State Park RV'ers' Desperate Plea

Just got a call from some state park caretakers. They live in an RV now, as volunteer Oregon state park caretakers. She has three cats she needs to rehome, adults, she found abandoned in Oregon state parks. She said Oregon is horrible for unfixed pets and says other states are much better. For some reason, I figured the problem at least must be worse in most other states, since some of us, actually a handful of us, here in Oregon work so hard at spay/neuter. She used to do rescue, TNR in New York before they retired and thought it was a good idea to travel around doing the state park caretaker positions. She regrets coming to Oregon because every park they've hosted in Oregon at has abandoned cats roaming in it.

It's sad that Oregon has declined so greatly. I thought we used to be kind of innovative and progressive, get problems solved. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe we've always been kind of a white trash state and I just didn't want to think of us that way. Kind of hard to get a clear view big picture when you are tangled up in the berry vines of Oregon. Hearing we are worse than many states for animal abandonment and spay/neuter, from a horrified outsider, wasn't a pretty thing for my ears. I know Linn County is horrible, on this issue, and I knew Tillamook county might be even worse.

I was in Tillamook County once trying to stem the tide there. I slept in my car in the parking lot of the Tillamook Cheese factory for awhile, while doing trapping in that part of the state.

The state park host and I have a lot of anguishes and wishes in common, but I couldn't take on three more cats. I felt bad for her. She felt bad for me. Comutual understanding from two tired out cat trappers who don't even know one another, but automatically understood one another's struggles. I told her how I long to run off to Paradise, where everyone fixes their pets and she laughed.