Friday, March 08, 2019

Since the Coast Trip

I haven't been entirely in a daze since the long long day at the coast.  But mostly.

So I'll keep this short.  Snow still falls now and then here.  It just won't go away.  We are so sick of winter here, seems endless and awful.

Big debates on the news now about school behavior.  Seems its terrible.   Teachers were interviewed.  Many have been bitten and attacked, with kids in grade school throwing chairs and having tantrums that often include biting, kicking and lots and lots of cursing and screaming and stomping, spitting, destruction, you name it.

Laws in Oregon forbid teachers from touching kids.  Or something. During extreme tantrum behaviors, which from the report sound really really common, the misbehaving child is left in the room and the rest of the kids moved out so the child can scream, throw fits, throw things to his or her hearts content.  This is extremely disruptive to other kids there to actually learn.  Often the child runs away, outside school grounds and teachers are only allowed to "herd" the child, not touch him or her, which becomes a game to the child.

I ask, "where are the parents".  This is NOT a school issue, this is a parental failure issue on grand scale and if parents are not held to accountability, our school system will spend money trying to also be parents, which has pretty much been thrown on them by parents.  That is not the job of schools.  Parents send kids with horrible behavior issues to school and expect the teachers to fix everything they have done wrong in bringing up their little hellions.  When kids misbehave, the parents should be called to immediately pick up their kids. 

I will just make a wild guess that Oregon will think schools and taxpayers should somehow solve this issue instead of bad parents becoming responsible.

Anyhow....enough of that rant.

I'm getting a zillion referrals for fixing and even taking cats, from KATA.  They are another group that started out mainly to fix cats but in last years mainly have become an adoption group.   Two more referral calls today alone.  These situations combined involve well  over 200 or more cats.   It's depressing and impossible for one person.

However, I did get the cats out of that damn camp trailer in Albany, even though I am not an adoption group and that too was a referral.  Heartland first took six of them in.  They were adopted out fast, too.  A Salem group took one in, but wasn't more than a week later, the lady wanted to return her.  At least she's fixed and that one went back to the father daughter pair living in that camp trailer.   Then he was supposed to have the last four ready yesterday but only could find three.  I took the three to Heartland.

Adult Torti

And the other two, both young, were all black and both girls.


I'd also loaned a trap to some friends sure the cat sneaking into the house nights, to eat and lounge around and pretend he had a great home, was a pregnant female.  She sent a photo, but I had suspicions.  They live a mile from that huge colony I'm still working on.  I think there's one left to catch.   Could it be one of them?  They didn't think so, but they set the trap and guess who showed up in it the next morning?

Yes it is one of the cats from the colony a mile away.   Oh well.  They don't want them there anyhow.  They had quit feeding them for two weeks, trying to make them go away, before I showed up to get them all fixed.  Got pretty terrible for those two weeks, one of them told me.  Anyhow, this guy too is now at Heartland and so much wants a real home of his own where he doesn't need to sneak in and pretend he has one.

Today I went to pick up the last cat at the camp trailer because he said the cat came back into the trailer.  I get there, hand him a carrier through the door, go sit in my car.   He finally comes out with a cat.  Then he says, "Well, there's another one in there, a little one and I didn't know I had another one."  Fortunately I had an empty trap in the car and handed him that and he went and put that crying little one into it.  The little guy cried all the way over to Heartland.


Mamba

Minion
12 cats in that little camp trailer.  Now they just have the one fixed torti returned by the Salem group and Heartland has 11 of their cats.  Ten of them are girls.


5 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:47 PM

    More good work. Maybe not quite as bad as there, but similar things are happening in school classrooms here, especially in poorer areas.

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    1. There are all kinds of theories on why kids are so awful, from bad parents to bad diets to too much social media and texting and selfies.

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  2. I'm getting tired of winter, too. More snow today and more coming. I guess spring will be here soon enough.

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    1. Spring cannot come soon enough to most of the country. We're all waiting and hopeful!

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  3. Oh, wow. Bless you, my dear.

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