Five Cats, All Female, Being Fixed Today

Black female, dumped off Grand Prairie, being fixed today.
Millersburg feral calico, being fixed today.
Rural mansion torti, being spayed today.
Two more rural mansion females, also being fixed today.


Among the five being fixed today: one feral calico fed by a Millersburg business. Real nice folks there. Three more to catch, one of them pregnant.

A stray dumped off Grand Priarie. The couple feeding her thought she was a big male. But, when I found her crying in the carrier they had her in, last night, ready to be taken to be fixed, I told them ferals don't meow in carriers or traps. Being as how "he" was tame, I took "him" out to be sure "he" wasn't already neutered. Low and behold, it's a girl.

The other three girls are a courtesy fix and pick up for KATA. They had contacted people trying to give away five unfixed cats on craigslist, and offered to at least get them fixed before they give them away. They had been unable to work in the three girls to their fixing schedule, so I offered. These folks live way out in the boonies.

I was expecting a trashy trailer type property. Guess I"m used to trashy Linn County properties over run in cats. I expected the same in this instance. To my shock, the place is a mansion. Three car garage, probably a multi million dollar place. I was stunned, actually.

I asked them for a donation for tonight, when I take the girls back. I know with this economic downturn that people living in mansions right now may have less disposable income than those living in a trashy trailer. But I was totally shocked to see where these folks live, to be quite honest. Drop dead shocked. When I see that, I feel such people might really really be taking advantage of me.

Sometimes mansion people need help too, I think. I bet there are a lot of over extended mansion people out there. I wonder sometimes if mansion people resent the fact trashy trailer people get all the help.

I've met a lot of mansion people in the last year who are struggling very hard to survive. I remember one who lived in N. Albany, divorced woman, working three jobs trying to keep the house, mainly for her son. I couldn't take being around her, she was so exhausted and stressed trying to make it. I felt bad for her, wanted to help her, and I did. They had a lot of unfixed cats. Until she made one comment.

She said "Things like this aren't supposed to happen to good people like me." She continued that she goes to church and loves God and that bad things are supposed to happen to bad people. Then I wasn't so sympathetic.

I'd told her, in brief, when she asked, the story of my very hard life. When she said what she said afterwards, her implication was that I must be a bad person and deserve the bad things that have happened to me. So my sympathy levels plummeted right then and there. Here was Miss Bad Person helping out God's Own
Chosen person over and over, and I even gave God's Own Chosen a bag of cat food.

Oh well. It was interesting and even funny to think about later on. She didn't really mean anything mean by her words.

So, five girls up getting spayed at least.

UPDATE: The black female is already spayed, the vet just called to tell me. I suspected this. Also, here's the wierd part. When they shaved her belly, they found stainless steel sutures still in her in a neat line. Who in the world uses stainless sutures still? Obviously somebody didn't take her back to have them ever taken out. It's not like stainless steel sutures EVER dissolve on their own. The vet doesn't know anyone who still uses those.