Back to 7-11

 I already have 3 cats here, waiting for placement from 7-11, with Silverton Cat Rescue barn cat program.

The two girls--Eleven and Petunia, are waiting in my bathroom and really no trouble.  Seven, the boy, has been waiting in a cage in my garage, also no trouble really.  Petunia and Eleven are supposed to go next week to a barn home.

The barn cat placement for today was for three boys.   I went back to the 7-11 Wednesday, to try to retrap two of the younger boys, and found the manager had fed right before I arrived.  I came back home.

Yesterday, I headed back up.  I arrived about 9:30.  It was pouring rain.    I set a trap back on the church property, which means walking out to the sidewalk, around a four foot chain link, down the other side of it, opening a gate on a six foot chain link fence, then walking the trap back a couple hundred feet to where I set it.  I fold a small paper plate into the door, so I can see when its sprung from a distance and through the six foot privacy sheilded chan link at the back of the 7-11 property.

Hours passed.  I watched an episode of Survivor on my phone.  No cats were out.   Then---boom!!!  The trap closed.  I thought I had retrapped Samantha, the lynx point female, but it wasn't Samantha.  It was the big lynx point unfixed boy.

I was glad to catch him, but I wasn't after him.  It was a long walk back with the very heavy boy in the big trap.   

After that--nothing.  Vendors came and parked their cars against the fence.  I could no longer see the small trap I'd put where the big one had been that King Tut, the lynx point, was in now, in the back of my car.   I called Alpine Animal in Corvallis and they said they could fix him today.

I felt like going home, but the barn cat placement would be post poned if I did.   I began a running dialogue with King Tut.  We discussed, one-sided, world problems and all my woes.   I tried to call people on my phone.  I was bored, what can I say.

Finally finally the vendors packed it up and left and I could set up the drop trap in the corner there where they'd been half the day.  The manager was leaving, end of her shift but at least came over and tried to call the cats out, before she left.

A lady was yelling over near the apartments and a dog was barking.  The cats vanished.  I went to see what was going on.  I saw a lady with dogs sitting on the curb just other side of the two chain link fences.   Then another lady walked out of an apartment with her dog on a leash.  I watched the yelling sitting lady take the leash off one of her dogs and that dog raced for the lady with the dog on the leash, barking up a storm and went at her heels.   The lady quickly picked up her own dog and made a getaway.  I thought "wtf".  

Another hour passed.  Finally,  Tabitha, the girl tabby, had been under the drop trap a lot eating.  So had Thumper, a fixed girl tabby tux.   I'd seen two of the still unfixed cats.  There are only those two, plus maybe one more black, left unfixed now there.  I'd hoped to catch Seven's little shadow Twilight, a young now fixed male.  But he never came close to going under the drop trap,

Suddenly Thumper appeared, this time with her buddy Montana, a fixed Siamese mix male.  Both went under the drop and I yanked the cord, dropping it over both.  The barn cat folks said one girl going would be fine.  Ok. Thumper and Montana caught and transferred to live traps.  King Tut will be fixed and returned, him being a big huge dominant male.    I came home, arriving about 8:00 p.m.

10 1/2 hour day at the 7-11.

King Tut, who will be fixed today

Montana, leaving for a barn home today with Thumper and Seven

Thumper

Happy to say I got King Tut over to the clinic to be fixed and got home, the barn cat placement lady arrived, from Silverton Cat Rescue, and I got Montana, Thumper and Seven into carriers and off they went.   A break now....., really quite a break.   Off for awhile.