I took five cats up to be fixed today. These were not the cats I intended to take. A couple of males were not caught that were meant to go, for instance. One who had been found injured, from a cat fight, I did go and get. He turned out to be elderly and already neutered. The ladies who found him are taking care of the wounds.
I kept him overnight and then returned him this evening. This evening's cat return to Lebanon wasn't fun. Lebanon is getting as bad as Portland in the stop and go traffic congestion department certain times. That's because the cities in this area have never seen a development application they don't stamp with approval, never mind if the infrastructure cannot handle the massive influx of people. Nor that the current residents cannot handle the massive price increases for services that come with more people.
This is the older already neutered boy with wounds I returned to the ladies who found him, after realizing he didn't need a neuter clinic visit.
All five cats fixed today hail from trailer parks. Three, two boys and a girl, are from a Sweet Home trailer park.
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| Bad photo of Miss Kitty |
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| Oliver |
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| Simon |
The other two cats fixed came up from a Harrisburg trailer park. A vet student lives there and wants to get the hordes of cats fixed. I told her to bring up two. So she did. She'd been unable to find any help whatsoever in Linn County. I said that's because there is none. Even the rural county in Idaho she came from had help, she said, with the county fixing ferals folks caught. Well, welcome to Linn County, I said, rather sarcastically because its embarrassing.
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| Kyoto, a boy |
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| Wonton, a girl |
Well, at least two are done now from that trailer park. My optimistic self pops back up to override the pessimism of exhaustion.
I can't watch the news anymore, I just can't. So I don't. I read crime novels and other books and play with my cats instead. I start to sob if I watch the news so I just don't do it.
I wish summer would come and the lake would be full and gas would be affordable and off I'd go. Maybe I'd just stay there all summer, come home every few days to clean the litter boxes, get some cat play in but then go live on my raft. I couldn't live on my kayak but I can sleep in my raft.
I don't know if my area have county has a feral program. We don't have spade and or neuter one here. Any low income person needs to go down to next county and get voucher.
ReplyDeleteCoffee is on and stay safe
I'm not sure which Idaho county she came from, Dora. I'll try to find out.
DeleteI was curious so I looked up my county's policy on feral cats. They don't have any formal spay/neuter program, but the shelter will lend you traps to catch one. They work with citizen groups to fix and place the animals that they can. There are four groups in the county that do that kind of thing and they are all privately funded.
ReplyDeleteI guess I meant spay neuter clinics or vouchers for spay neuter. Or something. I don't know how widespread low to no cost spay neuter clinics are across America.
DeleteIt's hard. You do do so much. It might not seem like it, but every little bit helps.
ReplyDeleteThank you Liz.
DeleteI love Wonton’s eyes
ReplyDeleteShe is some beautiful cat, I tell you.
DeleteThank you for being a bright spot in this dark world. ~hugs~ Wouldn't it be neat to have a houseboat? :D
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