Sad Day

 My old gal Juno died suddenly yesterday.

She'd been living in the cat yard and I didn't know she was struggling, although I did know she was very old.

She came from a seed warehouse colony a few miles south of Corvallis.  I spent a lot of time out there catching the cats to be fixed a long time ago.  I had finally caught her and her kittens.   She was an adult then.

Juno at the warehouse with her kittens before I caught her

This photo is from November of 2012.  She was not a young cat when she came to live here.

She loved Teddy.  This was from 2013

So long old gal.  Juno had a good life here and many many friends over the years.

She went to a friend in another town as she could not return to the warehouse with harvest in full swing.  But it became very very hot and the lady had a metal roof.  She brought Juno here, with heat stroke and blindness from heat stroke.  I took her to the vet who said she might get her sight back and got her temp down from 106 but warned me not to return her to the warehouse as heat stroke is easier to get once you get it once.

So she stayed here.  She loved Sam and playing and running in and out to the cat yard.  She remained feral.  I found her yesterday in the bathroom, when she lived mostly in the cat yard and knew immediately she had come in to die.  I touched her for the first time yesterday.  She died within a couple hours.

I had made an appointment Tuesday in Corvallis for her and for Tugs end of days.  Tugs is my tiny torti who has been here almost 20 years.   It is hard for me to give up on Tugs, I love her so much, but there is no cure for old age.   She is beyond skinny, requires fluids to be alive, and I have to let go.

I was trying to get rid of that huge chair yesterday.   I cleaned it well and took it to Habitat Restore and they said they didn't want it.  I could not figure out why since its in good shape compared to much of what they have but it was near closing and that alone could have been the reason.  So I just took it back to the neighbor woman.   I knew she'd either give it away on marketplace or need it there.   She's got two former homeless folks living there now.   Costing her lots to even feed them but they help her out around her new place.

Her family is coming to see her soon, two of her daughters and at least two grand daughters.  I can tell she's excited about that.  I think she has 3 daughters.  Her sister comes to visit a lot too.  

I did not yet find a box big enough to ship back that useless mattress.  Today I'll try again.   

Our weather will be lousy, gray and unseasonably cool, with rain, until Thursday.  So said the weather report.

I have two cat spots for fixing at Radpets on Wednesday.  I got them at the request of the lady who traps where she works but I have not heard back from her, regarding the upcoming appointments recently.   My nonprofit will also pay for another group out just south of town to be fixed but they'll trap and transport.   I also have five traps loaned out in Scio, to a family helping a Crabtree man get the cats he feeds fixed.

So although personally I have not been trapping, my nonprofit is still paying for quite a lot of cats to be fixed and loaning out traps on a consistent basis here and there.