Sunday, October 12, 2025

Wet and Dark Weekend

 The weekend weather was downright yucky.   

Rain and ick, gray and dark skies.   Time to stay inside and make soup.

Only I didn't make soup.

I slept a lot Saturday then went trapping at the trailer park where the two teens came from who were fixed last Monday.  This was basically out of sheer boredom and a need to get out of the house, even if to sit in a car.

I had by now figured out there's a big colony on the street behind the trailer park, fed in various spots and that the mom and kittens are spillover from that.

So I was not surprised when this morning I caught a long hair black, who is not one of the cats I'm after.  I contacted the lady on the street behind and sent her a photo.  This one is not ear tipped but she said looks just like the rest she has already trapped to be fixed---i.e. black, short or long hair.  I think she's caught ten or twelve or so.  HCC paid for one at least a year ago.

So I got him or her an appointment to be fixed Tuesday at Radpets.   Nice of them to work the cat in.

I was back over there this evening and tried again to catch the two I want to catch but only recaught the little now fixed black tux teen boy again.  Ok.  Let him out.  Came home.

Anyhow, that's about it besides a bunch of cleaning and laundry.  Catch up stuff.   

I may as well hibernate the winter through.  I could stuff myself with blueberries and blackberries before hand and just emerge now and then to look around, blurry eyed, and then go back into my cozy little den. Come out maybe mid June, I don't know.   I like that idea.  Could save a lot of money that way.  

Here's the cat, getting offered up gourmet tuna and Temptation cat treats while he awaits his fate, which is a neuter job and vaccines, along with flea treatment.


Very pretty cat, likely a boy with that nose, you think?   I don't know.  I'm not looking.  Not polite.  I'll be able to tell by smell tomorrow.  



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    1. The mom cat I'm after, black and white, has perfectly round eyes that pierce everything. You can tell they're related simply by looking at the eyes.

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  2. I don't know about hibernation, but I do like the idea of stuffing myself with blueberries and blackberries. :)

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    1. If I could only think of more cheap/free bad weather activities!

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  3. I like the idea of hibernation. Stuff yourself like the fat bears. Then don't come out until the gloom is done. Sounds like a plan.

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    1. The stuffing myself part of it would be fun too. ODFW is currently warning Oregonians that bears are in hyperphagia---prior to hybernation. It's time, to stuff oneself silly, then head off to the den.

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  4. My bladder wouldn't let me hibernate more than a couple of hours :-)

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    1. I wonder how the bears manage that. Yes, could be a problem here too.

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  5. Gorgeous eyes 👀 😍 ♥️

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