I took 7 cats up to be fixed today.
Six of the seven were boys.
The only girl? Little Dragon, the tabby kitten from the park. That's 3 girls of the four kittens I've trapped. I'm told there's another kitten, a calico, seen by someone else. Shoot.
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| Terrible picture of her tonight. I'd put a bit of wet food in front of her. |
Razz got fixed, the orange and white pretty boy from same place the white cats came from.
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| This is a better photo of him than the one I took of him in the trap. This was before I caught him. |
I also took up three boys from Lacomb, all black teens. They originally came from a feral colony in central Oregon. That woman's mom went to visit her daughter there, and brought them back, to get them fixed over here and possibly find them homes. Well they got fixed today all right and then went to Keithas Kittie Rescue. That was prearranged by the Lacomb woman who had borrowed a cage from me and held them in it since her visit to her daughter in central Oregon.
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| The boys are quite delightful. They had named them Ringo, Paul and George. The Beatles, minus John. |
The last two boys are from the Bird Lady. Big boys too. She's now holding them, one in a spare bedroom, one in the bathroom until a relinquishment date at the big shelter, Safehaven, comes up, later this month. She tries to get the tame ones there, rather than just feed them as strays.
She told me she's gotten 12 into Safehaven in the last year or two. She likes to get them fixed immediately though, to start those hormones declining. And in case she can't get them in somewhere to find homes.
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| Kory in front and Kolby in back, more cats saved by the Bird Lady |
Only Little Dragon and Razz are overnighting here. I still have Misha, Little Dragon's sister, too and hope to find the park kittens somewhere else to call home. Somewhere safer and kinder than that darn park.
My car started making noises on Saturday, when I was coming home from trapping at the Knox Butte colony. I was almost home, and shifted down to make a turn and something up front made this whoop whooping noise, like something grinding on something turning. I could not reproduce it later. But it was doing it again today. I do hope I have a rock somewhere doing that and that I don't have a scraping brake pad or another wheel bearing going out or worse. The mechanic is going to see the car tomorrow, to make sure its nothing dangerous. I mean I'd just been up that Knox Butte colony long long gravel driveway. That can't be a coincidence I don't think. I backed up, braking hard, after I first heard it, several times and thought that had done the trick and jarred loose, maybe a piece of gravel. Now its doing it again.
Thank you for the work you do.
ReplyDeleteI hope the car issues are minor. So much I hope that.
Not so minor.
DeleteIt is nice to hear people doing some good things for cats. You are not alone. I once had a noise from my engine which I think was a failed knocking bearing but turned out to be a large stone trapped between the engine sump and the body. Eventually it would have probably punctured the sump, I would have lost all oil and before the oil warning light came on, the engine would seize.
ReplyDeleteCars can be a financial drain.
DeleteI love black cats. So pretty.
ReplyDeleteI love them too. Those boys will get homes fast.
DeleteHurray for you and the Bird Lady! ~hugs~
ReplyDeleteShe's a sweet lady but I wish she could get help for her back. She had an MRI over a month ago, she said and expressed frustration she has yet to get the results. She has called repeatedly, three times one day before she could even get an assistant to answer who said she couldn't give results like that. She can't do mychart because she has no internet, and can't go to the library, to access internet there, set up email, sign up for mychart, because her back is too bad to walk from her car inside. She is at a loss as to what to do.
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