Victory!

 Only a cat woman would declare victory when the neighbor cat finally puts out a significantly sized poop of appropriate consistency.

Ha!

That was yesterday and after a week of daily cat lax and other remedies.  The poor cat would strain and strain in the litter box, even at first putting out tiny drops of blood, from straining.   She could only produce teensy hard slivers of poop for her efforts.

A week later and lots of home remedies later, including catlax and tuna oil, VICTORY!

The tiny things that make me happy.

She has vomited multiple times in the last week, which is consistent to having a tied up gut, for whatever reason.   If you try to take in food from one end, but it won't come out the other, it will come back out where you put it in.

She has not vomited in the last two days at least.   

It's been cold and wet and icky.   I don't know when the next day without rain might be.  I think the news said yesterday next Wednesday, in referring to when a person might be able to mow their lawn again..  Can you believe accuweather does not predict another day where it reaches 70 degrees til the very end of May?   Now that is depressing.

I got a call again from some homeless folk way up in Cascadia.   They had fed all those cats, kittens I tried to help was it last summer or the summer before?  I can't even remember anymore.   The place where in the end, the people living on one side, got legal ownership of the property then kicked the couple off the property.   Anyhow, they moved to another homeless camp farther up, and now they're being evicted from that one by county code enforcement.   But they want to get their two cats, both from the original colony, fixed.  They don't know if they'll be forced out by Sunday, the day I"d pick them up.   They said they'd borrow a phone again and call if that happens.

I'm going up Sunday to try to get the cats, but it may end up a waste of gas money if I can't find them.   I salute them for trying to get their cats fixed despite their own difficult situation.

Monday I have five reservations.   I have only ten reservations the month of May, then no more for the summer.  However I'm helping at another Albany situation where they may be 20 or so needing fixed, but she got FCCO reservations for a couple weeks from now and the Lebanon lady will transport them.  All I have to do is trap them.  That's not bad, especially them being here in town too.

That's about it for news around here these days.   Same old.  Rain and gray and ick and nothing much else. 

I'm really really tired of the political ads running nonstop, same ones over and over, as the May primary approaches.   I can't vote for candidates in the primary because I am unaffiliated with the two favorite teams.   I do not have the fan mentality to loyally adhere to either of the political power teams and think the "we're all right, you're all wrong" mentality is ridiculous and for follower type people.  There's a very independent minded former Democrat running for Governor  of Oregon as "unaffiliated".  I will vote for Betsy Johnson.    I think if we're ever to get things done, the two political "teams" need dissolved so we Americans can start thinking for ourselves again.   I am proudly unaffiliated.