12 Cats, Make that 14 Cats

 I spent the day yesterday fixing and cleaning.   The car stereo was on the fritz.  Only one rear speaker was working.   I figured it was the adjustment knob again.  The knob not only adjusts volume.  I push it to get other adjustment options, like BAL (Balance, which adjusts left and right sound) and one I didn't know--FAD.  

I looked it up online.  Sure enough the FAD adjustment affects whether you hear more from the rear or front speakers.  Problem was, my knob once again wasn't working, so I couldn't adjust it.

I did the same thing I did a year ago, when the volume control would not adjust.  It would go down when I turned it to go up.   I popped off the knob and sprayed cleaner down into the works.  Afterwards, I adjusted the FAD so now I hear the front speakers primarily.  When carrying cats in the back, I can adjust it so no noise comes out of the rear speakers.

The ESL or ESR, I forget which it is now, lets the radio/CD player adjust the volume as road noise increases.  That's pretty nifty.

The back hatch lever was also loose on one side.  To access it, I pried out the plastic clips that hold the felt board on the inside of the back hatch.  The felt board covers the workings of the back.  Then just tightened that one nut/bolt.   

I also velcroed on the shock absorber covers in the back.  Theere is one to each side.  Both covers have clips to hold them in place, but they were broken on both from getting knocked off repeatedly.  Cleaned the headlights again with PlastX, that's supposed to slightly dissolve and diminish scratches in plastic headlight coverings.  

I cleaned all my traps too.  I loaded up 12 more in the car.  There were already two traps at the colony I was to trap last night.  I couldn't go over til after 7:00, when the chickens go to roost.  Otherwise I'm just catching chickens.   Free roamer chickens create havoc when trapping.

I caught old Gracie.  She was not my highest priority cat that needed mats clipped.  Not until I saw she had poop caught in the hair around her butt and it was bothering her.  I had to net her, put a towel over her in the net and carry her into the bathroom.  It was a long job, trying to get mats off and the poop.   She has such fine hair the undercoat mats against her skin.   She wasn't a happy cat.  Until, that is, she realized I'd gotten that stuck poop out of her hair.

I also updated her on flea treatment, trimmed her nails, what she'd let me that is, gave her a three way vaccine update, let her take off then, and she did, with one look back glare that melted me.  This was all done while trying to control her in a net.  Ha!

Not the best photo.  I see I still need to trim better under her chin and down her front.  Do so at own risk!

I have four to go, with shaving.  But getting one done really made me celebrate!

Here are six of the twelve cats I caught last night.

This one is a Blue point Siamese mix female, I was told

There are up to three left in this litter needing caught--a dsh flamepoint, a dlh flamepoint and a dsh chocolate point.  They are about four months old.

I haven't taken photos of the other six yet.  Three of them are HUGE boys.  The other three are more gray tabbies.

Gracie again.  She loves the shelf along the front window mornings, to get any morning sun she can.  None today sweetie, another rain day here.

I got the photos of the other six.  Here they are. Three are big males and three are more small to medium gray tabbies.

Big flamepoint male

Big huge mad tabby male

This big older male does not look good.  He's lost an eye at some point.   He has URI and also hangs his tongue out, which indicates mouth issues.  And his tongue is pale.   The years sure take a toll on the big boys.

 

I'm going back over to try for more.  There are at least 3 more I know of, probably four more, still need caught to be fixed.  Their son set a trap in his place, since he has a wild black male inside there he thought he could tame but couldn't.  Hope he gets him.  But there are two or three more teenagers who need caught also.   Right now we have caught five gray tabbies, three big males and four other Siamese, two long hair, two short hair.

Got two more.  Kind of a miracle since it began to rain so hard this evening, it was like flood creating downpours.  I got soaked in two minutes.  Their driveway and all around their place flooded.  One left, apparently, a little flamepoint.    I'm not so sure I didn't see a chocolate point teen, but maybe it was the lynx point teen I saw, before we caught it.  

14 cats and  I are headed to Portland early.  They'll all be fixed by 4:00 and I should be back with them by 6:00 and release them Thursday morning and that's a wrap.

Terrible photo.  It's a black adult male.  But he started rolling in the trap as I tried to get a photo.  Yeah maybe I'll get another tomorrow and maybe I won't.

This little guy is darn cute and likely brother to little flamepoint not yet caught.

Good night!  Good thing I slept two hours this afternoon.