Lousy Weather

 I returned the two huge boys this morning, unsure if there'd be snow in Sweet Home.  The weather around here is unbelievably cold and wet, the coldest and wettest for decades, with low elevation snow again.

There seems to be no end to winter this year.

Howdy, the gray tabby, pooped on the way up there, which is not uncommon.  When you gotta go, you gotta go, but my eyes were watering by the time I got home, from the stinky traps.

I have no new news about the Bird Lady's condition.  I contacted one of her neighbors who also knew nothing.   She said there had been talk of a nursing home for her.   

Two ducks appeared in my driveway the other morning.  I haven't seen them since, but I can't really see that side unless I make a point of looking.

The drake has a speckled breast.

Ebony is up at Cat Adoption Team in Sherwood and so far, doesn't have a home, but is looking good.   Well never mind on the link, it now leads to a page that says he has been adopted.  Congratulations Ebony, I hope the home you got is a great one with someone who has a ready lap.  Ebony loves more than anything else to lay across a lap, at least he loved it here.  I know I didn't know him that long, but....I loved him during his time here and want his life to be good.

I am scrambling these days to keep the nonprofit, Happy Cat Club, funded.   The first three months of the year saw a vast increase in the number of cats from this county whose caretakers got them into the Salem clinic's TNR program.   It's not free for our county's cats, costs $43 per cat.  I have a partnership program there called the Linn County Cat Fix Fund.  Instead of owners being charged, the clinic bills Happy Cat Club.  I am uninvolved except for paying the bill.   A grass seed farmer once told me "if its free and easy, people will do it themselves".  I started the program with a donation from a different grass seed farmer.  That was just as the pandemic started, which shut it down for awhile.  Still almost 300 cats have now been fixed through the program.

In the first three months of this year, 55 cats have been fixed through the Linn County Cat Fix Fund.  The cost to fix the 55 cats in those three months came to $2,365.00.  Meanwhile, donations have withered to just a handful of dedicated donars.   I appreciate every single one of them.  Three are bloggers---Andrew, Snowbrush and Elephant's Child.   Anyhow, getting a bit concerned I may not be able to fund the program much longer but will keep on trying, that's for sure.  Because, when I get those bills, I celebrate, to think more cats from this county have been fixed.