I went over to the Lebanon colony this morning. I have four spots at RADpets for them tomorrow.
I set the traps I'd left and caught two white teens instantly. They are siblings and I groaned inside, wondering if SCR barn team could find them a place. Its much harder to place white and orange cats safely in barn homes because they stand out to predators.
Next caught--Moonshine, a favorite of his, a young skinny gray male. He wants Moonshine back.
Next caught--the last I could take today--a black female. Sadly, lactating. While she can be fixed, she can't go to a barn home, since we don't know which kittens or where are hers.
So only two qualifiers, if they test negative for FIV/Felk, for barn homes through Silverton Cat Rescue barn cat team and they're white, not exactly the perfect barn cat candidates. I sent Dilly and Dally's photos to their team and they said they will find them a place. I was thrilled. They're the best. First up though---off to the clinic tomorrow to also be tested, besides being fixed and vaccinated.
While I was there, I watched four or five goats run across the street to eat grass in a yard. When I looked their way and they saw me looking, they raced back across the street, off to I don't know where, beyond a fenced a yard. Ha!
I asked the caretaker man about it and he just shrugged and said "It's Lebanon" like that was explanation enough. It was.
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| Dally, the larger of the teens |
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| Dilly |
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| Moonshine (I think that's his given name, by the caretaker. Moon something) |
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| Mystic the lactating girl. She is not happy but at least will be well fed when she goes home. |
Great bunch. And now to start the busy month? weeks?
ReplyDeleteWell, this was kind of the start today and it was busy. Had ten extras here last night, 6 of them tame. Two kittens and their tame mom in the bathroom, but one kitten has life threatening something. Heart maybe, don't think he or she will make it. I had the kittens' mom's two adult kittens too here, to be fixed. They're 8 months or a year old now. And a tame stray from Holly. Tame cats are far harder to overnight than ferals. They are all at the clinic now and the clinic has a foster for those two tiny ones, one of whom may not be long for this world.
DeleteI'm reacting to all the violence in our country and events, like escalation with Russia violating Poland, feeling like any day, the world could fall apart and we just start rampant killing one another, bombs falling etc., (more so than now) by getting as many cats fixed as I can as fast as I can. The innocents suffer and die, when maniacs start wars and invoke violence with rhetoric and crazies pick up guns. That includes cats dying by the score. It feels like the only thing I can do.
DeleteI had never thought about barn cats needing to be less visible to predators, but that makes perfect sense. So it's harder to place both black and white cats.
ReplyDeleteIts night predation, so any coloration that stands out at night. That said, those cats on Berlin road, many of them, Siamese and where they're at is big time predator country. We're talking even cougars, besides coyotes, foxes and bobcats. And they've survived. But there are thick blackberry patches, and those are not easily penetrated by predators, not fast enough to catch cats who already have through holes through.
DeleteGood luck to all - and as always, thank you.
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