Not One Call on Kitten Ad

Not one call off the GT ad. I paid for an ad in the GT this time because I don't necessarily want to have to give away kittens I've put so much money into, which one has to do, if they take out the allowed once monthly free ad. (UPDATE: It's now Friday night, after 8:00 p.m., ad's been in for two days and not one call yet. Very scarey).

Unfortunately, I called in the ad and they spelled my website wrong in the ad, both print and online. I called in, and requested today that the error be corrected, but it has not been corrected, at least in the online version. Very frustrating.

Yay, it has been corrected today! Still no calls, however. I get panicky when I have too many rescued kittens here, and no adoption venue. Used to be, I'd get a lot of hits off my petfinder.com site, but no more. About 8 months ago, it was like contacts off petfinder all but stopped. I don't know why. It was really the only venue I had and still have for getting these rescued kitties homes.

People want to see and handle live kittens I think, and do so at adoption venues, like at fixed place shelters and in the adoption kiosks at Petco. I need such an adoption venue, but how to find one when not a nonprofit and most places, like Petco, do not allow it unless you are.

I have a closer clinic now that does kittens. Tigard opened a satelite clinic in Wilsonville and they are very flexible. I was going to take up 12 today. These included six female from Corvallis. These are kittens from a mother I took in a month ago. I also took in the mother cats' adult son from her first litter. Even though these kittens are ten weeks old, when I got back with them last night and weighed them, they were shy of the two pound limit by two to four ounces. Only two were marginally close so I took them up.

The reason they're too small is because they are flea infested. Fleas mean they have tapeworms. And they likely have roundworms, too. This woman is going to be a doctor, leaving for med school this fall. I need to educate future doc a little about parasites.

Anyhow I treated all of them for fleas and worms and only two are getting fixed.

I was already planning on taking Wily, Cajun and Pokey. Rocket, Pokey's brother, was fixed Monday and so was Aces, Wily and Cajun's brother. So those three went, too.

The other two I was planning on taking were a male and female kitten a woman whose mother cat I took in yesterday to be fixed, was trying to find them homes. When I got there last night, with their just spayed mother, to drop her off and pick up the kittens, the woman said they'd found homes for both during the day. They were gone. Unfixed, darn it.

So I was short now six kittens, for the appointments I had made.

I went cruising for kittens.

I called the folks on 6th who had three three month old male kittens. They had to look for them for an hour, and they too were flea and worm infested, but I treated all three and they went up. This morning, when we were weighing and tagging them at the clinic, dead and dying fleas were falling off those boys all over the place.

I then called the woman on Salem who has been advertising Siamese kittens. The mother cat was scheduled to be fixed Monday. I asked if the kittens were two pounds. She said they were 8 weeks old, so I went to get those three females, thinking joyfully that Siamese females would not be adopted now, unfixed. But, despite their age, they weighed under a pound. Again, the fault lay in fleas and worms. I wormed them for her on the spot. I have a parasite fact sheet now too I give to people. So many people have cats who never see a vet and do not know about parasites.

Anyhow, I scooped up mom, who is being spayed today.

I had also picked up a female kitten from a woman whose male cat was fixed two weeks ago. I don't like to lose track of these cats I know need fixed, so this was a good time to get her fixed, too. I keep track in my brain, because if I try to keep lists on paper, I lose them. So I have to force my brain to keep track, because then you don't lose the information. Well, hopefully you don't.

Anyhow, 10 kittens up being fixed. Four boys. Six girls.

The three females from the one location, fixed yesterday, were so heavily infested with fleas they were anemic. I treated all for fleas and used the gift card account I have there, to get each a tube of Profender, which treats tape and roundworms for a month. This was an incredible gift to be able to give these cats--relief like that.

Someone is donating anonymously to that account and whomever you are, if you knew what you just did for those three girls, fixed yesterday, my goodness that was so wonderful to be able to give them that relief. THANK YOU. They'd tell you if they could.

UPDATE: The stress just keeps coming. Vicki called, somebody in Philomath, given KATA's number by SafeHaven, for some reason, feeds 40 or 50 in Philomath somewhere. Vicki told her she can't come all the way to Philomath to trap that many cats, and suggested the upcoming Neuterscooter or FCCO clinics to solve the problem and asked if the woman knew me, which she does, but Vicki can't recall the caller's name. The woman hasn't called, so has to be someone who had my old number in Corvallis and that narrows the field, to a couple of names, of collector's I've dealt with in the Philomath area and oh god I hope it's neither of them.

Then Vicki calls again, very upset, with an Albany woman who stopped feeding a stray mom, wants her gone, has her three kittens and wants them gone too. So she gave me her number and I called her. Well, she's nestled in between the alleged collector and the woman whose kitten is being fixed today, on that street and was adamant I take the cat and kittens, even though I told her three times I wouldn't. Then she wanted her killed, stating she wasn't happy, and I said "that would be quite cruel, if it's true, she's roamed there a stray since she was a kitten, unloved and unwanted. Let's just get her fixed and you feed her." But she wouldn't agree to that. It's just hard, day in day out.