Five Cats Fixed Yesterday. Nine to Be Fixed Today

Five cats were fixed yesterday, including the last unfixed cat, a female from Tattoo Prairie. She was pregnant. She also has a bulging right eye. She needs that eye removed. She's currently is in a rabbit hutch in the spare bedroom.

Another of the five, was a pregnant teen torti, from downtown Albany, abandoned by someone when they moved. She took refuge at the office of a nonprofit run by a local council woman and the staff at the office is taking on the responsibility of finding the torti a home.

Three more were Heatherdale cats. A black female, also pregnant, a tabby on white female, in heat, and a black and white male.

The nine I have here, ready to leave for Tigard to be fixed: 8 from Heatherdale, including five fed by one male, the same man who fed the black preggie fixed yesterday. These include a torti, two black and white males, a black male and a brown tabby male.

Two from a different trailer including a black tux long hair female, and a brown tabby male, and one from another trailer, a gray male.

But the gray male busted out of his carrier last night in my garage and is now currently lounging above the garage room, where I can't get him. I have a trap set in the rafters. How did he break out of that carrer? He's an escape artist cat, who reaches through mesh and just unhooks the carrier. Smart stuff. I may have to have his owner come call him out.

The ninth cat going up is a female from Fry of Siam colony. A couple years back, I trapped about 40 cats at that rural location, most of them feral Siamese. They'd bought the house with the cat problem from a daughter of the former owner who dumped her Siamese cats out there unfixed. Anyhow, in the initial trapping we missed one brown tabby female who had four kittens. We caught three of the four kittens and the mother for fixing. That female had a litter last summer but only one survived and the couple took it to their vet, who found it a home.

So she is pregnant again. First they called saying they'd caught a black male who was fixed Thursday, the impregnator. Yesterday they caught the gray female kitten, now an adult and pregnant again. She will be fixed today also. So, 8 cats from Heatherdale, if the male comes down from his roost, and one from rural Linn. 3 females, 5 males.