhumane, as the bird lovers advocate to do instead. And the article does not mention it might be terribly inhumane and cruel to kill them, because this is a study done to promote the killing of cats. They don't give a shit about cats. Coyotes kill birds too! And they kill dogs.
And the Democrat Herald faithfully prints the article, with investigating another side or questioning, like drones, and questions if Linn County should be putting money into TNR. No other side is investigated at all, just this one tiny study and we're talking TINY! Think about how many cats would be out there, in Linn County, if it weren't for practioners of TNR in Linn County.
The county put up a grant of $25,000 for cat fixing and this year $12,000. For gosh sakes, they have no shelter for cats in Linn County at all! They put almost nothing into animal control compared to every other county. This might be the only county in Oregon without a shelter or real animal control.
Population control rests upon the worn out shoulders of unpaid put down abused and screamed at volunteers. The paper is ultra conservative and they ran that article most likely in hopes the feable miserable amount of grant money given out for spay neuter, in leui of having a real shelter, might get pulled and put into something like, oh maybe, creating a mud wrestling county park. Can you tell I'm kind of fed up right now?
I am actually tired of the crap going on in this county. I am tired of a relentlessly bent to the right local paper, too. Why not support volunteers, I wonder, instead of tirelessly impeding and putting down their efforts.
It sucks to love cats and live in Linn County and be a volunteer.
Write letters to the editor of the Democrat Herald please. Ask them to actually do their jobs and investigate both sides of an issue. I don't want to be the only one responding again. I feel totally alone sometimes here, in defense of cats, and as a diehard volunteer. Please, write the letters.
This issue also begs a solution, a possibly money making solution. How to stop cats from going after birds? An implant of some sort, that would emit a frequency, when triggered by a specific muscle involved in the spring, that would alert and frighten off a bird? Or would it deliver a distracting small shock to the cat? Needs to be something simple and cheaply made and could be mandatorily imbedded at the spay of feral or owned cats. And, what about how to make cats inocuous to a coyote? Same type of high frequency emitting embed thing, or, maybe a collar or harness that shoots out pepper spray or ammonia, if grabbed?
There are solutions. They just need thought up, implemented and marketed. Damn those cat hating bird people and their desire to kill cats. They love to mask their hatred of cats by claiming how much they care, i.e. the coyote study, advocating instead to kill the cats, because they care so much. Hahahahahahaha. Some things are so funny, just makes the snarfling start.
You high tech inventive wizards out there, get to work on those solutions. Just do it.
All Four Orange Boys Now Spoken For
All four orange boys are now spoken for. I am just awaiting the arrival of both adoptors. I got lucky. All four orange boys have gone to or are about to go to, great homes. Now, to place the tortis! Splat and Wonder are great kittens, athletic, loving and funny! I hope I can find them great homes also.
After the two orange boys leave, and both adoptors should arrive within the hour, I am closing down shop and going to one of the 4th of July celebrations, even though the thermometer is supposed to scorch out at about 100 degrees today.
I don't mind heat at all. I love it. In fact, I think sometimes I would have been very happy as a desert dweller.
After the two orange boys leave, and both adoptors should arrive within the hour, I am closing down shop and going to one of the 4th of July celebrations, even though the thermometer is supposed to scorch out at about 100 degrees today.
I don't mind heat at all. I love it. In fact, I think sometimes I would have been very happy as a desert dweller.
Friday, July 03, 2009
I Hate......
I hate adopting out kittens and cats. I don't know who these people are, who contact me, wanting a precious little life. Two of the kittens have been adopted now.
Thankfully one of those adoptions was to the roommate of someone I know. The other, a young woman, who borrowed one of my carriers to take him back home in. She promised to return the carrier today, and didn't, which makes me worry and think the worst. Hopefully she will return it tomorrow and has an explanation. UPDATE: She did return the carrier, and very early, too, which makes her likely ultra responsible. This makes me feel really good now.
The Monroe people, whose kittens I took in to be fixed, had their dog spayed at Lane County spay clinic two days after I got the kittens fixed. The dog died the next day, after surgery. She never came out of anesthesia right then began vomiting blood, lots of blood, and died. The dog was about a year old. They were traumatized over the violence of the dogs death.
They'd also had some bizarre responses to their kitten ads when trying to adopt out their precious kittens. Some were so bizarre they decided to keep the rest of the kittens because they could not deal with the dangers out there to precious lives they loved from insane or shady would be adoptors. So they closed their doors to it and decided to keep the rest.
