Two More Leaving Knox Butte colony

A Salem group found another great barn home for two of the Knox Butte colony cats.

I went up with high hopes this morning, of not only catching two fixed cats for the barn home, but also of catching the only unfixed cat left. 

I did recatch Shasta and Cortez, both young boys fixed last January, for the barn home.

They'll leave Sunday.   I am very happy when I can get even two out of there, since I am mostly supplying food for that large colony.  I went at 6:00 a.m.  And I knew the adult daughter, who disrupts trapping in the extreme if home, would not be home.  But she was home again by 7:00, so my luck went down the tubes after that.  I should have just left, but I had such hope.  I did not catch any unfixed cats.

Cortez at the colony

Cortez today

Shasta, also a young male, today

I thought the cat in the below photo on the left was the only one I'd not yet caught for spay neuter.

That's the unfixed one on the left and Hoodsie, who went to a home, on the right.

Here's the one I'm still after again.

.  But then along came that long hair male Rolo, whom I caught, had fixed and returned.

Rolo

But this morning, while there, out from under the deck strolls this cat.  At first I thought it was Rolo.  Then I took a second look and realized it was not.

So there are at least two left to catch.

Junior finds a warm spot for a nap

Four friends, from left to right Snowflake, Clementine, Krakatoa and Barbary, enjoy the sun.

It's kind of pathetic, when the people who live and visit a place, disrupt the ability to finish the job there.  I was there to help them stop further breeding, but to three of the adults, a renter, an adult daughter, and a visitor of the adult daughter, I was nothing more than a big annoyance to their in and out in and out activity.   The old woman apologized, says she cannot control them at all.

Ah well, at least two boys are leaving for good.  I took them another bag of cat food.   I hope to one day have over half of those cats placed, and all of them fixed (31 fixed there now with two to go.  Four removed for barn placements).