This is the Wake Up time of year.
By that I mean, the people who have or feed unfixed cats suddenly all want them all fixed right now. They've put it off, over and over, then get an epiphany when they see their boy cats mating with their girl cats and their girl cats starting to round out. Now all at once, the royal procastinators are desperate. I'm in their crosshairs---"we need help now".
Sorry folks I too am hobbled. Hobbled by the numbers, by me being just one person and by the lack of available affordable options for spay neuter.
So....I help who I can and refer the rest to the FCCO clinic's online appointment request form and they can take it from there. Actually most people could get it done themselves. Many old folks do it. Seems like its the younger crowd needs hand held.
I'm pretty much older than almost everyone who calls for help now. How'd that happen.
I have three trips scheduled to the FCCO in April, with about 20 cats each time, plus ten spots elsewhere. Tip of iceberg.
Still planning on taking most of the summer off. Warning folks I intend to do that. I don't want people hounding me to take their kittens. And they do, every single summer. I am dreaming of summer in fact. Warmth. Sun. Lakes. Rivers. Maybe the beach. Dozing, dazing out, sun flickering on the water and through the trees............a campfire.
Wake up, me, wake up. It's still winter here. Well, allegedly its spring.
I took 7 cats up to the clinic in Salem this morning. One of them is from Lyons, where the two girls fixed last week are from. They had two boys to catch but just caught Fang, the one. He's huge. A big brown tabby and beautiful.
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| Fang |
The other six are from a never ending Lebanon colony. I think HCC paid for 6 or 7 a tech took in from this colony at the private clinic. Then another Lebanon woman took four to be fixed. I took 3 in one time, five the next time, and six more today. How many is that so far? 24 at least.
There are lots more I think.
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| Violet, a young black tux, sex unknown |
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| Boots, a female |
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| Ghostie, a young light gray tabby tux. I think he's a he, but didn't look. |
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| Lady is a girl |
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| Mama K is a gorgeous Torti Point Siamese |
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| Sargent is a black and white boy, so I'm told |
So that's the story. I'll drive, after I pick up the cats around 3:30, directly to Lyons, since those folks will recuperate Fang in their awesome garage, where the two girls have been recuperating for a week after their surgeries in luxury.
I really hope you are able to take the summer off, but if I know you, you won't be able to say no if there's a cat in need.
ReplyDeleteYou're probably right, but I sure do intend to try to take it off.
DeleteThanks for all of your work.
ReplyDeleteThank you Kathy, appreciate that.
DeleteAh, the whole "a lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part" comes to roost. You need one of those signs, at least for those that will suddenly need this *now*.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great quote. Going to use that.
DeleteGood to hear that they trapped their own and you won't have recuperating cats in your bathroom. I really hope you get a blissful summer.
ReplyDeleteIt's not so cold, so cats can recuperate in the garage again, if need be. Soon it will be too hot to recuperate in the garage. Summer is coming. It's another reason I try to take summers off.
DeleteThere could be daily, say four hour production line set up. Say 20 minutes per cat, that would be 12 in four hours, by five days a week, would be 60 cats. The state can pay for the set up and cost of a vet and a nurse.
ReplyDeleteI echo all these sentiments. ~hugs~ And I bet we'd have a wonderful time visiting an aquarium together. :D Best wishes, my dear, on warmer and peaceful days ahead.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand those who don't spray and neuter there pets. Didn't they take any science in school.
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