Six Cats Being Fixed Today. Heartland Gets in Two Eartipped Cats

This is the eartipped calico I just retrieved from Heartland. Someone trapped her near 9th, a couple streets north of Walnut. That's way up there, and I've done no trapping in that area. I have no idea where she originated from.
One of the last three kittens, this one a male, up being fixed today, from E street in Lebanon. Two went to a home Wednesday, after they were neutered. The woman caring for them has a home for the one female lined up, but the two boys still need homes.
Male, from Clay street, being neutered today.
Clay street female, being spayed today.
Pink House shaggy tabby male, being neutered today.

I took up six cats to be fixed today. There are three kittens from the Lebanon location. The other two were fixed Monday and immediately went to a home.

Also up being fixed, two adults from Clay Street. The female has five six week old kittens, four of them females. Yikes! I'm going to ask her if she can call KATA, see if they can take them. Then they'd be fixed at least before being adopted out. And maybe she could just foster them there at her house until they are 8 weeks, to make it easier on KATA.

The sixth cat is the male scruffy tabby from the Pink House in Jefferson.

Nick, the FCCO coordinator and a volunteer at Heartland, left me a message that Heartland had taken in two eartipped cats. I called them. One is a female tabby from Grant street, whom a man found, took in, then brought to Heartland because she is exceedingly ill. When I talked to Heartland, it sounded like she was on deaths' door, temp of 92 degrees. That's a cat who is dying. They thought maybe she'd been poisoned. She is tame. I imagine today she is no longer with us.

I had seen a lost cat ad, posted on craigslist repeatedly, but in Lebanon. It featured a photo of a woman hugging a brown tabby female, with a right eartip. They've been looking for her for a couple weeks or more. Well, when I heard they had an eartipped brown tabby female there, albeit a dying one, I told Heartland about the ad, and they called the woman's number in the Lost Cat craigslist ad. The woman went to Heartland, where the brown tabby eartipped female was dying and said it was her cat. The cat was put to sleep and the woman took her back to Lebanon. Heartland said she was sure it was her cat.

How would she end up in Corvallis? Stuck in a car or truck. Or dumped by an asshole. They believed she was dying from poison, which might have happened had she been stuck in an engine and drank even a small amount of antifreeze dripping off a radiator. Heartland said the cat otherwise was in good shape, good hair coat, about two years old, but strangely, died, over a period of about a week. A man had found her on Grant and tried to care for her, but she only got worse.

The second is a muted calico trapped by someone for some unknown reason, just off 9th street north of Walnut. I asked the Heartland woman if they tell people trapping that the cat will be killed if feral and she said they do. But the woman didn't want to see her outside like that. I'm sure the cat would rather be alive living outside than dead, however.

Lucky for her she has an eartip, which was life saving, and lucky for her Heartland will try their best to find somewhere for even ferals, if they can, rather than kill them. I do not recognize her. I will go retrieve her because I just got a barn home open up, a really good one, and they'll take three cats. I hope this calico will bond with Cami and with Spirit, because those are the three going to this barn home.