Cat Eyes---A Cat Woman's Photos: Obamarama and Cat Fixing in Eugene

Obama is visiting Eugene this evening. When I heard, I wanted to hear him speak. But, there's the Neuterscooter clinic today in Eugene and with 99 cats registered, we won't be done in time to have a pray of getting a seat at McArthur Court. In fact, likely, we will have a 8:00 or 9:00 p.m. pickup time, for the cats fixed today so I hope the event, which begins at 9:00 officially, won't cause traffic snarls that cause headaches for those trying to pick up their cats.

Yesterday, the Eugene NS clinic was opened to overflow--those who couldn't get into to today's clinic. I think we did about 40. Included in the 40--the long hair gray female from Red Linda, who the caretaker swears was never fixed. I took her to Tigard a week ago, and they had declared her previously spayed. I would have thought nothing of returning her, had the caretaker not so vehemently argued she could never have been fixed.

She didn't take her in, she claims, and she claims the cat had kittens last fall and pointed out the now adult cats who were born to her last fall. She does not have nearby neigbhors either. So it is a mystery as to how this female got spayed, but spayed she is indeed. The NS vet confirmed that, although she did find ovarian stumps leftover from her first spay, that could have caused her symptoms of "in heat" behavior.

The day before, I took in five more cats to Countryside. One, a gray tabby teen male, was from Spicer Red. The other four, from Tattoo Prairie. Three of the four, an all black short hair and two brown tabbies, were pregnant females and the fourth, a huge brown tabby tux, was a male.

Esmerelda, from Red Linda, who had many rotten teeth pulled last Monday, is doing well and healing just fine. Her mouth will feel so much better now. She and Janey, the long hair gray, will return to their colony on Tuesday.