Pink house colony black, not sure the sex yet, being fixed today. 
Pink House colony male, being fixed today. The other four Pink House Jefferson cats will be fixed tomorrow.
These are the tame Flamepoint males being fixed today, from the Jefferson Desperate woman colony. She got them from backyard breeders next door, who barely care for their sad looking raggedy matted cats.
These are two of the gray tabby kittens born to a stray mom. The caretaker has not caught the third.
This gray tabby feral male is being fixed today also.
This is the mom of the three kittens and she is being spayed today.
Caught this guy today, off Columbus. I've six now at one place. Then catman Roger caught the big Siamese, who is up being fixed today. The two caught today will be fixed tomorrow. There are two more to catch. HOwever, the orange male is rarely seen.Of course the old couple feeding the seven, don't want them back. Catman Roger helpfully told them I'd find them all homes. Today, when I saw him, I told him not to be telling people that, that I'm not going to find those seven cats homes. "Sure you are," he replied. "No, I'm not, Roger," I said back. "They need to find them homes. Or you can."
These two, plus the tame black trapped late last night, will be fixed tomorrow. Hopefully I will catch the seventh cat, also a male, still on the lamb out there. The 8th cat, an orange tabby, is missing and likely off impregnating somewhere.
There are four that look exactly alike, all strange tan and white Siamese mixes. Very beautiful.
Big feral Siamese male Roger caught, being fixed today.
The Siamese blood on that street comes from backyard breeders who long bred Siamese. They are Menonnites and did not even know the point colors and let many out to go wild and overpopulate the area. They caused a lot of expense to everyone else and took zero responsibility for their actions.
the mother cats looks like she is saying "hiss hiss" hahahhaa...glad that Roger is volunteering your services to these people - so nice ofhim to check with you first!!!
ReplyDeleteThose white with orange cats look humongous!!!! they are eating good somewhere!!!
They're eating good, all right.
ReplyDeleteDo the meezers have a home S?
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(I am pondering flying out there if they do not- they are so adorable and I LOVE Siamese!) I lovbe all cats but like everyone who had a special place for certain breeds, I am in love with every meezer I see.
I have an uncle who just died in Wa and while it is not too far way (northen Wa), it's some distance anf for me, like travelling from Me to Ore.
But I am considering it just looking at those pix.
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Rags, the kitten, doesn't have a home yet. Those Siamese are feral as all get out. But, the Pink House Lynx Point females, one of them, I just hated taking back to the Pink House. She so much wants a home. She is also polydactyl. I do believe the woman would sign her over.
ReplyDeleteAwww! I have actually done very well with ferals. My friends used to jokingly call me the cat whisperer - I don't think there was anything magical to it. Just common sense really.
ReplyDeleteMy grandmother helped to feed a feral colony before we called them that - when I was a child and I am not much younger than you. She would warn me to be wary but gradually, I would talk to them, take out my radio and if I saw kittens who were already weaned, I granned them quickly and brought tehm inside before any adults (not that they'd argue but when one is 10-16, who knows, lol - it feels more fun to be a rebel of sorts) discovered and by that time, the kittens were in a spare room until I could socialize them, had been to the vet (usually - my grandfather would drive me, he liked to conspire with me and the cats) and were listeing to tapes of our voces and a radio and had toys and had lots of food and water.
It was always easier in the winter and our winters were BRUTAL. For the ferals who woul go nowhere near a home, grandpa would build a small hut with lots of hay and warm blankets and shelter and gradually, many of them even came around!
The kittens always did and I always found them good homes. If the adopter refused to sign my contracts (designed in probbly terrible typing - you can imagine a 10 yr old on an IBM Selectric, lol, esp one who cannot type), the cats did not go there - plain and simple. They had to live indoors, and I always charged a small fee - enough to cover sapying and neutering though our vet who came to check on my grandparents farm often performed the procedure for s/n for free if I asked yet there were costs involved as you point out in feedding ,vaccinations, toys, time, etc. and I felt the people needed to know the cats were VLAUABLE. Any money recived went back into what I called The Cat Fund and back then we seemed to have better interest (?), to make money to help cats in need even if it meant buying food or an extra medical procedure for one that was unexpected.
I often think - seeing some of the activities my young patients are involved in at school in what is now called Family Studies or Human Ecology and we called Home Ec (I loathed Home Ec, except for cooking, lol) whee they take an egg or some inanimate object or even a doll and care for it for say six months so they learn what it is like to have responsibiltiy. I often wonder if the time spent designing a program like that might be better spent taking the children to an animl shelter and providing each child with an animal for that time slot and letting them feed and care for the animal, learning about contracts, seeing a surgival procedure, and so forth. They can then move on to child care topics. Or do both. I don't know. It just seems to me to be more practical?
AS you noted, I STILL cannot type,; I gave up keyboarding for sciences. I could have done without one science I am sure now, lol
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