tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-291727822024-03-17T21:39:31.496-07:00Cat Eyes---A Cat Woman's PhotosI am a Cat Woman. My self-appointed mission in life is to save the feline world! To accomplish this mission, I get cats fixed. Perhaps my mission might be slightly delusional. This blog is a mishmash of wishful thinking, rants, experiences as I remember them and of course, cat stories and cat photos. I have a nonprofit now, to help keep the cats here cared for and to fix community cats. Happy Cat Club formed in 2015. Currently, we are on a mission to fix 10,000 cats.Strayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08124298302997708537noreply@blogger.comBlogger5805125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172782.post-27264592539096697482024-03-17T07:34:00.000-07:002024-03-17T07:49:03.986-07:00Dog in the Road I went to get groceries yesterday morning fairly early.I was expecting visitors, brief ones, pop in and out, so I wanted to get done with the grocery list.I drove backroads home. They're not far out of town, just less busy. A big white SUV was tailgating me, as is so often the case now with hurried people.Suddenly I come around a 90 degree corner (roads around here Strayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08124298302997708537noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172782.post-88480864589552054142024-03-15T20:03:00.000-07:002024-03-15T20:05:20.637-07:00Bob in a Trap I caught Bob this afternoon. He got attracted back to my place by the smells of the nine cats I overnighted before and after surgery. He was yowling pathetically for the girls. So I set the trap I had in the wooden box. I got the cages out of my car, after returning the cats, got the old papers cleaned out of them, and the laundry started but then just fizzled Strayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08124298302997708537noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172782.post-55231483928840063702024-03-15T07:06:00.000-07:002024-03-15T07:06:24.654-07:009 More I caught 9 more cats and even though the feeder lady had only 7 spots, she contacted FCCO and they let us bring up all 9.The day before, the Sweet Home women had 12, but 12 didn't make it to the clinic. Someone I know transported for them. She was horrified, because one cat escaped a broken down trap while they were loading them up in the dark in her truck Wednesday morning.&Strayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08124298302997708537noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172782.post-89016550436301881762024-03-13T04:23:00.000-07:002024-03-13T05:05:56.352-07:00Weather Letdown We were promised four days over 70 degrees. Ha! Now the weather apps are showing only one day, where we just get to 70. I hope the apps are wrong.Today maybe 52. Tomorrow only 60 when I thought tomorrow it would be over ten degrees warmer.Gripe. Gripe.I drove the four cats fixed Monday back to Brownsville this morning. Turned on my phone dash Strayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08124298302997708537noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172782.post-5792124356580821002024-03-11T11:25:00.000-07:002024-03-12T08:05:56.993-07:00Back at It Cat round up time. I waited til yesterday afternoon to begin and it worked out fine.We've had wild windy rainy cold weather last few days. Saturday night, the high gusting winds woke me several times. Their noise created dreams, like once I thought I was walking down a railroad track and the train was coming and I needed to move off the tracks but my feet were Strayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08124298302997708537noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172782.post-60188546014818791052024-03-08T06:48:00.000-08:002024-03-08T06:54:39.136-08:00Productivity Yesterday was a rare day. I got in the mood.I removed the sheet on the top bunk where my cats hang out. They all love it up there and cuddle up with one another. Consequently, the sheet and their beds up there have to be cleaned more often than anywhere else in the house.So I removed the top sheet, much to their dismay. I changed the plastic mattress protector too, Strayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08124298302997708537noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172782.post-57889797505128951212024-03-06T05:41:00.000-08:002024-03-06T07:05:47.576-08:00Slime Time I guess I can be called a Hermit. Or a Winter Hermit. Winter Hermitess?The weather lately has certainly gotten to me. There's little to do, since outside is yucky.One friend called it Slime Time. She now lives down in K Falls to be near family.There is slime and algae growing everywhere.General slimePellet fuel litter bag slimeCarrier side slimeCarrier water Strayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08124298302997708537noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172782.post-73335938680281806702024-03-02T17:34:00.000-08:002024-03-02T17:34:49.371-08:00Rotten Weather Continues Today I woke up to an inch or so of snow outside, maybe it was more. Soon, it melted. For the rest of the day, we've had rain and snow mixed, wind, plain rain and hail. I've about had