One Long Long Day of 100 Cat Fixing at the Benton County Fairgrounds

So, I ended up with three too many cats! Three too many. My friend and I took in 23. My friend also paid for and rounded up 8 others. Three people brought in those 8 cats they were caring for.

As for the 23 others? Seven were kittens I trapped at the Corvallis colony. Three were feral female kittens from the Hate They Neighbor colony. One was a feral male kitten from 34th street in Albany. Five were tame kittens from the BS and four were tame kittens from BS overflow. Three more came from Talbot--two feral kittens and their feral mom.

The three extras were an adult male, a teen male, and an adult all gray I also trapped at the Corvallis colony. They will be fixed today at Countryside, along with a stray gray tux male I picked up last night, after a really long day volunteering at the Neuterscooter. I'd delivered back the Albany kitten and saw the stray male on those folks front porch. He wanders a complex across the street. The manager told me about him a couple months ago and said some of her tenants feed him and how nice he is. I was also told about him by the military folks, at the end of my own street, who have trapped him twice and by the Circle K people, who tell me he scrounges in the dumpster and tries to get into people's cars. One worker thinks it was a friend of his who abandoned the cat. Well, at least now he'll be neutered.

I am exhausted. My thumb and forefinger are numb on my right hand as I type this from overuse of my formerly injured right shoulder. I have to get the four cats up to Jefferson and deliver other cats back to their colonies.

After checking in all the cats, my friend and I stayed and volunteered all day. 100 cats were fixed! One vet. Her husband. 100 cats. Three volunteers. Unbelievable!

Checkout was at 9:00 p.m. I then delivered the nine cats back to the BS and BS overflow colonies. I got caught in a severe hailstorm on the way out. I had a ten inch crack in my windshield already, from getting hit by two rocks that flew off a gravel truck. After the hail pelted my windshield, the crack extended all the way to the bottom of the windshield. It will have to be replaced. I have only liability insurance.

The other thing that happened yesterday, was I took in all my towels, the ones I use for cage covers, and came back with only three towels, none of them mine. All my nice heavy cage cover and bedding towels----gone. I should have watched out for them, but I was too busy volunteering. I'm sad about that.