Four Fixed Yesterday

 I drove four unfixed cats and four already fixed cats to McMinnville yesterday.

I dropped off the four unfixed ones, all from the Lebanon former junk shop, at the clinic, to be fixed.  Then I met a friend for breakfast and afterwards, she transferred the four fixed ones, who were fixed last Friday, to her own cages, in the back of her truck.  She has a large truck with canopy for transporting cats.

A lady in town here trapped the four, over near the recycle center.  They  were apparently on their own, in an industrail area, scrounging for food nights, which is pretty sad.  There are more she sees there.  There is no way she can keep feeding them as the businesses involved are not interested in that going on. So she was trying to find them a place.  When I told her my friend could take a few, she was happy.  It's not that easy to find barn homes, not ones that will actually follow relocation protocol, so that the cats might stick around.  A lot of people just turn them loose in their barns, even if they say they'll contain them awhile, so the cats can become acclimated to their new home and feel comfortable about remaining there.  If people just turn them loose, they often do not survive and try to get back home to their familiar territory and family members.

Over at the junk yard, where I caught the four very quickly, I counted at least 8 more adults.  But I saw those 8, in the very short time I was there, so probably there are more than 8 more needing caught and fixed.  But its not the massive number I was told there were, when first called by the granddaughter of the property owner, who thought 100 cats lived on the property.  The junk shop owner died.  He and I had had it out several times over him not wanting to fix those cats.  I gave up.  You can't force a person. Finally the cats still alive can be fixed and vaccinated because his son and his grand daughter have a lot more sense than he did about the cats.

 Another rescue took out half dozen or so kittens.  But this isn't a big huge colony.  At least not that I could tell in my quick look when I caught the four flea and lice infested cats.  They were filled with worms, both round and tape, that stole the nutrition from the food they ate, making the cats always ravenous and starved.  Their parasite infestations are taken care of.  Boom.  Blood suckers are dead.  They'll feel better now.

I took in three calicos and one gray and white long hair male.

This gray and white long hair was the only boy of the four.

The lady who took the Millersburg kitten told me, when she picked the kitten up, that her husband is stuck in Wyoming.  He works for a large home improvement store warehouse and often is sent to other warehouses, in other states for a few weeks, when that warehouse needs extra workers.  This time, at this location, after a couple weeks there, he came down with Covid, along with a couple others from this area who were with him to work that location.  So he's been isolated in a hotel room until he's over it.  I asked if he had symptoms, since mostly you hear that people don't but yes, she said, he's been very ill but not sick enough to be hospitalized, thank goodness.  She's got a lot of health issues and he's coming home Monday.  I hope he really is over it before he comes home.  However I thought later I'd heard the Lebanon warehouse has had a workplace outbreak, so did he really get it in Wyoming.  Or was he exposed at his workplace here and then didn't come down with it until in Wyoming.