Cascadia

 I drove to Cascadia this morning.  Takes an hour or so from here.

This is a long planned pick up of five tame cats at a homeless camp, to be fixed tomorrow.

A Salem lady is paying in full for them to be fixed.  She's a very sweet person who got a lot of dogs fixed at this same camp years ago.  I'd gotten a lot of cats fixed there, but had seen there were more dogs than cats needing done.  That's when I contacted her.  She has a spay neuter help nonprofit for dogs.

She remained friends with one of the guys who lives there, who told her a few weeks ago, about his cats that need fixed.   So she arranged it and I am the pickup, delivery and recuperate, drive them back up there person.   Right now, all five are in my bathroom.

They are sweet cats--a mom and her four six month olds.

After I passed Foster Reservoir and going on up to Cascadia, the colors became so vibrant up along the S. Santiam river and highway 20.

I set up the camera in its dashcam position for the drive back down ,to maybe catch some of the color.   I was going to stop, get nice photos, but the mom cat is not a car rider and yowled, then screamed, most of the way home.  So I just turned the camera on video and found a piece of it I liked once home.

Here are the kitties from Cascadia.

I don't know the twin tabbies apart, but I'll call the one on left Minime, the Lucy the calico, Paws, the only boy, then Runt.  Lucy is very self assured.

Mom, a torbi tux, really wants absolutely nothing to do with her teens.  Time to adult, kids.

They will go be fixed tomorrow, in Corvallis, then overnight again in the bathroom before going home.   I'll probably retrieve them in a few weeks, to get their booster shot.  Not often I deal with tame cats anymore, who can actually get a booster.

He wants some cat food help, and since he's way the hell out in the middle of nowhere, up there, I'll take him some when I return the cats.

The weather has calmed down some this afternoon.   I thought the Lebanon lady was going to bring over her parking pass, so I can actually feed some of the cats she does, while she's having surgery, but she hasn't.   She wasn't home when I came back down through Lebanon with the cats.