Some folks had two new strays show up and wanted to trap them to be fixed. One was a massive Siamese male. They caught him and he was fixed yesterday, along with a blue point Siamese being cared for by the woman with 14 cats, all now fixed, in downtown Albany, although most of the time, most of her cats are now in Scio. However, that blue point turned out to be already spayed. How'd that happen? Not sure. The woman she's cat sitting for got the cat from someone else.
And the big male seal point had a horrendous injury to his left eye. The vet said it was a puncture wound, likely from fighting, but he couldn't be sure there wasn't something in that eye, like a seed or thorn or claw or bb. If that's the case, he said, it wouldn't heal on its own. Otherwise, he thought the eye was on the road to healing.
The folks who trapped him toyed with the idea of caging him and trying to treat it. But I advised against that after trying myself to get meds into his eye through the trap mesh. This is a massive and powerful cat, very capable of hurting someone. So they turned him loose. I did give him a second dose of antibiotics in food before he was turned loose. He goes through their cat door and sleeps in a cozy enclosed porch area, with cat food and beds. But he had been causing all sorts of issues, being unfixed. So now, he's fixed. He is welcome there, they said, as long as he is fixed. They will now try to trap the second stray that showed up.
The Corvallis trailer park people were supposed to let me know this morning, the number of cats they had lined up for tomorrow. It was supposed to be five and I assumed it was, when I never heard from the woman this morning. I had asked her to for sure let me know, but she didn't, not until 10:00 p.m. tonight, too late to round up other cats, that there would only be two. Kind of made me figure maybe I should hold off doing more from there. She promised communication this time, and didn't follow through on that. As a result, I am wasting appointments and the vet is too. That isn't good.
So some folks are coming down to visit the Matildas tomorrow and I am very much hoping they decide to adopt one or the other. Keep your fingers crossed! This is a nice couple who adore cats and it would be a good home for either of the Matildas!
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was there a reason the vet couldn't tell if Big Boy had something in that eye? I assume BB was sedated when the vet checked him...by the way - their little porch cat santuary sounds nice and cozy - a great place for ferals on a cold ore. night!
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