Beat

I'm beat. I"m also getting sick. My feet are cold. I could not get warm today. I called the Neuterscooter to offer to head down to North Bend to work tomorrow regardless. I got to thinking I didn't want to leave them high and dry, short on help. I got to thinking I could make it through another day. They are helping out our state. Big time. I didn't want to leave them without enough help to continue.

I appreciate the extreme clinics they hold, fixing 100 cats a day, helping out so many people and so many communities and they're not even from here. I do wish we had such programs locally frequently. Every community needs such programs. But we don't have them in Oregon. So a family from Indiana comes in a van and helps out our state. The help is appreciated. I am very happy they come.

But Oscar said they'd do just fine without me. I was disappointed in one sense, but better sense tells me I am beat up, swollen, and now sick, too. I could have done it anyhow. I could have made it through another 100 cat day. I could have. Those NS people are inspiring.

I had pledged allegiance to the NS, in drooling admiration and exhaustion up in Pendleton, aglow with pain, sleep deprivation and the accomplishment of getting 300 cats fixed in three days. Oscar told me, in his usual enthusiastic manner, "Well, people can sit at home and watch TV from a couch, or they can go out and do amazing things to help their communities and the world. Aren't you glad you came along?"

I am glad I went. I need to rest, I know, get well, heal up, hopefully. I need to get that bad tooth pulled and get that pain out of my life once and for all finally, too. I have an apointment now to have it pulled, but the first one I could get was in May.

I'll be thinking about the Neuterscooter tomorrow. They'll be fixing 100 cats or more down in North Bend. Then they'll be in Gold Beach fixing more. Their final stop will be in Veneta. The clinic there will also be full. Why? Because the need is extreme. Why don't states and communities and local vets start programs to help halt overpopulation?

Well I don't know the answer to that one. Some communities do. Some vets do get involved. Others don't. That's just the way it is. But the NS, they're amazing. They don't back down from extremely hard work and hard issues. In some places, vets don't like them showing up. Why? Probably because it embarrasses them, that they do nothing to meet this need or solve the overpopulation problem, so they attack those who do.

In reality, we should be throwing a parade for the Neuterscooter when they come to Oregon along with one big giant thank you.

You can't pretend overpopulation isn't a problem and that if you look away the problem will go away or doesn't exist. Lots of people and vets do this. But some see the problem and dive right in to solve it. Those are the people I respect. Action heros.

I broke down and sobbed this evening over Bart's death. He was such a beautiful soul. I wanted to give him a better life. He and several other cats got abandoned over on Jackson street near 34th street and were trying to fend for themselves. Mopsy's one of them also. None of them were fixed. Someone just moved and left them, like their hearts were blind or black as coal. I did the best I could. But......