It is scary. Many of The people out there who want a cat or kitten, should not be getting any pet because they can't take care of themselves, and barely notice a cat once they get it and never again does the cat get any care at all. And then there are much worse people than those. And so many of them.
There are no guarantees and really stand out homes are one in a million these days. It isn't the economy so much as it is a falling apart of society and values. There really are very few decent homes to be had for animals compared to even a few years ago.
In Linn County, the number of homes piled high in junk and filth or just clutter is astounding. The number of people that abandon animals has always been high in Linn County. People move, leave their cats, get a new place, get another, over and over. They've been taught this behavior, by parents who did the same. For generations.
I don't meet a lot of responsible people doing what I do. I guess that taints my nightmares more, when trying to adopt out kittens. Sure gives me nightmares, to think about these little lives I may have saved temporarily, but only temporarily if I put them into the hands of the wrong sort of people. I have no way of knowing who people are who call or e-mail, if they're good people or rotten to the core. Lying is so easy and some people are so damn good at it because it's the only real skill they've ever learned.
I hate putting lives on the auction block, handing them off to the bidder who isn't as bad as the rest. Watching the kitten's worried face as it leaves this sanctuary for the unknown. I have nightmares. I know what's out there.
Now I know there are good people and I've found many who have taken cats from here. But I've also seen too much and know there are a lot of people who should not have kids, let alone animals.
Thankfully one of those adoptions was to the roommate of someone I know. The other, a young woman, who borrowed one of my carriers to take him back home in. She promised to return the carrier today, and didn't, which makes me worry and think the worst. Hopefully she will return it tomorrow and has an explanation. UPDATE: She did return the carrier, and very early, too, which makes her likely ultra responsible. This makes me feel really good now.
The Monroe people, whose kittens I took in to be fixed, had their dog spayed at Lane County spay clinic two days after I got the kittens fixed. The dog died the next day, after surgery. She never came out of anesthesia right then began vomiting blood, lots of blood, and died. The dog was about a year old. They were traumatized over the violence of the dogs death.
They'd also had some bizarre responses to their kitten ads when trying to adopt out their precious kittens. Some were so bizarre they decided to keep the rest of the kittens because they could not deal with the dangers out there to precious lives they loved from insane or shady would be adoptors. So they closed their doors to it and decided to keep the rest.
It is scary. Many of The people out there who want a cat or kitten, should not be getting any pet because they can't take care of themselves, and barely notice a cat once they get it and never again does the cat get any care at all. And then there are much worse people than those. And so many of them.
There are no guarantees and really stand out homes are one in a million these days. It isn't the economy so much as it is a falling apart of society and values. There really are very few decent homes to be had for animals compared to even a few years ago.
In Linn County, the number of homes piled high in junk and filth or just clutter is astounding. The number of people that abandon animals has always been high in Linn County. People move, leave their cats, get a new place, get another, over and over. They've been taught this behavior, by parents who did the same. For generations.
I don't meet a lot of responsible people doing what I do. I guess that taints my nightmares more, when trying to adopt out kittens. Sure gives me nightmares, to think about these little lives I may have saved temporarily, but only temporarily if I put them into the hands of the wrong sort of people. I have no way of knowing who people are who call or e-mail, if they're good people or rotten to the core. Lying is so easy and some people are so damn good at it because it's the only real skill they've ever learned.
I hate putting lives on the auction block, handing them off to the bidder who isn't as bad as the rest. Watching the kitten's worried face as it leaves this sanctuary for the unknown. I have nightmares. I know what's out there.
Now I know there are good people and I've found many who have taken cats from here. But I've also seen too much and know there are a lot of people who should not have kids, let alone animals.
Thursday, July 02, 2009
Torti Kitten in Dire Straits
The little torti has been struggling since her spay. I thought it was her heart, but, then I discovered hard feces all along her intestinal path and enlarged kidneys. She is impacted with stool!
She was eating like there was no tomorrow after coming here. Now she's so backed up that likely the hard stool is compressing her uretor between her kidneys and the hard stool, which can kill cats and kittens and does kill cats and kittens.
I've been trying to milk the hard stool out with some success and she's going to the vet at four. She's needs an enema and perhaps her kidneys drained or she will not live. I have been giving her warmed catlax, and tiny lubrications rectally, and that is how I milked out two large compacted hard stools.
