Its been a difficult couple of weeks.
That Sweet Home colony alone could make a person sob.
By now I've gotten 15 adult cats fixed there and removed 19 kittens in all, most medically needy.
9 of the 19 went to OHS in Portland. 4 went to Meow Village. 3 went to a friend in Lebanon. And three more just left with Karen of Portland to a different rescue.
That does not count the 8 Sweet Home kittens from another place who also went to OHS. Nor does it count the 5 newborn kittens who just left with their mom for Animal Rescue and Care Fund, another Portland rescue.
Sweet Home, come on, people! Fix your cats!
Rescues, overwhelmed with the need, are so angry that the state now is imposing this gigantic fine/fee/tax on them, for actually trying to help these unwanted lives. Our state is so out of touch with the problems out there. It is ridiculous.
So I was totally exhausted last several days. Yesterday I took ten cats in to be fixed. Four more from the Sweet Home colony. These four were three girls, two of them lactating, and one big buff boy.
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| Dragon, a big buff boy from the Sweet Home colony, was fixed yesterday. |
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| Tangers, an orange tabby female, was spayed yesterday. She was not lactating and not pregnant. |
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| Dumpling, a classic torti, was also fixed yesterday. She was lactating at spay. Where are her kittens? Who the hell knows. |
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| Gracious, a long hair muted torti, mostly light gray, was also lactating at spay yesterday, and so young. 11 of the 12 females now fixed from that place have been lactating at spay. |
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| When I returned the four fixed yesterday, I sat back, waiting for the daughter to arrive with the latest kitten found out there, and saw, to my horror, another muted calico, without an eartip, (not fixed yet) eating alongside Sage, who was fixed last week. I thought I might be down to three--all boys, needing caught. |
The daughter of the colony caretaker has two unfixed boys herself, at her place in Sweet Home. So they were fixed yesterday. One was born a kitten at her mother's place.
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| BB (Big Balls) was fixed yesterday. |
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| Toby was also fixed yesterday and originates from the colony I've been working so hard to contain. |
I got two cats from Cascadia fixed. Brutus badly needed fixed and his people were afraid he'd end up dead if not fixed. The rest of their cats I took to be fixed before the Covid shut downs.
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| Brutus, now fixed, quite the cry baby! |
Just up the road in the homeless camp, Cascadia was fixed. I also trapped her two kittens and they are in foster in Salem now.
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| Cascadia, a torbi tux girl, was spayed yesterday. |
I took Brutus's people and Cascadia's people each a bag of cat food when I returned them today.
Yesterday also I netted four adult cats in an Albany utility room. I got them fixed last December for a woman who was feeding but not fixing her cats. I had found five teens she fed barn homes and the four kittens I netted were taken by a community service officer to tame. The other five adults I returned, four of them to a utility room. She claimed she was having a catio built for them. Never happened and now she wanted them gone, so I just went and netted them, trying to keep my mouth shut which wanted to tell her what I thought, due to my exhaustion yesterday. My friend who places barn cats thankfully had contacted me with space, so off they went immediately.
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| Silverado, no longer in a tiny utility room at least. |
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| Shimmer, out of that darn utility room, on to new life. |
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| Tawny, a girl, finally out of that damn utility room. |
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| Dante, a girl, off to a new start. |
The bird lady in Albany had yet another stray show up so he got fixed yesterday.
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Keaton was neutered yesterday |
So that was my day yesterday. Ten cats fixed. The tenth was actually one Meow Village needed done, so I picked him up and he got fixed. Besides having the two kittens in the bathroom from the Sweet Home colony plus now the Sweet Home mom with her newborns.
Anyhow all the ones fixed are back home. The three Sweet Home colony kittens and the mom and her newborns are gone too. I won't be answering the phone for days, as I clean up and try to recuperate.
I got exhausted just reading this. I can't imagine how tired you must feel both mentally and physically. Don't forget to take care of yourself.
ReplyDeleteI'm good. Like Andrew said, sometimes I am very very busy and sometimes have nothing going on. I have a few appointments this coming Friday then none after that, unless the clinic calls and I can get some again. They have said they'll call when they figure things out beyond next Friday. I don't know how long I'll be off this time.
DeleteI know a few "nut" cases who don't believe in sterilizing there pets, in there way of thinking...It agaist gods nature.
ReplyDeleteThat's a really funny excuse. I've heard all kinds of excuses. Then when they've bred too many, they switch to demanding I help. The people who ran the homeless shelter here are super religious. I gave him my number multiple times when he told me about all the cats his wife fed. He wanted me to take them away or get them fixed but not if they were pregnant. I said, well are you paying for me to hold pregnant moms until they conceive then for all the care of the moms and kittens and then for all of them to be fixed later on? NO! he said. I said if you have beliefs you need to pay for them. Anyhow, he never did get the cats fixed. So then they were over run and I happened into it. they had quit feeding them two weeks prior, just decided to starve them to death. They also debated shooting them. I was floored. So they won't do kitty abortions but will starve them to death or shoot them? It's beyond me to understand the rural Christian mindset. I got them all fixed. After which they pledged to continue feeding them. I don't trust they will, however. I have a hard time trusting Christians.
DeleteYes, as above. I suppose it is hard to control the pace at which things happen, so better to just switch off for a period.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely Andrew.
DeleteCatio is the perfect term. Hiss and spit that she didn't fulfil her promises. And thank you for rescuing the cats. Her cats and all of the others. I suspect that I would have to bite my tongue hard at the people who make an already difficult job harder.
ReplyDeleteI do a lot of tongue biting.
DeleteI feel so bad for Dumpling. I’m sure she’s wondering where her babies are, too. ðŸ˜
ReplyDeleteI don't know how you do it. Thank you! Best wishes to you and all your precious rescues. I hope state officials get their act together, not to mention the Sweet Home folks. What an unfortunate name, eh? Idiots. Take care, my dear.
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