Hard Day

Black and white male kitten, one of seven born to a torti on Queen, who is also now fixed. One kitten died. The other six were adopted out, but I kept track of five of the six and the sixth will be fixed by its new owner. The fifth kitten was going to be fixed today also, but Reid vet clinic told the woman, when she asked the clinic if they would weigh her, that she should not be fixed until she is six months old.
Male tabby on white from the calico on Queen.
Male tabby on white kitten, another one.
And the female tabby on white kitten. A very nice older woman adopted the latter two kittens from the people who owned the calico on Queen.
Three of four kittens fixed from another Albany location. All these are boys.
All four horse barn kittens. The only female is the tabby on white.
The four kittens again. The ninth cat fixed today was Kooshi from the cemetery.

I took nine cats up to be fixed. All were kittens. The oldest was Kooshi, from the cemetery.

I was also e-mailed today by a Lebanon woman who claims she has two cats and is feeding a stray she wants gone, claiming even though it is a teen, it is causing her own cats to bite her. She blames herself for feeding the cat and talked to her vet about bringing in the little stray to be killed and he or she suggested calling "the feral cat people". I don't know where she got my e-mail. That in itself made the e-mail suspect to me of someone who might be jerking me around. Plus the initials she used were used in some other e-mails I got a long time ago from a severely disabled person (DD).

I told her I have 30 cats already and live on nothing and I asked her to get the cat fixed, as likely it is a male, if territorial stuff is going on, and likely it would quit. But the problems she claimed she was having, with her cats because of the stray she is feeding, were out there and unlikely. She claimed the cat would deliberately preen in front of her cats, to egg them on and that she caught her doing it (preening).

OK. Uh huh. Yup. (sorry, everything's funny right now). I suppose I should keep some of the nuttier and funnier e-mails I get, for a book or short story. EVen strung together they could be hysterical.

I believe it was a prank e-mail from a preteen or the DD severely mental person. When people ask for favors but don't give their name and telll me all sorts of detail that sounds extravagant, I don't necessarily believe it is a legitimate contact. No name. And I automatically think it's a little kid on a computer prank.

Anyhow, I didn't take that one seriously although I pretended to in the reply.

This morning, I was set to get the nine cats on schedule to the vet. Everything was timely and going smooth. Until, that is, I walked into my garage and closed the locked door of the house behind me. The keys to the house and car were in the house. OMG!!!!

I called my very very patient mechanic friend, who has a key and came over, despite being barely up, and unlocked my own place for me. Boy, did I feel stupid!@

I was late then, rounding up the cats and getting them to the vet clinic. Oh well.

I'm still dismantling the couch. It's cheaper for me to dismantle it and use any of the parts and wood I can, then have it hauled off, which costs I think $20 or $30. I recycle parts I can't use, like the rusted seat half coils. Those go to the metal recyler.

One spring, when I released it, bit back. I didn't have a good grip with my pliers and it "sprung" into one finger, digging in. Price one pays, I guess.

Well, I finally got back this evening. Very very long day, but at least nine more cats were fixed.

Sanctuary of the Dead

She's just a frightened desperate little girl, watching the cars go by, hungry, cold. Last night, when a car pulled into the Scravel Hill Cemetery parking lot and the door opened, she saw what might have been her last chance at life and she went for it. She darted into that car and would not get out.

What a brave little girl.

Someone evil dumped this little girl at that cemetery where her only refuge came in sleeping on the graves of the dead. I wonder if those buried in that cemetery are humans who would have dumped her like garbage, as some live human did, or kind souls, like the man with the open car and open heart.

Like the biblical Good Samaritan he took her in. Unlike that Samaritan of the Bible, this man has no money, nor even a real home. And his couching situation is above a man who hates cats so much he had to hide for her safety last night, so she would not be detected. He could not keep her there either. A soul filled with hate might have engaged his hate in violence against a helpless desperate life.

Where does all this evil and hatred originate?

I don't know. But kindness is to be rewarded and so I took her in, to save her and so that man would not lose even his modest living place. I am stupid, yes I am. You don't have to tell me how stupid I am.

I am always believing in angels. I dream of them. That they will materialize and comfort me, because I am overwhelmed, and help me find these sweet souls good homes. I will get her fixed and try my best as always to find her a home.

I know people tell me I'm nuts and I should ignore such a cat's need. But somebody has to help these helpless lives and take some responsibility. Who will step up? You? Who then.

Do you know that people are paying out $12 bucks for a Ducks supporting T-shirt before today's Civil War Game? I saw that on the news, how they're selling like hot cakes. I could not believe my ears. For a T-shirt. And yet......oh I should not even think of these things.

I just named her Kooshi.

UPDATE: Sooooo happy. I might have someone interested in Black Pearl and Toby. Cross your fingers. Sounds like a great home! They couldn't get them until just before Christmas due to vacation plans, but that's ok.

Three Cats Fixed Yesterday. Frig Repair. Shimmer Gets a Home.

Lebanon prev spay female.
Albany in heat black female.
Albany tabby female.
Ice, on the coils behind the false wall of the freezer compartment.
Same thing, only ice now gone.
When I removed everything from the freezer, I could see ice between the joint of the back and the bottom, at the bottom. That shouldn't be.

This is where the hose enters the back of the fridge. On the inside, it connects with a dish that catches the drips of water coming through from the above freezer compartment. The hose that attaches to this piece on the back runs down the back and into a pan beneath the fridge.This is the catch dish and hose coming down from freezer compartment. Both were frozen solid. This is located behind the thermostat housing and adjustment knobs.
Coils at back of freezer compartment after false back removed. Ice at the bottom.
I don't know what is the larger coil at the bottom of the freezer coils. Freon maybe? This is after the ice was gone from it.
This was the latest yard stray, fixed last week.
The bridge to somewhere, beginnings. I first strung wire rope, two strands, which can be unhooked, then zip tied horse fencing I had on hand, to it.

Shimmer went to a home yesterday. She is one of Black Pearl's kittens and Tiny Tim's offspring. A nice family in Salem adopted her. I hope it works out.

Yesterday I became frustrated with the fridge again, leaking water from the freezer compartment to fill the bottom. It is a frost free fridge and freezer. The freezer compartment is tiny. I typed one question into google search: "Why is my fridge leaking inside?"

The first search result was all I needed. It explained how frost free fridge freezers have a drain plug and hose, that in my brand of fridge freezer, are hidden inside a false back of the freezer.

I undertook the project.

I unplugged the frig and pulled it out of it's little place in the world. I took everything out of the freezer. I unscrewed the false back and bottom of the freezer compartment. Low and behold the bottom of the freezer coils and space beneath was shrouded in ice. That's not supposed to be.

Underneath that ice, when I got it thawed and off, I found the drain hole, also frozen. A short piece of rubber hose ran down from it into the food compartment but was hidden behind the plastic piece holding thermostat knobs. The thermostat is also behind that plastic cabinet piece. I got it off. The short piece of hose drips into a tiny plastic cup, that has a small hole in the back, that then drains out a hose attached to the back of the fridge and runs down to drain into a pan under the frig. That pan has always been dry.

I thawed everything including the collection dish and short piece of hose from the upper compartment, put everything back together and no more leaks so far. But, did that ice come from a more serious problem with the unit or from one original water spill in the freezer? We'll wait and see.

Three females were fixed yesterday, two from Albany and one from Lebanon. The Lebanon female, as I suspected, turned out to be already spayed. But, they had to put her under to shave her belly to be sure. I had thought I felt spay scar tissue on her belly. I was right. One of the other two was in heat. I found that female by calling free kitten ads in the paper. The other female is from a group of cats I got fixed last year, but I keep checking back and good thing I did.