Changing a Neighborhood

Take a look at this photo. There are six cats in this photo, taken the first day I encountered the Hate Thy Neighbor Colony--last Tuesday. On the porch, there are four cats. In the back of the four cat pack, is a black and white male eating. He was fixed Wednesday. In the foreground on the porch, on the left, is a previously fixed orange medium hair male. Then there is a white and orange male. He was fixed yesterday. And there is a short hair orange tabby tux eating at the right. This cat is contained in a cage I provided the caretaker and will be fixed next week. Off to the left, below the porch on the sidewalk, are two cats, a black long hair kitten, now contained in the garage cage, to be fixed next week, and a black and white female, who was fixed yesterday. These porch cats, all unfixed on Tuesday, except the one orange male, are now fixed or contained and about to be fixed. A dire situation, while hard sometimes emotionally to tackle, can be quickly reversed, as will be the case here, as already is the case here.

Granted there are many more cats out back and living in the berry vines to catch, but I am taking a big bite out of the reproductive capacity of this colony very quickly and improving the health of the colony immediately. All the cats when fixed get wormed and treated for fleas, too. They almost immediately improve, and, once the entire colony is fixed, everyone's overall health will improve by leaps and bounds.

Ooops, actually there are seven cats in the photo. The medium hair old brown tabby female, at the bottom right, will also be fixed next week. The caretaker can pick her up.