Four Cats Being Fixed Today, and, Exhaustion Overwhelming Me

I am exhausted. I began the trailer park situation Wednesday night. By last night, 24 hours later, I had trapped 13 cats there, ten of whom were fixed yesterday. The adult torti and adult gray female, along with the 11th kittens, a three month old gray male, are up being fixed today, although I don't think Countryside will do the kitten, as they like to wait until they are four pounds. I am very shortly taking two black kittens to their new home. Tomorrow, the gray female kitten and torti kitten, go to their new home. Other than that, I've had interest expressed, but then those interested did not follow through, leaving seven kittens without placement opportunity.

I also still have the three fixed tame girls here, and no calls on them either--Sashi, Cajun and Wily. I have the tame adult sweet eartipped gray tabby medium hair male, too, dumped at the Waverly duplex.

I have not even heard back from the woman who originally requested help and who originally said she would take the gray adult mother, and her three kittens, one of the grays, the Siamese and the black male she calls Monkey.

I am exhausted but pleased this situation could be rapidly dealt with and brought under control. There are still at least two kittens out there to catch and two adults, one of them a female.

This weekend, I plan to shut down, and sleep. I need it.

The fourth cat up being fixed today is the female I trapped in N. Albany last night, adopted out as a barn kitten unfixed, with her brother, by a Lebanon rescuer. The family meant to get them fixed, but they turned feral of course, without human contact in the barn and the woman did not know how to catch ferals. Her three ten week old kittens will be fixed at the Neuterscooter clinic in Corvallis. The now adult male is missing in action, roamed off and never returned.

I took the two kittens, one male, one female, both black, out to their barn home this morning, after spending an hour in the bathroom with them and three of the others, cleaning out ears filthy with earmite debris, vaccinating them and worming them for both round and tapeworms. I treated their ears, once clean, with earmite meds, too and they were finally good to go. When I got back I finished the whole shebang with the three still in my bathroom--an orange tabby male, a gray male and a black male.

Five down. Six to go. This takes a lot of time for each kitten. These are not true feral kittens. I can handle all of them. Two more go to a home tomorrow, but as for the other seven, they'll have to return. It is not cheap to "fix" up these kittens, treat their parasites, etc. Vaccines are now $5 each, for just a three-way. Tapeworm pills--not cheap either. Nothing is. So this is going to kind of set me back, treating all these kittens for all their parasites and vaccinating them.

Findng homes for four kittens so far and one adult, that's something. I had hoped to get most of them out of there.