I couldn't figure out why she'd seem fine, then be down, but I've seen this before, in backed up adult cats. It's ugly and painful and I hope she pulls through.
My Matilda adoptor called, apologetic. Her holiday guests arrived a day early unexpectedly, and so she couldn't make the drive up. She will be here Monday.
She was eating like there was no tomorrow after coming here. Now she's so backed up that likely the hard stool is compressing her uretor between her kidneys and the hard stool, which can kill cats and kittens and does kill cats and kittens.
I've been trying to milk the hard stool out with some success and she's going to the vet at four. She's needs an enema and perhaps her kidneys drained or she will not live. I have been giving her warmed catlax, and tiny lubrications rectally, and that is how I milked out two large compacted hard stools.
I couldn't figure out why she'd seem fine, then be down, but I've seen this before, in backed up adult cats. It's ugly and painful and I hope she pulls through.
My Matilda adoptor called, apologetic. Her holiday guests arrived a day early unexpectedly, and so she couldn't make the drive up. She will be here Monday.
Eugene PC People are Nutty!
I posted on Eugene craigslist about my hopes to find Bad Black Teen Mom, a.k.a. Jade a home, rather than take her back where she'll likely have a short life on a country road where people drive like nutcases, like nobody in the world matters but them, and their need to speed. Many there have been killed on that road already.
The responses I got, two, were completely opposite in nature. One was from a very poor heartfelt animal loving Veneta woman, who wishes very much she could take her in. But, she cares for her disabled husband and already feeds ten cats. She did offer to post fliers and is making them herself.
The other response was from some politically correct Eugene woman, who expressed absolutely no concern for the cat, but did want to tell me my reference to her, as Bad Teen Mom, was very very offensive. She told me (so helpfully) what I should have said, and that the only bad thing involved was the human who didn't spay her.
It's ok to call a human bad, but not call a cat a bad mom who won't feed her kittens. Apparently I've crossed a line in some Eugene PC circles.
I couldn't stop giggling. What a PC nutcase, so concerned about wording, no sense of humor and absolutely no concern about the cat herself. I told her to get off her computer and go rescue some cats or something and to get a sense of humor.
For gosh sakes, she IS a bad teen mom. How dare I say that though, in Eugene! Where truth and freedom of speech are the enemy of all mankind, as well as catkind!
The responses I got, two, were completely opposite in nature. One was from a very poor heartfelt animal loving Veneta woman, who wishes very much she could take her in. But, she cares for her disabled husband and already feeds ten cats. She did offer to post fliers and is making them herself.
The other response was from some politically correct Eugene woman, who expressed absolutely no concern for the cat, but did want to tell me my reference to her, as Bad Teen Mom, was very very offensive. She told me (so helpfully) what I should have said, and that the only bad thing involved was the human who didn't spay her.
It's ok to call a human bad, but not call a cat a bad mom who won't feed her kittens. Apparently I've crossed a line in some Eugene PC circles.
I couldn't stop giggling. What a PC nutcase, so concerned about wording, no sense of humor and absolutely no concern about the cat herself. I told her to get off her computer and go rescue some cats or something and to get a sense of humor.
For gosh sakes, she IS a bad teen mom. How dare I say that though, in Eugene! Where truth and freedom of speech are the enemy of all mankind, as well as catkind!
Kitten Photos
The seven Lacomb kittens are now in my spare bedroom with Jade, the black mom, and her one remaining kitten, Farrah. I did go see the other four today, when I picked up the trap I'd loaned those folks, who offered to foster them. I think they are anxious to have them gone. They're doing just fine, growing like weeds.
I think the people who said they were going to come look at kittens may not be coming. Maybe none of them. That's the world of kitten adoption. I was cocky, thought I had homes for as many as four of the seven possibly lined up and now I may have no homes for any of them. Haven't heard back from the woman intent on adopting two, and she was going to come tomorrow morning. Boy, don't want stuck with seven more kittens, plus a lousy mom and her teensy micro daughter, and later on, her four siblings. I thought I was maintaining at least some control this kitten season.
I think the people who said they were going to come look at kittens may not be coming. Maybe none of them. That's the world of kitten adoption. I was cocky, thought I had homes for as many as four of the seven possibly lined up and now I may have no homes for any of them. Haven't heard back from the woman intent on adopting two, and she was going to come tomorrow morning. Boy, don't want stuck with seven more kittens, plus a lousy mom and her teensy micro daughter, and later on, her four siblings. I thought I was maintaining at least some control this kitten season.
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