Kittens, Kittens, Kittens

We cat fixers always try our best to beat out kitten season. It is a season we all dread because of the unwanted kittens being born in high volume everywhere. And, often, being dumped everywhere. We all start to get lots of calls from people wanting us to take the kittens they let their cat or the cats they feed produce. These folks need to step up to the plate and get their own cats fixed and the strays they feed fixed.

I got calls today from all over. I got a call requesting help clear from Wilsonville.

I got a call from someone who had seven kittens and found homes for five, but want someone else to take those remaining two kittens. I told them I couldn't take in anymore.

I got a call from a Lebanon woman who came home to find that a stray had seven kittens in their boat. A Lebanon woman went over to try to trap mom using her kittens as bait but the mom had moved them under the house next door. That woman feeds caste off neighborhood cats, and we will move to get the five or six strays she feeds fixed immediately.

The Lebanon woman will crawl under that house this weekend to get the kittens, trap mom, and her sister, also a big time area cat fixer, will foster them all, returning mom once the kittens are weaned and mom is fixed.

KATA got a call that kittens had been dumped at the lake and headed off, already worn out, to try to locate those. She'd like to dump the bastards who dumped those kittens in the lake I think. Rightfully!

She works full time, often six days a week, at a regular job and does this cat fixing and adoption on the side. Her schedule is unbelievable. She and most of us private little unpaid cat fixers and rescuers, deserve a full long wonderful vacation, paid for in full by the assholes who don't fix their pets.

They also got a call for assistance from a Sweet Home man who feeds strays and has an angry unfixed tom he wanted gone. KATA told him the cat just needs fixed, along with the rest he feeds, and he agreed to that and I hope to get him done Wednesday.

Then a Philomath friend of mine had two more males show up, possibly from the collector types up the road, coming through her cat door at night and spraying, so she is setting her trap and hopes to catch at least one of these angry toms tonight. If so, he'll be fixed Wednesday.

Lots of cat drama out there. All caused by people who don't fix their pets. It's hard to keep up, that's for sure.