Long Day in Portland

 I spent today in Portland.  All day.  Got home about 7:00 p.m.

I took up two Albany girls, both tortis.   The person feeding them made a plea about the kittens online a few months back.  At that time, I suggested she get FCCO appointments for the adults and offered to loan her traps and to transport.  Then I completely forgot about it until last week.

Anyhow, she caught them both, they overnighted last night in my bathroom and are there again now, recuperating after their spays and vaccinations.  Aren't these girls cute?

On the way to clinic this morning, early, running late, I was headed down Jackson street, about even with the jail and there in the road an adult cat.  Looked starving and she was turning to look back from where she came.  I looked in that direction too and saw one kitten, also skrawny, who immediately ran back away from the street under a fence at a business.  

I was heartsick all day, being already tired, over seeing a starving mom and kitten there.  I could not figure out why they'd be crossing Jackson street and heading down between the side of the jail and railroad tracks.  To go where?  There's nothing but the jail parking lot and some icky back field, then the backside  of a car repair business a ways from that.   Oh boy, sadness everywhere.

I sat in various parking lots all day.  I was tired but not so tired I was in danger of falling asleep in a hot car.   

Anyhow, I have the day off tomorrow after I return the tortis.  A facebook friend went over this evening and looked for the mom and kitten I'd seen early this morning and actually found them and fed them.  There are two kittens. The one I saw being the smallest one.   She said they don't look too bad, but they were very hungry, she said.  I'm hoping someone is caring for them at the business behind where she found them, on the sidewalk, right by that bush the kitten was hiding in this morning.     She took these photos an hour ago.  That's the mom I saw in the road.  The second picture is the kitten I saw this morning.

Saturday morning I plan to try to catch the abandoned mom and her kittens up at a Lebanon complex.  I have appointments Monday but would rather get them caught early Saturday.  If I catch them, since mom is tame, they can all inhabit my bathroom for this hot weekend (90's).  Even the kittens will have to return once fixed.  Every shelter is full.   It's sad around here, especially with limited spay neuter available, at least that's affordable.