Cat Eyes---A Cat Woman's Photos: 7 Cat Day

I got the 7 cats in to be fixed in Corvallis yesterday.

I originally was to take the black and white cat the feeder lady got on Berlin road. She said it was a female. And tame. I'd seen this cat over a year ago, the first time she showed me where she was feeding. I'd turned around, and there it was. I asked her who the cat was, because she hadn't mentioned a black and white, and we both turned back to look and it had vanished into thin air. When she sent me a photo of the black and white Sunday and said it was now at her house, I recognized the cat immediately.

But since there'd been no kittens from this cat, I asked her to be sure it was indeed a female and not a fixed male. Sure enough, it is a neutered male. Where he was getting food and enough attention to remain tame, for over a year, anybody's guess. Maybe with the homeless folk living down in the woods there.

So she went to plan B. She went and got the tame orange tabby tux male from near the park where she's been feeding him. Her plan was to keep or rehome him but he shut down once inside her house, she said, and hadn't eaten, so he'll have to return. Besides he has three adoring kittens running with him. They're really teens. Odd, that a big male is bonded with three stray teens? Not so much. Teens seems very attracted to big kind males.

Julius was neutered yesterday.

Mason was also neutered. He and probably his mom showed up at an already fixed colony just outside Lebanon. Mason was skin and bones and just barely survived. They're both tame and likely had been dumped and were very lucky to find this kind lady. She tried to get Molly in a trap by hand and that didn't work out, so only Mason was fixed but Molly has an appointment next week.

Since Molly was scheduled yesterday too but she couldn't get her contained, we had an open spot. Good thing too. The library cats lady had caught a cat in Scio where she lives. She was trying to catch a second kitten but caught Gracie instead. Gracie is likely the mom of the first kitten she caught. A family took the kitten. I call her the library cats lady because she and her boys were exiting the library in Albany and saw kittens behind the library and immediately contacted both Silverton Cat Rescue and me, for help catching them. She caught a lot of cats there, who were fixed various places, and some she moved to her barn in Scio where they live happily now. So Gracie was fixed yesterday.

Oreo too was fixed yesterday. I had put off getting him done for months. Lack of appointments. The rest of his colony, about 13 cats, we got fixed last spring. About 8 of them were pregnant females. I go visit the two colony caretakers when I can because they are delightful.

The other three fixed were the girls, from the trailer park. Two kittens and their sister, Butterfly, from another litter.

Butterfly, the older sister, a torti, and the two kittens, Willow and Sequoia, are very bonded. The torti's sister, Pretty, and brother Booboo were fixed the 10th at OHSS. The mother of all these cats, a small black female, was fixed the first of August, caught by a different trapper there at the trailer park.