Tomorrow's Cats

I have five spay neuter reservations Friday in Salem.

I have no problem filling those reservations with cats.

I gave one up to a stray female someone else found, with her two kittens.  So she gets fixed tomorrow.

Then Wednesday evening I went at the Sweet Home colony again.  I knew of four cats still needing fixed.  Two are big black boys.  One is a long hair gray tux boy.  The fourth is another female.  I'd spotted her on the porch when returning cats.  No ear tip.

There she is on the left

I set up the drop trap and waited and waited.  Half nice day yesterday, so mowing and weed eating noises were everywhere.   The gray tux male came out first, but off behind the drop trap, while he ate, was the girl needing done.   I wanted that boy, but I waited it out for the girl and by then the male had wandered off or I maybe would have caught both.  She's the last known adult female there needing done.

This is her and now she's in my garage and will get fixed tomorrow.

So unfortunately I also spotted these guys......

Yup.  More kittens.  Four more.

I caught two in a live trap and two under the drop trap.

They all have Upper Respiratories.  They are a little scared but I could handle them with ease.  I flea treated each one, cleaned their eyes and applied ointment and gave each 1/2 cc of strongid for roundworms.

I get to take all five Holly colony kittens to Heartland Humane tomorrow.  Isn't that wonderful news?  That includes Zeus, the little gray fuzzball and god of all kittens.

I checked out a situation out in Foster at an RV park too.  The lady knows the Holly colony caretaker daughter.  I was told there were some kittens under a trailer.  This morning I went up and trapped two adults and hand grabbed the little orange tabby boy kitten.  There are more adults needing fixed and the little boy has two torti sister kittens.  But for now, I could only take two more adults, to round out my five reservations, and the one kitten, since I already had five in the bathroom from Holly.

Off I went then to Cascadia.  I'd been told there was a third kitten in the falling down house where I trapped two last week.  I'd taken their mom to be fixed and returned her.  As I entered the homeless camp, Cascadia walked nonchalantly by my car towards the old house.  I set a kitten trap in the old house which isn't that easy.  I go up this makeshift ladder into it.

Then I drove up to the people who take care of Cascadia and live in a camp trailer and asked if they'd keep an eye on it.  They said they didn't know about another kitten down there but there were seven or so living under the next trailer.  I called the woman up who had told me she'd been told there was another in the rotting house.  I said there's no kittens in the rotting house, but there are seven under a camp trailer and that means there's another cat up here. She said "oh that must be so and so's cat.  She told me she couldn't find her."  Of course she's not fixed.  Shoot.

I went back down to Sweet Home and picked up another female, the last to fill my five reservations, and called Heartland Humane and asked if I could bring over Sammy Sunbeam.  I'd named the RV park little orange tabby boy already even though he was still in my car.  They said "yes".  So I booked it home, unloaded the two adults from the RV park then took Sammy over to Heartland.  So long little guy and good luck.

Sammy Sunbeam, now at Heartland Humane in Corvallis

I never did see either of the two black males who still need fixed when I was at the colony Wednesday.  But when I was leaving it, I passed one of them.