Wipeout was kitten number twelve I trapped in the Albany trailer park Kitten Yard colony. Wipeout was one of many gray male kittens from that yard. I also trapped four adults, three adult females and one adult male. Two of the adult females and the adult male, a delightful black smoke male, were returned.
Eleven went to a great Corvallis home yesterday. Today, Wipeout went to an Emergency room manager, who lives in Cottage Grove. Good luck little guy. This leaves me three males left from the kitten yard. At least two of these, both wild boys, are going to a barn home this weekend--Atom and Last Kitten Standing. Of the 14 kittens, these are the only two who did not immediately become tame boys. I may have to take Sunny to the barn home also, as he is just getting worn out living in my bathroom. It's too bad, because Sunny is tame. He's the second orange tabby from the kitten yard.
Here is where the Kitten Yard Kittens have ended up. All, of course, were fixed before going to homes or barn homes.
Two kittens, a black male and a lilac point Siamese male, went to a woman who had lived in the trailer park and originally fed three of the kittens.
A black female and a black male, plus an adult torti from the Kitten Yard, went to a very nice woman in rural Tangent, who wanted mousers and loves cats.
A gray female kitten and a torti kitten went to some brand new Oregonians, transplanted from southern California, now living in Corvallis.
Another gray female kitten, Gracie, and Sizzle, one of the orange tabby kittens, went to a barn home north of Corvallis.
A black male kitten went to a very nice Philomath family.
Eleven went to a Corvallis family.
Wipeout went to the Cottage Grove family.
And that's where they have so far all ended up, with three kittens from that trailer park left here, in my bathroom.
I also have the Starvation kids, very cute kittens, doing so much better.
And I couldn't stand seeing those kittens in the Elm street district sick and outside in the junk filled yard. This morning, I took three of the four. The woman would not give up the fourth, stating she had a home for it. The three were huddled atop junk in a box on the porch, shivering from the cold, along with their ten year old mother, who is thankfully getting spayed tomorrow finally. Poor old gal.
The kittens eyes are gunked shut, one has green snot running from its nose also, and I just couldn't stand seeing it. I can and have given this woman everything from eye meds to antibiotics, but she won't take them inside and doesn't faithfully give them any of it. So I'm fed up and it's a waste of medicine to give her anything. There are still three teens to get fixed, two of them with pus running eyes, so I gave her more eye meds, but will she use it--No, most likely. I found the antibiotic eye ointment I gave her before out in the yard.
Last weekend, passing SafeHaven, I saw a cat beside their trailers. Today, the calico is across highway 34 from SafeHaven trying to catch mice. I e-mailed them about her, told her I would trap her, if they would place her. I wonder if they will respond. Cats don't end up there unless dumped or if they escape from SafeHaven. I wonder which it is with this latest one.
Good for you, don't let them suffer that kind of thing when you can help -- as tiring as it is.
ReplyDeleteYou should sneak over to that Elm street house and steal the one who is left. I doubt she has a home for it.
It's actually on Vine Street. I think she'll hand the kitten over. Or I might seek outside involvement. The three teens are in not much better shape. I try to tell her I can't get them fixed when they're so sick, but she just doesn't care.
ReplyDeleteThe kitten looked good tonight, when I stopped. She'd had it inside, and even cleaned up the teens eyes, so maybe it sunk in. I hope so.
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