Overdid It on Cats for Tomorrow

So.....December begins a new allotment of funds from Poppa. The allotment won't last long if tomorrow is any indication. There is a Corvallis woman trying to get the trailer park where she lives "fixed". Benton County no longer has any options available for low income pet owners to fix their cats, since the Heartland voucher program closed. So this makes things harder.

So, she had already lined up five owned cats whose owners are anxious to get the cats fixed but have very little money to work with. She got co-payments from all and even lined up a reliable transporter, she says. Tomorrow, the first five cats from that south town trailer park will go to be fixed, paid for mostly with Poppa funds.

But, see I hadn't heard from her since last week and we'd never sealed the deal on tomorrow. Turns out her answering maching is haywire. Not hearing from her, I went ahead and looked for cats elsewhere and found them.

Remember a month or more ago I got 6 of 14 owned tame cats fixed, for an Albany resident? Then I could not get ahold of her two days later, when I had appointments for the other 8. I finally gave up.

But, today I got ahold of her. Her landlord actually told her she could only have two cats there, so she keeps the cats now at in Scio, at a friends place, and brings two different ones each week to her place in Albany. She went out and got five of the unfixed ones, three females and two males. She has four left unfixed, two of them kittens, plus her friend has six unfixed cats.

Then I heard from the Corvallis woman. With everything arranged and far more complex in that cat line up, due to multiple caretakers, those five will get first preference tomorrow. The copays amount to enough to cover the cost of fixing both males included in the five from Corvallis. That's good.

I told the Albany woman about the mistake, and that any of hers that can't be done tomorrow, will be done Thursday and that I'll hold them here in the meantime. So it's all good. Already ten cats lined up this week for fixing.

I delivered traps to two other locations today, one in Corvallis, and one in between Corvallis and Albany. Both places, Diane's (a blog reader) is one of them, had new strays show up recently and they want them fixed. Smart folks!

I still have four to catch at Columbus Greens in that colony, two of them kittens. I still have two to catch in the 34th St. Baptist colony, both males. I still have two to catch in the Tuhill First House colony. I have four kittens in the Millersburg Road Chaos colony to get in; three kittens from Philomath adopted by a friend from the Scravel Hill colony, to get done, and three more kittens from same colony, now two and half pounds, still at the colony, kept as house kittens by the colony caretakers. That's 12 kittens to get fixed and I want to get these tidbit colonies done before Christmas.

There's still time to prevent massive suffering before the next kitten season arrives. Winter is my favorite time to trap, if I have money available, because you can do much good with less money to do it. You're not paying higher spay fees for in heat or pregnant females, you're not treating runny eyed kittens and feeling you have to take them in for them to live or to give them a chance. Dumping and abandonment rates are usually lower too.

Winter is my very favorite time of the year to trap. People don't bother you as much when you're trapping because it might be freezing or pouring out. Darkness is my friend and there is a lot more hours of darkness to shield and cloak me, in the winter.

I feel so much more secure and sure of myself and free, out trapping in the winter darkness and cold.

Sam is likely getting a home tomorrow. I hope so. Cross your fingers. It's an excellent home!