Long Day. 70 Some Cats Fixed

Leah, the FCCO tech, arrives in the van at the clinic location, under the careful supervision of her dog.
Brown tabby male, from Heatherdale, fixed today.

It's been a long day again. 70 some cats were fixed in Philomath today at the FCCO clinic. The no shows this time were extremely high. Over 100 cats were registered. Only 72 or so showed up. And I brought two more than I had signed up to bring. However, one female had other ideas about getting spayed. They brought the little black and white girl out of the anesthesia room and said, "She's having kittens." She had one at that point. Within an hour, she'd had three more. Four in all.Millersburg teen, in carrier at clinic, after giving birth to four kittens, starting in the anesthesia room of the van. She is now with my friend Tamara in North Bend, along with her four kittens.
Black and white Millersburg Country colony male, abandoned by goat farmers, just out of surgery, neutered today, and laid out asleep in post op at the clinic.
Millersburg Country black and white female, also a goat farmer abandonee.
The huge male, I wrestled into a carrier, after drop trapping him late Saturday night. This guy has caused problems along that stretch of road in Millersburg. He too originates from the goat farm.
This male hails from another Millersburg location and weighed in today as the biggest tom. He's also quite even tempered, I'm told by his caretakers.


She's just a teenage stray from Millersburg. I got ahold of the cats' caretakers who didnt' really want her back. So, thankfully, Tamara from North Bend, formerly of Albany, who now gets cats trapped and fixed down there, agreed to foster them all.

Tamara had arrived with about 8 North Bend cats she'd trapped. Where did she learn to trap? Right here in Albany, when fed up with the numbers of strays roaming her street that were eating her cats food on her porch. She got in touch with me. I loaned her traps and she systematically began cleaning up her neighborhood. Snowman was one of the cats she initially trapped and I transported up to be fixed at Countryside. She had thought him to be completely feral. I did too, until after she moved, and he somehow found his way to my yard, which is probably a good 3/4 miles from where she fed him.

Now, she's living down on the south coast and is getting involved with the same effort down there. Was very good to see her again.

So anyhow, the Millersburg teen was the star of the day. Everyone would go into the lounge area to see her and her kittens, whom she was both protective of and proud of. Four black and white kittens, two more black than white and two more white than black.

Besides her, I had three other females, two also from the Millersburg Country colony and one from somewhere else, along with a couple of males from somewhere else, plus two huge feral males, the black long hair and the orange tabby and a smaller brown tabby male from Heatherdale and another feral smaller black and white male from Millersburg Country.

When I returned some of the cats to MIllersburg Country, one of the relatives there had caught three more he feeds, whom I have in my car to be fixed tomorrow, along with two downtown Albany males I'm to pick up tomorrow and two Lebanon females. I can hardly keep anything straight I'm so tired out.

Nine cats I took were fixed today, that's all I can know right now. One, had four kittens in the anesthesia room of the FCCO van and now she and her kittens are with Tamara, and I already have too many cats lined up for tomorrow, seven in all.

I am very much hoping the one barn home is still interested in taking the three orange tabbies left and the Heatherdale four. I had several replies to the barn home ad I ran and also posted on craigslist but only one ever called to talk to me, after initially e-mailing or leaving a message. So I'm hoping they are still willing. I fell asleep on the couch or I would have called them tonight again, to confirm.