Long Windy Wet Day

 The weather was wet and wild with wind this morning. 

I wa over at the trailer park by 8:00, but the weather was discouraging any and all cats from being out and about.   Smart cats.

I caught two blacks quickly but the rest had vanished.   I wanted to vanish too, curl up in my bed, read a book, let the weather be outside and me inside.

But then it was off to the other colony, the one with four cats needing caught that the Lebanon lady feeds, because  the four have a barn home to go to.  Three of the four are not yet fixed.  Julius, the big orange tabby boy, is fixed now.  I took him in a few weeks back.

He's tame as many of the strays in this area are.   She took two carriers along, and carried them over across the field to the trees and berry vines near the river.  She quickly got the black teen into a carrier.  He looks full grown now.  She carried him in the carrier all the way back across a field to the parking lot.  I told her not to that with Julius, since her hip had surgery a month ago and Julius is huge.   I saw her pick him up and carry him through the trees to the carrier and drop him down into it.  Like a baby.  Most people have trouble doing that with their house cats inside.   

I then went quickly across the field to carry him back.  He's a big huge boy and that was not easy on my back.

I then set two traps in the brush for the torti and the tabby.   No luck.  Waited a little over an hour. Was raining again by then. Decided to go get the traps.  We get over to the woods and the river and I see white legs in one trap.  WTF.   Yup, a different cat, not one of the two we wanted to catch.  

I was worried about that since people dump off cats all the time in that park.   A girl this time, tame, too, may be in heat, because I checked the sex in the ladies bathroom, thinking maybe its a fixed boy.  I saw a bit of blood at the vulva.   Who knows. Feeder was told by a regular park walker that he saw a cat running through the field  there towards the river with a kitten in her mouth, young but not newborn.   So there are likely even more in the brush there, than the two we're still actually after.  How many more?  Only the traps will tell that tale. When I was feeding for feeder lady a few weeks back, I saw two other adults down in the brush but only got a glimpse,  and they vanished so fast, I only saw the  color of one of them, sort of.   I'll be back there tomorrow, after dropping off the five I've got now, at the clinic in Salem to be fixed.  Who knows who I could catch down there tomorrow.

Moxie, the black teen, will go get fixed tomorrow and so will the surprise girl from the park, along with 3 trailer park blacks.   I caught a third black at the trailer park this evening, just as it got dark, too dark to see eartips so I had to quit.  I was using the drop trap.  

We're supposed to get really wet and wild for another couple days, maybe get a lot of rain too, a drenching, on Tuesday.  At first they said Wednesday also would bring record rainfall, but now it looks like in the valley here, where I am, won't be so bad on Wednesday. I'm always watching the forecast when I have trapping to do.

Blackjack

Stormy

Raggedy

Moxie

Piper

Lastly, in turkey news, I came out of the lady's house in Lebanon after we finished trapping, to see a turkey pecking at bird seed she'd spilled on her bumper.