Goodbye Meeko, Scottie, Pixie and Micah

Meeko, one of the Spicer brothers, Scottie, Pixie and Micah, all from the BS colony, went to new homes yesterday and today.

My brother and his wife adopted Pixie yesterday, from the North Bend Neuterscooter clinic. They report today that Pixie spent the night sleeping between them. When she finally woke up, she broke out in purrs.

Micah went to a young woman from Eugene who has been waiting for him to be neutered so she could adopt him, for two weeks. She LOVES him.

Meeko and Scottie went to a home together. That couple have been waiting to adopt them for at least ten days. Today, they picked the pair up. They had to wait until they got settled into their new place.

Meeko was born beneath an Albany deck to a feral mother, now fixed. His brother, Machi, went to a home a month ago. Mooki, his other brother, is still here awaiting a home. I call them the Spicer Boys, because I trapped them just off Spicer Drive.

Micah was born to a feral torti mother at the BS colony. The colony caretaker and I netted and grabbed the four kittens after I trapped the mother for spay. After she was spayed, she cared for her kittens inside a rabbit hutch in the garage, so the kittens could be socialized. The caretaker handed over two of the kittens to me, to adopt out--Spidy and Micah, but wanted to keep the others, a calico and a black male. The calico and black male were fixed last Wednesday at the Corvallis neuterscooter clinic and returned to the BS. Spidy, the gray male, was fixed in Tigard and adopted out to an Albany couple. Micah was fixed at the Neuterscooter's North Bend clinic and adopted out today.

Scottie was also born to the BS colony and was living in the garage with dozens of other cats. I netted him and the caretaker agreed to allow me to attempt to find him a real home. Scottie was fixed at the Neuterscooters' Springfield clinic. Heartland Humane then agreed to take him in to adopt out under a no kill order. As fate would have it, I found out they were killing kittens there, due to their own ringworm outbreak. Scottie did not have ringworm, but he and Maryann, also from the BS, were in a covered carrier by the euthanasia room, when I rushed over to check on their welfare at Heartland once I heard they were killing their kitten population. Scottie lucked out again, fell back into the safety zone here, and now has a home to call his own.

Pixie also hails from the BS. She was born to a feral mother who wasn't a great mother in the back barn. I spotted three sick three week old kittens behind a bunch of corrugated tin leaning against the very back of the barn and chose to net them, so they could live and not die back there. Pixie's two siblings live together with a Eugene family. Pixie now lives with my own brother! And as for bad mom? She's fixed and living life easy.