Another Night Another Day

 First and foremost, number one importance, last night, I caught Misha, the 3rd kitten at the park.  There's still a tabby needing caught.   

I got to the park just at dusk.   I had the drop trap and set it up immediately.   I had my baby monitor camera and receiver and wondered if it would even work.  It didn't.   Its battery had not held its charge.   Oh brother.  Electronics!  I came prepared for that.  I hooked a power pack to it and then it worked.  During the course of the next several hours, I went through three power packs.

In the dark, Misha looks for all the world like a fluffy black tux.   

Misha is quite small and very darling.

I had a terrible fright within the first hour.  It was dark and a man was out in the dog park, after dark and then did not put his dogs on leash when leaving the dog park.   In a split second, one of the dogs spotted the kittens and dashed across the lawn area at them.  Two had been out in front of the drop trap and the dog was upon them like lightning.  I screamed and yelled from my car, kicking the car door open to exit and go after that dog.   I believe the drop trap saved the kittens, blocking the dog for a split second, giving them time.  But I'm not sure about the tabby, if it was hurt and got away, or what.  I never saw the tabby again last night, nor the fixed torti.  Who can blame them.  I was terrified, so how scared must they have been.  

I then turned on the dogs owner, who had zero control over his big black dog.   He made lame excuses but they were just flat out lame.  He'd violated multiple park rules, including being in the dog park after dark and having dogs off leash and out of his control.  He'd put those kittens in danger and he'd also set back my efforts for an hour, or more, like fuck you, stupid volunteer.  And the tabby and torti kittens never reappeared after that fright.  

Misha, bewfore I caught her

Of course TC showed up to eat his fill.  Again and again.

That's Tball on the right, the fixed boy kitten, waiting on TC, who is eating under the drop trap.

I gave up at midnight.  Never saw the kittens again after I trapped the torti tux kitten Misha.  I'd seen only Tball, the fixed male kitten, and Misha, after the dog event.  I left with Misha and was happy I caught her.  The place where I was parked became grand central station, I swear, with cars coming and going clear til the time I left.   A dog was tied up somewhere right above where I was trapping, but in the residential area, which was literally 30 feet from the trap, and any movement by me, or the cats or other people in cars, prompted his loud barking to begin.   

I climbed into bed at 1:30 a.m. and got up at 10:30 a.m.  9 hours of sleep isn't bad at all!

Next event was I went to Cascadia, not on a cat mission, on a dog one.  PAL, which stands for Prevent a Litter, asked me to take photos of the dogs at one of the homeless camps.   She'd gotten five dogs there fixed, after I hooked one resident up with PAL, for dog fixing, after fixing a bunch of cats there.  But there were more all over that camp and Cascadia needing fixed.  She's giving it her best shot.  She wanted the photos to help her create a fundraiser, to make money to get the dogs fixed.

So I did, got some photos of the dogs.  I stopped at a friends place in Lebanon and picked her up on the way cause she wanted to go.  We planned to stop at the lake on the way back, since the weather is so good today.  It will rain again by Sunday.

Here are some of the photos:

I didn't get any photos at the lake.   The water level is way down, but we still went swimming by the boat ramp.  I went on my floatie since it was in the car anyhow.   Oh my, the sun and water were so peaceful and relaxing.

Just another night trapping for kittens at the park and another day chasing the sun.  Happy weekend everyone!