Blustered!

 Oh that south wind is hitting us here in the valley today and slamming down rain at a slant.

I know.  I drove six kittens up to Wilsonville this morning in it.  But the wind was at my back and I could feel it pushing my car.  I bet I got better than average gas mileage with that kind of wind boost.

By the time I drove home, I knew the wind would be confronting me but the wind and the rain were gone by that time.

I met Carma from Animal Rescue and Care Fund, in our usual cat handoff parking lot and I handed off the six darling kittens from the new Lebanon colony.   

It had taken me awhile to catch them yesterday evening, one at a time.  I used a large trap, with a water bottle under the trap door to hold it up, and a string tied around the bottle neck.  Otherwise I'd just be catching wrong cat after wrong cat as they crowded in to eat.

I had to wait a long time.  A lot of hungry adults, teens and older kittens wanted inside that trap to scarf wet food and the smaller kittens I was after were out in the bushes playing hide and seek and running up small trees for fun.   

Finally they trickled up onto the deck, one by one.  When they were in the trap, after that wet food, I just reached in while they were eating and scruffed them rather than springing the trap closed on them, making all that noise and scaring off everyone.  I finally got all six kittens in a carrier.

A Portland rescue group lady arrived.  She took the four smallest kittens from another mom, briefly tried to catch her, but she was not hungry at all, since she'd overeaten in my trap, and uninterested in her crying kittens.   Besides the four smaller ones, she took a friendly gray tux teen boy too.  Yesterday alone, the people were down 11 cats since I took the six and the other group took five!  

Here's the six I took up this morning: