Cat Round Up Day

 Today was cat round up for tomorrow.

I had three caretakers registered for the five spots.   However, one lady, with two, did not reply when I requested phone call confirmation by last night.   There's no sense doing anything but moving on when that happens.

The Albany couple whom I've helped with a whole lot of cats over the years caught one of the boys they were after--Leonard, a polite year old gray tabby.  He loves to eat.  He's eaten like three cans of wet food.  Hope he poops before the drive to the clinic or, well, will be a smelly drive.  Something about a car ride, and....out it comes.

Leonard

Out in the middle of nowhere, a lady had caught another female that showed up with kittens.   She caught the kittens first, then the mom.  She had the kitteens in two cages when I arrived and the mom was in a live trap.

She lives along a very long narrow bumpy gravel driveway on a dead end road.      She has an old friendly yellow dog who pads around, never far from any excitement to be had.

I set two traps of mine, one at a time, inside the cage holding two kittens.  Got them both in live traps for the trip home.  By this time I knew the lady with two of my spots wasn't going to respond to me and these kittens would go in their place.   The third kitten can be fixed a week from tomorrow, when I have more spots.

Tiny Tuna, the mom cat from middle of nowhere

Puffin, one of the two kittens going

Crabs, the other kitten

I admired how nice her live trap is.  That's when she told me it belongs to Silverton Cat Rescue.  My eyebrows raised.   I bet they'd like that back, I said.  She thought it was a year ago they helped her get five fixed and took in kittens from her.   I texted Viv, the director, once I had two of the kittens and the mom inside my car, and told her I had one of her traps to return.

I got home and set them up in my surprisingly hot garage.  I thought today was supposed to be quite cool, and it was compared to most summer days but still the garage had heated up.  And to my surprise, when I finally watched news, its going to be over 90 tomorrow.  Wow, I should check more often.  At least all five cats will recuperate with their caregivers, and not in my hot garage which could get to 130 degrees on a 90 plus degree day.  

This evening, the Albany couple caught another boy--Ballsey, big and buff.   They have three more to catch, they said, needing fixed, and so they have 3 of my five spots next Monday.

Ballsey from Albany

I love it when people catch their own cats and I just kind of coordinate and maybe loan traps or pick up and transport to clinic.   I've become a lady of leisure, don't you think?