Hurray! Poohcow Colony Donation and Buffers Leaves to Good Home

Buffers just left to a great family in Corvallis. They brought me also a bag of cat food, which is greatly appreciated. The other great news is, when I returned the Poohcow male, fixed yesterday, and picked up the other trap still there, in the tied open door of the trap, in a plastic bag, was a donation made out to the vet clinic who fixed the cats. YAHOO! Funny how something like that can just recharge me and make everything seem just fine. I hope to catch the final Poohcow colony cat tomorrow.

Also, we're making good progress on the Elm street issue. Neighbors got a bunch fixed using SafeHave vouchers. Then I went and trapped three there last week or the week before, including an in heat female. Two days ago, again with the help of a ten year old girl, who is very helpful and learned rapidly how to set traps, we trapped three more, using the drop trap, including two big males and a pregnant female. Then Hannah, the little girl, set a trap inside their garage and caught a big brown tabby male, who will be fixed tomorrow.

So, the neighbors got about six fixed, I think, and then I've caught seven more. We think that about does it, except for a Siamese female, who is rarely seen and we need to get her caught and fixed. The neighbor is watching for her.

So, almost done with those two situations, at least for now.

Then, KATA was called by an Albany woman feeding about ten kittens from three tame abandoned mothers. First off, the mothers get fixed, and that will happen tomorrow.

SafeHaven is taking back the Three Amigos today, and, although I will miss them, I am truely in over my head here, currently and appreciate them taking them back before they acheive the two pound mark.

I didn't mean to end up with so many kittens, just happened I could claim. I don't suppose it does much good to regret anything already done. Maybe there's a reason for things, like grabbing those seven Shedd kittens, who had coccidia. They all would have died there, quickly too. Diarrhea will dehydrate and kill kittens rapidly. With Albon, it's just a once daily treatment and takes me only ten minutes to treat them all. After just two days on it, they are improving. That's the thing with kittens, too, the quick reaction to treatment.

I must arrange a trip to Tigard. Not only are there ten up to weight kittens in this latest Albany situation that could be fixed under the cat grant, but I need to get the HTN mother, allegedly spayed there once, but who was somehow missed in the spay day spays, and then produced kittens six weeks later. The four boys are four weeks old now and mom needs fixed.

But, when I talked to the HTN man this morning, he expressed wonder. Seems he thought he heard another kitten crying for its mom, out in the brush a couple weeks ago. The next door neighbor has tons of junk that now has berry vines grown over and around it. If another cat roamed in, which happens there frequently, and does have kittens or a kitten, is it possible this mother stole them?

But would a spayed female, if she stole newborns, start to lactate out of the blue? She'd been spayed over a month when the old man found her inside the camper shell he maintains as a housing unit, with the newborns and we are talking newborn. Unlikely. And he did say she got much fatter, then skinnier. So the mystery will soon be solved, when she goes in once again, to be spayed.

It is hard to keep track of all the cats there, that's for sure. Since that dog killed so many, there are really not that many of his originals left that he feeds, maybe twenty, maybe about 16. He'd know. And they're all fixed, so he is very adept at noticing any cats he does not recognize as part of the regular crew. He has not seen any newcomers, except for one large orange and white tom, that roams through every now and then, but not often enough to snag with a trap.

The trapping pair, who maintain a downtown colony, then got involved in the colony living on a porch on the adjoining street, are removing the kittens from the unfixed tabby there this week or next week and trapping the tabby. The kittens have been handled a lot by the colony feeder, so are tame and socialized, which is good.