197 Albany Cats Since April

Since Poppa Inc. received the grant from the City of Albany, to help get Albany cats fixed, I've rounded up and taken in 197 Albany cats to be fixed. These all have to be within Albany city limits. The cost has been, to fix the 197 cats, many of whom have been pregnant or in heat females, which ups the cost, $6437.

In other words, there's not much left of the grant money.

Tomorrow, one Albany female and five rural Linn cats, will get fixed for free, in Eugene, at the Wag clinic, partially in exchange for "a mission" although I have not been told what this entails yet. Six more cats, three from rural Benton, and three more from Albany, will be fixed in Jefferson and hopefully I will find a transporter.

It is nice the City of Albany kicked in the funds. Poppa Inc. has been spending close to $20,000 a year and sometimes considerably more, subsidizing the fixes of Linn County cats. That's a lot of mula, to be sure, gifted to Linn County residents through the hard work of a handful of volunteers, working at Recycled Gardens. Now that Recycled Gardens has closed, Poppa, if it is to continue, must find money elsewhere.

Think of all the money and hard work that could have been saved, had people just fixed their own cats to begin with. Well, when that doesn't happen, at least there are good people out there working their butts off to find ways to take up their slack.