all I can take I fear.I had a bad night last night, for sleep. This is rare for me. Thoughts would not stop. The man whose five cats I took in last Strayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08124298302997708537noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172782.post-54527406343887649762024-03-01T16:32:00.000-08:002024-03-01T20:00:43.974-08:00Lousy weather It snowed here this morning although the snow did not stick. Windy and cold this afternoon.I wish we'd get at least even a day of decent weather.I didn't even try to do anything for my birthday. I wasn't hungry so going out to eat was not appealing. The weather has been so depressing for so long.I did annoy my cats by singing Happy Birthday to myself a Strayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08124298302997708537noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172782.post-74039972392128577162024-02-28T18:47:00.000-08:002024-02-29T10:37:08.562-08:00Some SuccessI worked to find another way to afford internet this morning. Found a link where I could apply online to switch over to Xfinity's low cost slowest speed Internet Essentials. Allegedly you were to have to be without Xfinity internet to get it, for 90 days. I thought, well, if I have to go without for 90 days, I can do that. The link on their website would not work, Strayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08124298302997708537noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172782.post-91562398447305983732024-02-28T07:10:00.000-08:002024-02-28T07:30:42.209-08:00The Photos I guess I better post photos of the five fixed Monday, for my own look back needs.Chloe--another torbi tux adult femaleHissy, a torbi tux teen, and lookalike to Candy, who was fixed last FridayThis boy he calls Little Buddy, as he can pet him.Shyly, a torti tux. He says she has a lookalike not yet caught.This young orange tabby is a girl. I named her Spitzy. She was the Strayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08124298302997708537noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172782.post-91801000958987749832024-02-26T19:32:00.000-08:002024-02-26T20:17:17.480-08:00Five Cats Fixed Today Five more cats from the Off Scravel colony got fixed today. Four more girls and one boy.A lady clear up in Mill City came down to pick them up this morning from my garage and take them to the clinic. That's an hours drive one way just from there to here. I gave her gas money, more than she'd need because in the end, I got unchosen at jury duty, for the trial.I went there at 8:00Strayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08124298302997708537noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172782.post-38137651151874317472024-02-25T07:19:00.000-08:002024-02-25T08:30:56.285-08:00Water Woes Now its Mexico City in trouble with water. Mostly due to unmaintained infrastructure that leaks but also due to climate changes.Here is the article.22 million people living there. I can't imagine such a number. But paving over vast acreages of land is also to blame. Water just runs off it, and can't refresh aquafers. Because Mexico City has Strayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08124298302997708537noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172782.post-16676953035934295722024-02-24T08:05:00.000-08:002024-02-24T08:25:40.342-08:00Stress I sometimes get stressed with change. More changes at the clinic in Salem. This time they were changing software. The old online portal system worked so seamlessly. We got the cat caretakers to sign an anesthesia form, then filled out information through the online portal on each cat and submitted the information electronically. We could accessStrayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08124298302997708537noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172782.post-90170526670318094312024-02-22T23:07:00.000-08:002024-02-22T23:07:51.876-08:00Nice Day We had our first really nice day today. I love it!I went to Waterloo park, of all places, but once there, didn't do anything, since there's really nothing to do there. I've walked the short dike trail too many times to want to do it again, and its shaded and often soggy in mud.I went down to the river at the upper boat ramp. The river is low again, so the boat Strayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08124298302997708537noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172782.post-9630113947698259442024-02-18T19:10:00.000-08:002024-02-18T19:10:31.618-08:00Nine Cats, Eight Appointments Over caught cats for tomorrow's 8 spots.When one person cancelled, somehow I thought I'd given her two of the spots, so got two more, when I'd only given her one, so I ended up with nine cats when I only have appointments for eight. Don't bother to try to figure it out. It's cat trapper math.I'll take all 9 in case they can do them all.One of them is not Bob, but is Chico, the long Strayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08124298302997708537noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172782.post-25898528340614646652024-02-17T10:09:00.000-08:002024-02-17T10:09:11.945-08:00Night Cats No wonder my cats are agitated, at times, especially my boys. I thought I would have a spay neuter space Monday to get Bob, the big orange boy fixed, but then I realized I'd promised out too many people for my five spots I was gifted last week. A friend had caught a stray way out up the Calapooia River, where she lives. There's nothing up there for miles!  Strayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08124298302997708537noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172782.post-21571122704119600852024-02-14T22:31:00.000-08:002024-02-14T22:31:52.875-08:00Little Boy Kitten Nursing on Dead Mom Last night, I saw a post late, about a kitten seen, out way rural, but on a busy two lane road. The kitten was nursing on a dead female cat, hit by a car, presumed to be his mom. A bunch of people had already gone out looking for the kitten. I figured they'd find the kitten, if there was one, and that would be that.But noon today, I looked for updates and saw Strayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08124298302997708537noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172782.post-66707087248826697412024-02-11T00:56:00.000-08:002024-02-11T00:56:28.009-08:00Nothing Going on Here Since my return from Portland with the 11 cats, I've been recovering. Wednesday night, the man with the shop who had brought three from there, near the colony, took four back to recuperate the the night there. He took the long hair black male, sure it was Fozzy, one he fed there. Like the one he feeds there, this cat is mostly tame. But today he called to Strayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08124298302997708537noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172782.post-67640824129551287192024-02-08T10:50:00.000-08:002024-02-08T12:46:39.314-08:00Garbage Cart Disabled Last week, after the garbage was picked up at the curb, I couldn't pull it back up the driveway. It was dragging. I looked and saw one of its two big plastic wheels was gone. I looked all over for it, then realized it must have happened when the truck dumped it with the auto arm into its back end and the wheel got sheered off somehow and went into the truck too.I called Strayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08124298302997708537noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172782.post-23905162810496602592024-02-07T05:05:00.000-08:002024-02-07T05:05:22.351-08:00Road Trip. 11 Cats Along for the Ride Taking a road trip with cats today. I got up too early, as is often the case when I have cats in the garage. I did go to bed uncommonly early.11 cats in my garage. 11 extras that is.I caught 8 at the ditch colony that aren't fixed yet. They will be fixed today. A guy got three from his shop which is nearby after he recognized the photo of the black long Strayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08124298302997708537noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172782.post-17873355382437181972024-02-04T21:19:00.000-08:002024-02-04T21:19:40.544-08:00Black and White Cats in My Sleep I think I'll be seeing black and white cats in my sleep. Trying to tell them apart over at the mostly fixed colony, from a distance, with the sun in my eyes, omg, for ten hours. Yup. Ten hours I sat there. The lady who feeds them got 12 spots Wednesday at the FCCO for them. Due to the difficulty trapping there, I had to start early.The water level in the darn ditch Strayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08124298302997708537noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172782.post-33325039109446429272024-02-02T06:55:00.000-08:002024-02-02T12:44:10.991-08:00Return It's return time, to an old colony.I knew I'd be back at this place, when I last trapped it, over a year ago.I first trapped at this location in November 2021. I caught 23 cats and kittens there, in all. I did not return 8 or was it 9 of them. Smudge who lives here is from there.I trapped there many hours on a freezing snowy Christmas day that year also. And Strayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08124298302997708537noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172782.post-52400822241892593392024-01-30T08:17:00.000-08:002024-01-30T08:23:18.520-08:00In Heat Females I took six cats to be fixed in Salem yesterday.Turned out two of the girls were in heat. Yikes. I guess it is, after all, end of January, and kittens start popping out in March some years. Gestation for cats is about 60 days or so.Still, it freaked me out. Shelters and rescues are already full. And this is before kitten season hits again.I said to Strayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08124298302997708537noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172782.post-87202908725045530582024-01-28T10:25:00.000-08:002024-01-28T10:27:14.980-08:00Bored Cats You'd think it would be inside cats who are bored. Around here, its the owned roaming outside cats.I'm not sure who owns who. No one on this block has outside free roaming cats including me. But people do on the block behind me. Many of them come into my yard and interact with my cats through the cat yard, even try to break into the cat yard. Must Strayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08124298302997708537noreply@blogger.com13