Days Off

 I have a couple days off now.

I returned the two S. Lebanon cats this morning.  I'd taken the Seven Mile Lane mom cat back last night.  They were going to recuperate in the goat barn and also set a couple traps beside the one she was in, to see if they might catch anymore kittens.  They didn't.

Now I've loaned them kitten traps.

All three cats were fixed Monday at the Salem clinic.  They had openings to fix the third one, since I had only two official reservations.

I handed off the mom cats two kittens to Silverton Cat Rescue yesterday morning.

Turned out the big tabby Sunshine is a boy and also he'd been shot with a BB gun at some point.  The wound had infected.  They removed the BB and gave it to me when I picked the cats up.

After I returned the two S. Lebanon colony cats this morning, I cleaned the traps they were in, then headed to a new colony in Brownsville.  I'll be trapping it Thursday and Friday with a trip to FCCO Saturday.   

There are quite a lot of cats, maybe 25 or so.  He sent me these photos after I left the property.   I'd left the two traps and some wet food for him to get them eating in the traps.  They are beautiful cats, most are orange.

I won't go trap there until later on in the afternoon on Thursday.  So really I had half of today off and all of tomorrow, as well as most of Thursday.   How nice.

I delivered seven traps also today to a Lebanon colony.  They were SCR traps and they will be transporting to the clinic once the lady catches some.      Then I went and picked up 8 bags of cans a friend collected.  I'll turn them in to Bottle Drop.   HCC has an account there and the cans are counted and the deposit added to HCC's account.  It is a great way to raise funds.

I will just say a lot of us are scared.  Energy Assistance has been cut from the HHS budget for next year and also reports are saying HUD section 8 voucher money will also likely be drastically cut.   Both these cuts, if they end up in the president's official budget, affect not only me but so many of the people I know or have encountered and we're all scared but trying not to be, hoping some humanity will overcome the republican party, some empathy.   Energy costs have skyrocketed as have rents.