I have been getting a lot of requests from people who want me to take in their cats. The latest is from the family of a Yachats resident, who has moved in with her family in Corvallis, terminally ill. She left behind 13 feral cats she fed, all fixed. Her son e-mailed to say his mother's sister is feeding them for now, but is going to stop. I told him they could advertise for barn homes for the cats, but there wasn't much else I could tell him.
An Albany woman for whom I got cats fixed for over a year ago, is moving, and has been hounding me to take her cats. I have hounded her back to advertise them, put up fliers, call shelters. She's not done any of that, except maybe try SafeHaven once.
I had a woman wanting two barn cats. Instead of taking two from an apartment complex, I put the barn cat woman and the Albany woman in touch. What happens? The Albany woman e-mails me that the barn cat woman hasn't responded. Except I know that's a lie, because the barn cat woman copied her response to the Albany woman, offering to take the cats, this weekend, to me.
I copied the e-mail back to the Albany woman, who now says "well, she responded once, but not again." So I'm thinking this Albany woman is I don't know what, and I told her, finally, I couldn't do anything more for her.
If she blows the barn home for her cats, I'll tell the former Yachats people about this possibility for two of their mom's cats, at least. Homes are hard to come by. That Albany woman should be jumping all over getting a home op for her two. But she is not. If she doesn't, that home op will go elsewhere. And very quickly too.
The BS people's sons' new wife's kid has a brain tumor. Two of them. She's been sick off and on all winter then got hit in the head by a ball that caused her a severe headache. Her parents took her to the doctor, and they did an MRI then more tests, because they saw the tumors. They are in a very bad location and may be inoperable and the BS woman says all her sons' wife can do is cry. It's sad when a kid gets something so terrible.
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