I have ten extra cats here currently.
Eight of the ten are from the apartment lady. She is still trying to catch two of hers. They are indoor cats but very shy and don't like to go into carriers, especially after seeing the first ones go in. So now she's trying with traps.
Six of the eight here so far from the apartment are boys. The two who still need caught are boys too.
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This pair, Louis and Lincoln, are brothers.
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| This is Thomas. She hasn't caught his brother, Jerry, yet |
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| This one is Gorgeous George |
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| This one is Rowan |
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| Scooby Doo, a young male |
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| Kiki, a girl |
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| Willoughby, another girl |
The ten apartment cats, if she gets the other two, will be fixed clear up in McMinnville on Monday. She's got to find homes for at least six more of them. I took Derp, Adolph and her kitten from this apartment to ARCF, up in Portland. She got a third adult into Safehaven. So she's down four cats now at least.
I also went back to the ditch colony to try for any two of the known three still unfixed there. I don't like trapping there, as I have to edge off the narrow road, and there is extreme traffic, from the RV park and some of the people are not that nice. Today, a guy in a red pickup pulled beside my car and yelled at me through his window "Don't feed the damn cats". I turned around just in time to see him roar off. What a mean jerk. Even if he lives at the RV park, its a quarter mile from where these cats are fed by a couple old guys and the cats don't affect red pickup asshole one fricking bit. Mind your own business, you mean old control freak.
Always nice to spend hours upon hours, day after day, as a volunteer, to fix all the cats in a colony that I have nothing to do with other than to stop any further population growth, then have some jerk screaming at me.
Anyhow, I caught the two remaining adults known to be unfixed. I still need to catch a teenager, but that's it, as far as I know. I'll be very very happy to never see that little stretch of highly trafficed road again. After I catch that last teen, I can say goodbye. Until then, I have to suck it up and endure the crap.
I caught these two to round out the five spots I have Monday also at whs clinic. The other three spots will be taken by three of four kittens from a rural farmhouse born to a feral mom who has since vanished.
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| Rowdy |
So anyhow, lots of local cats will get fixed and vaccinated Monday. Which is a very good thing.
Ten cats fixed is an excellent thing. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteYes it is.
DeleteGreat work as always! The mean man in the pick up truck can kick rocks!
ReplyDeleteThank you!
DeleteYou go above and beyond what almost anyone else would do and I worry sometimes about the situations that you have to work in. But you do what has to be done. Thank you for your dedication.
ReplyDeleteWhen things are hard, and its not easy to care for ten extra cats, even for a couple of days, I tell myself, this is the life you chose. It's a good life and by Tuesday, there won't be a single extra here. A couple of days, no bother, to create an unbelievable difference. Its why I like working to fix cats, the difference made down the road, warping the future, by even a single spay.
DeleteYou have chosen an honorable path, for sure. I am not near as brave. Thank you again for your good works and stay safe!
DeleteYou’ve had so many black and white ones lately. They must all be related?
ReplyDeleteThis group is very definitely all related and most have never been out of the apartment before, so they're quite frightened.
DeleteYay!
ReplyDeleteI bet if that jerk heard what you were doing, he'd have appreciated what you're doing. But he didn't even bother to find out. People just annoy sometimes.
If he hadn't roared off, I would have told him what I was doing. Oh well, the feeder man is going to try to find him in the park and let him know. The one feeder man is too sweet though to deal with it I think sometimes. He is kind and funny and eager and just an all around very nice man.
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