Cat Round up for Tomorrow

I rounded up five cats for tomorrow. First, the second from the yappy dog old couple, a male, will go in. Second, the neighbors of the Elm street felines, caught the Siamese, who may be the only unfixed cat left in those parts, yay. She'll be spayed tomorrow. Then, at the house where I'm cat sitting, a neighbor has an unfixed male. He had some teens living with him for awhile. The girl just had to have a couple of kittens they got for free. But her boyfriend, 17 at the time, was abusive. One kitten hissed at him, so he hit it over the head with a bottle, killing it. He was also abusing his girlfriend and they are now in seperate towns. The surviving kitten, a gray medium hair male, now mostly grown, stayed in the neighborhood and needs fixed.

I also stopped by the Davidson Dazzlers and drop trapped the last torti. That leaves only a black female, nursing three five week old kittens, who needs fixed there.

The fifth cat is a stray female fed at an Albany seed warehouse. The warehouse will keep the female but wants her five tame kittens gone. I can't take them in. Everyone is full.

I was called by the BS colony woman again. She was upset. A second cat had kittens on the block. She claims she's mad for the same reasons I am upset with her street. Inside, I was laughing out loud. No way lady. I'm upset because you never fixed any of your cats and now I have to. She wanted to blame neighbors or anybody else, especially when I told her I wasn't taking in the two kittens. Well, I'm not. They could have watched, like I told them to, for any cat without an eartip, but they didn't, so too bad. I'll catch her and get her fixed and I'll get the kittens fixed, when they're old enough, but that's all I will do for them. I've done way too much for them already.

I asked KATA not to refer people anymore. I'm run down financially currently, low on everything, so I do need to back off for awhile. I don't get any support, is the thing, not from anyone. They get money raised for them by Petco, as do so many other groups in the area and that's nice. I don't, however. It isn't cheap to have to get all the supplies needed for these Shedd kittens, to try to save them, from antibiotics, to sub cu fluids, vaccines, to kitten food, to more litter and paper towels, more laundry done. Man alive, it's sucking me of money.

KATA also gets help from Heartland with cheap fixes, although not very often. Not often enough. Wish they could get more in more often. Nonetheless, I am always feeling like an outsider in the mid valley and am treated like the plague, unless someone wants me to solve a cat situation. Then they'll cozy up briefly.

SafeHaven people are civil to me until I start asking them not to adopt out unfixed kittens or if I question why they don't spay pregnant cats, instead of fostering them until the kittens are born, then two more months until the kittens are weaned, since there are way too many kittens anyhow. Then I get yelled at, like I'm one huge problem.

So, I do start feeling like a loner among the area cat groups. I do not have any friends in the mid valley animal rescue scene. This isn't strange. I don't like doing rescue. I am committed to spay/neuter as a means to help cats. Rescue sucks funds from spay/neuter, while spay/neuter helps cats exponentially more.