Colony Kittens

 Two of the colony kittens, now in foster, seem to be doing well.   

I haven't recently received an update on the Crawdad lookalike kitten, taken in by a Salem woman, but here's a video she sent not long after taking two of the younger kittens in.  The second kitten she took to a Salem shelter and according to the shelter, the kitten they named Pua is in foster currently.

The above video, taken by the friend of the colony, is Boxy, the little girl, from the box sitter litter, fixed January 24.   The colony friend, plus a friend of hers, have worked to tame her, which wasn't hard.  The box sitter litter, which included Crawdad, Beetle (Muffin and Shiloh now) and a black tux female, now with ARCF in Portland, and Boxy, all rapidly tamed, likely due to one of the caretakers giving them a lot of attention when he fed them.    

The box sitter litter, now all in foster or homes. The black tux girl, Crawdad, Shiloh and Boxy.

I've still got at least three to catch there to be fixed.  In the meantime, a lady called who'd been turned in to animal control for having a lot of unfixed cats in her apartment.  She has to find homes for most of them, but in the meantime, I'll be taking two to be fixed next Monday and then ten more on the 14th.  Keitha's Kitties gave up reservations they had with their clinic, but couldn't fill, to help out these cats.   

She has 14 unfixed cats but scored a couple reservations at the local shelter for two of them to be taken in, if they pass temperament test.  She then will need to find placement for 8 more, which is not that easy currently, but I bet she'll get it done.  It's a whole lot easier if the cats are already fixed and vaccinated.

Phantom is out of the cat yard again.  I got so cocky, thinking I'd fixed all the holes.  Then Gigi, the neighbors cat who lives mostly in my garage, began acting differently and I thought ok, something's up.  I set up the baby cam inside, to monitor the cats, while in my bedroom, to see if Phantom was coming in from the cat yard and did not see her.  

The next morning, early, there she was, on the roof.   I spent all day yesterday and two packages of zip ties, fixing more holes and was quite self satisfied I had them all fixed.  I left and went to the store for more zip ties.  When I returned, Cookie, one of my adult cats, was out of the cat yard atop the wire.  Fritter, the apartment cat, was walking the fenceline, atop the cat yard also.  Oh gawd, I felt like I was living in a circus act.  Cookie walked across the top of the cat yard, to a hole I didn't know was there, or that she created, and dropped quickly back into the yard.  I may as well give up.  They're smarter than I am, and I believe know how to bite through the zip ties to create holes.