I caught 7 more outside unfixed cats, kittens at the big Lebanon colony yesterday and today. I've barely had time to get the chores done here.
2 gray kittens, 2 gray young adults, 1 Siamese kitten, 2 black adults.
The black adults I caught in a marathon car sit this morning. I set up the drop trap and waited out two very long chow hound binge eating events. I can't believe how much the two boys involved can eat. It's unbelievable really.
The cat caretaker man has always told me Joe, the gray tabby fatso, is neutered, that he took him to be neutered. Imagine my astonishment this evening when he asked how I knew Joe was neutered. I stared at him, briefly shocked, then said "because you've told me that at least three times."
I had to wait out those boys for over an hour. Then various already fixed cats showed up and finally along came an unfixed black one and I yanked the cord from inside my car, dropping the trap over the cat and with some difficulty, got her transferred out of it into a live trap. Another hour and half went by before a second unfixed black, skinny and furtive, showed up and I caught that one and finally went home.
He has 15 spots and told me there were nine more unfixed ones contained inside, but that turned out to be just seven. I'm only one short since I caught a 7th outside.
Anyhow, his daughters got 7 instead of 9 out of the house this evening. Thank goodness for their help. He refused to get one girl into a trap, claiming she's too aggressive and that he will get her fixed. Then there's an unfixed boy with a heart murmur. So those two remain unfixed in his place. The rest, at last, will be fixed.
14 in all will go with me to Portland to be fixed tomorrow.
I don't know how many more outside are unfixed. By tomorrow evening, I will have taken 48 of his cats to be fixed and gotten 11 unfixed kittens into various rescue situations. That is 59 cats helped. At one location.
I'm proud of my effort.
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