Mansion People Morally Bankrupt?

Albany black tux male being fixed today. Usually, he resides in Crabtree.
And the torti, being fixed from Albany.
The big lovable Millersburg stray male known as Stuey.

I took back the two boys today. Total cost to fix the mansion cats: $205. Plus the gas I spent going all the way out there three times. I actually expected them to shell out the entire cost. See, when KATA referred those females to me, they and I thought it would be some shack or trashy trailer I'd drive up to out there. Even after talking to them, I thought that. I did explain to one of them how it worked, that people donated what they could afford up to the full cost of the surgeries and I told them what the full cost would be. I talked to one person, but KATA had been e-mailed by another, and then I talked to yet another.

I don't know who even I was talking to and I may never have talked to an adult. Might have all been girls, teens, late teens, not sure. And maybe the girls didn't confide what they were up to with their parents, which might explain things.

Today, standing on their granite deck, with pillars, I was handed a twenty dollar bill. My gut reaction was to spit on that $20 and tuck it back into her pocket defiantely.

My second reaction was to explain the full cost of the surgeries and how hard volunteers work to raise that money. Her face remained stone, like the granite we stood on. I realized I wasn't talking to anyone who cared what had been put out for them. I drove off.

I wasn't totally surprised. Vicki of KATA had reminded me already that the poor always contribute more than the rich, to getting their own cats fixed.

When I first drove into a mansion, not the trash strewn yard of a moldy falling apart shack, I figured these people might be more likely to take a volunteer for a ride far more so than any trashy trailer person would dream of doing. That's how some rich people get rich.

I still harbored good thoughts for them, thinking they'd be honest and if they could afford to pay for the fixes, they would do so, because they're also church people. I thought "well, maybe they're in foreclosure."

But then when I saw them tearing out a barn that was falling over, on the property, I thought "People in dire financial striats don't begin property improvements."

I sent them an e-mail, outlining my disgust/confusion, although it's a respectful e-mail and maybe they'll see the light.

So I think I probably just encountered some morally bankrupt people. Maybe they're not financially bankrupt, but there are a lot of kinds of bankrupty.

In other news, the Millersburg cat man has now caught two more of hte four cats there, leaving only one in need of catching.

And the Albany business who trapped two ferals so far who have now been fixed, called out of the blue, that they caught another. That one is up being fixed right now, along with the two former Albany cats, now of Crabtree, who did not show up the week before last. They are owned by an Albany woman with too many cats. Her landlord made her give up some, whom she took out to a friend's property in Crabtree. Only two of the 17 weren't fixed yet. I had already taken the rest in. He was supposed to bring them the week before last and never showed, so the Albany woman went and got them. I picked them up at her place last night and they are up being fixed.