The Five Fixed Monday

 I took five cats up to be fixed on Monday. 

Four were from the RV park up above Sweet Home.  Makes 13 fixed this latest time around there.  And four small kittens removed.

There are more needing done.  

Tippy

Munchy

Kitty, the darling teen boy from the front of the park and best friends with Turbo, the gray teen boy, the first fixed from there this time around.

This is Squeeky, the big boy

The two ladies who live in one corner had traps I had loaned them and were supposed to feed in them then catch the final tabby.   The wilder tabby did not get caught. They did put the tame big boy Squeeky into a trap and caught the four smaller kittens, who are about seven weeks old, and the two remaining teenagers.  The black teen, Munchy, is tame and one of the ladies wants to make him her house cat, inside her trailer.  The other is Tippy, the orange teen, who had an upper respiratory.

They caught Tippy the orange teen on Saturday.  And one of the four smaller kittens.  So up I went to get them.  I put ointment in Tippy's eyes from Saturday on and he quickly got better.  I vaccinated the little black male too, flea treated and wormed.  Karen in Portland had found someone to foster the four smaller ones.  That's a big huge deal given the full state of all rescues and shelters.   Four kittens who will not grow up to be adults in that tiny RV park is a big deal too.

One of the four smaller kittens.  I'd just put ointment in his eyes. 

Tippy on the right, one of his smaller cousins on left.  

Munchy the black tame teen was much sicker than his brother Tippy.   

  I wasn't sure the clinic Monday would fix Munchy, but they did and gave both him and Tippy and the big black and white tame male all convenia injections.  I was happy about that, even though four convenia injections Monday, including one given the little female from the W. Holly colony I caught later Sunday afternoon when I knew there'd be no more caught at the RV park, cost my nonprofit $60.

Besides the two teens and the big black and white male from the RV park, I caught the black teen boy, Kitty, from another spot in the park.   He was much healthier.

It was at that point I went over to the other colony, of 15 or 20 unfixed cats, with only one so far fixed, and quickly caught the little black teen girl Morphius.  That's what they named her quickly for the records anyhow.

Morphius, a girl

   The four seven week old kittens from the RV park, two all blacks, two tabbies, left here yesterday for Portland.  I returned Squeeky and Kitty to the RV park yesterday morning and Morphius to her colony.  Tippy and Munchy, the two teen boys with colds, are in my bathroom and will remain there until probably Friday, since tomorrow my car goes to the shop and I don't know when I'll have it back to return them.  They're both much much better this morning.  I took three showers yesterday alone, to provide steam in the bathroom, to help their congestion.

Sure wish there were more spay neuter spots available to just get these two places all fixed, without these multiple very stressful trips up there.   It is what it is and the state of being currently for animal care in Oregon is very very dire.   Extremely limited low to no cost spay neuter available in the entire state.

I was once again shocked by prices yesterday.  I'd run out of laundry soap and I do a lot of laundry with cats.  A jug or box of free and clear (no perfumes, dyes) was like $17 at Grocery Outlet.  At Bimart I found a smaller container for $9.  The larger boxes there were $13.   You'd think detergent lacking perfumes would cost less than those to which they add them in, but no.   I hate smelly laundry soap perfumed clothes and blankets but they really bother the cats.  If I can smell something, the cats really really can smell it.

I'll be so happy when the election is over.   The ads are viscious and also contain so many blatant lies.   Makes me want to cough up a hairball.   Saturday I finally checked my mail.  I don't check it much because its just bills and junk mail.   Why would I want to get more of either.   10! slicks, heavy paper color ads, for one candidate alone, some Republican running, I don't know for what or where.  They go straight to the recycle bin or I use them to line traps.   I get a twisted joy over using election slicks to line traps.   I can't stand the thought of the millions upon millions donated to make those things, good money that could do so much real work, wasted on politics.