Cat Eyes---A Cat Woman's Photos: Desperately Seeking Barn Homes

I am desperately seeking barn homes for 12-18 cats. I know I should just fix the cats and return them, but they won't live, not in these two situations. The first situation is in south Corvallis. This couple lives in a stinking falling apart duplex. Slum city, Corvallis. Allegedly, before they moved in, the duplex was occupied by druggees. New windows were put in but new sheet rock was never added around them--so bare studs show, and mold. Water provided is well water. It stinks and has turned the sink, toilet and shower reddish black. They have to drink bottled water they buy. You can feel the floor give beneath your feet. It's just disgusting the minimal places some landlords rent out as habitable. This place is not habitable.

The cat situation arose because of some piggee wiggy tenants who would get free kittens, then kick them out the door when they got older. There was another problem tenant, too, who had cats, unfixed, and then left them. So the landlord is complaining to this couple, who feeds the strays, about the cats, wanting them gone. In my opinion, the landlord should focus on being a responsible landlord and getting these units up to livable standards.

This couple is comprised of one disabled man and a woman, older, who works as a caregiver for under $10 per hour, supporting both of them. They desperately want to move, but to where and how to get the money to get out of this horrible situation.

The cats are being threatened by other neighbors. It's just sad all the way around and can make a person want to curl up and cry, and wish people could have it better and that other people would somehow become nicer, behave like decent human beings, that sort of thing, but you know that isn't going to happen. The sadness permeating that little stinking place is palpable--the moldy hopelessness, and yet this couple, backs against the wall, still feed the strays and try to defend them from all comers.

Hey Corvallis, want to work on human rights issues? There is need right there in Corvallis.

So I don't mean to take on more being already overwhelmed, but when I see people struggling so, against all odds, I can't help myself. I'm trying to place the cats they feed, because it would help them immensely, take pressure off them, maybe let them focus on getting the hell out of that place and away.

Can anybody out there help me find them homes quickly? Real quickly? Please.

These are the four fixed yesterday---three females and a big old tame tom. I caught five more last night. There are at least four more to catch.