King Cat

I took King, the massive stray boy I got fixed at an apartment complex, to the north coast clinic for dental care.

He was fixed last June, along with many others there, and was experiencing mouth troubles.  He had two lower canines pulled.   I'll take him back tomorrow.  Thanks so much to all who donated to help with his vet bill.  He's doing well!   I also took a Feline First kitty along who needed vet care.

Mostly I slept in the back of my car, being very tired, yesterday, while at the coast, waiting on the cats to be done.  But I did walk out the south jetty, and then climb atop the large rocks.  They are stacked so precariously that a small jolt from below would tumble them off one another.

Pelicans (Their beaks can hold more than their bellys can)

Looking north from south Jetty area towards Washington State

Fishing boats on the Columbia River

I was going to rest today, but I went out to Waterloo again, with a friend, leaving my car at her place.  She's been trapping at the park, not far from the 32 cat colony I helped.  We stopped by that colony, as I wanted to say hello, and the son says there are kittens under the porch.  He lifted the porch up and I grabbed five four week old brown tabby kittens.  He relinquished them.

So number helped there rises to 37.

In the park, we merely picked up a female the park host owns or got somehow, I don't know.  She's had 12 kittens so far and is in heat again.  So she'll be fixed at Heartland tomorrow.

Animal Rescue and Care Fund agreed to take the five kittens, so we drove north with them, and handed the little sweeties over.  I'd already fallen in love.  Back then to pick up another Lebanon cat needing fixed, and home with the two females to be fixed tomorrow.  It was already after 8:00 p.m. when I finally got home, and I'm still behind from being gone yesterday.

 But I'd been asked to pick up two males some people just don't want anymore.  They'd already given away their female, with her last litter.  I went and picked those unfixed boys up too, because if they can be fixed tomorrow, at Heartland, then they can go to a Portland area rescue Saturday.

Happy Cat Club costs for the four fixes tomorrow will be $160.  I got one $20 copay to help.  But the Waterloo park female will no longer contribute to the overpopulation problem of that area, and the two unwanted boys get a chance at homes, so I figure its worth it.

I don't know why people don't take care of their own cats, like get them fixed.  I sure wish they would.

Woke up way too early, thanks to mindlessly drinking some Starbucks double shot in a can my friend handed me.  Too much caffeine, woke me up very early.  Hope to sleep the day while the cats are fixed.