The Break

 My summer break has come much earlier than I planned.

I was unable to get appointments in May.   So why not start my break after next Friday, I reasoned, the last day I have appointments.  Great idea!

So that's that.  My summer break, when I typically take time off, because its too hot to recuperate cats safely in my garage after surgery, will start much sooner than expected.  I usually start it July 1.

I'm so happy, once I made that decision.

I took six up to be fixed today.  I took the four whose photos I posted last time.  They included Jabba the Almost Orange, a huge buff and white male, who weighed in at nearly 13 lbs.  They included two gray tabbies, one a girl and one a boy, Tom and Gerri, and a small longer haired brown tabby, BeeGee, also a girl.

I took in a Lebanon muted torti kitten, too, named Sissy, but her real name is Braveheart I quickly decided.  She was got as a kitten by a family whose kids wanted them and almost as quickly discarded.  A neighbor took her in.  She would alternatively hiss at me, at first, in the bathroom last night, then puff up trying to be big and scary. Soon she was my best friend.  She'd had a tough life thus far, but things got better when she got a real person to love her.  I call families who get then discard kittens like that "Happy Meal toy people".   They treat animals like a cheap plastic toy, then throw them out.  People like that are plastic themselves.  

Braveheart

Last but not least, late in the evening, the woman who feeds the other four at her workplace called that she caught the stray on her own property.  She had been trying to catch him, since he beats up her own fixed cats, using the water bottle under the trap door technique, so her cats wouldn't be caught, line tied around bottle neck.  And she got him.  Trouble, a 10 lb boy, was fixed today too.

Hopefully Trouble will soon no longer cause trouble.

One more Friday with five spay neuter appointments and then-----break time!!!