Billy and Benny Get a Home

The two lightning storm boys will get a home Thursday. An ad I placed in the Oregonian online edition paid off, in a home together for boys. They'll go right after their surgeries Thursday at the Neuterscooter.

In the meantime, I've gotten lots more calls about mom cats with kittens. I never found the white mother with five kittens over near Salem Road. Someone called from Corvallis, found a tame mother with wildish kittens on Conifer. The mother cat was likely abandoned by a student. It's that time of year in Corvallis, unfortunately. When the students leave, the suffering intensifies for the animals they often leave with the rest of their unwanted belongings.

I haven't heard back from that man. He was going to ask around at his other job, to see if anyone could possibly take them in.

The former meth addict, now clean and doing great, got a message from her daughter, from her ex husband who is still a meth head and not long out of jail, that he had a mom cat with kittens he needed gone and the mom was pregnant again. But the ex thinks he left that message because he wants to get back with her, believes it was a lie to try to lure her into seeing him, because she has a soft heart for strays and unwanteds, and she thinks he'll be back in jail soon and nobody will then have to deal with the lies. So that one was a bust and thank goodness.

There are two kittens I think KATA is going to take in from some folks in Millersburg. They're out of work and out of money and I did get the two females fixed. So I think the kittens, two left, will be taken in by KATA. There are some other Millersburg folks I contacted off a free kitten craigslist ad, advertising kittens and have been for a month. Apparently, they are getting no home offers.

I contacted them awhile back offering help getting the mother fixed, but they said they had an appointment and would do that themselves. Now, a couple weeks or more later, seeing they have had no luck finding homes for the kittens, I offered help getting the kittens fixed at least. No response so far.

Somebody's cat in N. Albany had kittens and the overwhelmed daughter, with kids of her own, has been bottle feeding them. Mom took off, although she's been seen several times. It was her first litter and she just abandoned them.

But the woman is overwhelmed in the work involved, in bottle feeding and they also have diarrhea and make a huge mess every day. I told her I commiserated with her and wish I could help, but I can't take them. I said I could track down that mom cat and get her fixed, because that's what I'm really good at. Then at least, Bad Mom would not be dropping another litter on her door and taking off again.

This is about the time of year I start losing it, not being able to keep up with all the kittens being born and all the kittens needing placed and at least fixed. Wish I could keep up. Keep thinking the next kitten season will be different, less evil, not as many, more people helping.

I'm an eternal optimist I tell you. But that's a secret!

The Lebanon trappers caught one more at the female colony. This one will arrive at my place tomorrow morning and go, to be fixed, to the vet right along with an Albany female and an Albany male who share the same owner.

The Lebanon folks are keeping that sad little starving torti and even are petting her. But primarily, they are feeding her everything she wants to eat for once in her sad unloved pathetic life.

She was born to a mother cat "owned" by some assholes up in Lebanon who barely noticed her mother and kicked the kittens out instantly. She lived under their duplex, had to hide all day until the rowdy unparented teens went to bed and the danger was less. Then she'd try to sneak down the block to the bowl of food on that kind woman's porch, but by then, usually, the coons or the big cats had eaten it all and she'd go hungry again.

She's just a kitten herself, a sad little torti, whose life has suddenly taken a turn towards the light of love.